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Design systems aren’t going away, they’re becoming headless.

Dear Claude,
If I’m paying you a monthly subscription don’t be stingy on tokens.

Thanks,
Everyone

I think I’d made an excellent intelligence gathering agent. For example, within a few minutes I was able to extract life details from an old neighbor I recognized that I haven’t seen in years.

My only weakness would be holding onto that intelligence.

The right and the left are both DEI advocates, just for very different people.

2025: Year in Review | Semantic Fish Creative Group This post gets personal about my experiences this year with grief, loss, health emergencies, and being disabled & working in accessibility in the US.

I've had an execeptionally tough year.

I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜

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Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience.

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Is the belief that ‘AI will eliminate all design jobs’ furthering that reality more than the technology itself?

Surely someone in tech knows how to use all this amazing AI tech to clear the redactions.

If we had a public accounting of every PM and exec responsible for the enshittification features.

Would anything be different?

Do you think it’s valuable for startups?

Whenever you think “maybe it’s time for web components?” It’s not.

This weekend I’ve been working on an AI agent that can summarize call transcripts into job stories.

It can also sort with moderate level of success, relevant stories together to avoid redundant series of job stories.

What I have to figure out next, is how to improve the matching criteria.

Looks sloppy

Design isn’t a differentiator but experience is.

We’re announcing the closing of our over subscribed Figma design file with over 300 open comments.

Don’t expect others to carry the caloric weight of clarity for you.

❌ The designer that creates the designs doesn’t “own” the designs.

Design happens through the designer. ✅

❌ The researcher that discovers the customer insight didn’t “own” the insight,

The research happens through the researcher. ✅

You don’t need ownership to act with agency.

Designers “I want to design something cool.”

Everyone else “let’s build something cool”

Design isn’t winning, even when it’s winning.

Despite everything that’s gone awry, there’s a lot to be grateful about. Happy thanksgiving y’all

At our bus stop right outside our front door we have families of the following ethnic backgrounds:

Indian, Pakistani, Nigerian, Vietnamese, Afghani, Korean, Russian and Chinese.

I feel incredibly fortunate to live in such a diverse neighborhood.

The bottleneck has shifted from making to learning. It’s clear me now we need to use AI to reduce the calories it takes to learn from what you shipped in order to make informed decisions on what to do next.

Human input -> Integrations -> Agentic work with human review.

Coming soon to Personify

Love quietly pushing one of our biggest releases for Personify on a Friday, and reserving the weekend to squash bugs in time for Monnnnday traffic.

Your values have to reflect in your work in order for it to have a chance at being valuable for others.

Billionaires are the biggest welfare queens.

We blue it

The “pre-PRD” = design brief
The “perfect PRD” = a mythical and elusive creature that requires precision with words and timing.
The “post-PRD” = technical design document (TDD)

This goes for every person in this criminal administration.

Let chatGPT agent work in Notion so the Notion agent can build a prototype in Cursor, and then have Codex run a code review and fix bugs while you write new feature tickets in Linear for the Cursor background agent to pick up.

Cool.

All the AI native startups are so creative we’re going to end up with over a million ways to do the same thing across the same tools, in different sequences.

I’m really feeling the full weight of that one whole additional click to share a link from safari in iOS26