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@iamli.am
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‎‧₊˚✧ designer focused on the philosophy of design | ☕ interface.cafe | 📻 https://design-notes.show | 🧑‍💻 boardmember, queer coding camp ✧˚₊‧
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Liam @iamli.am · Oct 20
I’m Liam—a designer on Material Design at Google focused on adaptive design and the future of the interface.

✍️ I write about design theory and tips on Interface Café

🧑‍💻 I’ve designed typefaces, like Girassol on Google Fonts

📻 I host Design Notes, a show about creative work and what it teaches us
iamli.am
I think if you use an LLM, it should make a loud “typing on a keyboard” sound effect the entire time it’s running.
November 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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I’m working with a lot of Wear OS mocks at the moment and using arc text is so fun :)
wire mode screenshot of watch with "minutes" arced header and time controls below
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Louise and I put out a podcast ep about this a while ago—porn is responsible for driving the internet forward pretty much from the start

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November 14, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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design-notes.show
Material Design founder Matías Duarte joins the show to explore the inception, evolution, and future of Google’s design approach.

📻 Tune in: interfacecafe.com/facing-our-i...

#MaterialDesign #UIDesign #FutureOfDesign
Facing Our Interfaces: Matías Duarte, Google
Matías Duarte on why the interface's only limitation is imagination... and battery life.
interfacecafe.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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new pfp by @stefan.town :)
November 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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3:30pm being late evening now 🫩
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The kombucha meme where a woman initially looks like she hates it, but then looks curious, but I've flipped the order, so she looks like she hates it, after looking curious. The first cell (curious) is captioned "I've written a new article" The second cell (hates it) is captioned "Read it on my Substack"
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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a sunflower randomly popped up in one of our planters this summer and today I'm harvesting the seeds 🌻
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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not sure exactly how to articulate this, but I think reporting about the fact that someone said something has had only negative consequences. take any tech leader who generates headlines by just saying something, and the body of the article doesn't do any more work besides saying "they said that."
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Human creativity will always be the frame and the reference point.
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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design-notes.show
📣 Calling all Design Notes listeners:

What other design or creative podcasts do you listen to regularly?

Let me know in the replies!

#designsky
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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POLLS ARE NOW OPEN.

Find out where you early vote ⬇️ 🗳️
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October 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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interfacecafe.com
In a brand new issue of Doubleshot, I reflect on the importance of careful and intentional abstraction, and the aesthetic impact that can be created by mystery.

interfacecafe.com/levels-of-ab...
#designsky
Levels of Abstraction • Doubleshot
The aesthetic effect of mystery in design.
interfacecafe.com
October 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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I have a layer with the gradient loop, and a fun mask that mimics the main show art on top. Then I layer in the episode info and subtitles (in different colors based on the speaker)
October 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Trying out a new format for podcast uploads on YouTube—a subtle animated background and the show transcript timed to the episode

youtu.be/P6TEb_Fmflo
October 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I still believe in the idea of letting users channel their content to specific audiences (and letting audiences follow certain content channels). As far as social media goes, I think this was a great idea.
October 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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This is really weird. Spotify rewrote the chapter titles for this episode automatically with AI 😐
October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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It's the fault of a lot of educational programs and some consultancies that design is misunderstood as a magic substance. The dominant lore contributes to designers being less well prepared to engage in these environments and see the true limits of their scope of decision-making and influence.
October 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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design-notes.show
In a 🆕 episode, Zürich-based designer Fabian Bircher talks about exposing unseen elements of the environment around us and his unique creative process which combines art and code.

📻 Tune in: design-notes.show#other-than-e...
#designsky
October 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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the idea of a “status symbol” doesn’t have an inherently positive valence
October 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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October 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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✍️ New post: Euro­pean Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺

#blogtober #tech #software #europe
matthiasott.com/notes/europe...
European Tech Alternatives 🇪🇺 · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.
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October 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Putting the finishing touches on a new @design-notes.show for next week 📻💛
October 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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frontenddogma.com
Design Can’t Rely on Logic: Troy Leinster on Type Design and Human Perception, by @interfacecafe.com:

https://interfacecafe.com/design-cant-rely-on-logic-troy-leinster-on-type-design-and-human-perception/

#podcasts #interviews #design #typography #fonts
Design Can’t Rely on Logic: Troy Leinster on Type Design and Human Perception
Why learning to make letters makes you a better designer.
interfacecafe.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM