Fiona Lai
@spicyfiona.bsky.social
an ever-changing designer.
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people, people, throw yourself in situations and all kinds of situations!🤣 it's the way to really emotionally test moments - seriously! No AI can help you out on this!
October 22, 2025 at 11:20 PM
people, people, throw yourself in situations and all kinds of situations!🤣 it's the way to really emotionally test moments - seriously! No AI can help you out on this!
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Using a landmark when you tell someone where to meet after mentioning the street names.
What’s a real thing from your childhood that kids these days would find completely foreign?
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
Like, how we used to be able to walk right up to the gate to meet our family coming off a flight.
Or how we had to pick a spot to meet at the theater BEFORE we went.
July 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Using a landmark when you tell someone where to meet after mentioning the street names.
Seeing Marcus getting to learn from Chef Luca, Richie getting to learn from Jessica and Chef Terry and even Carmy getting to learn from Chef Thomas Keller in The Bear. I really wonder if most industries would have this type of exposure for someone to learn from another.
July 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Seeing Marcus getting to learn from Chef Luca, Richie getting to learn from Jessica and Chef Terry and even Carmy getting to learn from Chef Thomas Keller in The Bear. I really wonder if most industries would have this type of exposure for someone to learn from another.
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New blog post: On Freedom, Curiosity & Happiness
…Where I contemplate the intricate relationship between my personal life and the work I do, what kind of values I believe in, and what’s next after resigning from my full time position in the Nord Design System team
arielsalminen.com/2025/on-free...
…Where I contemplate the intricate relationship between my personal life and the work I do, what kind of values I believe in, and what’s next after resigning from my full time position in the Nord Design System team
arielsalminen.com/2025/on-free...
On Freedom, Curiosity & Happiness
I have been recently contemplating the intricate relationship between my personal life and the work I do, particularly how these domains inevitably get intertwined and influence one another....
arielsalminen.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
New blog post: On Freedom, Curiosity & Happiness
…Where I contemplate the intricate relationship between my personal life and the work I do, what kind of values I believe in, and what’s next after resigning from my full time position in the Nord Design System team
arielsalminen.com/2025/on-free...
…Where I contemplate the intricate relationship between my personal life and the work I do, what kind of values I believe in, and what’s next after resigning from my full time position in the Nord Design System team
arielsalminen.com/2025/on-free...
the best taste of research
play is literally research
July 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
the best taste of research
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“When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it… so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and …takes its place in the web of nature.”
— Christopher Alexander
(A Pattern Language, 1977)
— Christopher Alexander
(A Pattern Language, 1977)
February 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
“When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it… so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and …takes its place in the web of nature.”
— Christopher Alexander
(A Pattern Language, 1977)
— Christopher Alexander
(A Pattern Language, 1977)
I've had the worst luck with hardware products and it shows the hardware-product-service/maintenance support continues to be underrated.
Forget all the software "advancements" when your hardwares aren't even capable to last for at least a few months!
Forget all the software "advancements" when your hardwares aren't even capable to last for at least a few months!
June 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I've had the worst luck with hardware products and it shows the hardware-product-service/maintenance support continues to be underrated.
Forget all the software "advancements" when your hardwares aren't even capable to last for at least a few months!
Forget all the software "advancements" when your hardwares aren't even capable to last for at least a few months!
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people will soon be selling Workflows
May 22, 2025 at 3:50 PM
people will soon be selling Workflows
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The last two "big" announcements from Silicon Valley:
1) Figma sites: inaccessible mess
2) Apple Liquid Glass: inaccessible mess
I can't actually remember the last time Silicon Valley came up with something that was actually good.
1) Figma sites: inaccessible mess
2) Apple Liquid Glass: inaccessible mess
I can't actually remember the last time Silicon Valley came up with something that was actually good.
June 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The last two "big" announcements from Silicon Valley:
1) Figma sites: inaccessible mess
2) Apple Liquid Glass: inaccessible mess
I can't actually remember the last time Silicon Valley came up with something that was actually good.
1) Figma sites: inaccessible mess
2) Apple Liquid Glass: inaccessible mess
I can't actually remember the last time Silicon Valley came up with something that was actually good.
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Apple changed the Liquid Ass YouTube thumbnail 😅
June 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Apple changed the Liquid Ass YouTube thumbnail 😅
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If you can't make new products that people want, just charge them more for the old products you made when your company still knew how to make software.
um thanks Google for charging me for something I didn't ask for?
June 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
If you can't make new products that people want, just charge them more for the old products you made when your company still knew how to make software.
Early morning recharge with @samiamdesigns.bsky.social on a large screen☕️🤩
@intodesignsystems.bsky.social
@intodesignsystems.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Early morning recharge with @samiamdesigns.bsky.social on a large screen☕️🤩
@intodesignsystems.bsky.social
@intodesignsystems.bsky.social
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Some might say I'm being too harsh on Figma but I actually think I'm not being harsh *enough.*
For better or worse, Figma is the industry-default design tool. When they select their priorities, it communicates to designers *what they should consider important* both as a role model and as a tool.
For better or worse, Figma is the industry-default design tool. When they select their priorities, it communicates to designers *what they should consider important* both as a role model and as a tool.
We're time traveling back to 1997 today, when WISYWIG editors were all the rage. In the decades since, web technology has clawed its way from that primitive state with semantic HTML that made accessibility possible and let content drive appearance rather than vice-versa.
Then Figma blew it all up.
Then Figma blew it all up.
Figma Dreamweaver
The dream of being able to generate working websites will remain out of reach until UX redefines its practice around semantic structure rather than layouts.
productpicnic.beehiiv.com
May 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Some might say I'm being too harsh on Figma but I actually think I'm not being harsh *enough.*
For better or worse, Figma is the industry-default design tool. When they select their priorities, it communicates to designers *what they should consider important* both as a role model and as a tool.
For better or worse, Figma is the industry-default design tool. When they select their priorities, it communicates to designers *what they should consider important* both as a role model and as a tool.
"I hope people have big TVs at home now. I think they do"
...boyyy, not everyone has the affordance.
...boyyy, not everyone has the affordance.
May 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"I hope people have big TVs at home now. I think they do"
...boyyy, not everyone has the affordance.
...boyyy, not everyone has the affordance.
Affordance lately...
Work uses Enterprise plan (finally) and it's interesting that @figma.com releases trialling in Enterprise tier first...
Work uses Enterprise plan (finally) and it's interesting that @figma.com releases trialling in Enterprise tier first...
Why get bought by Adobe when you can BECOME Adobe?
Figma coming for Webflow/Framer+CMS, Canva/Adobe Express, Illustrator… all they need now is photo editing and they will have replaced their whole suite of products.
Those future pricing plans tho… 😅 #Config25
Figma coming for Webflow/Framer+CMS, Canva/Adobe Express, Illustrator… all they need now is photo editing and they will have replaced their whole suite of products.
Those future pricing plans tho… 😅 #Config25
May 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Affordance lately...
Work uses Enterprise plan (finally) and it's interesting that @figma.com releases trialling in Enterprise tier first...
Work uses Enterprise plan (finally) and it's interesting that @figma.com releases trialling in Enterprise tier first...
@bsky.app I actually need this here.
making a comment/s onto a post... clearly I'm wanting to combine my flavourful spin onto it.
making a comment/s onto a post... clearly I'm wanting to combine my flavourful spin onto it.
Product Hunt has added a new "Auto-follow when commenting" toggle to settings.
So now when you leave a comment in a forum, you'll auto-follow the author and product.
#NewProductHunt
So now when you leave a comment in a forum, you'll auto-follow the author and product.
#NewProductHunt
May 7, 2025 at 11:02 PM
@bsky.app I actually need this here.
making a comment/s onto a post... clearly I'm wanting to combine my flavourful spin onto it.
making a comment/s onto a post... clearly I'm wanting to combine my flavourful spin onto it.
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we’re in the 1998 of AI
April 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
we’re in the 1998 of AI
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as the tools slip through our fingers, the fundamentals of using them have never mattered more
May 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
as the tools slip through our fingers, the fundamentals of using them have never mattered more
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Apple is looking at adding Perplexity and other AI search engines to Safari
Apple is looking at adding Perplexity and other AI search engines to Safari
AI search options could arrive in the coming year.
buff.ly
May 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Apple is looking at adding Perplexity and other AI search engines to Safari
Whoever the music beats curator for the livestreaming of #Config2025, you're my hero/es all time🤩
Jamming Bopping GIF
Alt: Bart Simpson wearing headphones in a sound studio booth jamming with his head side to side and hands in the air twinkling
media.tenor.com
May 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Whoever the music beats curator for the livestreaming of #Config2025, you're my hero/es all time🤩
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“Let devs design & let designers code.”
@matthiasott.com reminds us: the web is a material — not a canvas — and we should all get our hands dirty. Designers: learn HTML & CSS. Developers: design boldly.
@beyondtellerrand.com #btConf
@matthiasott.com reminds us: the web is a material — not a canvas — and we should all get our hands dirty. Designers: learn HTML & CSS. Developers: design boldly.
@beyondtellerrand.com #btConf
May 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
“Let devs design & let designers code.”
@matthiasott.com reminds us: the web is a material — not a canvas — and we should all get our hands dirty. Designers: learn HTML & CSS. Developers: design boldly.
@beyondtellerrand.com #btConf
@matthiasott.com reminds us: the web is a material — not a canvas — and we should all get our hands dirty. Designers: learn HTML & CSS. Developers: design boldly.
@beyondtellerrand.com #btConf
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[New blog post]
Are CSS Carousels accessible sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-car...
In this post, I share some important insights from examining the accessibility of CSS-only carousels that use new features introduced in the #CSS Overflow Module Level 5 spec.
#a11y
Are CSS Carousels accessible sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-car...
In this post, I share some important insights from examining the accessibility of CSS-only carousels that use new features introduced in the #CSS Overflow Module Level 5 spec.
#a11y
Are 'CSS Carousels' accessible?
– The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive design engineer
sarasoueidan.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
[New blog post]
Are CSS Carousels accessible sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-car...
In this post, I share some important insights from examining the accessibility of CSS-only carousels that use new features introduced in the #CSS Overflow Module Level 5 spec.
#a11y
Are CSS Carousels accessible sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-car...
In this post, I share some important insights from examining the accessibility of CSS-only carousels that use new features introduced in the #CSS Overflow Module Level 5 spec.
#a11y
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If you’re in SF and want to meet while I’m here for @figma.com’s #config2025, send me a message. I’m looking forward to talking about typography in design systems on Thursday morning!
May 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
If you’re in SF and want to meet while I’m here for @figma.com’s #config2025, send me a message. I’m looking forward to talking about typography in design systems on Thursday morning!