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Quick #designsky updates: made a new starter pack of designers to go along with the custom feed, and tweaked the feed to include extra designy keywords (so more posts will show up there.) Holler if you'd like to be added to any of this! go.bsky.app/3cUcyW1 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

roommate just asked me why im eating cough drops, am i sick? it's bc in college i knew a girl w/ 5.0 gpa who would eat halls vitamin c cough drops to boost her immune system so i copied her hoping it was the secret to success (it was not) but now i associate cough drops with The Grind

This Friday I am doing a talk for the Ladies that UX (Seattle, Salt Lake City and LA chapters). 5:30pm PST. 10 Lost Women in the Emerging Discipline of Interaction Design - from my new book - In Through The Side Door. Info and RSVP here: lu.ma/5l1xiisx #womeninIXD #LadiesThatUX https://lu.ma/5l1xiisx

need an are.na x bluesky bridge / bot / feed.. https://are.na

The conversations were full of incredible enthusiasm for what DiversityUK can do to change the face of business, shape our future leaders and ensure that diversity isn't just a nice to have but fundamental.

user research in a nutshell

is anyone else having issues with Rectangle commands on macOS Sequoia? I have tried EVERYTHING but Rectangle commands seem to be really buggy, especially the "next display"/"previous display" commands. Instead of moving the windows, the commands just make the windows smaller 💀

Thank you @hazelweakly.me for the @kubernetes.io earrings!

The @figma.com Config ‘25 wordmark goes hard

Web Standards Reading List numero 329, daaahhhlinks https://brucelawson.co.uk/2024/reading-list-329/

Double booking right now

I think that’s track 3.

Defra terms I’ve heard this week that could be metal band names: Slaughterhouse Request (death metal, album art censored on Spotify) Squirrel Contraception (angular grindcore with lots of yelping vocals) Goat Survey (folk horror inflected doom metal, early Sabbath vibes).

👋 Hi, I'm new here from that other place that shall not be named. Sharing a recent landing page hero web design challenge I completed. These are all made in Sketch but I have spent a lot of time this year building in Webflow and have almost completed my second project there. #designsky

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate the Bluesky team and how impressive what they’re doing is? They’re a team of 20 who are adding a million users a day right now and scaling up with aplomb! Incredible [contains quote post or other embedded content]

A great blog post with practical tips about how to prototype a language toggle by Al Robinson https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2024/11/14/how-can-we-test-our-designs-with-welsh-speaking-users/

👋 Also back, trying to get everything set up properly since there is so much customization. Definitely keen to find more Marketing and tech folks.

Good evening Bluesky 🦋 I've just deployed some updates to blueview.app. A new stats section and more fine grained controls on follower charts. I've also updated the starter packs so the search should be faster now. Thanks for giving it a go! 🙂 More features in the works! Sleep now 😴

I got to collaborate with @johnnyjjones.bsky.social and friends again and as usual they exceeded all expectations [contains quote post or other embedded content]

a major problem with bluesky is that i can offhandedly remark "i hate drawing, its too hard" and then a sweet old lady will gently encourage me and kindly point me to some useful resources to get started drawing and i dont know what to do with myself

Gotta Follow 'Em All! go.bsky.app/BXnjGPN [contains quote post or other embedded content]

In today's Learn Deno tutorial, learn how to containerize your Deno app with Docker so you can deploy it anywhere: 👇️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRryNeYm6yw

Workshop time! Building Universal Full Stack Expo Router apps with @keith.bsky.social at @reactnativelondon.co.uk 👩‍💻 🧑‍💻

My app for finding 🦋 accounts you may want to follow has had a make-over: it now displays names and bios, and allows adding an "app password" for direct follow buttons in the listing bsky-follow-finder.theo.io https://bsky-follow-finder.theo.io/

Huge influx of UX design people on here, which is awesome. I have a starter pack for active accounts if you want to follow them! go.bsky.app/2NKjZdu (let me know if you want to be added) [contains quote post or other embedded content]

If you’re a fan of @wesbos.com’s uses.tech, I added support for your bsky profiles today! https://github.com/wesbos/awesome-uses/pull/1878

tiktok influenced me to buy 121 markers and these cute coloring books 🥺

There was a café I saw in Korea called "I still hide you in my poetry" and I think about that phrase a lot