Dave Crow

OKRs are like communism…the people pushing them always insist the previous attempt just wasn’t done right.

How old am I, you ask? Well, web design was in the multimedia department when I was in college.

NO INDIE MUSIC

Spent some time prototyping with Firebase Studio this morning. There are many things I like about it. But after a few iterations, it starts introducing regressions in functionality, and I end up going in circles. Back to Cursor + Claude for now

Current work soundtrack music.youtube.com/watch?v=JRnD...

Reminder: Thursday, the 13th is a day. #AppleIntelligence

So many squabbles in the design industry are people talking past each other. Companies at different sizes/stages need different approaches and level of process (duh). Knowing what’s right for the context is the key to making an impact. #designsky

Cameron has been one of my favorite writers on design for 20+ years. And this one is an instant classic. It’ll be required reading when I start building a team. #designsky

If the world is ending, I wanna be the last to know

My LiveJournal can legally drink now

I've had many ideas I didn't pursue because the time needed to mock them up with enough fidelity to try them didn't seem worthwhile. But, with AI tools, the cost of trying an idea drops closer to zero. This allows me to explore more options and pursue more creative solutions. #designsky

I often have to remind myself that users won't ever see my Figma components in order to stop myself from over-optimizing them. #designsky

That sense of validation when AI likes your idea better than the one it came up with...

Dev: It's gonna be annoying to build it that way. It'd be a lot easier if we can have the user click a button so we know when to load the data. Me: Well, I'd rather annoy you than every user that has to click that button.

WIP: Drop shift request details So much data to display. Still refining and looking for ways to eliminate ink on the screen. #designsky

Ok, I've seen all the happy birthday gifs. Someone please create a bunch of new ones 🙏

Trying to make Safari my default browser. But my company being on Google Workspace might make that unworkable. I could easily be convinced that Google actively makes their products terrible in Safari.

Late to the party - but I'm coming around to Raycast. Since I moved back to Safari from Arc, Raycast gives me a way to search my tabs. It's slower than Arc was but it works. Also finding Raycast notes pretty handy.

Glad I bought a stupidly expensive Studio Display so I have a stupidly expensive thunderbolt cable to run migration assistant to my reasonably expensive new MacBook Pro

New year, new machine

Ditto. Also, I’ve rarely hired without some sort of referral. Hiring practices are broken for our industry.

“The faster we get there, the less worth is the place of arrival.” - Allan Watts

Working on this object map to help clarify the system. But in my experience, stakeholders' eyes glaze over with these types of artifacts. They typically don't understand it until they see it in a UI.

This is why I find most “design process” diagrams frustrating. There’s a narrative that no pixels should be pushed or code written until there’s a perfectly defined problem. But making things is a huge part of defining a problem

It’s like only 1 key works on my 14 year old kid’s phone

So Cursor uses surge pricing now

Decided to ditch Arc as my default because it feels bad to keep investing time into a browser that's no longer being developed. Forgot about this insane dark pattern of gating features when it's not the default.

Can AI have bad days? Cause after I updated Cursor the response quality dropped dramatically. But 2 days later it seems to be beack to normal? 🤔

Exported my bird-site data...and it doesn't include my bookmarks 😭

This boy is ready for the holidays

The more terrible a company's service is, the more they beg me to stay on the line to take a survey after the call

Sunday pancakes

Re-watching Argyle and the most far-fetched scene is when she’s writing the book in Apple Pages

Wireframing with Claude or Cursor allows me to create realistic prototypes and iterate through ideas just as easily and quickly as writing this post. Makes figma wireframes feel much less useful. #designsky

I use Apple Music to listen to a song/album actively. I use YouTube Music for instrumental background music while I work. Would love a music streaming service with custom feeds BlueSky style.