Got to love rediscovering old art.

Via Ars Technica:

“All parts for this vehicle, whether internal or from suppliers, need to be designed and built to sub 10 micron accuracy. That means all part dimensions need to be to the third decimal place in millimeters and tolerances need to be specified in single digit microns. If Lego and soda cans, which are very low cost, can do this, so can we,” Musk wrote, referring to products that are the result of decades of constant manufacturing improvement.

Ah good, so at least when pedestrians are blinded by the stainless steel and then decapitated by one of the many sharp edges they can have some peace in their final moments knowing that this monstrosity has the same tolerances as a soda can.

Design pattern libraries could really super-charge their utility if they were used to propagate component-specific features across all the channels that component appears in.

Example: if you ensure that every video throughout your app is loaded in a common video component, any quality of life improvements or new features would be consistent everywhere.

Nothing accelerates burnout faster than bad management. Think you’re passionate about the craft of design? See how long that lasts in a toxic design culture.

These are obviously very difficult things to scale though. A small startup has a much easier time of maintaining a culture of trust and respect for the process than a large multi-org corporation.

Even some basic filtering of the Favorites in Apple Maps would make a world of difference for searching

Adorable. From here.

Notification toxicity is always a clear sign of non-designers trying to eke out some congratulatory metrics at the cost of brand perception and user experience.

The example that always comes to mind are DoorDash notifications. You would want to leave them on for what you can consider useful information (order status, delivery driver messages), but by doing so you get uninvited marketing spam piped directly to you.

Over-meeting days are pretty much shit for design productivity. What makes it particularly frustrating is that there isn’t automatically additional time given to complete the actual designs. This is why designers often end up having to resort to the simplest solution: they simply haven’t had enough time to properly process the problem and try an adequate number of solutions.

This is exactly what I think of when people advocate for third-party App Stores on iOS. Instead of one consistent, straightforward purchasing experience, we get these shells that always require some additional bullshit to use.

The immediacy of DoorDash + Apple Maps results.

Some fun details:

• Star in the top corner to quickly add / remove a favorite
• If the restaurant closes soon, the directions icon is shown with an alert to tell the user they need to leave soon
• “Top Rated Nearby” is a smart category that checks the most common attributes the user filters against
• There is a small shadow / gradient to show that the list continues off the right edge of the screen