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From the humble backyard plot to the royal Water Theatre Grove at Versailles, gardens have long been a source of sustenance, beauty, and spiritual communion. A new book cultivates a rich survey of 300 magnificent gardens.

thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/the…

#art #design #books #nature


A #ZeroWaste roll! I made my first experience with a #RepairCafe and it was bombastic! To give justice to this #Bosch food processor, it survived 10 years of intensive use, but I could easily identify #design patterns that made it harder to repair with no obvious benefit. And I learned that a simpleton like me can totally learn how to repair stuff and it’s a lot of fun. Big kudos to the volunteer who stayed overtime to bring this old gizmo back to life. He had worked for Shell his entire life and, once retired, decided to do something for the environment and learn how to fix things to reduce waste.


Looking forward to speaking at Defuse – Design for Use in Dublin on November 10th about breaking the rules and doing things differently (and yes, the Small Web).

Mark it on your calendars and come along if you’re free.

defuse.ixd.ie

#design #IxDA #Dublin #Defuse #DefuseDublin #dublin #ireland #event #SmallTech #SmallWeb


A Kagi user rebuilt the search experience from the ground up with the brutalist aesthetics of a cyberpunk megacorp, inspired by Cyberpunk 2077.

Check out this creative custom theme: github.com/pdanzma/korp-net

#Kagi #Search #Theme #CSS #Design


What happens when you get the sorry telling from @mwichary be assisted by embedded, scriptable infinitude of Macs from @mihaip? This thread happens… links to individual blog posts below…

#retrocomputing #guidebook #ui #design #history #Mac #Emulation #ControlPanels #Settings
mastodon.online/@mwichary/1148…


Had my talk on Small Web accepted at #why2025 but I hadn’t realised (my bad) that not only do you have to cover your own travel and accommodation but you also have to buy a ticket to speak. I’m sorry, as part of a tiny two-person not-for-profit working for the common good, I can’t afford to pay to speak at events. I’m not Deloitte. So I sadly had to withdraw my talk.

If any conferences do want to hear about the Small Web and are willing to support our work by paying us to speak about it, please feel free to get in touch:

small-tech.org/contact-us/

#SmallTech #SmallWeb #speaking #events #conferences #decentralisation #humanRights #personhood #democracy #peerToPeer #web #design #dev


Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.

But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.

#LLM #AI #UXDesign #UX #Design #Tech #userresearch #productmanagement #product

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Fact: It is my birthday.
Fact: I run a free & ad-free newsletter about keeping tech/UX design accountable, called Product Picnic.

Conclusion: legally, you have to subscribe to it. The word of the birthday boy is law!

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/

#ux #uxdesign #design #product #tech #ai #UserExperience #userresearch



Need a quick laugh to distract you from the horrors of the world? Just for a minute? I got you.

I tried to find out who made this. I failed. If someone knows, please let me know so I can update with a name and/or link.

(Update: the people who made this are also making AI/robotics weapons systems. So fuck the credit. Watch here, laugh, and don’t give them your web views.)

#Design #Engineering #Products #Robotics #AI #Humor #Funny


Adam, the creator of the loving and inclusive platform omg.lol, contacted me to create an illustration for the site's landing page to help define the nature of the community and the services it provides.

andycarolan.com/work/omg-lol

#design #illustration #portfolio #OMG