Drew Stephens
@thisisdrew79.bsky.social
Digital Designer working in Higher Education. Hobbies include Silos, Acronyms, and Replying All.
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Got my performance review.
September 27, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Got my performance review.
Not turtles, but carbon dioxide all the way down. Finished this audiobook. Might listen to it again in a few weeks. That good. www.audible.com/pd/B0BY3MLVN... @peterbrannen.bsky.social
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance Every year, we are dangerously warping the climate by pu...
www.audible.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not turtles, but carbon dioxide all the way down. Finished this audiobook. Might listen to it again in a few weeks. That good. www.audible.com/pd/B0BY3MLVN... @peterbrannen.bsky.social
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The Media’s Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work. “The only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings…” [404media.co]
The Media’s Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
www.404media.co
July 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The Media’s Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work. “The only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings…” [404media.co]
take me back.
I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?
aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...
aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...
Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
aresluna.org
July 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
take me back.
“Be sure not to confuse becoming a better software user with becoming a better designer.” newsletter.kubie.co/archive/fall...
May 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“Be sure not to confuse becoming a better software user with becoming a better designer.” newsletter.kubie.co/archive/fall...
I've been taking browser screenshots and referencing them in Figma as starting places. But just realized Figma.to.website does a GREAT job at creating design files from any submitted url. What a time saver.
figma.to.website
figma.to.website - Make websites directly in Figma
Figma.to.website
April 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I've been taking browser screenshots and referencing them in Figma as starting places. But just realized Figma.to.website does a GREAT job at creating design files from any submitted url. What a time saver.
Hey look I graded your AI paper with AI.
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Hey look I graded your AI paper with AI.
Great perspective here. Worth a read.
Wrote a little piece about how AI is changing the job market for designers. Something similar happened in 1995, and there is a clear way through it if you stay curious. mikeindustries.com/blog/archive...
The Future Favors the Curious » Mike Industries
If you’re a designer in the market for a job right now, you probably feel behind the AI wave already, and you’re wondering if the skills you’ve honed in your career are even useful anymore. One of the...
mikeindustries.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Great perspective here. Worth a read.
I still think about this tweet, occasionally, as I fill hundreds of pages with bootstrap helper classes. @robdimarzo.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I still think about this tweet, occasionally, as I fill hundreds of pages with bootstrap helper classes. @robdimarzo.bsky.social
Appropriately chosen wallpaper for my new iMac. This color is “cigarette stain yellow.”
January 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Appropriately chosen wallpaper for my new iMac. This color is “cigarette stain yellow.”
"You must learn the ground truth to know how to manipulate it. You can’t transform what you don’t understand. And you can’t know what you haven’t touched, haven’t built, haven’t broken." vanlancker.substack.com/p/design-lit...
Design Literacy
Design Literacy in the Age of Intelligent Automation
vanlancker.substack.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:23 PM
"You must learn the ground truth to know how to manipulate it. You can’t transform what you don’t understand. And you can’t know what you haven’t touched, haven’t built, haven’t broken." vanlancker.substack.com/p/design-lit...
Buffalo River. Arkansas. Shadow is the best river dog.
December 6, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Buffalo River. Arkansas. Shadow is the best river dog.