Matt Ström-Awn
@mattstromawn.bsky.social
Designer, etc.
https://mattstromawn.com
https://mattstromawn.com
Happy to get input and suggestions for future additions! We’ll be continuing to add to the spec in lots of ways and want as much input and discussion as possible to guide the process. Just open a discussion on GH :)
October 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Happy to get input and suggestions for future additions! We’ll be continuing to add to the spec in lots of ways and want as much input and discussion as possible to guide the process. Just open a discussion on GH :)
Talking Heads got so tired of being called The Talking Heads that they put out an album called “The Name of This Band is Talking Heads”
October 28, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Talking Heads got so tired of being called The Talking Heads that they put out an album called “The Name of This Band is Talking Heads”
also a fabulous year for naming web things (suckerfish dropdowns!)
September 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
also a fabulous year for naming web things (suckerfish dropdowns!)
I will be the Glenn Gould of bad takes
September 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I will be the Glenn Gould of bad takes
taking a cue from jazz & blues, if you repeat yourself enough times it gets interesting again. To that end I will write a “should designers code” think piece every week from now until the heat death of the universe
September 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
taking a cue from jazz & blues, if you repeat yourself enough times it gets interesting again. To that end I will write a “should designers code” think piece every week from now until the heat death of the universe
Did some research of my own here, if it’s useful: matthewstrom.com/writing/prod...
The product design talent crisis
Why we should invest in the next generation of product designers
matthewstrom.com
August 30, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Did some research of my own here, if it’s useful: matthewstrom.com/writing/prod...
A really monkey’s paw moment for designers who wanted a seat at the table
August 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
A really monkey’s paw moment for designers who wanted a seat at the table
the prevalence of em dashes in ai writing means my writing is almost certainly in the training data set
July 29, 2025 at 7:28 PM
the prevalence of em dashes in ai writing means my writing is almost certainly in the training data set
Footnotes - bringing them up to side notes or popovers, but keeping the end-of-page ones for semantics and accessibility
July 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Footnotes - bringing them up to side notes or popovers, but keeping the end-of-page ones for semantics and accessibility
definitely, and also depends on the relative productivity of what you're switching between.
July 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
definitely, and also depends on the relative productivity of what you're switching between.
It's true that the coding takes longer, but there's some extra productivity due to what you can do while the agent is working.
July 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It's true that the coding takes longer, but there's some extra productivity due to what you can do while the agent is working.
They’re calling him the Fizzler
July 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
They’re calling him the Fizzler
I was an early adopter! Looks like I bought a license in 2013. I think it was the first time I used markdown.
Keep doing great stuff, and lemme know if you ever need design help :)
Keep doing great stuff, and lemme know if you ever need design help :)
June 24, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I was an early adopter! Looks like I bought a license in 2013. I think it was the first time I used markdown.
Keep doing great stuff, and lemme know if you ever need design help :)
Keep doing great stuff, and lemme know if you ever need design help :)
And if you don't need any of those things, but wanna work together anyway, you should still get in touch :)
June 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
And if you don't need any of those things, but wanna work together anyway, you should still get in touch :)