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Aditya Garikapati retweeted
watching designers hype up these painfully average multi-page brand kits really shows how deep in the gutter the bar for design is right now.
Aditya Garikapati retweeted
Every UX designer walking into a cockpit: Clutter!
Every pilot walking into a cockpit: Clarity!
The word "clutter" is terribly overused in the UX/design field, commonly serving as a superficial critique of decoration while often ignoring the design's true context.
Aditya Garikapati retweeted
I like that a core strategy of the AI industry is trying to convince everyone that they hate being alive and doing anything. That your only desire as a human being is to put out product and make money and get likes on social media. But you shouldn't enjoy any actual activity.
“It’s not really enjoyable to make music now… it takes a lot of time, it takes a lot of practice, you have to get really good at an instrument or really good at a piece of production software. I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of time they spend making music.” Founder of @suno_ai_ @MikeyShulman
Always interesting to hear someone with a completely opposite view to me.
hammer-nail problem: when your only tool is visual design, every problem looks like it can be solved with an aesthetic face lift.
we’ve reduced "problem-solving" to mean "make it pretty and usable" when real problems are far messier and more systemic.
Aditya Garikapati retweeted
nobody prepares you for how much "storytelling" you're going to have to do in your career
Aditya Garikapati retweeted
What's interesting here is that a computer did the fun, creative job of drawing Kermit in various scenarios, and then a human did the boring, labor-intensive job of creating shortcuts with custom thumbnails to open all of their favorite apps. teapawt.net/dlberes/status/1830719…
Aditya Garikapati retweeted
"design tools continue to fall behind CSS" was a recurring theme at @CSSDayConf
- typography features (so many!)
- scroll animation
- meaningful math tricks
- layout capabilities
- container queries / responsive capabilities
- anchor positioning
- :has() and presence awareness
- quantity queries
- scroll snap
and so much more…
it seems like design tools are competing against each other to be the best Photoshop variant. meanwhile, the web's features are pushing fast into a mega capable future and designers are blissfully unaware. (i'm aware this isn't all teams, but it's def the majority)
web designers, sit with your web developers
web developers, sit with your web designers
also, someone (i wish i could work on this) make a tool that unlocks these features for designers. help them wield these capabilities, they're super fun and very meaningful.
the delta is growing too fast between CSS and design tools, someone or something close this gap!!