Today’s coffee is extremely funky! Smells amazing, but might be a bit to much processing for my tastes… ☕️

Dave Rupert in a post about taste:

when the website adds a fifth, seventh, twelfth ad… I know a person who lacks taste is at the wheel. I can feel it in my bones when an app or website has prioritized revenue over user experience. A person without taste or high emotional intelligence broke the unspoken contract we had built on mutual respect.

In my role as a UX/UI designer I increasingly see my job as being a champion of taste. For the majority of users on the web the user experience is good, most businesses have gotten the hang of providing easy paths for users to do things. I now spend a reasonable amount of time championing good taste as a defence of the experience.

I used the AI tool in Miro for the first time today and it actually behaved as I expected it to. It’s the first time I’ve ever had reason to use an AI to perform actions for me in a service instead of as a Google replacement.

Came across this great little camera. The Camp Snap Screen Free Digital Camera which reminds me of the old disposable cameras I used to use. Tempted to pick one up.

What Manton said. I’m sick of it.

Politics is bleeding into everything. Tech headlines, podcasts that aren’t usually political. For 2025, I like to box my politics into narrow parts of the day, not everywhere all the time. Soon we’ll need mute filters in all apps, from RSS readers to Overcast.

I have ended up down a rabbit hole of Herman Miller chairs over my morning coffee. Now I’m working out how long it would take for me to save for a Cosm…

I have long used the phrase "design is in the details" when talking about the fit and finish of a product, I had no idea it was a riff on a Charles Eames saying.

“The details make the design,” Charles Eames once said.

Via: The Eames Lounge Chair — A 20th Century Icon on minimalgoods

Really like this quote from Josh Ginter:

Immediate attribution of an idea to someone else is wrapped up at its core in one word: humility. A person willing to attribute an idea or concept to someone else always exudes humility, and this leads to a more meaningful conversation about that topic, even if in-depth facts about the topic aren’t known at the time.

I think this might be the most beautiful camera I've ever seen.

Ugh, just had to add a politics tag to my GoodLinks because it seems at the moment I can’t read anything remotely interesting without it ultimately being a moan post about politics.