The weirdest part of LinkedIn these days is people criticising AI with clearly AI written posts.
Kevin Cannon
@multikev.bsky.social
Exploring creative tools and AI. Design Director @Superhuman/Grammarly
Starting to notice an uptick of vibe-coded portfolios that look great on first glance, but get more shallow the more you look. It's going to get more time-consuming to evaluate work and portfolios.
I like to give talks standing up, and sometimes you gotta make do with whatever is around you.
back when i was interviewing, i recorded myself to practice. now, i'm uploading that take as a resource for others on what a "principal product designer"-level presentation looks like: jedmund.com/universe/por... this is exactly what i'd show in an interview, so at 25 mins it is a little long.
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A few months ago, I came across a recording I made of my personal portfolio presentation and thought it would be good to share as a resource for other designers...
jedmund.com
I've been thinking lately that there's quite a big difference in designing software that people buy for itself (e.g. Linear, Todoist, Slack) Vs designing something you help you browse the content (e.g. Spotify, Amazon, Zalando) We call ourselves product designers, but not everything is a product.
Doing some well overdue clean up of my domain, hosting and email providers. Step 1 is mapping it all out.
Been a Raycast user for along time, but just tried out Spotlight on Tahoe. Dear lord, what have they done to it?
I sat down with Tom Scott recently to talk about a wide range of topics about how we design at Superhuman (formerly Grammarly). We touched on hiring, how roles are shifting and how AI is changing everything. open.substack.com/pub/verified...
Design at Superhuman
Insider look at the design culture at Superhuman post rebrand
open.substack.com
The "death of SaaS" could well be the "death of SaaS that is not API-first" A story on how 30-person startup Craft Docs is moving off Zendesk after they built much better internal AI workflows (with a tool they open sourced, Craft Agents) Full: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-first-m...
“If you put the Apple icons in reverse it looks like the portfolio of someone getting really really good at icon design” (Source: mastodon.social/@heliographe...)
Found this artist on Spotify, trying to get plays by naming tracks after common voice assistant actions 😅
After reading this I gave exe.dev a shot and the combination of cheap VMs, the HTTPS proxy with passkey auth and link sharing, and the built-in LLM agent is... incredible. Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.
Just in time software
I didn’t plan to write software in the grocery store last night. I was tired and hungry, kids in tow. My long shopping list sat in a text message. I wished I could check items off as I found them.…
commaok.xyz
lmao finally someone is making a game "inspired by the joy of people watching" - prototype went super viral on itch (100k players, 1k reviews) - interact with things and make cute stuff happen - see how tiny guys react - hidden object game, full version coming to Steam - Nippets
📣 New article on @frontendmasters.com about a visual problem that bugged me for years: making a card that truly feels deep. frontendmasters.com/blog/the-dee... Would love your thoughts.
My friend Viktor is offering 20% off all his font making courses and type-related templates today and tomorrow using the code BLACKFRIDAY. In this thread, I’ve got links to each. Full transparency: they’re affiliate links. BUT! I took (and paid for) the Font Making Course and thoroughly recommend.
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Tip for presenting your work, share the solution first. I'm interviewing a lot at the moment, and I notice a lot of people both in their portfolio and presenting live, focus 90% on background and 10% on the solution. It should be the reverse.
Is there a best practice way to share design work over Zoom and ensure high quality? It seems like screenshare compression got a lot worse in recent years, even for still screens.
Incredible micro-animations that perfectly describe the product! → reducto.ai
This looks great - a digital board game console!
William Chyr@chyr.bsky.social · 10mo agoWe're excited to reveal Strata, a strategy game we developed for Board, a new game console that blends physical and digital play: board.fun In Strata, you use physical 3D blocks to claim territory and outmaneuver opponents. Tetris meets Chess.
If you liked A House of Dynamite but felt like the ending was unsatisfying, I highly recommend the book, The 2020 Commission, which is sort of a spiritual sequel to the movie.
Let's fight the algorithm. Share a post of something you made that didn't get its due because it was too wholesome and didn't ragebait.
I worked with Ikea on some of their smart home products. They had what they called the 'escalator approach'. When an escalator stops working, it's just a set of stairs, and remains usable. I thought that was a great way to think about home technology.
the fact that Pixelmator Pro, which was acquired by apple ~ 1 year ago, hasn't even updated their Mac App icon to the iOS26 standard yet doesn't give me much confidence that the app will be around for much longer 🥲
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen on the craft of design from @ridd-design.bsky.social of DiveClub. If you want to learn more about drop shadows, borders, and real craft, this one video will teach you more than most professional training courses. youtu.be/bwAQuCXFRB0?...
Nailing the finer details of craft with James McDonald
YouTube video by Dive Club 🤿
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Today, we've updated Linear Mobile with an all-new design that looks great on iOS 26, and thanks to the powerful APIs #SwiftUI has been adding over the past few years, we're bringing it to iOS 18 with zero compromise. Get the update here: apps.apple.com/app/linear-m...
