First Thing Monday
Ben RoweA weekly delivery of design-y thoughts, ideas and miscellaneous links from @benhyphenrowe, delivered first thing Monday (or thereabouts)
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Before the algorithm
Hey friends,
Design systems that talk to machines, Roles blurring together, LLMs dispensing "trendslop". All this AI talk is leaving me weirdly nostalgic for the flickr and del.icio.us days. Back when "social network" still felt exciti...
Wonder and exhaustion in the same breath
Howdy readers,
Have you played with Claude design yet?
I took it for a quick spin over the weekend. I built a working design system and 30-page slide deck template, before i’d finished my first coffee. Not rough drafts; real, usa...
Sand beneath you
Hey readers,
Another bat-shit-bananas crazy week here on planet Earth. Hope you’re all surviving it, and taking care of yourselves.
Here’s what I’ve been reading this week; some interesting links to distract you from, gestures bro...
Faster than thinking
Hey readers,
I’ve been feeling it lately. AI Brain Fry, that is. Total exhaustion after hanging out with the LLMs all day. Glad to know I’m not the only one; HBR just published some data on this. Its a real thing.
Probably my favorite ar...
Still Rendering
Happy Monday readers,
I’ll start with a little personal update. I was one of the 4,000 people laid off from Block last week. I talk about it a little more over on Linkedin, and will probably have more things to say soon. But for now, l...
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