amandawowk.bsky.social
Content designer. Views are my own, all that jazz.
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"Oh that's good to know" - thank you dear UR participant, you've brought me a smidge of joy when you read out the text in the inset component.
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I love the inset text component. I don't make a huge habit of using it, but something about it just makes my brain happy. It's such a nice feeling when you apply it appropriately and then see users pick up on it.
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Giving us 24/7 unfettered access to each other’s most unhinged thoughts and feelings really isn’t working out too well for us.
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worse yet, they redefine what it means to be jewish to align with an impression of jewish people that appeals only to fascists and nationalists who seek to emulate israel’s aggressive ethnonationalism and alienates other minorities from being in solidarity with us
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My favourite design tool is bouncing ideas off my cat
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Denial: We CAN do this cool new feature.
Anger: What do you mean we can't do the feature?
Bargaining: I'll do anything.
Depression: I am clearly a shit designer
Whiteboarding: I'll title this Miro board "this is not a place of honour" to warn future generations
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That said if you can, make the case for getting time to document design work as part of your workflow - I usually frame this as good for refinement/dev handover as well as future assessments etc.
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Agree with the first or last 10 minutes of the day if it comes down to it. It also helps build documentation into your normal workday over time. Even if it's just a summary in Confluence/Google Docs of what you and other team members did that day, it adds up.
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Already a million times better than Bret Contreras
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I swear by my Yaktrax. Would have absolutely gone flying recently without them and have told everyone I know about how good they are!
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People are pretty good at justifying things to themselves. "It's really good money, it makes me feel prestigious," that sort of thing. And some of it is just that capitalism doesn't encourage people to have values/principles that could threaten it. So people rarely have that crisis of conscience.
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"Dear diary. Today, I thought about how we take dangerously utilitarian approaches to design sometimes, and also I ate 6 bakewell tarts" is really more of a skeet vibe.
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Really sorry to hear that Aisling 😔
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Yeah it's this. I would much rather try and find the team/designers and offer feedback that is constructive, rather than post online and not try to engage. I think politeness goes a lot further.
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The Thing That We Must Not Name! But yeah - I agree. I think that of course no website/product/service is perfect, and we should always iterate. But we should think about the quality of the feedback we receive too.
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Not saying that design needs to be a hugbox; we should be critical when we are failing to meet our standards, and do our best to lift each other's work up to where it needs to be. That's all.
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Anyway it's nearly Hanukkah/Christmas so I'm gonna go eat some chocolate.
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It's just that I do know people whose work has ended up on LinkedIn etc and been heavily denigrated without any real constructive feedback. It honestly makes me uncomfortable. I'd rather try to speak to the team and provide feedback via a call or an email or something.
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Like, yes. Some services are truly dire and in need of a good look in. But you don't have the design history or insight behind it, unless you know the team directly. I personally believe it would be better to try and contact the team in question. In Gov etc it's a small world.
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Now I have dayenu stuck in my head and I'm not even mad
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This content is 3 years old, it needs an upsheirin
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Now I'm just thinking of a million yiddishe/content design crossovers
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To* good grief this site needs an edit button 😅
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The meeting you didn't get an invite too miraculously turned into 8 meetings you didn't get an invite to? I don't know where I'm going with this but an early Freilichen Hanike 😊
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Bluesky needs a "this is infuriating" button.