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All these posts about "taste" and "craft" without ever confronting the reality that you're likely going to be working on projects with companies that already have branding guidelines and style guides out there.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

This sort of thing is exactly what I want the web to be. Bring back Web 1.0, embrace tradition

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Ok so you know how every big tech app is absolute garbage to use as if it wasn't made for a real person? That's because these companies jettisoned usability testing and user research in favor of deceptive patterns and AI

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

As Elon Musk laid waste to the federal government, the Department of Transportation quietly met with and consulted his tunneling firm, the Boring Company, a $6 billion Amtrak tunnel project connecting Baltimore, DC and Virginia. Our latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/t...

submitted 42 days ago • 124 comments

An aside: I have more than 12 years of writing and gaming journalism experience, and have expertise in card games, mmos, pro wrestling, esports, and everything relating to all of it. I would love to write and/or work for you! My dms are open and my email is in my profile!

submitted 223 days ago • 0 comments

When I was a fed contractor I had to go through yearly trainings on not taking gifts or cash from vendors so it's interesting watching Congress handle these things right now

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Every defense of AI comes down to making the theoretical case for using AI in a way that doesn't suck, while refusing to acknowledge that there's a practical use case being demanded by VCs to gut labor power and marginalize workers.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

We have been propagandized to believe that it's perfectly normal to have 4% of the world's population and 22% of the world's prisoners. We're told the US has more crime, or more bad people than other societies. The idea that criminality is innate, that "they're not like us,"

submitted 43 days ago • 37 comments

Terrible. Now the computer is coming for the jobs of drug dealers

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not even completely against designing for or with AI. I believe there is potential there. But jamming it into everything like these terrible chatbots every website uses now has a feel of ten years ago when every company was rushing to make an app

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Is there an opposite of gaslighting, where something just screams the comforting lies you want to hear in your face 24 hours a day? Because that's what we've made

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

There is nothing "amazing" or "surprising" about this. Anyone doing product design could have told you this result

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

The last company I worked for wanted an AI assistant and I was supposed to design it. No actual use cases for it. No expectations set. No user or business needs beyond "we need an AI platform"

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Ivy league institutions are about making connections for the children of the wealthy, first and foremost. The "inclusion" stuff is just window dressing.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Incredible user experience no notes

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Tennessee Man Has Been Stranded in Guatemala Since 2022 Over Tattoo A major legal challenge seeks to overturn a Biden-era case that helped lay the groundwork for Trump’s tattoo-based deportation regime. www.dropsitenews.com/p/tennessee-...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

plz help juno now if can!! plz plz plz!!! boost or give whatever just do if can/want plz

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

It's called UI design

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Amazon is going to do just that. I am glad they are embracing good design principles

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the moment I saw this commercial as a kid my mind was blown. I had no idea a Mario game could look THIS GOOD. All I knew is I that had to have a SNES. Period.

submitted 57 days ago • 81 comments

"“It is appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight," Garcia said. "Without appropriate controls, gas turbines can release harmful pollution that is tied to asthma, respiratory illnesses, and certain types of cancers."

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

I love ethical AI

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I don't even understand what these guys are mad about anymore

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

5 reasons autism is so frequently missed in girls and women...

submitted 57 days ago • 162 comments

That's cool but I'd rather the grey box that doesn't have an ipad bolted into the center console

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

Made the mistake of going on X and engaging in a Molly White thread and a bunch of weird crypto guys were trying to "no ackshully" me over their network getting hacked and them losing people's money

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

he’s right and he’s right to say it

submitted 60 days ago • 268 comments

Me, a jr front end developer in 2005: IE 5.5 for Mac isn't real, it can't hurt you

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