Product Designer. Ex Web-based solutions business owner. After two decades of success, I closed my company to focus on Holistic Design and Product Building. Hardcore product person.Twitter: @StayuKasabov.
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Let me tell you something. I am a product designer. I know we are doomed to be obsolete.
Not only that, but I will use ChatGPT to develop my prototypes and small scripts.
And finally, will find a time to build some ideas with Dart/Flutter. Something inside is telling me that in a generated future, people who can code will be able to create free from no code tools and SaaS silos. And this is enough motivation for me:)
I see a strange future in which product designers (who will spend less time on decorating and fiddling with DS components) with the help of ChatGPT will fulfill the role of junior devs in the production pipeline.
>Visual centering should be implemented in CSS with a neural net. Let's get standards with the beat.
Actually, I am utterly baffled that this is not the target of current neural net implementation. I expected some form of automation to emerge in this field first.
Instead, someone decided, that investing in generative "A.I." art and removing the human element from the illustration process is more important.:)
If you're not well-versed in visual design, it's okay to stick to some basic guidelines.
But remember, every rule is just a starting point. If you have a solid understanding of contrast, color, composition, usability, accessibility, and more, you have the freedom to experiment and try new things.
In my professional opinion, standardization and commoditization in design have their pros when it comes to production and usability. However, this approach is leading us towards a bland and uninteresting user experience.
I'm hoping that the emergence of XR will bring back some of the old-school "skeuomorphic" spirit of exploration, expression, and texture in design. If we keep relying solely on "best practices," we risk being replaced by automation.
And please, don't design UI without having a design background. Use some UI library or Tailwind/Bootstrap instead.:)
Frustration can come from different angles, company, team, or personal.
Working long years as a PM and business owner, I found that sometimes the changes are inevitable. Some vacation and personal time can help for future adjustment. Good luck to your friend.
I usually generate my passwords with pwgen (you can install on Mac with brew and use this command pwgen -s 20 -1 -v -y -c -0) then store in plain text within an encrypted folder on my NAS.
In some cases, I use 2FA. In some, a lengthy "mumbo-jumbo" passwords that are easy to remember. :)
P.S. This is just an old habit and I have nothing against using a password manager like https://keepassxc.org/
My passwords live in an encrypted folder with contextual information, then are used in the browser with per site rules.
Bookmarks are collected in Markdown with tags/notes (Obsidian), or clipped with a bookmarklet.
I will never have more than 5-8 myself. For me, focus is the key of accomplishing a given task. If I have to do a research, I collect by clipping in Obsidian, then tag and reorganize. If a given project needs a series of webpages on startup, I create a new profile in chrome (with different colour) and move along.
Searching trough open tabs is way more inefficient than searching trough topics/folders and tags in Obsidian. Working against complexity is a habit, I guess. It comes with realization that time is precious:)
A little aside. In early 2000, the problem was how to introduce and educate businesses about UCD and UX design processes.
Nowadays, in my personal view, we have to balance all the UX/UI trends/principles/research with business goals more.
Starting with well-defined set of product requirements and KPIs and "keeping it in focus" is essential.
I am a designer that got fed up with "mouse" control everywhere.
One day I asked myself: Is there a way to scroll in the browser without using a mouse or arrow keys?. Enter Vimium.:)
I have tried in the past Emacs, but I have an operating system, and I don't need a new one (for now). So now you can take MacVim only from my cold hands.
P.S. > You can paste the buffer in insert mode with ctrl+r+0.
My theory on this "problem" is that we are already data and echo chamber-driven society. If people "en masse" decide that they have had enough, uniformity and sameness will go away:)
Is this a new Firefox service?
Hey, I can create a real corporate identity for you. After a serious research and thousands of variants. It is cheap: only 200k USD.:)
Now, a question: Why established IT companies rarely understand the importance of the words "Identity" and "Brand Differentiation"?