a thoughtful opt-out flow, today in my inbox from Canva! 👏

"'Someone must have a diagram'" right? lol no “'We have a somewhat strange engineering culture compared to most where we don’t generate a lot of artifacts during the engineering process. Effectively the code is its own design document often.'” classic hahaha

California has always oscillated between drought and flood. But we are remarkably bad at catching water when it is overabundant. To become a better sponge we need to flood areas with sandy soils to recharge groundwater. This from Jeffrey Mount is helpful ppic.org/blog/the-promi…

dreaming of the groundwater-replenishing parks & wetlands & greenway the LA River could be (hopefully will be 🙏🤞) instead of cement larivermasterplan.org

This thread!!! Design solves problems (in early stages, helps find product-market fit) and informs strategy with insights from user research. You absolutely want a product design voice at the strategic level of an org, esp founding teams

life comes at you fast, @ embish on Posts / read dot cv 👋🤓

I did take a point from that thread though, as a good portfolio tip, that you can include ideas for future improvements even if that work wasn't feasible irl. (Limiting that ofc to a sampling...nuanced convo about the expectations of design work-outside-work here)