Josh
@joshsmith.bsky.social
🏢 Owner @ Bluenilla
🏢 Owner @ The Smith Syndicate
📡 UX/Product Leadership/Strategy/Operations for B2B/B2C SaaS
🌎 Lancaster, PA USA
🌈 Any | 親日 | ❤️🐈 | ∞
https://www.bluenilla.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/uxsmith/
🏢 Owner @ The Smith Syndicate
📡 UX/Product Leadership/Strategy/Operations for B2B/B2C SaaS
🌎 Lancaster, PA USA
🌈 Any | 親日 | ❤️🐈 | ∞
https://www.bluenilla.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/uxsmith/
Yeah okay I’ll accept the label ‘radical left,’ but if I’m being honest, I’ll also accept ‘tubular’, ‘bodacious’, and dare I say ‘gnarly’.
May 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Yeah okay I’ll accept the label ‘radical left,’ but if I’m being honest, I’ll also accept ‘tubular’, ‘bodacious’, and dare I say ‘gnarly’.
Product design tools are just going to progress to a modern version of the software we all really wanted anyway: Flash.
April 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Product design tools are just going to progress to a modern version of the software we all really wanted anyway: Flash.
I want to be inclusive, I really do, but at the same time, if you weren't entranced by the Pure Moods infomercial after midnight on TV in the mid-90s, you're just not my people. Those are the rules.
April 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I want to be inclusive, I really do, but at the same time, if you weren't entranced by the Pure Moods infomercial after midnight on TV in the mid-90s, you're just not my people. Those are the rules.
Just launched skbd.me. It's free while in beta. Create an email alias, use it for subscriptions, and block emails from getting to your real email. Take back your inbox. I'd love it if you checked it out and gave me your thoughts! How can we make it better for you?
SKBD - Take Back Your Inbox
Block entire domains from emailing you. Fight back against marketing spam. Control who gets access to your real email.
skbd.me
March 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Just launched skbd.me. It's free while in beta. Create an email alias, use it for subscriptions, and block emails from getting to your real email. Take back your inbox. I'd love it if you checked it out and gave me your thoughts! How can we make it better for you?
Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid
March 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Age yourself with a cartoon you watched as a kid
When you live in Amish country, you see the news headline, ‘Toddler dies in farming accident’ at least a couple times a month.
March 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
When you live in Amish country, you see the news headline, ‘Toddler dies in farming accident’ at least a couple times a month.
That’s couture. Cloture is a Poison/Ground type Pokémon that was introduced in Generation IX.
That's closure. Cloture is high-end fashion design.
That’s clotting. Cloture is a sense of acceptance or resolution
March 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
That’s couture. Cloture is a Poison/Ground type Pokémon that was introduced in Generation IX.
We feel before we rationalize. ALWAYS. You can't control it. Don't trust people who react to their feelings first. Trust people who first seek to understand why they initially felt the way they did.
March 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
We feel before we rationalize. ALWAYS. You can't control it. Don't trust people who react to their feelings first. Trust people who first seek to understand why they initially felt the way they did.
In your hiring process, prioritize evaluating a candidate's ability to project the long-term impact of short-term decision-making. This is the #1 attribute that will determine your company's long-term growth.
March 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
In your hiring process, prioritize evaluating a candidate's ability to project the long-term impact of short-term decision-making. This is the #1 attribute that will determine your company's long-term growth.
One of the most important rules for product leaders is segmented market prioritization. Create a quadrant. X is organization size small to large. Y is operational maturity of your domain low to high. Circle an area. Run like hell from any customer need that doesn't fall into your circle.
March 7, 2025 at 12:11 AM
One of the most important rules for product leaders is segmented market prioritization. Create a quadrant. X is organization size small to large. Y is operational maturity of your domain low to high. Circle an area. Run like hell from any customer need that doesn't fall into your circle.
Most conflicts in product design are about a misunderstanding of our position over the tension between consistency and clarity and our tension between flexibility and familiarity.
March 6, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Most conflicts in product design are about a misunderstanding of our position over the tension between consistency and clarity and our tension between flexibility and familiarity.
Describe your in person social skills with a gif
February 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Describe your in person social skills with a gif
While the ‘Die Hard is a Christmas Movie’ trope makes its rounds, I’m looking for the crowd that has Rare Exports on their list of favorite holiday films.
Evil Santa Angry GIF
Alt: A Gif of Santa in a cage from the movie Rare Exports
media.tenor.com
December 12, 2024 at 4:34 PM
While the ‘Die Hard is a Christmas Movie’ trope makes its rounds, I’m looking for the crowd that has Rare Exports on their list of favorite holiday films.
What are you lovers of cooking excited to make tomorrow? I’m doing a cranberry beef bourguignon with a side of colcannon.
November 28, 2024 at 12:35 AM
What are you lovers of cooking excited to make tomorrow? I’m doing a cranberry beef bourguignon with a side of colcannon.
Y'all the relief I needed that #designsky is absent of the A or B design posts.
a man with gray hair and a mustache is looking at something
Alt: A man with gray hair and a mustache with sadness in his eyes saying, "I am tired!"
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Y'all the relief I needed that #designsky is absent of the A or B design posts.
I played Ingress while living in Tokyo in the 2000s. But, to pay money for a game that sends you off to locations the parent company needs to build its navigation system...hmmm...
Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system
Visual scans of the world have helped Niantic build what it calls a “Large Geospatial Model.”…
arstechnica.com
November 20, 2024 at 5:19 PM
I played Ingress while living in Tokyo in the 2000s. But, to pay money for a game that sends you off to locations the parent company needs to build its navigation system...hmmm...
November 19, 2024 at 8:11 PM
If your design team is using kanban, here are some things to consider:
November 19, 2024 at 5:43 PM
If your design team is using kanban, here are some things to consider:
Anyone else not phased by the info that came out of the U.S. congressional hearing on UAPs? If a higher form of intelligence is surfacing from the ocean and monitoring humanity’s progress in vessels that can move at over 1000 Gs, okay. I’m more curious than surprised.
November 19, 2024 at 1:19 AM
Anyone else not phased by the info that came out of the U.S. congressional hearing on UAPs? If a higher form of intelligence is surfacing from the ocean and monitoring humanity’s progress in vessels that can move at over 1000 Gs, okay. I’m more curious than surprised.
Introduce yourself with four video games:
November 18, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Introduce yourself with four video games:
What's your favorite neighborhood in Tokyo that tourists rarely visit?
November 17, 2024 at 11:02 PM
What's your favorite neighborhood in Tokyo that tourists rarely visit?
Figma idea: Integration with product/dev tools (e.g. Jira, Github Projects, Linear, etc.) to correlate Figma project pages to issues and status.
July 27, 2023 at 3:55 AM
Figma idea: Integration with product/dev tools (e.g. Jira, Github Projects, Linear, etc.) to correlate Figma project pages to issues and status.
Can a system be both scalable and adaptive?
July 19, 2023 at 5:47 PM
Can a system be both scalable and adaptive?
I've got a lot materials over the past decade I've put together with enterprise product design teams to make life easier. Been meaning to share them with the world. Here's the first, on how to make quick judgments about how much effort to invest in design projects.
Assessing user impact
With hundreds of different methodologies a designer could employ to craft a design solution for their business, there comes a point where…
joshsmith.unitedeffects.com
July 12, 2023 at 3:40 PM
I've got a lot materials over the past decade I've put together with enterprise product design teams to make life easier. Been meaning to share them with the world. Here's the first, on how to make quick judgments about how much effort to invest in design projects.
Figma is down. Guess I’ll go boop my cat’s nose for the rest of the day.
July 10, 2023 at 5:46 PM
Figma is down. Guess I’ll go boop my cat’s nose for the rest of the day.