Mariusz
@mariusz.cc
Product / Service / UX Design, Leadership, Ethics, Yelling at clouds. ⚡️ Languages. ⚡️ Taking photos. ⚡️ Screamy music ⚡️ Often seen dumping links to what I read. 🔴⚫️
I don’t know what HD is but my doctor says I have eighty of them.
I don’t know what HD is but my doctor says I have eighty of them.
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Mariusz
@mariusz.cc
· Nov 29
I think I've taken close to 10 thousand photos with many different cameras at different budgets when doing street and travel photography and yet this old photo taken with a shitty phone camera might still be my favorite.
GitHub Design System discourages use of toasts because of accessibility issues
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Toasts
GitHub no longer uses toasts because of their accessibility and usability issues.
primer.style
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
GitHub Design System discourages use of toasts because of accessibility issues
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primer.style/accessibilit...
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If people in your team or organisation are using AI notetakers as a way of coping with too many meetings and a culture of presenteeism, there's not a technological fix for this. The answer is to have fewer, better organised meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
November 21, 2025 at 7:13 AM
If people in your team or organisation are using AI notetakers as a way of coping with too many meetings and a culture of presenteeism, there's not a technological fix for this. The answer is to have fewer, better organised meetings www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
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Elon has been desperately trying to calibrate Grok towards more right-wing content for ages and now it's asking children for nudes
Is this not just a statistical proof of pedocon theory?
Is this not just a statistical proof of pedocon theory?
Today's entry in "why your chatbot, particularly that one, should not be in general deployment"
"My car asked my kids a shocking and inappropriate question. That’s how I realized there are few safe spaces anymore" in the Toronto Star [gift link]
"My car asked my kids a shocking and inappropriate question. That’s how I realized there are few safe spaces anymore" in the Toronto Star [gift link]
www.thestar.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Elon has been desperately trying to calibrate Grok towards more right-wing content for ages and now it's asking children for nudes
Is this not just a statistical proof of pedocon theory?
Is this not just a statistical proof of pedocon theory?
When you had to know your way around Photoshop or understand HTML and CSS — there was at least a barrier to entry that ensured some level of engagement with the craft.
www.chrbutler.com/the-fundamen...
www.chrbutler.com/the-fundamen...
The Fundamentals Problem - Christopher Butler
A few months ago, a client was reviewing a landing page design with my team. They had created it themselves using a page builder tool — one of those
www.chrbutler.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
When you had to know your way around Photoshop or understand HTML and CSS — there was at least a barrier to entry that ensured some level of engagement with the craft.
www.chrbutler.com/the-fundamen...
www.chrbutler.com/the-fundamen...
Once you begin treating every project like it’s your own business, your scope expands naturally. You start caring about dependencies, budgets, latency, and customer impact—not because someone told you to, but because the work feels like yours
www.proofofconcept.pub/p/strategy-t...
www.proofofconcept.pub/p/strategy-t...
Strategy-to-pixels
Issue 271: Full stack influence in an age of agency
www.proofofconcept.pub
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Once you begin treating every project like it’s your own business, your scope expands naturally. You start caring about dependencies, budgets, latency, and customer impact—not because someone told you to, but because the work feels like yours
www.proofofconcept.pub/p/strategy-t...
www.proofofconcept.pub/p/strategy-t...
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I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
When the technology cycle flips, valuation starts to trump value. The funny thing is that it is easy to grow into your eventual valuation, but it is nearly impossible to do otherwise.
om.co/2025/11/06/w...
om.co/2025/11/06/w...
Why Value Outlasts Valuation
After a long innings in the technology industry and as an avid student of history, I have formed a simple personal thesis about technology that doesn’t change much, no matter the technology or era.…
om.co
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
When the technology cycle flips, valuation starts to trump value. The funny thing is that it is easy to grow into your eventual valuation, but it is nearly impossible to do otherwise.
om.co/2025/11/06/w...
om.co/2025/11/06/w...
It’s liberating to remove that mask – to just be ourselves. And most people mask, neurodivergent or not. But masking tends to happen more when we differ from other members of the community or when the community can’t accept our differences.
aeon.co/essays/the-h...
aeon.co/essays/the-h...
The hidden costs of masking for women with ADHD and autism | Aeon Essays
People with ADHD and autism have to mask their instincts if they want to be included. But the strain exacts a very high price
aeon.co
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
It’s liberating to remove that mask – to just be ourselves. And most people mask, neurodivergent or not. But masking tends to happen more when we differ from other members of the community or when the community can’t accept our differences.
aeon.co/essays/the-h...
aeon.co/essays/the-h...
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You should always be reading @monteiro.bsky.social newsletter but you should especially read this week's buttondown.com/monteiro/archi...
How to point at fascists and laugh
The last slide from my new talk. It plays a role below. Contribute to my eventual bail fund at $2 a pop. This week’s question comes from me, actually: How...
buttondown.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 AM
You should always be reading @monteiro.bsky.social newsletter but you should especially read this week's buttondown.com/monteiro/archi...
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The science is in: the "frictionless" experience that throws up significant friction as soon as you try to do anything real with it.
one complicated thought: out of the box/on the free tier, chatgpt is a dangerous product for the majority of users, in that it is capable of doing real harm, mostly invisibly. it takes a _huge_ amount of time and effort to resolve into a useful tool and the system basically fights you the whole way.
June 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The science is in: the "frictionless" experience that throws up significant friction as soon as you try to do anything real with it.
Thank you, New Yorkers, for having common sense.
November 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Thank you, New Yorkers, for having common sense.
Don’t try to be clever, be clear.
Pick your design to “steal”. Make enemies, make friends. Give people a clear reason to adopt—don’t overwhelm.
The “originals” are often ignored.
adplist.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...
Pick your design to “steal”. Make enemies, make friends. Give people a clear reason to adopt—don’t overwhelm.
The “originals” are often ignored.
adplist.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...
Why stealing design works
99% of designers still get this wrong (and blame me for it)
adplist.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Don’t try to be clever, be clear.
Pick your design to “steal”. Make enemies, make friends. Give people a clear reason to adopt—don’t overwhelm.
The “originals” are often ignored.
adplist.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...
Pick your design to “steal”. Make enemies, make friends. Give people a clear reason to adopt—don’t overwhelm.
The “originals” are often ignored.
adplist.substack.com/p/why-you-sh...
We’ve all heard that data always tells a story. However, it’s never just a single story. People are complex, and pointing out a specific truth about them just by looking at numbers is rarely enough.
When data disagrees, it doesn’t mean that either is wrong.
www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/10/how-...
When data disagrees, it doesn’t mean that either is wrong.
www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/10/how-...
How To Make Your UX Research Hard To Ignore — Smashing Magazine
Research isn’t everything. Facts alone don’t win arguments, but powerful stories do. Here’s how to turn your research into narratives that inspire trust and influence decisions.
www.smashingmagazine.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We’ve all heard that data always tells a story. However, it’s never just a single story. People are complex, and pointing out a specific truth about them just by looking at numbers is rarely enough.
When data disagrees, it doesn’t mean that either is wrong.
www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/10/how-...
When data disagrees, it doesn’t mean that either is wrong.
www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/10/how-...
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Know your subgenres,
Cracking open a cold one with the fellas: buddy comedy
Cracking open fellas with the Cold One: dark fantasy
Cracking open one fella with a cold: medical drama
A cold open with one cracking fella: sitcom
One cold fella with the open crack: public solo porn in winter
Cracking open a cold one with the fellas: buddy comedy
Cracking open fellas with the Cold One: dark fantasy
Cracking open one fella with a cold: medical drama
A cold open with one cracking fella: sitcom
One cold fella with the open crack: public solo porn in winter
November 1, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Know your subgenres,
Cracking open a cold one with the fellas: buddy comedy
Cracking open fellas with the Cold One: dark fantasy
Cracking open one fella with a cold: medical drama
A cold open with one cracking fella: sitcom
One cold fella with the open crack: public solo porn in winter
Cracking open a cold one with the fellas: buddy comedy
Cracking open fellas with the Cold One: dark fantasy
Cracking open one fella with a cold: medical drama
A cold open with one cracking fella: sitcom
One cold fella with the open crack: public solo porn in winter
While intuition is extremely important, it can only be trained with experience. You probably shouldn’t trust your gut feeling every time when you've just started out in your career in design.
www.fundament.design/p/articulati...
www.fundament.design/p/articulati...
Articulating design decisions
#65: About making thoughtful decisions and defending design rationale
www.fundament.design
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
While intuition is extremely important, it can only be trained with experience. You probably shouldn’t trust your gut feeling every time when you've just started out in your career in design.
www.fundament.design/p/articulati...
www.fundament.design/p/articulati...
Words are not concrete. As much as we want words to have specific, concrete, absolute meaning…they don’t. They're abstractions that our brains automatically fill in based on our backgrounds, expertise, and experiences.
www.jondaiello.com/posts/the-il...
www.jondaiello.com/posts/the-il...
The Illusion of Alignment
Words create an illusion of alignment. Teams think they agree until design reviews reveal everyone imagined something different. Visual thinking exposes misalignment early.
www.jondaiello.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Words are not concrete. As much as we want words to have specific, concrete, absolute meaning…they don’t. They're abstractions that our brains automatically fill in based on our backgrounds, expertise, and experiences.
www.jondaiello.com/posts/the-il...
www.jondaiello.com/posts/the-il...
Ultimately, a mature technology doesn’t look like magic; it looks like infrastructure. It gets smaller, more reliable, and much more boring.
We’re here to solve problems, not look cool.
jenson.org/boring/
We’re here to solve problems, not look cool.
jenson.org/boring/
Boring is good – Scott Jenson
Scott Jenson
jenson.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Ultimately, a mature technology doesn’t look like magic; it looks like infrastructure. It gets smaller, more reliable, and much more boring.
We’re here to solve problems, not look cool.
jenson.org/boring/
We’re here to solve problems, not look cool.
jenson.org/boring/
Centralized quality — slogans, KPIs, executive decrees — can produce positive results, but it’s brittle. Decentralized quality — continuous feedback, distributed ownership, emergent standards — builds resilience.
mattstromawn.com/writing/dece...
mattstromawn.com/writing/dece...
Decentralizing quality
Why moving judgment to the edges wins in the long run
mattstromawn.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Centralized quality — slogans, KPIs, executive decrees — can produce positive results, but it’s brittle. Decentralized quality — continuous feedback, distributed ownership, emergent standards — builds resilience.
mattstromawn.com/writing/dece...
mattstromawn.com/writing/dece...
I saw a tool recently that listens to user interviews and suggests follow-up questions. Tools like this make designers lazier, not better. You need genuine curiosity. You need to understand what you’re looking for before you can synthesize anything meaningful.
www.antonsten.com/articles/ai-...
www.antonsten.com/articles/ai-...
AI will happily design the wrong thing for you | Anton Sten
AI tools are incredible leverage, but they amplify whatever you bring to them. If you don't understand the problem you're solving, AI just helps you build the wrong thing more efficiently.
www.antonsten.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I saw a tool recently that listens to user interviews and suggests follow-up questions. Tools like this make designers lazier, not better. You need genuine curiosity. You need to understand what you’re looking for before you can synthesize anything meaningful.
www.antonsten.com/articles/ai-...
www.antonsten.com/articles/ai-...
What happened to that sense of social purpose? Design today has clearly been struggling through a long existential crisis. The realisation that the field has been so fully co-opted by capital as a mechanism for making more useless stuff has hit hard.
www.ft.com/content/e637...
www.ft.com/content/e637...
Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world
Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away
www.ft.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
What happened to that sense of social purpose? Design today has clearly been struggling through a long existential crisis. The realisation that the field has been so fully co-opted by capital as a mechanism for making more useless stuff has hit hard.
www.ft.com/content/e637...
www.ft.com/content/e637...
Evidence-based product development is not rocket science. Leadership (at all levels) is about choosing goals, not ideas. Just as important, investing in learning uncovers opportunities that can take you to new places.
itamargilad.com/discovery-is...
itamargilad.com/discovery-is...
Product Discovery In Reality - Itamar Gilad
These days everyone seems to be talking about transformation, product-based development, and discovery. And yet, I find that many people support these concepts in principle, but can’t truly believe…
itamargilad.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Evidence-based product development is not rocket science. Leadership (at all levels) is about choosing goals, not ideas. Just as important, investing in learning uncovers opportunities that can take you to new places.
itamargilad.com/discovery-is...
itamargilad.com/discovery-is...
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
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October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
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Design System Tactics: A growing collection of tactics is designed to help you make progress at every stage of creating and maintaining a design system.
redesigningdesign.systems/tactics/all-...
redesigningdesign.systems/tactics/all-...
Design System tactics
Whether you're starting fresh or maintaining a mature system, this growing collection of tactics is designed to help you make progress at every stage.
redesigningdesign.systems
October 24, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Design System Tactics: A growing collection of tactics is designed to help you make progress at every stage of creating and maintaining a design system.
redesigningdesign.systems/tactics/all-...
redesigningdesign.systems/tactics/all-...
GenUI (short for Generative User Interface) is a new paradigm in interface design where AI dynamically generates and adapts user interface elements in real time based on the user’s context, goals, and behavior.
uxplanet.org/genui-design...
uxplanet.org/genui-design...
GenUI Design: Foundational Patterns
Service design is evolving and we’re quickly moving past static screens and pages toward dynamic, contextual experiences. In my previous…
uxplanet.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:39 PM
GenUI (short for Generative User Interface) is a new paradigm in interface design where AI dynamically generates and adapts user interface elements in real time based on the user’s context, goals, and behavior.
uxplanet.org/genui-design...
uxplanet.org/genui-design...