Dan Harlow
@danielkharlow.bsky.social
Digital product designer (he/him)
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Dan Harlow
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Updated my portfolio for (hopefully) the last time in my 2025 job search. Still tinkering and tweaking assets/copy, but very happy with how it acts and feels: danharlow.com
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Gen Z is going to “discover” Bjork any day now and they’ll deservedly give us millennials a lot of shit for fumbling that.
December 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Gen Z is going to “discover” Bjork any day now and they’ll deservedly give us millennials a lot of shit for fumbling that.
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Apple could surprise remove Liquid Glass the same way it surprise added U2 to everyone's devices and I'd be first in line to call things even.
December 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Apple could surprise remove Liquid Glass the same way it surprise added U2 to everyone's devices and I'd be first in line to call things even.
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Me: “I’m looking for full-time senior or lead design roles.”
Recruiter emails: “I have a 1 month contract paying in **great exposure** that has your name all over it!”
Recruiter emails: “I have a 1 month contract paying in **great exposure** that has your name all over it!”
November 23, 2024 at 6:14 AM
Me: “I’m looking for full-time senior or lead design roles.”
Recruiter emails: “I have a 1 month contract paying in **great exposure** that has your name all over it!”
Recruiter emails: “I have a 1 month contract paying in **great exposure** that has your name all over it!”
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All digital design is High Stakes Rectangles, which makes it sound like the name of a lost Brian Eno album.
December 28, 2024 at 10:32 PM
All digital design is High Stakes Rectangles, which makes it sound like the name of a lost Brian Eno album.
I didn’t do one of those Spotify Wrapped/Apple Music Year In Review things (Spotify is pure evil, so is Apple for the most part) but I have kept track of all the albums I’ve listened to a lot this year. Take a look:
December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I didn’t do one of those Spotify Wrapped/Apple Music Year In Review things (Spotify is pure evil, so is Apple for the most part) but I have kept track of all the albums I’ve listened to a lot this year. Take a look:
Cutting out all the people I know who’ve asked me if I want to hold their baby, brb
December 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Cutting out all the people I know who’ve asked me if I want to hold their baby, brb
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with the holiday season now officially upon us, it's time to start playing our favorite christmas songs
here's one of mine
here's one of mine
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
with the holiday season now officially upon us, it's time to start playing our favorite christmas songs
here's one of mine
here's one of mine
Jack White was cool for ten minutes twenty years ago- why is anyone still letting him hang out
November 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Jack White was cool for ten minutes twenty years ago- why is anyone still letting him hang out
Those maple-loving bruisers have bested us in YET ANOTHER WAY
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Those maple-loving bruisers have bested us in YET ANOTHER WAY
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clocking in to the “I constantly feel like I’m failing” factory
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
clocking in to the “I constantly feel like I’m failing” factory
Finally watched Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and it’s all I’m going to want to talk about for a while.
November 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Finally watched Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and it’s all I’m going to want to talk about for a while.
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I like how these guys get to have it both ways
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'
In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.
www.bbc.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I like how these guys get to have it both ways
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
they get to inflate the bubble via broad product misrepresentation and bogus math
then dole out sage warnings about a looming problem they created as if they played no role in it
Updated my portfolio for (hopefully) the last time in my 2025 job search. Still tinkering and tweaking assets/copy, but very happy with how it acts and feels: danharlow.com
Dan Harlow
Howdy!
danharlow.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Updated my portfolio for (hopefully) the last time in my 2025 job search. Still tinkering and tweaking assets/copy, but very happy with how it acts and feels: danharlow.com
Can’t wait to sink my teeth into this. Congrats @tyler-m.bsky.social !!
August 7, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Can’t wait to sink my teeth into this. Congrats @tyler-m.bsky.social !!
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Hi! I will never subscribe to your Substack.
July 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Hi! I will never subscribe to your Substack.
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Oh this? This is an automation tool we created 5 years ago, which we're now rebranding as "AI" to give the impression that we're still growing as a business.
July 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Oh this? This is an automation tool we created 5 years ago, which we're now rebranding as "AI" to give the impression that we're still growing as a business.
I didn’t learn until today that the blending of idioms is called a malaphor: “you’ve opened this can of worms- now lie in it.”
July 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I didn’t learn until today that the blending of idioms is called a malaphor: “you’ve opened this can of worms- now lie in it.”
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I am simply begging companies to stop replacing search bars that work perfectly well with AI chat bars that don't
July 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I am simply begging companies to stop replacing search bars that work perfectly well with AI chat bars that don't
My apartment started flooding at 9:30pm and I’m finally finishing up cleaning the debris at 2am. Living in a “charming” old building is so dumb sometimes.
July 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
My apartment started flooding at 9:30pm and I’m finally finishing up cleaning the debris at 2am. Living in a “charming” old building is so dumb sometimes.
This feels very targeted at @philmcandrew.bsky.social and @regrethorse.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This feels very targeted at @philmcandrew.bsky.social and @regrethorse.bsky.social
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“Do not publish your designs on the web with Figma sites unless you want to fail all the WCAGs, create litigation risk, close off opportunities in Europe, engage in reputational harm, and oh yeah, throw up barriers to your customers and users.”
adrianroselli.com/2025/05/do-n... #a11y
adrianroselli.com/2025/05/do-n... #a11y
Do Not Publish Your Designs on the Web with Figma Sites…
…Unless you want to fail all the WCAGs, create litigation risk, close off opportunities in Europe, engage in reputational harm, and oh yeah, throw up barriers to your customers and users. What am I…
adrianroselli.com
May 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“Do not publish your designs on the web with Figma sites unless you want to fail all the WCAGs, create litigation risk, close off opportunities in Europe, engage in reputational harm, and oh yeah, throw up barriers to your customers and users.”
adrianroselli.com/2025/05/do-n... #a11y
adrianroselli.com/2025/05/do-n... #a11y
Oh god I have to spend the rest of my life with myself and the font choices I’ve made
July 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Oh god I have to spend the rest of my life with myself and the font choices I’ve made
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A lotta guys post about being on the SomethingAwful forums like they were in 'Nam
June 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A lotta guys post about being on the SomethingAwful forums like they were in 'Nam