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scott.is
Design / Design Systems / ACAB / Buy my fuckin book https://scott.is https://mindfuldesign.xyz
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how do i tell apple music that i do not want sleep token to pop up in every 'auto playing related stuff after the album you've just listened to'. please make it stop.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

📢 New video and a big announcement! briefs.video/videos/intro...

submitted 11 hours ago • 15 comments

best thing i did for productivity was to just stop using productivity tools. the hit of feeling organised is not the same as enabling productivity. any fuckin to-do list. any fuckin calendar. block out time for an important task. don't do anything that isn't that task.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

What's the 2025 best practice for accessible and semantic popover menus? Realise there's probs a tonne I'm missing from my usual shitty approach. E.g. these little shits:

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Figma's Alt + Tab just working completely differently to how every single other Alt/CMD + Tab pattern works is the papercut that will ruin my Friday.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Jony Ive, the most overrated designer in history, is collabing with AI, the most overrated technology in history. Things are about to get so mid.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

third time building this writing app from scratch because the tech i was using was bumming me out. looks better, offline-first, accessible, theme-able, semantic html, fluid typography. now i just need to not rewrite it again the next time i find something difficult.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

'designing in the browser' is now my full personality. i apologise in advance for this.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

the people who only saw 'art' when it was wrapped in a non-fungible token are the same people who now only see 'art' when it is generated by a bunch of server code that uses seventeen litres of water to produce a soulless, emotionless facsimile of artistic endeavour.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

did shopify just try to battle wordpress to see who can put the worst theme architecture out to millions of people?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

managed to get the phrase "pac man orgy" into my video course. god help @bell.bz

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

success messages that say "congratulations". brother i clicked a button.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

just saw a GREAT APP that will generate a PERSONAL AI PODCAST for you EVERY MORNING and now I know THE EVIL THAT AWAITS ME IN THE DARKEST DEPTHS OF HELL

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

"i asked chatgpt to…" brother i ask you to shut the fuck up please

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Just a couple of tickets left now for my Writing design systems documentation session at 10am-1pm next Thursday, 29 May. If you're available and want to learn how to create docs people can find, understand and use, I'd love to have you. Tell your friends! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-de...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Every tech oligarch wants to build an Everything App - because they now have the power to do so, but also because they're completely out of ideas. This week's issue tackles the rise of the "data-driven" Nothing Manager responsible for building Everything. productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-everyt...

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

make good coffee, treat people well, write good html, shoplift from the big tesco, show your friends you love them, cook good things, guillotine the bourgeoisie, dive headlong and ever-curious into your passions, explore your sexuality, shit on a tory's porch step, grieve, hope, love. truly live.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments