Should I make a starter pack full of tech people and their cats? Purrrrrrgrammers?

this is really useful - diolch yn fawr

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Today's late-night musings are all about the rise and fall of certain social media networks. I'd love to hear your thoughts too! Also, I need to up my game when it comes to the open graph image, I know! All in a good time, my friends, all in a good time. https://www.zuzana-k.com/articles/the-rise-and-fall-of-social-media-networks

i really really love it when i'm designing in code, and i've tried a few things, made some clever solutions, etc etc but then the one solution appears, and the result? i get to DELETE tons of junks it's like the right design solution is always minimal, you just gotta find it

Going to have another crack at this with my daughter. We were doing it last year but box 4 had the wrong bits in it! Rectified too late alas. Will try again!

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Quick #designsky updates: made a new starter pack of designers to go along with the custom feed, and tweaked the feed to include extra designy keywords (so more posts will show up there.) Holler if you'd like to be added to any of this! go.bsky.app/3cUcyW1 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

4 decades. I want to party all night as much as I want to eat soup and go to bed at 6.

1 month shooting on iPhone 16 Pro. I don’t care what anyone says, this camera is incredible.

roommate just asked me why im eating cough drops, am i sick? it's bc in college i knew a girl w/ 5.0 gpa who would eat halls vitamin c cough drops to boost her immune system so i copied her hoping it was the secret to success (it was not) but now i associate cough drops with The Grind

This Friday I am doing a talk for the Ladies that UX (Seattle, Salt Lake City and LA chapters). 5:30pm PST. 10 Lost Women in the Emerging Discipline of Interaction Design - from my new book - In Through The Side Door. Info and RSVP here: lu.ma/5l1xiisx #womeninIXD #LadiesThatUX https://lu.ma/5l1xiisx

need an are.na x bluesky bridge / bot / feed.. https://are.na

The conversations were full of incredible enthusiasm for what DiversityUK can do to change the face of business, shape our future leaders and ensure that diversity isn't just a nice to have but fundamental.

user research in a nutshell

is anyone else having issues with Rectangle commands on macOS Sequoia? I have tried EVERYTHING but Rectangle commands seem to be really buggy, especially the "next display"/"previous display" commands. Instead of moving the windows, the commands just make the windows smaller 💀

Web Standards Reading List numero 329, daaahhhlinks https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/reading-list-329/

The @figma.com Config ‘25 wordmark goes hard

Thank you @hazelweakly.me for the @kubernetes.io earrings!

I think that’s track 3.

Double booking right now

👋 Also back, trying to get everything set up properly since there is so much customization. Definitely keen to find more Marketing and tech folks.

A great blog post with practical tips about how to prototype a language toggle by Al Robinson https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/14/how-can-we-test-our-designs-with-welsh-speaking-users/

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the Bluesky team and how impressive what they’re doing is? They’re a team of 20 who are adding a million users a day right now and scaling up with aplomb! Incredible [contains quote post or other embedded content]

👋 Hi, I'm new here from that other place that shall not be named. Sharing a recent landing page hero web design challenge I completed. These are all made in Sketch but I have spent a lot of time this year building in Webflow and have almost completed my second project there. #designsky

Defra terms I’ve heard this week that could be metal band names: Slaughterhouse Request (death metal, album art censored on Spotify) Squirrel Contraception (angular grindcore with lots of yelping vocals) Goat Survey (folk horror inflected doom metal, early Sabbath vibes).