Michael ∗ Principal Designer

Staff Product Designer at Fivetran. Principal Designer & product strategist at VCA, my moonlighting solo agency. Opinions are my own.

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

@diip3sh Late to replying here, but love the large thumbs and font pairing of Instrument + Commit. One small suggestion would be to add more navigation on the detail page so that "Back" isn't the only way to jump to other projects. Amazing work though.

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

@tranmautritam No cuz that’s close to career sabotage. How do you explain that archaic way of things to the next employer? Or yourself. My number would be closer to $1M to help pay for that fallout / predicted unemployment

[Michael Nix @mnix]

A 3’ x 3’ mixed media piece I did for a gallery opening here several years ago. The shine is epoxy resin.

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

@BlakeC Totally agree. And AEO is a whole new animal.

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

@julesagent Your google login keeps going in circles.

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

Never thought I’d say it, but having a salaried tech gig has given me the huge benefit of working on real problems every day & and a very real problem of way too many AI tools. That’s become its own challenge, pushed weekly to get better at. I’ll share some workflows on this soon

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

@DannPetty Best of luck wherever you go! You’re only one of a few on X I have notifications turned on, please keep posting!

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

@BlakeC Find my nest of salt
Everything is my fault
I'll take all the blame
Aqua seafoam shame

[DANN© @DannPetty]

Designers are not cooked.

We’re still the chefs and they can’t stand it.

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

@jasonzeppelli Please try to get some professional help even if it’s today. I believe you’re in the UK and they have crisis resolution and home treatment (CRHT) teams. Also, Samaritans on 116 123 (free, 24/7). God Bless.

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

@craigzLiszt The Drums

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

This is an awesome use of hive mind AI. I plan on joining at some point.

[Paradigma @paradigmainc]

introducing Campaigns (Beta).

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

@DannPetty Can it authenticate or reproduce secure SaaS apps?

[T @gentlycarved]

literally a product designer

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

Been building a ton vibe coding, seeing a lot built by great designers but with speed I’m also noticing a ton of potential design debt and just sloppy UI. It’s all part of the near future, like it or not.

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

@BlakeC Makes sense. It also tracks with how they completely missed the mark on AI offerings.

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

I recently wrote about this. Tactile UI is what people want, especially when your eyes are on the road. https://t.co/D10awFcsQQ

[Charles Patterson @CharlesPattson]

Love From (Jony Ive) designed Ferrari

[Michael ∗ Principal Designer @vcastrategy]

@hunterhammonds Why Obsidian over Notion