santiagocastillo.design
@santicasti.bsky.social
Design systems, product design, brand design, DesignOps
Design @ Olink & freelance.
🇸🇪 & 🇺🇸
All opinions my own–I don't need anyone's help putting my foot in my mouth.
Design @ Olink & freelance.
🇸🇪 & 🇺🇸
All opinions my own–I don't need anyone's help putting my foot in my mouth.
Welcome to the biannual "got bored with my so-called personal brand" extravaganza! I'm just using my name now. If I get bored with that, I'm in deep trouble.
September 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Welcome to the biannual "got bored with my so-called personal brand" extravaganza! I'm just using my name now. If I get bored with that, I'm in deep trouble.
Everyone likes to rant about how #AI is going to take all our tech jobs, but has anybody stopped to think that maybe it’ll be the other way around?
Bear with me 🧵
Bear with me 🧵
March 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Everyone likes to rant about how #AI is going to take all our tech jobs, but has anybody stopped to think that maybe it’ll be the other way around?
Bear with me 🧵
Bear with me 🧵
Adding #UXsky to share this on that feed 👋🏼
Has #uxdesign/#productdesign outgrown medium fidelity wireframes? I say yes. 🧵
March 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Adding #UXsky to share this on that feed 👋🏼
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Democrats: How do we win back the working class while resisting Trump?
Bernie Sanders: [becomes the most popular politician in America by ruthlessly attacking the oligarchy]
Democrats: It's a mystery! Must be completely unsolvable. Guess we'll never know!
Bernie Sanders: [becomes the most popular politician in America by ruthlessly attacking the oligarchy]
Democrats: It's a mystery! Must be completely unsolvable. Guess we'll never know!
Favorability rating in recent YouGov/Economist polls:
Bernie Sanders: +7
Elissa Slotkin: +1
JB Pritzker: Even
AOC: -3
Pete Buttigieg: -3
Donald Trump: -5
JD Vance: -8
Elon Musk: -12
Gavin Newsom: -15
Rep. Party: -12
Chuck Schumer: -33
Dem. Party: -35
gelliottmorris.substack.com/p/who-is-the...
Bernie Sanders: +7
Elissa Slotkin: +1
JB Pritzker: Even
AOC: -3
Pete Buttigieg: -3
Donald Trump: -5
JD Vance: -8
Elon Musk: -12
Gavin Newsom: -15
Rep. Party: -12
Chuck Schumer: -33
Dem. Party: -35
gelliottmorris.substack.com/p/who-is-the...
Who is the most popular U.S. elected official?
Maybe Democrats can learn something from them
gelliottmorris.substack.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Democrats: How do we win back the working class while resisting Trump?
Bernie Sanders: [becomes the most popular politician in America by ruthlessly attacking the oligarchy]
Democrats: It's a mystery! Must be completely unsolvable. Guess we'll never know!
Bernie Sanders: [becomes the most popular politician in America by ruthlessly attacking the oligarchy]
Democrats: It's a mystery! Must be completely unsolvable. Guess we'll never know!
Has #uxdesign/#productdesign outgrown medium fidelity wireframes? I say yes. 🧵
March 25, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Has #uxdesign/#productdesign outgrown medium fidelity wireframes? I say yes. 🧵
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#darkpattern or design oversight? Noticed this in Figma today with a jr dev who isn’t very familiar with the platform:
March 12, 2025 at 3:41 PM
#darkpattern or design oversight? Noticed this in Figma today with a jr dev who isn’t very familiar with the platform:
There comes a point where your calligraphic skills become so good that you’re no longer an anarchist, but a fan of the Avengers.
March 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
There comes a point where your calligraphic skills become so good that you’re no longer an anarchist, but a fan of the Avengers.
Something I’ve never understood about Apple’s UX decisions in iOS:
February 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Something I’ve never understood about Apple’s UX decisions in iOS:
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You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
February 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet
February 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet
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This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility
We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests
This is "We Have Rights: When Documenting ICE Arrests" by MediaTank on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
vimeo.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This Fiona Apple narrated explainer PSA on how to film (and release footage from, not livestream) ICE arrests is exactly what we need from people with production skills right now and is worth about 3 million celebrity “imagine” covers in terms of survival utility
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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While President Trump illegally pauses federal funding from Congress, the Senate must not be business as usual.
We do not consent to this lawless power grab.
We do not consent to this lawless power grab.
January 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
While President Trump illegally pauses federal funding from Congress, the Senate must not be business as usual.
We do not consent to this lawless power grab.
We do not consent to this lawless power grab.
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After all the lectures about the iconoclastic, risk-taking, fearless titans of tech and how deserving they are of their riches, it's pretty amusing to watch each one collapse like a silent-movie queen under the slightest pressure from Trump. (Unfortunately, it also has terrible consequences for us.)
January 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
After all the lectures about the iconoclastic, risk-taking, fearless titans of tech and how deserving they are of their riches, it's pretty amusing to watch each one collapse like a silent-movie queen under the slightest pressure from Trump. (Unfortunately, it also has terrible consequences for us.)
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Medicaid wouldn't have existed during the pandemic without the first resistance. We will be forever grateful to those who fought back.
The bar is high for the opposition this time. But we must leap it.
The bar is high for the opposition this time. But we must leap it.
January 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Medicaid wouldn't have existed during the pandemic without the first resistance. We will be forever grateful to those who fought back.
The bar is high for the opposition this time. But we must leap it.
The bar is high for the opposition this time. But we must leap it.
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Jules Feiffer, 1974
January 20, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Jules Feiffer, 1974
Just when I thought Elon Musk’s face couldn’t get more punchable ffs
January 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Just when I thought Elon Musk’s face couldn’t get more punchable ffs
Bragging time:
This study will be done using software that I designed.
Designing for a FAANG company is cool, I’m sure, but if I can say my work was a drop in the bucket contributing to something such as curing Alzheimer’s or dementia, I can die a happy man.
This study will be done using software that I designed.
Designing for a FAANG company is cool, I’m sure, but if I can say my work was a drop in the bucket contributing to something such as curing Alzheimer’s or dementia, I can die a happy man.
Alzheimer’s could be diagnosed decade earlier after blood proteins study
UK based project could pave way for blood tests to detect diseases years before diagnosis
www.independent.co.uk
January 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Bragging time:
This study will be done using software that I designed.
Designing for a FAANG company is cool, I’m sure, but if I can say my work was a drop in the bucket contributing to something such as curing Alzheimer’s or dementia, I can die a happy man.
This study will be done using software that I designed.
Designing for a FAANG company is cool, I’m sure, but if I can say my work was a drop in the bucket contributing to something such as curing Alzheimer’s or dementia, I can die a happy man.
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We all know what they also want to say.
January 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We all know what they also want to say.
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this is all top bankers really want. they are a simple folk, denied too long by a society trampled by woke culture. and what would we do without them?
“I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.”
Business in the age of Trump. Sounds liberating.
www.ft.com/content/cf87...
Business in the age of Trump. Sounds liberating.
www.ft.com/content/cf87...
Is corporate America going Maga?
Donald Trump’s election has accelerated a cultural shift in the nation’s boardrooms
www.ft.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
this is all top bankers really want. they are a simple folk, denied too long by a society trampled by woke culture. and what would we do without them?
This is why I’m here. This is why I’m abandoning Meta, having deserted Twitter long ago.
This is how things should be.
This is how things should be.
🌎 It’s time to reclaim social media.
Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives.
#FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative.
Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com
Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives.
#FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative.
Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com
Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
freeourfeeds.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This is why I’m here. This is why I’m abandoning Meta, having deserted Twitter long ago.
This is how things should be.
This is how things should be.
Bad product design can cost you your job—even if you’re CEO.
Breaking: Sonos CEO Patrick Spence steps down after disastrous app launch
Last year’s app debacle has finally led to Spence’s ouster.
www.theverge.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Bad product design can cost you your job—even if you’re CEO.