@benbrignell.com
Product & UX designer. I run principles.design, a library of real-world UX design principles used by product teams. Author of Design Principles in Practice, a field guide. Design systems and decision-making. My onions are my own. benbrignell.com
Most design principles fail.
Not because teams don’t have them, but because they’re written like slogans instead of decision tools.
principles.design/articles/why...
Most design principles fail.
Not because teams don’t have them, but because they’re written like slogans instead of decision tools.
principles.design/articles/why...
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I think this was the pocket edition
I find cheese very entertaining
Me with a folded After Eight wrapper pretending to pull out a tooth
I fold them over a tooth so it looks like one is missing
The ’possum is running wild: Eleventy is becoming Build Awesome.
Same open source core, a much bigger future. Watch our video and support us on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fon...
This is great!
Microsoft joins Mozilla in backing down on its AI push, after being yelled at for 2 years straight
So much money wasted on ignoring something they already knew
Mulling pulling…
:: picks up telephone “Hello?” ::
Mulling pulling…
:: picks up another telephone “Hello?” ::
Mulling pulling…
:: picks up another telephone “Hello?” ::
Mulling pulling…
I’ve never seen mulling and pulling in the same sentence before.
“Microsoft is mulling pulling…”
If you want to get unusually high blood pressure try Figma Make
You always think it'll happen to somebody else but I just realised I forgot to put the bins out
Burnt toast?
Yet Sure deodorant claims it works for up to 48 hours. Some brands want you to wash more, others want you to wash less.
Ha! It was only years later that I discovered that it’s very unlikely you will fully submerge and perish in quicksand… but still, the tide was coming in. I have introduced that detail to the anecdote for the sceptical younger audience.
I once saw Trevor McDonald on the bus. He wasn’t on the bus, I was.
When I was a kid I got stuck up to my waist in quicksand
It’s almost that time of year where you convince yourself that working on your laptop outside in the sun is viable
The burden on my knees is lifted slightly with each passing year
No one:
Amazon: Would you like to add your gift message on the world’s tiniest and thinnest piece of paper to be dropped in a carefree way somewhere in the packaging of your parcel?
Turn left when you get to Doncaster
Prunes on a breakfast counter
I got a close-up this morning
Sunrise off the east coast
No prosciutto today, are you a prunes guy?
Nobody has solved how to drink a cup of tea in bed without having to go to the effort of sitting up
I wanted to have you come along too but they only had a table for two left and after discussing L seemed to think it would be better just the two of us. Maybe next year?
25th wedding anniversary meal where you both predictably order exactly the same starter and main as each other
A sign in a garden centre which reads “BEWARE HOSEPIPES”
They are so dangerous. I think they should be banned.
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Do you have plans for a conveyor belt style toaster for your own kitchen, now? Whenever I get back from a hotel this is all I want.
