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Jason’s knowledge about the field is so vast, you can throw anything at him and he’ll hit you with a big list of well-thought out ideas. 45 minutes went by in a jiffy. He is incredibly articulate and as a junior designer, this is exactly the guidance I needed. I look forward to learning more from him.
— Taksha Raman, UX Designer
LEEARN MORE → https://adplist.org/mentors/jason-cranford-teague
#Mentorship #CareerGrowth #DesignCommunity #adplist #Masto #CranfordTeague
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Jason’s knowledge about the field is so vast, you can throw anything at him and he’ll hit you with a big list of well-thought out ideas. 45 minutes went by in a jiffy. He is incredibly articulate and as a junior designer, this is exactly the guidance I needed. I look forward to learning more from him.
— Taksha Raman, UX Designer
LEEARN MORE → https://adplist.org/mentors/jason-cranford-teague
#Mentorship #CareerGrowth #DesignCommunity #adplist #Masto #CranfordTeague
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An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
https://anderegg.ca/2026/07/12/an-infuriating-goodbye-to-photoshop
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891200
#HackerNews #Photoshop #Farewell #GraphicDesign #DigitalArt #CreativeTools #DesignCommunity
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An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop
https://anderegg.ca/2026/07/12/an-infuriating-goodbye-to-photoshop
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891200
#HackerNews #Photoshop #Farewell #GraphicDesign #DigitalArt #CreativeTools #DesignCommunity
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🚨 Open Call: Fall 2026 Guest Curator
We’re opening applications for a Guest Curator to shape our Fall 2026 Lecture Series at Type Electives. This is a one semester, paid creative opportunity for someone who wants to bring new voices, ideas and energy into our community.
You’ll help shape the conversations happening in our space by defining a theme, giving the opening lecture, curating four guest sessions and leading a short online workshop. We’ll support you with mentorship, planning and guidance throughout the fall.
If you know someone who would be excited about this, please share it with them. And if you have any questions, feel free to reach out.
✨ More details here: https://www.typeelectives.com/news/2026-06-08-open-call-fall-2026-guest-curator
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🚨 Open Call: Fall 2026 Guest Curator
We’re opening applications for a Guest Curator to shape our Fall 2026 Lecture Series at Type Electives. This is a one semester, paid creative opportunity for someone who wants to bring new voices, ideas and energy into our community.
You’ll help shape the conversations happening in our space by defining a theme, giving the opening lecture, curating four guest sessions and leading a short online workshop. We’ll support you with mentorship, planning and guidance throughout the fall.
If you know someone who would be excited about this, please share it with them. And if you have any questions, feel free to reach out.
✨ More details here: https://www.typeelectives.com/news/2026-06-08-open-call-fall-2026-guest-curator
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"[Y]our burnout, your lack of influence, your sense that the discipline has lost its way are not evidence of your individual shortcomings but symptoms of a system working exactly as it is designed to work."
In this poignant essay (linked below), Angelos Arnis describes the state of design in the age of AI. But it didn't start with AI...
"[T]he institutional arrangements within which design operates are configured to extract design's value while withholding design's autonomy and authority..."
Folks like Mike Monteiro, Erika Hall, Aral Balkan, and Laura Kalbag opened my eyes to this dynamic around 2014/2015. It started as a call to action for us designers to own the ethics of what we do, challenge expoitative business models, and 'do no harm.'
But I've long felt that the game is rigged against us on this. Angelos says this:
"The more I look at the state of tech, the more I recognize a specific structure operating in two distinct ways: the way business absorbs design's attempts at strategic influence, and the way AI tools absorb designers' labor while promising to liberate it."
Still, some designers manage to ake meaningful change, despite the obstacles:
"The designer who can navigate an organization that does not grant them autonomy and still produces meaningful work is doing something admirable. But the skill being developed is the skill of operating within someone else's terms."
I agree. And I realize that it's not easy to resist pressure from your boss, manager, or PM to just design the thing and not ask too many questions. We need to earn a living, right?
So we get beautifully designed products that effectively encourage behavior change that ultimately exploits the product's users to benefit the company that makes it. We get surveillance capitalism, predatory social media platforms, and tech products that enable fascist governments.
But I don't blame designers. I don't even blame the decision-makers who got us here. They are, indeed we all are, just humans doing our best. And most of us are too busy, burned out, or stuck in survival mode to feel the proverbial water heating up around us.
Also, people AI make very seductive promises about AI while convincing us that it's inevitable. Angelos says this:
"The technology generates a feeling of individual empowerment while producing deeper informal dependence. You feel more capable, yet you are truly more depending than ever."
So in Angelos' words, "How might we design the structures that would make design's autonomy a material reality rather than a perpetual aspiration?"
🤷🏼♂️ What do you think?
Thanks for reading, dear one! And thank you Matthijs for sharing this with me!
Here's the essay:
👉🏼 https://d3e.co/y5With love and light,
Brian#design #designers #business #AI #ethics #EthicalDesign #HumanConnection #DesignCommunity #MeaningfulDesign #ChangeManagement #SurveillanceCapitalism #fascism
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"[Y]our burnout, your lack of influence, your sense that the discipline has lost its way are not evidence of your individual shortcomings but symptoms of a system working exactly as it is designed to work."
In this poignant essay (linked below), Angelos Arnis describes the state of design in the age of AI. But it didn't start with AI...
"[T]he institutional arrangements within which design operates are configured to extract design's value while withholding design's autonomy and authority..."
Folks like Mike Monteiro, Erika Hall, Aral Balkan, and Laura Kalbag opened my eyes to this dynamic around 2014/2015. It started as a call to action for us designers to own the ethics of what we do, challenge expoitative business models, and 'do no harm.'
But I've long felt that the game is rigged against us on this. Angelos says this:
"The more I look at the state of tech, the more I recognize a specific structure operating in two distinct ways: the way business absorbs design's attempts at strategic influence, and the way AI tools absorb designers' labor while promising to liberate it."
Still, some designers manage to ake meaningful change, despite the obstacles:
"The designer who can navigate an organization that does not grant them autonomy and still produces meaningful work is doing something admirable. But the skill being developed is the skill of operating within someone else's terms."
I agree. And I realize that it's not easy to resist pressure from your boss, manager, or PM to just design the thing and not ask too many questions. We need to earn a living, right?
So we get beautifully designed products that effectively encourage behavior change that ultimately exploits the product's users to benefit the company that makes it. We get surveillance capitalism, predatory social media platforms, and tech products that enable fascist governments.
But I don't blame designers. I don't even blame the decision-makers who got us here. They are, indeed we all are, just humans doing our best. And most of us are too busy, burned out, or stuck in survival mode to feel the proverbial water heating up around us.
Also, people AI make very seductive promises about AI while convincing us that it's inevitable. Angelos says this:
"The technology generates a feeling of individual empowerment while producing deeper informal dependence. You feel more capable, yet you are truly more depending than ever."
So in Angelos' words, "How might we design the structures that would make design's autonomy a material reality rather than a perpetual aspiration?"
🤷🏼♂️ What do you think?
Thanks for reading, dear one! And thank you Matthijs for sharing this with me!
Here's the essay:
👉🏼 https://d3e.co/y5With love and light,
Brian#design #designers #business #AI #ethics #EthicalDesign #HumanConnection #DesignCommunity #MeaningfulDesign #ChangeManagement #SurveillanceCapitalism #fascism
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You know, the number of graphic designers on Fiverr claiming to be professional UK-based designers with years of experience doesn’t tally with their template-flipped, AI-generated, stock “hello dear” profiles, overly positive and repetitive reviews, and example work that looks like a first-year graphic design student asked Gemini to do it for them. What does one have to do these days to hire competent professionals at a reasonable rate?
Sad.
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Website UI UX design for Client..
#webdesigner #mobileappdesign #saasdesign #dashboarddesign #landingpagedesign #modernui #cleanui #minimaldesign #uxinspiration #uidaily #designcommunity #designideas #dribbble #behance #designportfolio #uxprocess #uxflow #uxwriting #microinteractions #responsiveui #webui #appui #uxcase #uxportfolio
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🌐 Website: https://xpartui.com
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🌐 SketchUp: มากกว่าเครื่องมือออกแบบ คือการเปิดโลกความคิดสร้างสรรค์!
✨ สำรวจการเปลี่ยนแปลงที่ทำให้การสร้างโมเดล 3D กลายเป็นประสบการณ์แบบ "ลากแล้ววาง"
เหมาะสำหรับ:นักออกแบบผลิตภัณฑ์
สถาปนิกที่ต้องการทำงานเร็ว
นักศึกษาเริ่มต้นเส้นทาง 3D
🔗 บทความวิเคราะห์เชิงลึก: https://www.zodchaeng.com/sketchup-การปฏิวัติการออกแบบ-3d.html
#OpenSource #DesignCommunity #3DRendering #MakeDesignEasy #SketchUpThai -
กำลังมองหาเครื่องมือช่วยเรนเดอร์ 3D ที่สวยและเร็ว? เรียนรู้ข้อดีของการใช้ SketchUp คู่กับ Chaos Vantage ในบทความนี้ พร้อม Workflow ที่ทำงานได้ดีขึ้นและง่ายขึ้น
👉 https://bit.ly/4aQqf5r
#SketchUp #ChaosVantage #3DRendering #DesignTech #OpenTools #DesignCommunity -
📣 Attention, DIS community! We’re excited to share the next set of calls for participation.
📌 Workshops — 6 Feb 2026
📌 PWiP — 13 Feb 2026
📌 Doctoral Consortium — 13 Feb 2026
📌 Student Design Competition — 27 Feb 2026
📌 Interactivity (Demo) — 27 Feb 2026
We warmly invite researchers, practitioners, designers, and students to contribute, connect, and shape DIS 2026 together. Join us in Singapore.🇸🇬✨
#DIS2026 #HCI #DesignResearch #DesignCommunity #BeyondInteraction -
We’re inspired by the creativity and depth of ideas submitted from around the world. The review process has taken extra time to ensure each proposal receives the thoughtful attention it deserves.
Speaker notifications will begin on 11 November 2025 and continue in stages.
Thank you for your patience and passion for global typographic dialogue. We look forward to connecting with you soon! -
We’re inspired by the creativity and depth of ideas submitted from around the world. The review process has taken extra time to ensure each proposal receives the thoughtful attention it deserves.
Speaker notifications will begin on 11 November 2025 and continue in stages.
Thank you for your patience and passion for global typographic dialogue. We look forward to connecting with you soon! -
Made this as a thought out loud. I have started testing Affinity out and already am hitting roadblocks of things it can’t do – such as the very gentle little drop shadow with noise I used in this graphic – but I’m still excited to tinker with something else.
IF Canva can make collaborating with non-designers easier than Adobe, I can see a future with Affinity.
How about you?
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Kinda missing Design Twitter. If you’re into Product / UX / UI design, let’s connect! Always down to follow more talented folks doing cool stuff ✨
#UXDesign #UIDesign #ProductDesign #DesignCommunity #DigitalDesign #UXUI
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Kinda missing Design Twitter. If you’re into Product / UX / UI design, let’s connect! Always down to follow more talented folks doing cool stuff ✨
#UXDesign #UIDesign #ProductDesign #DesignCommunity #DigitalDesign #UXUI
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Need a Design Pal? Let's Chat! 3of3
What's one thing you'd love to chat about? Let me know in the comments or my DMs! 👇
#DesignCommunity #DesignFriends #UXDesign #Tech2StepCanada
For those new to me, here's an About:
Vancouver-based Crissy Geco is CXO of Good Partner Technologies. She is a Content Designer passionate about spreading kindness and making complex tech and psychological concepts accessible through her writing on LinkedIn and the Fediverse (including unofficial Mastodon Guides).She speaks about Emotional Intelligence on her solo podcast, champions BIPOC mental health, actively participates in the LGBT+ Community, and contributes to a stealth pre-seed startup.
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Need a Design Pal? Let's Chat! 3of3
What's one thing you'd love to chat about? Let me know in the comments or my DMs! 👇
#DesignCommunity #DesignFriends #UXDesign #Tech2StepCanada
For those new to me, here's an About:
Vancouver-based Crissy Geco is CXO of Good Partner Technologies. She is a Content Designer passionate about spreading kindness and making complex tech and psychological concepts accessible through her writing on LinkedIn and the Fediverse (including unofficial Mastodon Guides).She speaks about Emotional Intelligence on her solo podcast, champions BIPOC mental health, actively participates in the LGBT+ Community, and contributes to a stealth pre-seed startup.
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You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown
https://www.chrbutler.com/you-can-be-a-great-designer-and-be-completely-unknown
#HackerNews #GreatDesigner #Unknown #Talent #DesignCommunity #CreativeJourney
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You Can Be a Great Designer and Be Completely Unknown
https://www.chrbutler.com/you-can-be-a-great-designer-and-be-completely-unknown
#HackerNews #GreatDesigner #Unknown #Talent #DesignCommunity #CreativeJourney
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🔗 Explore IAC25 and join us in Philadelphia: https://linktr.ee/theiaconf
👇 Why do YOU #IAC? We’d love to hear your story in the comments.
#InformationArchitecture #UXDesign #ContentStrategy #InclusiveDesign #IAC25 #DesignLeadership #TechForGood #DesignCommunity #SponsorshipOpportunity
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🔗 Explore IAC25 and join us in Philadelphia: https://linktr.ee/theiaconf
👇 Why do YOU #IAC? We’d love to hear your story in the comments.
#InformationArchitecture #UXDesign #ContentStrategy #InclusiveDesign #IAC25 #DesignLeadership #TechForGood #DesignCommunity #SponsorshipOpportunity
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#London folks. I have some #books to #giveaway. Would need to swing by #Hammersmith area. Reach out.
lol sneaky use of #emacs to stitch the image together https://lmno.lol/alvaro/joining-images-from-the-comfort-of-dired
UPDATE: All books taken.
#London #Book #BookExchange #Giveaway #FreeBooks #BookCommunity #LondonEvents #BooksOfMastodon #UXDesign #UserExperience #DesignThinking #ProductDesign #InteractionDesign #Usability #DesignBooks #BookGiveaway #DesignCommunity #BookSwap #ReadingList #TechBooks #linux
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#London #ux #software #ui folks. Fancy either a “Design of everyday things” or “The humane interface” book? Swing by Hammersmith area and it’s yours. #DesignOfEverydayThings #TheHumaneInterface #UXDesign #UserExperience #DesignThinking #ProductDesign #InteractionDesign #Usability #HumanCenteredDesign #DesignBooks #BookGiveaway #DesignCommunity #BookSwap #ReadingList #TechBooks
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#Design #Reports
Designer News is dead · The once popular hotspot for designers faded away https://ilo.im/15xux2_____
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Creative work is subjective and lacks fixed standards. The important lesson is to persist and always give your best. Embrace your unique style, be open to growth, and use each experience as a stepping stone in your creative journey.
This, below, is longer than a standard quote, but my friend Dr. Susan Birne-Stone PhD, LCSW shared it with me today and I want to share with all of you.
It will explain much better and in a more beautiful way what I wrote at the beginning of this post.
Enjoy it.
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me.
All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap.
For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit.
Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know it's normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met.
It’s gonna take awhile.
It’s normal to take awhile.
You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
― Ira Glass
Source: https://lnkd.in/gQSpatrb
ITSPmagazine Podcast Network #creativity #contentcreation #writingcommunity #designcommunity #photography #art #artdirection #advertising Deborah Heiser, PhD The Mentor Project Sean Martin #inspiration #motivation #mentoring
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We're at Leading Design this week...
On an event week, every second counts. So, to save some time we've curated your links as usual, but, we've asked AI to 'write a short, snappy, punny, November'y newsletter intro'.
Find out what AI suggested, and read your Curated Links Newsletter for November via the link below...
https://tinyletter.com/clearleft/letters/your-curated-links-newsletter-for-november
