The thing with genAI is that everything is flawless but also incredibly mid. My mother (bless her heart) sent me a picture of my cat “in the style of Van Gogh” knocking over a vase. Wasn’t even briefly tempted to chuckle. Meanwhile I still laugh every time I think of this post

I create interfaces for B2B/B2E contexts, and you’d be surprised how important these little islands of joy are, especially in the workplace. While doing user research for a redesign, we had multiple people explicitly ask us to please not take their squirrel away.

We’ll all have the opportunity to observe something interesting when Figma inevitably removes their April Fools FigPals – what happens when you *take away* moments of delight?

Perhaps nostalgia for the really really old times

All interfaces with well-intentioned designers behind them fall somewhere within this diagram. The further away from the centre, the worse. Duolingo for instance is sitting squat in aesthetic/delightful territory and moving farther from functional every day.

Impossible to choose

Very charmed by the recurring appearance of this thumb in an archived user guide for the oN-Line System on computerhistory.org

I definitely am not getting the joke but it does remind me of this iconic German mystery series for kids

I just think that if this was the computer that greeted me on my desk every morning I’d be off to a cheerful start immediately