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Jonas Downey

@jonas.do

Design Director @ Superhuman // Co-creator of Hello Weather. Ex-Figma, Twitter, and some other stuff. Puns always intended. he/him 🌐 https://jonas.do 🌞 @helloweather.com

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Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 2w ago

Can't decide which is weirder: 1) the endless barrage of mind-numbing AI slop posts on LinkedIn 2) the surprising amount of positive engagement on said AI slop posts

Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 3w ago

If you haven't watched Phoebe Bridgers play a song with an epic band of kids, you should youtu.be/zfaVCiyyqTQ?is=J9-pn...

Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Boys | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 3w ago

I haven't talked much about this, but one of the gut-wrenching things about designing a weather app is thinking through various extremes and disasters. We designed these UI elements hoping that most people would never see them.

Chicago forecast with hazardous air quality and poor visibility Radar with bands of smoke
Jonas Downey@jonas.do · last mo.

Web friends: in 2026, what’s the best semi-friendly way to make a hand rolled website? My kid wants to get into web making, but stuff like Eleventy or Hugo feels a little advanced. Is there a beginner-level option that’s more approachable?

Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 2mo ago

Trying to work with Al chatbots is basically the same as being a horrible reply guy: "Actually, you're wrong" "That's a bad take" "Is this even true? What are your sources?" "This writing makes no sense" "Think harder"

Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 2mo ago

I'm writing a post on what's hard about working in tech right now. (The list is long.) What are you struggling with the most?

Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 2mo ago

One of my favorite Internet pastimes is clicking NO on passive aggressive promotional upsells, to intentionally mess up the metrics for whatever dumb psychological conversion tricks the product team is trying to pull

Two buttons for a promotion on a wesbite: "Yes I'm interested" "No, I hate free stuff"
Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 3mo ago

words I would be ok with never hearing again agentic tokenmaxxing human in the loop generative anything involving a claw meatspace you're absolutely right —

Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 6mo ago

Modern software needs more stuff like this. Adding a small, superfluous human touch in a few places goes such a long way. (The original Mac OS had this sort of personal character scattered all over the place, but it's been gradually squeezed out over the years.)

high fiving pals at the bottom of a very long GitHub pull request diff
Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 6mo ago

BEFORE AI: "Would it be faster to do this manual task, or to write a script to do the task for me?" AFTER AI: "Would it be faster to do this manual task, or to ask an approximation machine to solve it accurately, then proofread its inevitable messes?"

Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 6mo ago

Small personal news: a few weeks ago I started a new job at Superhuman, as the head of design for Superhuman Mail. Had a truly wonderful time at Figma, but have been feeling the itch to try something new. Excited to work on communication tools again (it's my happy place)

Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 6mo ago

Seriously asking: what the heck happened to iOS autocorrect? I remember some point in the past when it worked properly, and now … not

Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 6mo ago

Just tried @aeronautapp.com, a Mac app for Bluesky. It feels like being transported back to the glory days of Twitter 3rd party apps (like 2014 or so? It reminds me of Tweetie or Echofon.) Anyway, this makes Bluesky nicer. Well worth the subscription!

Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 6mo ago

The brutality of all of this is absolutely horrific and unconscionable, but what really gets me is the pointlessness. None of this needs to happen for any reason whatsoever. It’s just dumb stupid brutality for the sake of it

Jonas Downey@jonas.do · 7mo ago

I fussed around with this oddball Search tab/button pattern SO MUCH before iOS 26 came out. The new iOS design language has many different ways to accomplish similar things, and affordances are less differentiated, so it's really hard to know what's "right." ryanashcraft.com/ios-26-tab-b...

My Beef with the iOS 26 Tab Bar

The iOS 26 search tab looks more like an action button than a tab. That's causing problems for developers like me who want to follow Apple's guidelines.

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