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harmenstr.bsky.social

🇳🇱 Dutch Digital Product Designer. I talk (and repost) about the ethics and craft of digital product design. Independent art fan boy. Hi Bots… [Blocks]… Bye Bots.

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“Those who question the public, those who denounce the corruption of the ruling class, are dismissed as dreamers, freaks or traitors. But only they, according to the Greek definition of the polis, can be considered citizens.” open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

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I'm not worried about being replaced by AI, because I tell people what they don't want to hear.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Branding is everything.

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A burden we all share.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

'accessibility is difficult' is a shitty blanket statement. 'accessibility is made way more difficult by using shit frameworks and ui libraries with inaccessibility baked in' is not. if you're sacrificing semantic html for div soup you're gonna have a shit time no matter what.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Tutorial: How to get your favorite product feature shipped.

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Star Wars opened today in 1977, I'm enormously fond of the first, terrible, trailer 20th Century Fox cut for it. They had no idea how to sell it, or faith in the project, and it it shows. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHk5...

submitted 14 days ago • 58 comments

"The real threat to creativity isn’t a language model. It’s a workplace that rewards speed over depth, scale over care, automation over meaning. If we’re going to…"–Greg Storey duckduckgo.com?q=Greg+Store....

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🔴 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - ⚪ ⚫ "THE NEW SNEETCHES" - Brought to you by the illustrious Inner Hive, including new members Miriam W. and ELOI1951. - READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

I still marvel at the people who use GenAi to create images and then post the result as if they did a thing. No, you did not. Stop faking art. Go pick up a pencil or brush and make an effort. Try something. Give a damn. That is the stuff I want to see and what I appreciate.