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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · 2h

Roujin Z is pretty good.

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · 3d

Glad to see people coming around on Sonic.

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · Sep 7

After a year of being a full-time dad, I'm looking for what's next. With a career in fintech, SMB and dev tools. I've built products, shipped code and managed teams as both a designer and director. I'm looking for small teams with conviction to be profitable. Building low and slow.

jonathontoon.com

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · Sep 7

After a year of being a full-time dad, I'm looking for what's next. With a career in fintech, SMB and dev tools. I've built products, shipped code and managed teams as both a designer and director. I'm looking for small teams with conviction to be profitable. Building low and slow.

jonathontoon.com

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · Jul 24

Lately I've been struggling to get inspired by the design of most modern marketing websites and landing pages.

They’re either super vague, saying little, or too complex with visuals and animations, leaving me overwhelmed.

Just me?

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · Jul 21

I reckon AI design is close to having its Bootstrap.css moment. Clean and functional results that all look the same.

As new technology raises the floor for "good enough", distinctiveness becomes the new moat.

Weird beats optimal.

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · Jul 16

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · Jul 16

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · Jul 16

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · Jul 16

In 15 years as a product designer, I've seen early-career designers struggle with the gap between tidy processes and messy, real work. Inspired by this observation, I recently gave a guest lecture to design students at the University of Canterbury about navigating this gap, read on about it below.

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · Jun 20

One of my many hobbies has been trying all sorts of logic puzzles, followed by learning the mechanics of how they can be algorithmically solved. So to scratch my own itch I finally wrote my own library for generating/solving Sudoku.

github.com/jonathontoon...

GitHub - jonathontoon/sudoku: A TypeScript implementation of Peter Norvig's constraint propagation Sudoku solver algorithm.

A TypeScript implementation of Peter Norvig's constraint propagation Sudoku solver algorithm. - jonathontoon/sudoku

github.com

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · Jun 10

"Steve Jobs would've never..."

Ya'll need to let go. Seriously.

Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · Jun 9

Nothing ground breaking or revolutionary happened in the interface design world today, right?

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · May 14

ChatGPT will remember this.

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · May 14

This is how it's mean't to be, and how it was from the beginning, with institutions like Bauhaus.

The downside of software is designers have delegated too much. And instead we have focused heavily on the intangible (facilitating process) rather than the tangible (learning through building).

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · May 11

I STILL can't get over how Dropbox at one point had one of the best mobile email clients around, killed it, and THEN decided to pivot harder into Enterprise.

Makes no sense...

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · May 10

when's it gonna evolve?

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · May 9

Designers need to move on from Jobs and Ive imo.

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Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon.com · May 9

I wonder if Jony Ive ever tried to refund an angry customer on Stripe.