current Niche design 2 lineup

here’s my unsolicited advice to how to get work done: focus on making progress, step away from what you do, and trust the process productidentity.co/p/detach-fro...

Detach from your work to make it work

This is my first essay from a series about the creative process, which will be published in the upcoming Niche design issue.

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I hereby declare the second issue of Niche design: The Creative Practice + announcing a patronage to help support the work! nichedesign.press/issue-two#pa...

apparently Niche design has reached places

for a very limited time Niche design now comes with a bunch of stickers (and a little zine) courtesy of the light-outdoor-computer-club

Itay Dreyfus@itaydr.bsky.social · last mo.

Allow me to re-introduce an update for the Niche design website nichedesign.press

Allow me to re-introduce an update for the Niche design website nichedesign.press

I'm working on an update to the Niche design website, and also got some bookmarks from the fair I can attach to orders, so I figured a custom mini configuration page would be cool (btw if you order now you still get one + a pack of stickers)

have someone worked with an editor and can tell pricing range for a ~100 pages magazine? I may or not have the budget to work with one on the second issue of Niche design

so a year after I'll be exhibiting Niche design in Basel this week

Itay Dreyfus@itaydr.bsky.social · last yr.

wow apparently zine fairs are a thing www.stencil.wiki/fairs

we did a thing for the world cup too a generative platform for visualizing fixtures data updating daily on vs . football

Listen to @lucas.love: "My philosophy was to rely on boring technology that has long been proven to work well instead of getting distracted by new shiny tools and frameworks." via nichedesign.press

"Software is the most impactful medium on culture today... If we're destined to spend a growing portion of our lives in software, let's build a world we want to live in—more diverse, more fun, more art." @andy.works for nichedesign.press

Some years ago, I used to think that the more people your design reaches, the better. Now I’m convinced the opposite—the less you design for, the better. productidentity.co/p/growth-pains

Growth pains

On scale: against the pursuit of unicorns

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I designed nichedesign.press entirely in the Cargo interface and I don't think it was the wrong decision

I measure a company’s honesty by whether they hide the option to cancel a subscription, and how hard they make it to find

Officially launching the "you can just build things" workshop. Turn your ideas into working products through hands-on sessions with Claude Code. Grab a spot, slots available over the next two weeks. buildthings.club

I'm not sure whether it's easier to learn a new tool than building a custom product anymore (putting time and depth aside)

niche design is a series of essays and authentic interviews with designers and builders shaping a more intentional culture anti-slop, unbiased of tools. striving to make things artistically rather than mechanically

Itay Dreyfus@itaydr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

After more than a year in the making, my self-published Niche design magazine is officially out. Ditch trends, reject boredom. Embrace niche design. Grab a copy or gift one—a sewn-bound paperback will begin shipping soon. nichedesign.press

new design patterns might now emerge from the cli

I started to draft this piece a year ago after experimenting with some prompt-to-interface tools, but only this week I could make sense of it all: this is the venn of my process and how I see design these days. productidentity.co/p/the-venn-o...

The Venn of my process

A last minute event

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T-6 to build and design an idea live 7:30 PM GMT+3 / 12:30 PM EST / 9:30 AM PST luma.com/r8iclpww

building a product live with claude code · Luma

join a freeform live session, where i'll build a product from scratch with claude code, starting from an idea picked from the audience. i'll share how i work:…

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through the making of nichedesign.press I've been the: - student - curator - writer - editor - publisher - distributor

come to my show this thursday to see me building a product live with claude code. going to pick an idea on the spot, so make sure to submit an idea and rsvp to see the magic buildyouridea.live

hope I'm allowed to do so

glad to be able to say that Niche design #2 is (almost) fully funded by some amazing sponsors there’s still room so lmk in case you’d like to support

in practicing for my upcoming claude code for product building workshop, I ran a 5hr pilot with my sister-in-law a few days ago going from terminal basics to deploying with vercel. so far she has built: - a bartender assistant - board game nights tracker - a digital cookbook for family recipes

It’s time to be an underthinker

my client projects rapidly become "build this thing" instead of just "design this thing"

I think I discovered Text Wrap by mistake while playing with Affinity in the early days of nichedesign.press However it immediately clicked and became core to the overall design of the zine. I wonder what could be done for the next issue in the web now...

why mac mini? have someone made the switch from a macbook as a primary machine?