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Mariusz

@mariusz.cc

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Product / Service / UX Design, Leadership, Ethics, Yelling at clouds. ⚡️ Languages. ⚡️ Taking photos. ⚡️ Screamy music ⚡️ Often seen dumping links to what I read. 🔴⚫️ I don’t know what HD is but my doctor says I have eighty of them.

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Mariusz @mariusz.cc · Nov 29

I think I've taken close to 10 thousand photos with many different cameras at different budgets when doing street and travel photography and yet this old photo taken with a shitty phone camera might still be my favorite.

Black and white photo of two people - a man and a woman - waiting at the crosswalk at night, in the background a modernist subway station with a large neon saying U-BHF MOCKERNBRUCKE

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Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 45m

A founder or product manager can sketch up a pretty good idea of what a product could be. Maybe not great but good enough to convey the idea. Taking a design 80% of the way there is no longer enough for someone who’s dedicated to design as a career.

rongoldin.substack.com/p/craft-in-p...

Craft in Product Design: A Framework for Evaluation

Craft isn't a one dimensional trait. Here are 5 criteria to help talk about craft.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 19h

Empathy and taste are both essential ingredients to having a healthy dose of reality. We need to get real and understand that we are not our users and our amazing taste and intuition won’t save us alone.

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Taste vs. empathy

In the pursuit of the superpower that makes designers irreplaceable

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Stuart Robson @sturobson.com · 23h

Like me, did you forget @penpot.app's penpotfest was on today?

You can stream it live here:

penpot.app/penpotfest/l...

Penpot | The event that brings design, code and open source together.

The design event for designers and developers

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Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 22h

And Austria renamed Fucking and Oberfucking because they’re soft and woke 😭

Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 1d

With digital products moving to incorporate generative and agentic AI at an increasingly frequent rate, trust has become the invisible user interface. When it works, our interactions are seamless and powerful.

www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/09/psyc...

The Psychology Of Trust In AI: A Guide To Measuring And Designing For User Confidence — Smashing Magazine

With digital products moving to incorporate generative and agentic AI at an increasingly frequent rate, trust has become the invisible user interface. When it works, interactions feel seamless. When…

www.smashingmagazine.com

Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 3d

A Slack principal product designer reveals their Figma file organization system. The video demonstrates techniques for managing design iterations, including project covers and design critiques.

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How a designer at Slack organizes Design Iterations in Figma

👋 Welcome to Sneak Peek with Jay, a series where you will see how top design teams design. In this interview Jay chats with Andrew Gosine (Principal Product Designer at Slack) who shows how he…

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Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 4d

Jitter · A fast and simple motion design tool on the web

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Jitter · A fast and simple motion design tool on the web

Jitter is a collaborative motion design tool that lets you create professional animations in minutes, no matter your experience with motion.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8d

Underrated reason why Israel is currently at -70% approval with Democrats in the US and basically every left of center group in the Western Hemisphere today is this is the average Israel supporter's rhetoric

LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 8d

I see people are posting their fantasies of Thunberg being tortured again

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Ms. Maxwellmusic 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxmaxwellmusic.bsky.social · 5d

On one hand, the inevitable AI bubble burst will crater computer parts prices, and we'll be able to grab graphics cards from dead data centers for pennies on the dollar.

On the other, it's 17x larger than the dotcom bubble, and according to Deutsche Bank, the only thing propping up the US economy.

AI bubble is 17 times the size of that of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says

A research firm is arguing not just that AI is in a bubble, but that it is 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble.

www.marketwatch.com

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 5d

The EU is once again trying to push a dangerous legislative proposal that undermines encrypted communication and obliterates our rights to private conversations. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat

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Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 5d

“The sound of gentrification is silence”

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?

The sound of gentrification is silence.

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Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 5d

Don’t mind winter when it actually is winter not whatever Berlin gets

Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 5d

I grew up between Poland and NYC where winters are winters, so this mess is just endless mid-October to me.

Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 5d

Oh if it was just me I’d be in Spain from now until May but I’m married to a person who can’t work remotely so we’re just going for a week soon.

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Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 5d

To be fair I did enjoy winter when I lived near mountains and it was -15 and a meter of snow outside, but in Berlin it’s just gray, rainy, and windy until May.

Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 5d

Yeah I’m exactly the opposite, below 20 degrees I need to immediately pack my bags and go south.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9d

The Saudis didn’t pay big money for famous American comedians because they were super eager for comedy, they paid for PR like this.

Bill Burr Defends Performing at Controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival: “They’re Just Like Us”

The actor-comedian details his experience at the event: "Definitely one of the top three experiences I've ever had ... I think it's going to lead to a lot of positive things."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 6d

Jesteś chatbotem

Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 6d

This is something I've been looking for for a while now: open source LLM based chatbot alternative that runs offline

www.jan.ai?ref=DenseDis...

Open source ChatGPT alternative that runs offline - Jan

Jan is building Open Superintelligence. It’s the open-source ChatGPT alternative that leverages the best of open-source AI.

www.jan.ai

Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 6d

No but for real what even is the point of winter if you can’t hibernate or move south for the entire duration of it?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6d

bad season approaches

Winter fans be like ah yes 3 PM and it’s a dark bleak winter landscape

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Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 6d

True social interactions moved off of social media platforms to Slack and Discord groups in my experience, a bit of return to basics for those who remember IRC.

Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 6d

“Workslop” costs everyone time, money, and reputation? Who would have thunk it.

www.betterup.com/workslop

Workslop: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Busywork | BetterUp Labs

AI-generated ‘workslop’ is flooding workplaces. New research reveals how leaders can fight back and reclaim productivity.

www.betterup.com

Mariusz @mariusz.cc · 6d

I mean if it’s good enough for English royalty it’s good enough for me