Lucy Chen

Screenshot of news article on Elon Musk and San Altman's online spat. Transcript: The Rundown: Elon Musk announced on X that xAI is taking legal action against Apple over pushing OpenAI’s products in the App Store and suppressing rivals like Grok, with the conversation spiraling after Sam Altman accused X of similar tactics. The details: Musk’s claim that it’s “impossible for any company besides OAI to reach #1 in the App Store” was refuted on X, with DeepSeek and Perplexity as examples. Musk then cited Altman’s own post receiving 3M views despite having 50x less followers, with Altman replying “skill issue” and “or bots”. Grok was then tagged in, stating “Sam Altman is right” and noting Musk’s “documented history of directing algorithm changes to favor his interests.” Musk posted a screenshot of GPT-5 declaring him as more trustworthy than Altman, also noting that xAI was working to fix Grok’s reliance on legacy media.

mommmm the boys are fighting again

Jonathan Anderson has been appointed sole creative director of Dior Chair and CEO of Christian Dior Couture Delphine Arnault discusses the appointment.

This makes wayyyy more sense to me- there was no way JWA was leaving Loewe to just run Dior menswear! Excited to see what's next for Dior 😍

www.voguebusiness.com/story/fashio...

Photo of 6 flip top bottles of red kombucha with red fruit puree

2nd fermentation has started! Excited for some strawberry hibiscus kombucha in a few days 💕

Are you me because this is exactly how I feel every night, and it's gotten worse since we switched to wooden cooking utensils 😭

gotta commit to the fit

Screenshot of article from Architectural Digest, titled "The Best Accent Chairs on Amazon Understood the Assignment"

AD editor: ok but how do we appeal to gen-z? can we add some fun slang or something?
AD writer: dont worry, I got it

1 gallon glass jar filled with hibiscus sweet tea and SCOBY on oak shelf. Soon to be kombucha!

Starting kombucha fermentation today! wish me luck 🤞🏻

100% hahaha

... Me thinking back to the excitement I had buying stepladders for the kitchen (small, foldable, two-step), walk-in closet (light, aluminum, 3 step), and garage (aluminum, sturdy, 5 step)

Guess I'm a fossil 😅

haha obsessed with this one

these marvel spinoffs are getting ridiculous

Forreal, idk about y'all, but I would never trust my finances to a sentient mutant thumb

Working my way through a mountain of Kleenex & eye drops this week - my allergies are back & it's definitely spring 🤧

It's the WORST time of the year 😔

fun fact though: california mosquitoes are noticeably less aggressive than new york ones - really reflecting state stereotypes 😅

omg i lost my beloved lemon lime maranta to red spider mites despite many countless neem oil leaf massages and I'm still not over it 😭

omg I wish the world had more coworkers like you

UXR is no longer about coming up with the best survey questions.

It's about understanding user needs 🤯

Drawing pixels in MS paint

Finding a Forever Home for FigPals | Figma Blog A tribute to our beloved FigPals—and a surprise to keep them close forever.

"What happens when you give a rock two eyes & a smile? Suddenly, a compression of sediment transforms into a pet—something to nurture, dote on & connect to."

I don't design much these days so missed the Figpal launch, but LOVE the whimsy - more of this please! 💕

www.figma.com/blog/finding...

Design at the Speed of Thought The Designer as Conductor in the Age of AI

When tools disappear, thinking emerges. When craft becomes cheap, taste becomes rare. And when execution is instant, the only thing that matters is the clarity of your mind.

medium.com/@bertelli/de...

Had a coworker like this and our team adopted a policy of semi-bullying him back offline anytime he was on PTO

"stop commenting jim, go back to your vacation"
"thanks but go away jim"
"jim I see you liking this post, I will have IT log you out of slack"

‘Silicon Six’ tech giants accused of inflating tax payments by almost $100bn Study claims firms paid $96bn less in tax between 2011 and 2020 than the notional figures cited in their annual reports

not point of this story, but I need to know which Guardian editor keeps trying to push this cringe Silicon Six moniker 😅

Other than this article, the last newspaper to call them that was... also The Guardian... 4 years ago lol

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

yeah I was tricked by a menu at a German restaurant in the US... it was sad

and I love german food too 😭

YES you get me. and yes, knödel are VERY delicious!

their english translation however... sucks and sets dumpling lovers up for sadness and disappointment 😞

I'm so sorry to my German friends but solid lumps of flour are not dumplings

THAI MANGOS. Also Philippines

Every example of "I succeeded by breaking the rules" needs to be served alongside five examples of "I broke the rules and got absolutely blasted" for a startup advice blog/book/podcast to not be considered irresponsible. Survivorship bias is incredibly strong.

You can see this same issue with LLMs today - retention is far below compared to non-LLM apps b/c users don't have enough knowledge of how to use the product. LLMs combat this with top-level explainer cards, but users still miss 90% of the value b/c navigating chat interface isn't as clear as GUI.

As a conversational designer, input is important, but the deeper issue is the iceberg problem: 90% of value of voice interfaces are hidden below surface & there's FAR fewer accessible navigational cues compared to GUI. Translation: hard for users to know what they can do = bad adoption & retention

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