Perplexityโs Comet, OpenAIโs Atlas, and Googleโs AI Mode are all fighting to own the moment when your browser stops waiting for clicks and starts acting on your behalf.
Control is the issue. Whoever manages the agent that completes your purchase controls the data, the relationship, and the revenue.
Jeff Tweedy on His New Triple Album, โTwilight Overrideโ.
The best teams know when not to build something.
The backlog isnโt a to-do listโitโs a set of hypotheses to test.
#KnowTheProblemYouAreSolving #SoftwareDevelopment
Not into the skeuomorphic tiles. Starting to think removing the tiles altogether would be an improvement - using just icons without a background may look cleaner and more scannable.
My team visited our partners at Deloitte Digital in NYC today and the sun came out on cue. Good times!
I never, ever want to hear again that women are too emotional to be leaders.
New tools, new friends, great to be back in SF! #config2025
Looking forward to the keynote.
Itโs weird how you can accomplish things by simply trying to do them
A few new enhancements for Figma. ux-news.com/figma-unveil...
#NationalLibraryWeek
#LiteracyMatters
I don't know who needs to hear this, but start living. The days are flying by, and all you do is work, pay bills, and stress. Enjoy what you can-walks, sunsets, music, laughter. Joy doesn't have to be expensive. You deserve it.
โThe earth laughs in flowers."
โ Ralph Waldo Emerson
An dusty, industrial looking control panel in a wall. There are two big white square buttons on it. The one on the left has a red border and the letter 'i' touching the bottom, representing a person stuck to the ground (the dot of the i being their head). The 2nd button also has a red border, but inside the button is an upside down stickman figure, arms and legs spread out. To indicate this person is floating around helplessly in zero-gravity.
You know who should've won an Oscar last night? The person who designed the little 'Gravity on / off' buttons in Alien Romulus.
RIP, Skype. End of an era. But I'm actually surprised it lasted this long after the MS purchase.
I'm using using Dropbox to upload some large files after a long time not using Dropbox and the experience is reminding me why I haven't used Dropbox in a real long time
Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.
LinkedIn is quickly becoming the new Twitter/X. ๐ซฃ
If there's any #DesignSystems folks here looking for work, you should sign up to the Slack community from @jina.social and friends. There's been quite a few job postings in there:
Awhile back, someone asserted that UX is in the business of quality. Iโd say that UX should be in the business of creating trust, as in, โI trust that Iโm not being scammed. I trust that this works the way I expected. I trust in the service provided, etc.โ
You can be an effective leader by mastering 4x areas:
1. ๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ด๐ - are you clear where to focus?
2. ๐ข๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐บ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐น - can you drive progress every day?
3. ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ - have you got the right people in your org?
4. ๐๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐๐ป๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป - does everyone know what to do?
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A comparison of black text and white text on various background colours, using the WCAG 2 testing method. The contrast ratios do not match what youโd expect. For example, white text on an ornage background looks very high contrast, but black text on orange has a higher value.
2025 should be the year you stop using WCAG 2 colour contrast testing, and switch to APCA. This article is a few years old, and covers everything well. blog.datawrapper.de/color-contra...
If you played an instrument back in high school and stopped: we are in a golden age of decent cheap instruments.
The guitars are better, the amps are better. The pedals are cheaper, the wind instruments are actually instruments and not just shaped like them, etc.
Jump back into it.
Answering your questions about AI, smart glasses, TikTok, and more
Not that Google was ever good, but this cartoon is a good summary of now.
Coldplay, Spike Jonze, and Mary Wigmore turned the bandโs latest music video into a lovely & poignant tribute to Dick Van Dyke on the eve of his 99th birthday. So many great little moments in this. [kottke.org]
This is a very well done visual walkthrough of song building via sampling from the last 30+ years.
kottke.org/24/11/the-mo...
