Josh Wayne

Josh Wayne

@joshwayne.com

Product Designer @ Webflow, hobby developer 📍Denver, CO https://joshwayne.com

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So many product teams focused on the wrong competition. They only look at other products that solve the problem similar to how they solve the problem and miss everything else the market considers a competing solution.

Lazyweb: is there a way to manipulate the DOM on a live website (like in DevTools) and then save it so I can load the changes next time I open that site?

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i'm on Bluesky for the echo chamber of Good Job With Your Project, and I'm Doing This Thing Now That I Enjoy, and You Got This, and Help Me Out With This Problem I'm Having, and Isn't This Thing Pretty Cool, and Check Out This Thing I Made

Eventually I'll write some thoughts about working as a freelance designer for over a decade. But not now. I need to get some distance from it first. For now, I'm just relaxing.

🎉 Excited to share I'll be joining the design team at Webflow! I've been consulting for over 11 years, which is a crazy thing to write. I’m ready to close that chapter and and super excited to start this next one. Looking forward to working with all the crazy talented people over there.

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One of my favourite UI patterns is using `backdrop-filter` to create a “frosted glass” effect. When I see this effect in the wild, though, it’s almost never as lush and realistic as it could be. There’s an important optimization that nobody makes. ✨ I share the secret sauce in my brand-new post:

joshwcomeau.comNext-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter • Josh W. ComeauGlassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most reali...

A fantastic example of why I get so frustrated with the "psychology of color" content that says green = growth, blue = calm, etc. Our relationship with color is contextual to our culture.

oleg@okovalenko.me

Most apps just translate words. Great apps translate culture. Perfect example: Apple's Stocks app shows growth in: • Red for Chinese markets • Green for Western users Small detail. Huge impact. This is how you build for a global audience. Share your favorite cultural adaptation! 🌏

Do any of my followers own a Daylight Computer? I really want to get one, but I'm been burned so many times on V1 hardware that I decided to wait until reviews start rolling in.

I find the best teachers are often people who once sucked at something but put in the work to get better over people who are naturally gifted.

A friend sent me an app that lets you run "user research" with AI participants and asked what I thought about it. I obviously have my (very strong) opinions about it but I thought it could be a fun discussion. So what do you think about using LLMs for user research? #designsky #uxsky

A friend sent me an app that lets you run "user research" with AI participants and asked what I thought about it. I obviously have my (very strong) opinions about it but I thought it could be a fun discussion. So what do you think about using LLMs for user research? #designsky #uxsky

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So in summary, I wouldn't touch it. If I was going to use an LLM, it would be in surfacing insights from interviews I conducted myself. Which I've done on a few projects and it's massively helpful.

A friend sent me an app that lets you run "user research" with AI participants and asked what I thought about it. I obviously have my (very strong) opinions about it but I thought it could be a fun discussion. So what do you think about using LLMs for user research? #designsky #uxsky

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But if high level market info is news to you, then I think you have much bigger problems because you clearly don’t know the market you’re designing for. Founders should at least have a gut feeling about what problems exist and how they want to solve them. Follow your gut over fake research.

If you’ve done research interviews, you know gold is found in the highly specific follow up questions. My best insights have consistently been when someone makes an offhand comment and I say “tell me more about that”. There’s a joke that interviewees say all the good stuff once you stop recording.

A friend sent me an app that lets you run "user research" with AI participants and asked what I thought about it. I obviously have my (very strong) opinions about it but I thought it could be a fun discussion. So what do you think about using LLMs for user research? #designsky #uxsky

So my gut reaction could be described as “violently against”. But I try to see both sides and I can see a sliver of merit. LLMs are statistics applied to language. Theoretically, you could feed it the right data and ask for general consensus for some high level topics.

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Any Webflow experts following me looking for a small job? One of my friends a CEO of a small SaaS product is looking for someone to revise their home page. *must deeply care about accessibility, not just tick it off as a checklist but it needs to be foundational for you

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There's something I need people to understand. The studio that made this released some numbers. They had to produce 85 minutes of footage to find 15 usable seconds for this ad. The machine that creates moving images out of nothing has a failure rate of 340:1 and the best 15 seconds... is this.

Pop Base@popbase.tv

Coca-Cola’s newest Christmas commercial was made using AI.

100% true for designers too. Great writing helps you articulate your design decisions, make a strong case, communicate direction and vision, work with remote teams, and so much more.

Sam Julien@samjulien.com

Writing is the most underrated skill to build as a developer or developer advocate to grow your career, whether or not you want to go into management. Great writing for talk titles and abstracts, tickets, emails, internal reports, and even Slack communications can get you a long way.

A mental model I use when designing B2B SaaS is trying to find the right balance of "magic". Magic in this context: things the system is doing that the user can't see. Used in the same way that developers talk about a dev framework being “like magic” or "too much magic". Examples:

Too much magic: "I don't know how it's getting these results" "I can't trust results I can't troubleshoot" Too little magic: “I can make this in Excel" "seems like more work than it's worth"

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Ok, I'm going to ask for a personal favor. I want to get the official Halide account off Twitter. Yesterday. If you feel that it fits, I'd appreciate if you add @halideapp.bsky.social to your Bluesky Starter Pack. I think it posts good stuff. Thanks for considering.👍🏻

Typography twitter is here! Follow for some great type inspiration. #designsky

Andrei Robu@andreirobu.com

I’ve created a type foundry starter list if you’re looking for more people to follow. go.bsky.app/CvnALNW

Last meeting of the week was a 4:30pm design review that ran long (of course). Couldn't get to the gym on time so I guess we're grinding overwatch ranked instead.

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UX: people often have to pee after drinking. PM: the main user story is users consume liquid. Users expelling liquid is not part of our KPI's and frankly, seems like a far edge case when entering the bar shows express intent to consume liquid. Moving expel liquid to out of scope.

This is going down in Bluesky canon

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

Also, part of the reason we did bought InfoWars is because people on Bluesky told us it would be funny to buy InfoWars. And those people were right. This is the funniest thing that has ever happened.