“Pixel perfect prototype” … what are you prototyping?

Does anyone else notice how often Sam Altman says “whatever”? The one thing that bugs me about the current crop of dudes trying to take over the world—aside from the whole trying to take over the world part—is that they’re often so blasé about it. Like, where’s the fire? Show you care.

I think all this talk about reversing the ratio of PMs to Devs, because Product is now the “bottleneck,” is quietly highlighting the insane amount of work expected from Product, which has probably led to our discipline’s extraordinarily high burnout rate.

metrics show symptoms
they tell us who we you should talk to
talking to those people uncovers root causes

By understanding and strategically managing a healthy detachment rate, design system teams can foster innovation while maintaining coherence, ensuring the system remains a valuable asset rather than a rigid constraint.

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Jevons Paradox suggests that efficiency improvements (read: AI) paradoxically increases consumption rather than decreased consumption of a resource.

Announcing my new book about A11Y! ♿

When I first started as a web developer I didn't know anything about best practices for UX

Only after guidance from many wonderful people have I improved; I want to share that ☺️

A11Y is a basic right and improves products for us all 🚀

just wrote “phoney baloney” in a work email and have never felt more alive

People bet* differently at different stages of their lives. That's not just because of experience, but also due to physical changes in our brains.

*using Annie Duke's definition of a bet as a "decision that carries risk"

We're building some serious AI-powered telemetry tooling to collect and analyze designer behavior across our *massive* Figma instance.

#designsystems

one person can cause such an effect on our global economy

I'm not a victim to the dunning-kruger effect. I know exactly how wholly incompetent I am.

“We need to improve our documentation site” or “We need more training”

Hope you are exhausted from all of the all usability and onboarding experiments that you’ve been running the last few quarters. Because if you jump straight to docs and training??? Oooo that awakening is gonna be ruuuude.

A product perceived as not “feature complete” reflects a gap in product marketing—not a failure in the product itself. Product quality and completeness are separate concepts.

Bring dev fresh fruit

“Off-gray”

Conway’s Law is a law, not a theory. You can’t fight it, so don’t try. Seriously. Stop it.

Our dog walker sends fantastic daily updates of her walks with our dog Pepper. But Apple “intelligence” sucks the joy out of them. Can I turn off text summaries for a subset of contacts?

Stop complaining about cloud computing prices. Just build apps nobody use. Super cheap.