Dave Snyder (NYC)
@davesnyder.bsky.social
Twitter: @epicallyharshed / Partner at Siberia, Formerly Head of Design at Slice 🍕 / Twitter, UENO, Chief Creative Officer at Firstborn/Dentsu #design #skateboarding #photography
If design is strategy made visible, decency is ethics made measurable.
October 28, 2025 at 10:33 PM
If design is strategy made visible, decency is ethics made measurable.
Stop playing janitor in someone else’s disaster. Power doesn’t reward competence—it rewards a narrative. Write yours before someone else does. Ignore everything else. 💡
#fridayprovocation
#fridayprovocation
October 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Stop playing janitor in someone else’s disaster. Power doesn’t reward competence—it rewards a narrative. Write yours before someone else does. Ignore everything else. 💡
#fridayprovocation
#fridayprovocation
The light just now. Bueno.
October 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The light just now. Bueno.
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“The smartest design move isn’t chasing trends, it’s planting the tree and letting time do the work,” writes Dave Snyder. “Trees don’t pay off tomorrow. They pay off in a decade. They compound quietly, making everything around them better…” [designobserver.com]
October 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Whoa! Thanks for the feature.
“The smartest design move isn’t chasing trends, it’s planting the tree and letting time do the work,” writes Dave Snyder. “Trees don’t pay off tomorrow. They pay off in a decade. They compound quietly, making everything around them better…” [designobserver.com]
October 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Whoa! Thanks for the feature.
Reposted by Dave Snyder (NYC)
Good design isn’t about adding more. It’s about knowing what not to build. @davesnyder.bsky.social argues for restraint: solve the one core problem, put in the craft, and let time and user behavior do the work. Read the full story:
The compound interest of design: what not to build - DesignObserver
Veteran designer Dave Snyder says the secret to lasting products isn’t hype or clever features. It’s restraint, craft, and solving one core problem so well that the benefits compound over time.
designobserver.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Good design isn’t about adding more. It’s about knowing what not to build. @davesnyder.bsky.social argues for restraint: solve the one core problem, put in the craft, and let time and user behavior do the work. Read the full story:
The goal isn’t to go viral — it’s to be impossible to replace.
October 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The goal isn’t to go viral — it’s to be impossible to replace.
Wrote an article for @designobserver.com on this idea I call “the compound interest of design” which is all about knowing what NOT to build. And that is hard. designobserver.com/the-compound...
The compound interest of design: what not to build - DesignObserver
Veteran designer Dave Snyder says the secret to lasting products isn’t hype or clever features. It’s restraint, craft, and solving one core problem so well that the benefits compound over time.
designobserver.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Wrote an article for @designobserver.com on this idea I call “the compound interest of design” which is all about knowing what NOT to build. And that is hard. designobserver.com/the-compound...
Desirability outlives usability.
October 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Desirability outlives usability.
Evening provocation: AI won’t democratize leadership, it will calcify oligarchy.
September 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Evening provocation: AI won’t democratize leadership, it will calcify oligarchy.
Dune aesthetics.
July 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Dune aesthetics.
Haters in the comments! I guess I didn’t create anything useful. Oh well 😂 www.creativebloq.com/3d/vibe-codi...
I tried vibe-coding for the first time – here's why it should be your new superpower
What I made was weird, but it unlocked a new mindset.
www.creativebloq.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Haters in the comments! I guess I didn’t create anything useful. Oh well 😂 www.creativebloq.com/3d/vibe-codi...
So do you like grids?
Me:
Me:
May 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
So do you like grids?
Me:
Me:
I’m not sure who needs to hear this but If you’re saving your paper school diploma next to a pubic hair removal device that hasn’t been touched in 10 years it’s time to let both go.
April 29, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I’m not sure who needs to hear this but If you’re saving your paper school diploma next to a pubic hair removal device that hasn’t been touched in 10 years it’s time to let both go.
They took the em dash from me.
April 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
They took the em dash from me.
Why such extravagance in bullshit?” Why do we overinvest in nonsense, in grift, in theater—when clarity and decency could’ve scaled so easily?
April 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Why such extravagance in bullshit?” Why do we overinvest in nonsense, in grift, in theater—when clarity and decency could’ve scaled so easily?
Sorta love this.
April 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Sorta love this.
post 4 important albums released the year you turned 18. 1995 for me.
March 28, 2025 at 2:25 AM
post 4 important albums released the year you turned 18. 1995 for me.
Wait it’s golf season?!
March 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Wait it’s golf season?!
Vibe art directing new portraits. 😂
March 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Vibe art directing new portraits. 😂
2010. SoBe at SXSWi. Anyone remember?
March 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
2010. SoBe at SXSWi. Anyone remember?
March 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
All cruelty springs from weakness. - Seneca
Indeed.
Indeed.
March 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
All cruelty springs from weakness. - Seneca
Indeed.
Indeed.