On this Star Wars day, May the Fourth bring you a binge of Designing Empires. A web series about designing for the worst client ever… the Galactic Empire. #StarWars #StarWarsDay #MayThe4th Designing Empires All 9 episodes are live here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Paging Americana at Brand Memes

This ad is (unintentional) perfect metaphor for today's creative dark age: compress organic instruments, joyful/imperfect machines, tangible art, our entire physical reality into a soulless, postmodern, read-only device a multi-trillion $ corporation controls what you do with

The Northern Lights from our window.

The complaint specifically calls out “dark patterns” in the UX. This is why the profession is as vital as ever.

Bingo. “The people propping this bubble up no longer experience human problems, and thus can no longer be trusted to solve them.”

If you showed me this image one month ago I would have collapsed in disbelief like a person dying of dehydration stumbling upon a desert oasis

The greatest fear of the greedy oligarchs in this country is for the masses of Black people to connect with the masses of poor white people & form a voting block that could fundamentally reshift the economic architecture of the country. By working together, organizing together,

Beyoncé at the DNC is the new Daft Punk at the Trash Fence. #IYKYK

Nobody wants to hear this, but creating and landing a new design system into existing software is at least an 18 month project, in my experience.

Vote for a president that understands good UX.

#RIP dad 💔

"UX" today. how many meetings did this take?

I think this is the best take yet on this issue 👇

New hire: “You hired me as Head of Design. You promised a seat at the table. You mentioned leading a large team. You said you believed in research. You assured WFH was fine. You praised a visionary CEO. You said it‘s like a startup within a large organization…” Hiring manager:

Who is going to pay people when they can't get jobs anymore?

Remember, everyone, it’s just a game. Play on!

So very sorry to hear about Teri Garr’s passing. She was so talented and so funny. Her humor and lively spirit made the YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN set a pleasure to work on. Her “German” accent had us all in stitches! She will be greatly missed.

Like many others, I have left X, twitter, whatever. I'm on Threads and Bluesky. Let's rebuild.