Redesigning Twitter, hierarchy strips, Figma personas, AppleJam

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

“As Elon Musk burns down the Twitter we know, will a drastically different user experience emerge from the ashes?”

Redesigning a breaking Twitter →
By Maximillian Piras

Editor picks

• Gamification gone wrong →
  Why apps should stop with the streaks.
  By Ben Davies-Romano
• I’m a designer at LinkedIn →
  Here are 4 tips to attract more recruiters.
  By Katie Jacquez
• Hierarchy strips in user interfaces →
  Showing you understand the why of your visual work.
  By Michal Malewicz

Freeform: Apple launches its own version of FigJam →

Jobs

• Senior Product Designer @ LaunchPad
  LaunchPad is a software platform for youth activities businesses, families and communities. Join us as we simplify operations for small businesses while delighting kids and their parents. We are looking for team members who love building simple, world class products and will collaborate with us in adding to the culture of our growing team.

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Design takes time: defining the identity of iA Writer →

Make me think

• We’re witnessing the brain death of Twitter →
  “The state of Twitter since Elon Musk’s takeover feels like this sort of brain death: the processes that keep it online are somehow still beating, but what Twitter was before Musk is never coming back.”
• Your creativity won’t save your job from AI →
  “On the more philosophical front, I was obsessed with what the Consensus founders were actually doing: using AI to learn how experts work, so that the AI could perform the same work with greater speed.”
• Midjourney vs. human illustrators: has AI already won? →
  “In the age of artificial intelligence the ability to generate realistic images from text prompts is no longer a distant futuristic concept — it’s a present-day reality. So, is it time for designers to delegate some (or all) of their work to AI?”

Little gems this week

Design deserves more respect →
By Michael F. Buckley

How Singapore paid millions to make its logo bigger →
By Micheal Xing

How intuition gives humans the advantage over AI →
By Louis Byrd

Tools and resources

• Staybl →
  The first browser to compensate for tremors.
• Figma personas →
  What’s your software collaboration style?
• Anti-personas →
  Stop using user personas, and start talking to people.

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