So IDEO largely built its marketing around the idea that The Designer is a higher-level thinker who can sift through all of the mass-produced junk that was rising up as a result of automation and find quality. This was rooted in racism and was doomed to fail... (thread)

“Why does it seem like the more inner work a person does the less likely they are to maintain a relationship”

“(digital) product design one of the most inward looking parts of the design industry it’s nuts. many won’t even bother look at other sectors of graphic design let alone games”

LLMs are highly non-deterministic, which presents a huge design challenge: we've never built non-deterministic software, it's always been based off of branching logic and restricted options (hence: the GUI)— Neal Khosla (@nealkhosla) February 25, 2023

“A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Soft 🧵”

In 🎞🎥movies, which unfold chiefly in time, you think in "edits"/"cuts"/"shots".In 🖱🖥UIs, which unfold chiefly in space, you think in "containers": content-filled boxes to rearrange.Thanks to tech & cultural advance, our units & their composition are getting way richer. pic.twitter.com/I7IbHWalgX— Eli Parra (@elzr) September 29, 2022

Stable Diffusion is only 30 days old…a MEGA THREAD 🧵 on its rapid rise.— Daniel Eckler 👨‍🚀 (@daniel_eckler) September 20, 2022

one of the things that makes me steaming mad is how the entire field of web apps ignores 100% of learned lessons from desktop apps— Sega Protogenesis (@gravislizard) November 6, 2017