design @meta | keep it simple, human. views are mine 🙏🏾
London, England
Joined October 2011
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Every time you’re tempted to slack off or do or be a little less than you could, remember that you are a person of integrity who lives by the simple creed: do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it, the way you said you would do it.
Apple has gotten away with a lot of inconvenient design decisions in iMessage. Finding a conversation being the biggest concern
Still can’t understand why replies on slack are thread-only. Wish you could quote a reply, especially inside a thread 🤷🏽♂️
Loved Sam Smith even more after listening to him on my favorite podcast
open.spotify.com/episode/45O…
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Anyway, for the ones who still like to think about humans when designing, I share my thoughts on Substack. Here’s a recent one on what products should remember:
pixeldahn.substack.com/p/cac…
Omg yes! Everyone keeps talking about how they’ve stopped using certain tools and outsourced everything to AI agents, as if the goal is to remove yourself from the process entirely. But I feel the exact opposite
“designing much faster than the others” — this so daft and makes it clear they don’t understand design at all. “Designing fast” (or slow) is just not a thing. If you conflate “producing ui by piecing together stuff” and “design” then the former (which is a form of assembly-line practice) can surely be fast or slow.
What makes the practice of design challenging is not how to put a ui or poster together, it’s what the pieces are, what the message is, what is being communicated, how it all works together.
So many of today’s “design” AI tools focus almost exclusively on the production part, on putting stuff together. I’d love to see an AI design tool that forms a deep understanding of a problem over the course of days or months and works like a creative partner. Call me on my bullshit, thinks about the whole, isn’t concerned really about the final arrangement of elements as much as it would understand the story and the message.
Design has so much influence over different aspects of a product experience. Sometimes, the work itself is how you develop the judgement to make something good
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Worked on the Litmas 2.0 website with @WeTalkSound. Moodboarded, designed, and built it in pixel art, with a bit of dithering.
A few surprises unlock on 1 December. 👀
If you were at LITMAS last year, you already know. 🎄
This year, we’re going bigger. With Café Riddim and House of Assembly joining the mix, LITMAS 2.0 is bringing even more to the table.
Sounds of Sunset + House of Assembly on Dec. 23, then Insert Nights on Dec. 24.
Get tix here: litmasfest.com