Rune Madsen

“A source that cannot be verified or remain consistent is useless.” Shout this sentence from on high.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

If you design digital products, I beg you to read these paragraphs 🙏 From @designsystems.international's [Product Design is Lost] designsystems.international/ideas/produc...

‪@runemadsen.com‬ on the subtle ways design tools shape how we think and what we make. ow.ly/ntWU50Wn2C0

A good article from @runemadsen.com reminding us that our tools shape our creativity. "the growing monoculture in digital design where everything starts to look and feel the same, not because of shared intent, but because of shared constraints"

"The goal isn’t for designers to adopt engineering practices, but to bring distinct perspectives through an interdisciplinary way of collaborating." I really appreciated this little piece from @runemadsen.com. designsystems.international/ideas/when-f... (1/6)

This is a much more eloquent way of what I've been screaming to anyone that will listen. Figma is siloing so many designers in to a specific way of designing, in a field who's lifeblood is exploration, creativity & expression. Our industry is so ripe for fresh, new (or a return to old!) tools.

We've used Figma almost daily since the early days of @designsystems.international, and it's a core part of our creative process. Still, I've noticed that it's starting to change how designers work. I tried to unpack that idea in the piece below. designsystems.international/ideas/when-f...

Besøgte @marcelfard.bsky.social og @moltke.bsky.social i DRs radioprogram Prompt til en snak om AI og billeder. Lyt med her: www.dr.dk/lyd/special-...

asked a bot whether it would prefer to fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses WELL

Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist.

18F did some of the best digital work in government. This is so sad.

I couldn't make up a better story to describe Microsoft than the fact that Azure Key Vaults (that is meant to store environment variables) does not support the use of underscore in variable names.

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

The visuals in this piece are excellent. I'm sure the authors are hearing from all the dudes who think they're economically conservative and socially liberal. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Washington Post's traffic has gone from 22.5 million daily active users in 2021 to about 3 million in 2024, per Semafor. damn lol

I am writing an essay on why rigid planning is bad for designers, and I stumbled on this excellent book. It’s interesting to see how an initial observation from computer science became a much more significant idea related to the humanities too.

Excited to dive into this during the holidays

“The entire academic enterprise, as it’s currently constructed, depends upon reifying power differentials between ranks and classes, keeping people hungry to advance, […] manufacturing all kinds of tests and rituals and administrative labor to deem people worthy of advancement.”

“A City Is Not a Computer” by @shannonmattern.bsky.social Small enough to fit in our pocket. Filled with big ideas about “smart cities,” the fragility of urban networks, and the algorithms, cameras & “other urban intelligences” that pervade city life: placesjournal.org/book/a-city-is-not-a-computer

We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:

I’ve been making incremental updates to my personal website: stewartsmith.io (And more to come.)

Photo Booth of the Past shown last week at Kolding Light Festival. During three days 800 people tried the installation! Built using flux-pulid via @replicate.com #aiart #flux #interactive #dataart

I am giving a talk titled "Placing Design at the Heart of Digital Business" on January 16th in Copenhagen. The spots are very limited, so sharing this link early for anyone who's in town and interested in coming. www.meetup.com/uxdx-copenha...

Our design engineer Lucas Dino Nolte has embraced a practice of “letting code loose” through small, time-boxed experiments. He wrote more about the experience in a new article that we just published on our website. designsystems.international/ideas/time-t...

I inherited this mechanic calculator from my grandfather. Even though it only does addition, I’m quite surprised by how useful it is even today.

Early prototyping for a website that uses tiny SVG images with object outlines and image descriptions as a more accessible image placeholder. Generated automatically with Meta's SAML2.

New plotter-oriented SVG export library for @p5xjs by @golan.bsky.social! p5.plotSvg makes it easier than ever to generate vector files specifically tailored for pen-plotters like those from Bantam Tools. github.com/golanlevin/p... #creativeCoding #generativeArt #plotter #plotterArt

Just trying to make Bluesky more beautiful by sharing this

15 years ago, I wrote my first Processing sketch in a Data Visualization class taught by @stewartsmith.bsky.social at ITP, NYU. I just cloned down the repo and ran it, and it works right out of the box in Processing 4!

New here? made a starter pack of artists and tool-makers that uses code as an expressive medium go.bsky.app/CBAUvVU

Some thoughts on the role of early functional prototypes as a vehicle for figuring out what the hell you’re building. designsystems.international/ideas/the-ca...

We just created a Bluesky account for @designsystems.international! It doesn't have much yet, but it'll be a good place to stay up to date with our work.

In a speech from 1994 @rbreich.bsky.social predicts the rise of Trump: "We are on our way to becoming a two-tiered society, composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment is easily manipulated" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnd0... #uspolitics