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Annoying, but also pretty sure it's on purpose for optical alignment because our brains expect the side of "B" to be slightly tapered

yeah - it's like the O being larger on purpose, right? thing I don't get here is that the B alignment is so minuscule that it could almost be believably unintentional 😅

Yeah, same principle. It very well could be unintentional, but at the same time anything larger would stick out too much + they've had however many decades to refine their logo. Just my 2¢ tho :)

for real – find this level of design super fascinating it makes me question things every time I'm putting together an icon or something

oh 100% same. I wish I had good design chops, since most of the stuff I end up "designing" looks like this lmao

haha - it's a super power when you think about it though? 😉 humility in design is golden – have you tried any AI tools to help out with things?

Personally I'm not a big fan of AI tools for design or coding (and I say this as someone who's tried a *lot* of AI tools for coding, but not many for design). I think this post describes how I feel... (1/4) bsky.app/profile/did:...

(2/4)... And as someone who's building a polished app for users that we want to keep around for a long time, I feel like starting from a rocky base (especially for something that I may not be as skilled at!) it setting our team up for future failures rather than getting a human to design things...

(3/4) ... from the ground up from a far more experienced and nuanced perspective rather than something that looks good on the surface but doesn't take into account small idiosyncrasies that AI can't catch (yet) -- and those add up in the long term. For short projects I may consider it, but that's..

(4/4)...not where my work or focus is at the moment.

(5/4) [addendum] I'm very grateful to have people on my team as well who are far more experienced in design than I am now -- if I were still doing this solo, there's a good chance I would've reconsidered my stance on this.

think we have the same sentiments - with AI, it's great for assisting me on things I can do but want to save time (data manipulation scripts, etc.) where there are binary right/wrong results but when there's nuance, I'm not keen

I don't use an AI powered IDE or anything but I like the idea of AI powered design collab tools to get ideas off the ground if that makes sense

100% agreed on both above comments! I think that the potential is there, just not for my workflow or use case. If I was starting on a new project from scratch, I could see myself bouncing ideas off of AI -- I still rubber-duck debug with Claude sometimes if I get stuck on something :P