The proposed (and widely used) fediverse logo is now part of the Font Awesome library.

fontawesome.com/icons/fedivers…

#fediverse #FontAwesome #logo #design

Fediverse Icon | Font Awesome

Fediverse icon in the Brands style. Available now in Font Awesome.

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The most common strategy for "AI-proofing" your career is to get good at using AI tools.

This is futile, because no one is using AI tools to make things that are *good.* The goal is to check the box on the project plan at a predictable pace. As long as the box is checked, quality is not a factor.

To AI-proof your job, get out of the project game.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/yo…

#AI #LLM #tech #softwaredevelopment #UXdesign #UX #design

You can't "AI-proof your career" with a project mindset

Don't try and compete with LLMs. Instead, cure yourself of computer brain.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

Love this advice!

#design #UXUI #SeinfeldTest

So a little while back, @laura wrote an excellent introductory book on accessibility and inclusive design called Accessibility for Everyone for A Book Apart.

Then, A Book Apart folded and the authors managed to get their rights back.

And yesterday, after Laura put a huge amount of work adapting the book into a beautiful website she built using Kitten*, we republished the book under Small Technology Foundation Press.

You can read it for free at:
accessibilityforeveryone.site/

If you want to support our work that makes such things possible, please consider becoming a patron of Small Technology Foundation. We’re tiny, independent, and not for profit. We reject all types of equity investment (VC, etc.) and won’t be sponsored by or otherwise allow our legitimacy to be used to whitewash Big Tech.

small-tech.org/fund-us

* kitten.small-web.org

#accessibilityForEveryone #LauraKalbag #accessibility #a11y #inclusivity #usability #ethics #web #design #SmallTech

Accessibility For Everyone by Laura Kalbag

Read the book online for free.

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This was fun to make.

#design #art #mastoart

Executives don’t want to just sell juice. They want to empower you with an agentic, customizable, and seamless juice experience.

But no one has stopped to think about what any of that actually means. Before designing a "solution," you need a good, *shared* problem definition. If the beautiful clarity within the design team shatters on contact with any handoff, you didn't finish the job.

Read more in this week's Product Picnic:

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/yo…

#UX #design #softwaredevelopment #tech

Your problem framing is sabotaging your strategy

Skipping to designing the solution before you have adequately designed the problem is not speeding you up, but slowing you down.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

Goodness those pop-up menu animations are the worst. And no way to disable them (reduce motion doesn’t affect them). Meaningless, gratuitous skeuomorphism that fails at even the basics of modeling the physical integrity of its source material.
What a shit show.

Liquid Ass should be a cautionary case study in Interface Design 101.

*smdh*

#ios26 #accessibility #design #decoration

Warning: kissing fascist ass may result in liquid glass.

So my phone tricked me into updating to iOS 26 (nice one, asshats). And wow: it really is a case study in form over function. Gratuitous, meaningless aesthetics and motion. Decoration, not design. “Look what I can do!”

Oh well, if it gets me using my phone less, that’s a good thing, I guess.

But the next time you hear someone from Apple talking about design, please feel free to laugh in their damn faces. What a sad joke they’ve become.

#apple #ios26 #liquidAss #design #decoration #BigTech #fascism #aesthetics