Om
@ompinion.bsky.social
Autotelic designer and entrepreneur building Personify
The right and the left are both DEI advocates, just for very different people.
December 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The right and the left are both DEI advocates, just for very different people.
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I've had an execeptionally tough year.
I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜
semanticfish.com/2025-year-in...
Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience.
Many more details in post!
I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜
semanticfish.com/2025-year-in...
Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience.
Many more details in post!
2025: Year in Review | Semantic Fish Creative Group
This post gets personal about my experiences this year with grief, loss, health emergencies, and being disabled & working in accessibility in the US.
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December 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I've had an execeptionally tough year.
I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜
semanticfish.com/2025-year-in...
Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience.
Many more details in post!
I have no income or health insurance, and could really use your help finding my next paid project. 💜
semanticfish.com/2025-year-in...
Open to front-end, full-stack, design system, & accessibility projects. 10+ years experience.
Many more details in post!
Is the belief that ‘AI will eliminate all design jobs’ furthering that reality more than the technology itself?
December 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Is the belief that ‘AI will eliminate all design jobs’ furthering that reality more than the technology itself?
Surely someone in tech knows how to use all this amazing AI tech to clear the redactions.
December 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Surely someone in tech knows how to use all this amazing AI tech to clear the redactions.
If we had a public accounting of every PM and exec responsible for the enshittification features.
Would anything be different?
Would anything be different?
December 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
If we had a public accounting of every PM and exec responsible for the enshittification features.
Would anything be different?
Would anything be different?
Whenever you think “maybe it’s time for web components?” It’s not.
December 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Whenever you think “maybe it’s time for web components?” It’s not.
This weekend I’ve been working on an AI agent that can summarize call transcripts into job stories.
It can also sort with moderate level of success, relevant stories together to avoid redundant series of job stories.
What I have to figure out next, is how to improve the matching criteria.
It can also sort with moderate level of success, relevant stories together to avoid redundant series of job stories.
What I have to figure out next, is how to improve the matching criteria.
December 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
This weekend I’ve been working on an AI agent that can summarize call transcripts into job stories.
It can also sort with moderate level of success, relevant stories together to avoid redundant series of job stories.
What I have to figure out next, is how to improve the matching criteria.
It can also sort with moderate level of success, relevant stories together to avoid redundant series of job stories.
What I have to figure out next, is how to improve the matching criteria.
Design isn’t a differentiator but experience is.
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Design isn’t a differentiator but experience is.
We’re announcing the closing of our over subscribed Figma design file with over 300 open comments.
December 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
We’re announcing the closing of our over subscribed Figma design file with over 300 open comments.
Don’t expect others to carry the caloric weight of clarity for you.
December 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Don’t expect others to carry the caloric weight of clarity for you.
❌ The designer that creates the designs doesn’t “own” the designs.
Design happens through the designer. ✅
❌ The researcher that discovers the customer insight didn’t “own” the insight,
The research happens through the researcher. ✅
You don’t need ownership to act with agency.
Design happens through the designer. ✅
❌ The researcher that discovers the customer insight didn’t “own” the insight,
The research happens through the researcher. ✅
You don’t need ownership to act with agency.
December 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
❌ The designer that creates the designs doesn’t “own” the designs.
Design happens through the designer. ✅
❌ The researcher that discovers the customer insight didn’t “own” the insight,
The research happens through the researcher. ✅
You don’t need ownership to act with agency.
Design happens through the designer. ✅
❌ The researcher that discovers the customer insight didn’t “own” the insight,
The research happens through the researcher. ✅
You don’t need ownership to act with agency.
Designers “I want to design something cool.”
Everyone else “let’s build something cool”
Everyone else “let’s build something cool”
December 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Designers “I want to design something cool.”
Everyone else “let’s build something cool”
Everyone else “let’s build something cool”
Design isn’t winning, even when it’s winning.
December 1, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Design isn’t winning, even when it’s winning.
Despite everything that’s gone awry, there’s a lot to be grateful about. Happy thanksgiving y’all
November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Despite everything that’s gone awry, there’s a lot to be grateful about. Happy thanksgiving y’all
At our bus stop right outside our front door we have families of the following ethnic backgrounds:
Indian, Pakistani, Nigerian, Vietnamese, Afghani, Korean, Russian and Chinese.
I feel incredibly fortunate to live in such a diverse neighborhood.
Indian, Pakistani, Nigerian, Vietnamese, Afghani, Korean, Russian and Chinese.
I feel incredibly fortunate to live in such a diverse neighborhood.
November 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
At our bus stop right outside our front door we have families of the following ethnic backgrounds:
Indian, Pakistani, Nigerian, Vietnamese, Afghani, Korean, Russian and Chinese.
I feel incredibly fortunate to live in such a diverse neighborhood.
Indian, Pakistani, Nigerian, Vietnamese, Afghani, Korean, Russian and Chinese.
I feel incredibly fortunate to live in such a diverse neighborhood.
The bottleneck has shifted from making to learning. It’s clear me now we need to use AI to reduce the calories it takes to learn from what you shipped in order to make informed decisions on what to do next.
Human input -> Integrations -> Agentic work with human review.
Coming soon to Personify
Human input -> Integrations -> Agentic work with human review.
Coming soon to Personify
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
The bottleneck has shifted from making to learning. It’s clear me now we need to use AI to reduce the calories it takes to learn from what you shipped in order to make informed decisions on what to do next.
Human input -> Integrations -> Agentic work with human review.
Coming soon to Personify
Human input -> Integrations -> Agentic work with human review.
Coming soon to Personify
Love quietly pushing one of our biggest releases for Personify on a Friday, and reserving the weekend to squash bugs in time for Monnnnday traffic.
November 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Love quietly pushing one of our biggest releases for Personify on a Friday, and reserving the weekend to squash bugs in time for Monnnnday traffic.
Your values have to reflect in your work in order for it to have a chance at being valuable for others.
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Your values have to reflect in your work in order for it to have a chance at being valuable for others.
Billionaires are the biggest welfare queens.
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Billionaires are the biggest welfare queens.
The “pre-PRD” = design brief
The “perfect PRD” = a mythical and elusive creature that requires precision with words and timing.
The “post-PRD” = technical design document (TDD)
The “perfect PRD” = a mythical and elusive creature that requires precision with words and timing.
The “post-PRD” = technical design document (TDD)
October 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The “pre-PRD” = design brief
The “perfect PRD” = a mythical and elusive creature that requires precision with words and timing.
The “post-PRD” = technical design document (TDD)
The “perfect PRD” = a mythical and elusive creature that requires precision with words and timing.
The “post-PRD” = technical design document (TDD)
All the AI native startups are so creative we’re going to end up with over a million ways to do the same thing across the same tools, in different sequences.
September 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
All the AI native startups are so creative we’re going to end up with over a million ways to do the same thing across the same tools, in different sequences.
I’m really feeling the full weight of that one whole additional click to share a link from safari in iOS26
September 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I’m really feeling the full weight of that one whole additional click to share a link from safari in iOS26
While this criminal administration enriches themselves China is making trains that travel as fast as planes.
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September 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
While this criminal administration enriches themselves China is making trains that travel as fast as planes.
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/...
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/...
What are the chances that Bob Iger watched season 2 of Andor?
September 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
What are the chances that Bob Iger watched season 2 of Andor?