flâneur

Keyan

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  • These are just my version of that curiosity. Probably far from what it will actually be, but that's not really the point. Creating something you've only imagined is a different kind of understanding. You see the flaws up close, but you also see what's possible in a way you couldn't before
    Point and Talk
  • I loved how Huang described storytelling in the research phase as collecting stories about the people you’re researching.
    Storytelling in Design Thinking. Storytelling injects itself into every… | by Emily Shen | Design Thinking Fall 22 | Medium
  • If you are excited about a design it is likely to still have some glaring problems.
    Charlie Deets | Presenting design work
  • Setting -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased or just antialiased in Tailwind makes text render slightly thinner and crisper.
    Details That Make Interfaces Feel Better
  • Dev Notes. Fork of Dappled light. Made with post-processing color grading passes, hand drawn grass, and foliage rules.
    Garden
  • The rule bent. The architecture fit the landscape and the community, even if it didn’t technically fit the ordinance.
    Karri Saarinen on X: "Design is a search" / X
  • A sketch is not a smaller version of the final building. It is a different mode of thinking. It gives you permission to be wrong in interesting ways, and to paint broad strokes.
    Karri Saarinen on X: "Design is a search" / X
  • The slightly annoying questions that force the situation to become real: Why are we doing this now? What problem are we actually solving? Who is this for, specifically? What does success mean? If we ship nothing, what breaks? What are we assuming that might be wrong? What decision are we trying to make by Friday?
    design process, explained - by jerry - chain of thoughts
  • Thank goodness I avoided playing it until now because I surely would have just copied their incredible design (intentionally or subconsciously).
    The Balatro Timeline — LocalThunk
  • chasing the Raccoon Borealis
    Where is The Raccoon Hole?
  • Little big details I’m a believer that great software is defined by the sum of all its thoughtful small details, and Honk had quite a few that deserve an honourable mention here.
    Honkish
  • What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.”
    Animations on the Web
  • Copy and re-implement work you admire until you can proudly create for yourself.
    Animations on the Web
  • Every single interface has infinite opportunity for polish and delight.
    Paco Coursey - ui.land
  • Art museums, for the architecture and framing. The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. has these smooth, seamless marble bannister and pink marble panels I couldn’t stop admiring. I know nothing about architecture, but being surrounded by beauty (not even the beauty you’re supposed to look at!) made me realize that “everything around me is someone’s life work”.
    Paco Coursey - ui.land
  • Contrary, Predictive UX points to an alternate approach. Instead of waiting for users to articulate every step, systems can anticipate intent based on behavior or common patterns as the user types.
    How can AI UI capture intent?. Exploring contextual prompt patterns… | by Sharang Sharma | UX Collective
  • Once you are able to do this, you have a lens through which you can answer the remaining questions, further clarifying your purpose and informing your strategy going forward.
    The Five W's of UX - 52 Weeks of UX
  • we must identify what problem this product is attempting to solve? If you can’t answer this question, answering the rest of the “W’s” may be in vain.
    The Five W's of UX - 52 Weeks of UX
  • When you're done with Good… aim for Great.
    Good vs Great | !Boring
  • Good design is for all. Great design is for you.
    Good vs Great | !Boring
  • Good design is invisible. Great design is in your face.
    Good vs Great | !Boring
  • The pessimist criticizes, the optimist creates.
    The Startup Designer | Paul Stamatiou
  • all this to say you can’t rush taste, but you can be mindful of it. taste is a life-long commitment to the bit. and i keep repeating that it’s time to slow down.
    everything in excess | arielle lok
  • My favorite camera doesn’t capture photos—it captures poems. Rather than replace the gesture of looking, this machine invites you to be truly present in the world. A picture speaks a thousand words, but perhaps a poem speaks louder than a picture
    24 Artifacts That Define Craft | Figma Blog
  • A product is defined by the many iterations and explorations that didn’t make it into the final result.
    The Making of Practice, a Book on Design and Craft by Figma | Figma Blog
  • “There are so many artifacts in the world, so tuning your senses to the things that resonate with you is a craft in itsel
    The Art Of Art Direction | Figma Blog
  • Our approach came to reflect a core belief: that engineering can be as much a creative practice as it is a technical one.
    A new standard for image sequences on the web | Daybreak Studio
  • some of my current goals are to love more wholeheartedly and to share more freely and to let go of myself. i know this implies a more volatile life and opening myself up more to vulnerability and disappointment, but i think it will be good. i’ve always thought that joy amidst a backdrop of sadness is one of the most beautiful feelings in the world, and i am excited for it If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?
    why all this music?!? - by vincent huang
  • one of my coworkers often frames productivity as about determining your peak sustained performance level and figuring out what it takes to maintain that. maybe that was supposed to be obvious, but i never explicitly considered this framing? anyway i think that good work must in some way be sparked by joy and that it’s important to keep the feeling of joy unblocked to sustain peak performance, which necessarily involves keeping other feelings unblocked too. all this is a bit new for me as i’ve always thought of work as having some component of suppressing feelings for the sake of focusing anywa…
    why all this music?!? - by vincent huang
  • i was at a loss for how to respond, so i did the only thing i could think of - forge a suit of armor devoid of chinks and wear it whenever i felt threatened. i did not understand that armor weighs down on your soul, that you can’t draw a clean line between people who make you feel threatened and people who don’t, that by trying this i would inevitably stunt all the other relationships in my life as well
    why all this music?!? - by vincent huang
  • where do i begin? i hardly know where to start, because part of me has been the way i am for as long as i can remember - reserved, stern, a bundle of nerves held together by anxious wires strung too tightly
    why all this music?!? - by vincent huang
  • is it a character flaw, that i like for paths to be simple and linear, that i am afraid of complexity and choice and missing out, that i prefer closed settings where i can exhaustively evaluate all the options over open settings with infinite choice? funemployment was supposed to be good practice for dealing with openness, but as usual i signed up for too many things and now everything is closed again
    friendship gardens at the end of the world
  • i have great friends and a burn rate of <$2k/month and i live in a beautiful house in a beautiful city during the best time in all of human history and i have constant access to intelligence far smarter than me and technology far more capable than me - what more could i realistically ask for? how can you see all this and still decide that you can’t leave your job because the culture is too addicting or the money is too important? how can you see all this and still conclude that it’s appropriate to live governed by fear - fear of uncertainty, fear of the future, fear of scarcity? how can you se…
    YOU CAN GET WHAT YOU WANT OR YOU CAN JUST GET OLD
  • it’s not my fault that i didn’t understand feelings or people well enough to see obvious things earlier, it’s not my fault for choosing to join imbue and then leave without a clear plan, all these circumstances are just how the past happened to unravel and it doesn’t mean anything is wrong with me it just means i have more work to do to get to where i want to be and the only thing left to do is to move forward with all my heart
    YOU CAN GET WHAT YOU WANT OR YOU CAN JUST GET OLD
  • No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not. She knows he loves her, she doesn’t wonder about that anymore.
    Home | Substack
  • It only takes one night for your decades-long desire to cross over from your imagination into your memory, which tells you that all of this is at least possible. Maybe knowing that your joy is possible is what finally sets you free. it’s surprisingly accurate. i’ve only really had one decent research idea so far and somehow i now believe i can keep doing research and be good at it. starting one new hobby is all it takes to remind myself that i’m capable of learning anything. the shift from zero to one is seismic in a comical way. a single spark of hope and i begin to feel the electricity flowi…
    eating the fire
  • But it only takes one night for your decades-long desire to cross over from your imagination into your memory, which tells you that all of this is at least possible. Maybe knowing that your joy is possible is what finally sets you free.
    fanning a flame - by john d. zhang - ordinary instants
  • I am trying and failing to find anything intellectually interesting to say about all of this; I have just written the essay equivalent of an It Gets Better YouTube video from the early 2010s. I remember watching those videos, thinking Of course it got better for you, conventionally attractive white guy. I played them on a loop anyway, because it was the closest thing I had to someone telling me that the things I desperately craved were possible.
    fanning a flame - by john d. zhang - ordinary instants
  • “most people don’t need reminders that agency is a good trait to possess because they already know that; instead they need tools and frameworks to help them understand what is actually holding them back”
    eating the fire
  • life is so much better when you finally understand that the places you want to go to really, truly are within reach
    eating the fire
  • i have eventually solved every personal problem i’ve ever encountered and there’s no reason to keep pretending otherwise
    eating the fire
  • there’s a real oppression that comes from believing your dreams can’t come true. you stop trying as hard; you stop trying new things; eventually you forget you were ever capable of trying in the first place
    eating the fire
  • But it’s not just energy. You have to be able to motivate yourself to spend large quantities of energy on a problem, which means on some level that not understanding something — or having a bug in your thinking — bothers you a lot. You have the drive, the will to know. Related to this is honesty, or integrity: a sort of compulsive unwillingness, or inability, to lie to yourself. Feynman said that the first rule of science is that you do not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. It is uniquely easy to lie to yourself because there is no external force keeping you honest; only y…
    Understanding
  • The way to end up with a good plan is not to start with a good plan, it's to start with some plan, and then slam that plan against reality until reality hands you a better plan.
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