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9 parts dad. 7 parts product designer. 5 parts product manager. 3 parts UI developer. Some parts private.
That request for a design mockup could have been a properly-written acceptance criteria. #designops #bdd
November 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
That request for a design mockup could have been a properly-written acceptance criteria. #designops #bdd
Modern cars serve as great examples of novelty being mistaken for innovation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauQ...
The Dumb Design of Modern Cars
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November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Modern cars serve as great examples of novelty being mistaken for innovation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauQ...
Hot take: Sometimes accessibility is hard less because of a lack of empathy, and more because no developer or designer likes to be told to "git gud" at web standards, especially at W3C specifications. It's frustrating to discover a vast, critical area of fundamental knowledge was missed entirely.
November 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Hot take: Sometimes accessibility is hard less because of a lack of empathy, and more because no developer or designer likes to be told to "git gud" at web standards, especially at W3C specifications. It's frustrating to discover a vast, critical area of fundamental knowledge was missed entirely.
Ask not how long it will take. Ask how much we're willing to invest in making a tangible improvement.
November 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Ask not how long it will take. Ask how much we're willing to invest in making a tangible improvement.
For the first time since June, I woke up without a KPop Demon Hunters song playing in my head. I think the healing has begun. 🥲
November 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
For the first time since June, I woke up without a KPop Demon Hunters song playing in my head. I think the healing has begun. 🥲
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Dev teams continuously integrating and delivering. I've written acceptance criteria in Gherkin as the scaffolding for BDD. All those moments burn in mind, like, impactful user stories in a backlog.
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Dev teams continuously integrating and delivering. I've written acceptance criteria in Gherkin as the scaffolding for BDD. All those moments burn in mind, like, impactful user stories in a backlog.
PM: As a user, I want to…
Narrator: But users did not, in fact, want to.
Narrator: But users did not, in fact, want to.
October 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
PM: As a user, I want to…
Narrator: But users did not, in fact, want to.
Narrator: But users did not, in fact, want to.
"It’s not you, it’s hierarchy" exposes a major disconnect. Software ate the world, and yet many UX designers are still stuck on brochureware paradigms. Success means embracing a role closer to a system architect. uxdesign.cc/its-not-you-...
It’s not you, it’s hierarchy
How I demoted my tree diagrams.
uxdesign.cc
October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"It’s not you, it’s hierarchy" exposes a major disconnect. Software ate the world, and yet many UX designers are still stuck on brochureware paradigms. Success means embracing a role closer to a system architect. uxdesign.cc/its-not-you-...
In our haste to completely reinvent cars as EVs, we might have leapfrogged over cool possibilities. This conversion of the iconic AE86 as an EV with an unstallable manual transmission suggests we threw the baby out with the bathwater. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE2o...
This Is The Most Fun EV I've ever Driven: Frankenstein AE86 That Stays True to Its Driving Roots
Thanks to @lexus and @DiscoverLexus for showing me their latest engineering project! Will this be the solution for powering older cars in the near future? With battery technology getting cheaper…
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October 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
In our haste to completely reinvent cars as EVs, we might have leapfrogged over cool possibilities. This conversion of the iconic AE86 as an EV with an unstallable manual transmission suggests we threw the baby out with the bathwater. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE2o...
🤔 Maybe human safety should be the firstest of first principles? www.wired.com/story/new-ru...
New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds
Proposed regulations in China would mean the end of flush handles on car doors, with precious little time to roll out the changes.
www.wired.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🤔 Maybe human safety should be the firstest of first principles? www.wired.com/story/new-ru...
Startup founders who tell their generalist or T-shaped ICs to "stay in their lane" are shooting themselves in the foot. Your survival depends on their ability to wear many hats, connect the dots, and solve problems outside a narrow box. Otherwise, you're wasting your most valuable asset.
October 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Startup founders who tell their generalist or T-shaped ICs to "stay in their lane" are shooting themselves in the foot. Your survival depends on their ability to wear many hats, connect the dots, and solve problems outside a narrow box. Otherwise, you're wasting your most valuable asset.
TIL TDD pushback from devs who didn't want to write tests gave us BDD & Gherkin. BDD is the sanest development approach I've experienced, and Gherkin is a communications super power. #softwaredevelopment #bdd youtu.be/YUkk2lGLxjA
The TRUTH About Cucumber & Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) has transformed agile software development, but has it also been misunderstood? In this clip, Daniel Terhorst-North talks to Dave Farley about the so-called…
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October 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
TIL TDD pushback from devs who didn't want to write tests gave us BDD & Gherkin. BDD is the sanest development approach I've experienced, and Gherkin is a communications super power. #softwaredevelopment #bdd youtu.be/YUkk2lGLxjA
SaaS founders when they realize the technical requirements for mature user onboarding and change management include tracking user state, progress, and dismissal flags. Not unlike a video game engine.
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October 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
SaaS founders when they realize the technical requirements for mature user onboarding and change management include tracking user state, progress, and dismissal flags. Not unlike a video game engine.
A quick five into the graphic design of the Alien franchise universe. youtube.com/watch?v=kGA1...
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September 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A quick five into the graphic design of the Alien franchise universe. youtube.com/watch?v=kGA1...
Not everything is scope creep. More often, it’s shallow problem understanding or compounding product/tech debt biting us in the ass. #softwaredevelopment
September 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Not everything is scope creep. More often, it’s shallow problem understanding or compounding product/tech debt biting us in the ass. #softwaredevelopment
Conflating Agile with Agile™ aside, this article is spot on about the fundamentals of information systems analysis and design. Tools like DDD and OOUX are all essential guardrails against the fragility and chaos of careless speed. #softwaredevelopment medium.com/@craig_32726...
Agile is Out, Architecture is Back
The next generation of software developers will be architects, not coders.
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September 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Conflating Agile with Agile™ aside, this article is spot on about the fundamentals of information systems analysis and design. Tools like DDD and OOUX are all essential guardrails against the fragility and chaos of careless speed. #softwaredevelopment medium.com/@craig_32726...
The overlap between Bixi riders and cyclists skilled enough to justify going without a helmet is almost nonexistent.
September 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The overlap between Bixi riders and cyclists skilled enough to justify going without a helmet is almost nonexistent.
Everybody has a plan until they walk into the Costco.
September 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Everybody has a plan until they walk into the Costco.
Throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks? Fine. But for God’s sake, clean that wall before throwing more pasta at it. Nobody wants that crusty wall experience. #productmanagement
September 18, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks? Fine. But for God’s sake, clean that wall before throwing more pasta at it. Nobody wants that crusty wall experience. #productmanagement
The power of a design system isn’t the components, it’s the internalized patterns. It’s being spared from having to tell ICs, again and again, that a delete button leads to a confirmation dialog. #designsystems
September 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The power of a design system isn’t the components, it’s the internalized patterns. It’s being spared from having to tell ICs, again and again, that a delete button leads to a confirmation dialog. #designsystems
A well-designed onboarding experience guides users to the right places to set themselves up for success. The payoff: a cleaner codebase and users who know where to go when they want to make changes later. #productdesign
September 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
A well-designed onboarding experience guides users to the right places to set themselves up for success. The payoff: a cleaner codebase and users who know where to go when they want to make changes later. #productdesign
When Gmail showed web apps could beat desktop apps, Google did everything they could to push the web and browser forward as a moat against MS Windows and Office. #internethistory www.acquired.fm/episodes/alp...
Alphabet Inc. | Acquired Podcast
The complete podcast (and transcript!) of Google and Alphabet’s history and business strategy.
www.acquired.fm
September 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
When Gmail showed web apps could beat desktop apps, Google did everything they could to push the web and browser forward as a moat against MS Windows and Office. #internethistory www.acquired.fm/episodes/alp...
Unless you can deliver a much better wheel, The ROI of reinventing it is awful. #productmanagement elizlaraki.substack.com/p/reinventin...
Reinventing the wheel
A real-life lesson from Rivian to focus on your core competencies and outsource the rest.
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September 9, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Unless you can deliver a much better wheel, The ROI of reinventing it is awful. #productmanagement elizlaraki.substack.com/p/reinventin...
Love this spicy take on hero sections. Vague imagery and hand-wavy messaging is simply not going to cut it. #productdesign #contentisking
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Stop Using Hero Images! They’re Killing Your UX
Hero images are the web’s prettiest dead weight — slow, vague, and visually overused. It’s time to stop decorating your homepage and start…
medium.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Love this spicy take on hero sections. Vague imagery and hand-wavy messaging is simply not going to cut it. #productdesign #contentisking
medium.com/@Webdesigner...
medium.com/@Webdesigner...
On one hand, it's cool that new web standards are making modals more accessible. On the other hand, our love affair with modals has completely gone off the rails. developer.chrome.com/blog/command...
Introducing command and commandfor | Blog | Chrome for Developers
Learn about the new capabilities for declarative behavior on buttons.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
On one hand, it's cool that new web standards are making modals more accessible. On the other hand, our love affair with modals has completely gone off the rails. developer.chrome.com/blog/command...