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Michael Olson
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Huge personal news:

I have learned that the official Flash website for the award winning motion picture, Shrek, is available to experience via the Internet Archive.
July 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
walgreens, don’t pretend to be cool. this is embarrassing.
May 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
- apple watch: dies while sleeping
- every app with access to my sleep info: YOU GOT ONE HOUR AND FOURTEEN MINUTES OF SLEEP YOU ARE DEAD
May 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
elegant or over-engineered way to handle horizontal navs on mobile? I think it's neat, but it might not make it to production for a few reasons. #uxsky #designsky
May 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It’s incredible that Clair Obscur was made by French people; it seems intent on confirming all cartoon stereotypes about French people.
April 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
rebuilding portfolio website, day 1: nothing fancy, I just need to do the bare minimum, make it look good, and be done in two weeks

day 93: I have implemented a bad version of figma’s comment system
March 16, 2025 at 7:16 PM
If we have to continue living with daylight savings we should at least have fun citywide sirens.
March 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I finally turned off the “Michael, you’re on a roll on LinkedIn!” emails that I seemed to get every day despite never opening LinkedIn, and it’s the most noticeable improvement in my quality of life in roughly 3 years.
January 24, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Here's one of the very few just-for-fun illustrations I've actually finished. Heavily inspired by Arnie Jorgensen's work in Banner Saga, which is inspired in part by the art of Eyvind Earle.

Dated March 9, 2020 😰
December 13, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Reposted by Michael Olson
10th anniversary Journey thread, recreated:
I was the art director of thatgamecompany's Journey. It set the course of my career and my art. I'm forever thankful to the community of players and their incredible love for the game. This is a thread comparing early dev images and how things shipped.
November 23, 2024 at 10:59 PM
I added a day counter to my portfolio site starting when it launched, so everyone knows I was 3 years dumber when I made it.

(I did this to avoid working on a new version)
November 27, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Yokai before and after domestication smh
November 25, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Dear #uxsky,

Are there any good inspo resources out there for user flow charts & diagrams?

I’m working on some things with a lot of forking paths and user attributes that my standard practices feel clunky for.
November 23, 2024 at 6:23 PM
If you’re like me and built your whole life around being sort of good at drawing when you were a child, I think you should watch Look Back.

(Or if you just appreciate great animation and have a Prime account)
November 17, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Introduce yourself with 4 video games
November 16, 2024 at 8:06 PM
As my first official act on bsky, here's a list of all the fine folks I could find here who've been guests on the good good design podcast dive.club by @ridd-design.bsky.social.

Hope to see more soon!
November 16, 2024 at 7:02 PM
Hi internet friends! It was tough, but I made the incredibly noble and righteous and brave decision to delete my other account (with a really, really big following!) and come here.
November 16, 2024 at 5:51 PM