Ariel Norling
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writer. designer. peppier version of daria. spotter of homes with personality @readiknowaspot .
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I'm not an architect (yet!) 🙈 but I'm so honored Substack chose to feature me as one of the most interesting Substacks to check out.
Every Friday, we're sharing the most interesting Substacks to check out. Today, meet Ariel Norling, an architect who shares her favorite homes for sale in "I Know A Spot."
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should designers shut the fuck up and get a life outside of work?
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tech bro: “how much money can I spend to be vaguely self-aware without having to do any of the work?”
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@_megconley
the siblings in succession are definitely in an experiment about parental neglect and whether money corrupts all
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now that i’m almost 30 i’m really regretting not prioritizing my own hotness sooner
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everyone is freaking out about how ai video is the future but i'm here freaking out that we can screen for breast cancer by collecting tears. it apparently has 91.5% accuracy. that's more accurate than a mammogram and no radiation 🥲
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I have not emotionally recovered from the HAY embroidered sofas and I doubt I ever will
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hear me out
what if it looks boring and soulless because it is boring and soulless?
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i’ve been thinking about this a lot since putting together this reflection slide for my burnout workshop. it’s a lot 👀
I don’t remember who originally tweeted it but I haven’t been the same since reading “designers get critique, engineers get pairing.”
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I need to share with y'all my favorite house I saw while house hunting. It has an addition on the back that added floor-to-ceiling windows and a cantilevered deck. It turned the swimming pool into a conversation pit. It has a tree and a garden inside!!!
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My favorite category of tech is stuff that takes the best things from pen and paper and augments it. I just got a Scanmarker for doing research and ugh it’s just so satisfying. Stuff like this gives me that little bit of magic I miss from most tech.
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product designers love playing interior design in figma, but then there are actual interior designers playing figma in canoa
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I think I’m starting to come to terms with the fact that I could kill myself trying to climb up the ladder to Director/VP/Head of Design and that rung might not be there for me.
I’ve interviewed at easily 150+ companies and only 2 have ever had women in that role.
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oh to be a kid growing up in a Brooklyn brownstone with this wallpaper in your bedroom
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Shoutout to the hiring manager who asked me about my job history and said "wow, you're really bad at picking places" and gave me a verbal offer which I verbally accepted. The real offer never materialized because the company shut down a couple months later 🙃
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I'm not typically one for a an ultra-modern home, but this house on telegraph hill in SF has my heart racing 🥵 it's the perfect combination of city and nature views
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Update: I just accepted an offer for my ✨ dream job✨ at
@webflow
! Words cannot describe how grateful I am for everyone who has reached out to me or spread the word. I wouldn't have gotten it without you ❤️
Some personal news: I was laid off unexpectedly last week. I'm still working through the shock and sadness, but I'm starting to feel excited about the idea of something new. If you know of any full-time Product Design roles in SF, I'd love to chat.
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I don’t remember who originally tweeted it but I haven’t been the same since reading “designers get critique, engineers get pairing.”
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If you're a Product Designer and you can't answer these, you're not a Product Designer, you're a UX/UI Designer with a trendier title.
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please stop making me watch a 25-minute long demo to understand what your ai company does
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figma, please, I'm begging you: please let people switch between accounts without having to log out and log back in every time.
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Designers love talking a good talk about empathy, but most can't even manage to not torture fellow designers in the interview process.
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I honestly don’t think anything could make me happier than spending a slow fall morning here writing
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so let me get this straight... we're mad at adobe for something that they're not doing but we're excited about figma doing the thing adobe is accused of doing?
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Every woman I know feels this way. We talk about starting agencies together. We talk about leaving the profession. We plot what it would take to push all of the terrible managers and toxic people out.
If this is news to you, you're not paying attention.
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design anytime the team kicks off a product or marketing project without us
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As a product designer who didn't go to Design School™️, I really want to learn more about visual design - especially brand design and illustration. Any good resources?
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This just happened.
I don't know what to do with this yet, but I think it's going to be good.
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I'm really tired of burnout advice that tells you to unplug.
1. stop making this sound like it's a personal problem when it's systemic
2. tiktok is literally the only thing that brings me joy and gives me hope in humanity. don't you dare try to take this from me.
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exciting development 🚨
we decided to find out what was under the floor in the spot by the staircase and the answer was: dirt!
hello new indoor garden 🪴
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Learn from ~literally every agile company I've ever worked at's~ mistakes
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who are the designer(s) who made these posters, and why did they feel comfortable making far-right dog whistles aesthetic?
"independent thinkers" whose "north star is shareholder value" while condemning "negativity and pessimism" and "drama and tension" 🚩🙄
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As an industry, we need to get so much better at recognizing that criticism ≠ negativity
Criticism is optimism. It shows someone cares and believes things can change for the better.
@jasonyuandesign
so sorry this happened to you 😞
sounds like Policeman McTonePolice has some homework to do
Homework includes:
1. google “toxic positivity”
2. google “tone policing”
3. examine self in mirror
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Design's barriers to entry are not low. Ask anyone who is new, from an underrepresented group, or thinking about joining.
The barriers to making bad stuff is too low. We need to help one another make better decisions and create environments that enable & incentivize doing better
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Yes. Sketch and Figma have made us lazy designers that has dropped the barrier to entry into design too far.
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In every successful relationship, there's a dish person and a garbage person
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not me crying watching user tests because people really get what I've been pouring my heart and soul into over the past 6 months and are excited by it 🥲
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👋🏼 I do.
I’m bad at SQL. It used to hold me back from building things.
Then I became the designer for the dynamic data team at webflow.
Visualizing and conceptualizing data this way is easier for some people, regardless of their ability to code. Stop gatekeeping.
Does anyone really think that *this* is easier to build and easier to read than SQL?
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Oh boy I'm having a lot of feelings about the Basecamp changes, even beyond the "don't talk about politics, just shup up and work" element of it.
To me the biggest takeaway is: management doesn't care about or want to deal with the opinions of their employees.
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Did anyone at Invision *read* the Studio case study??? Did any woman read it? Why are we talking this way about our work?
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the biggest change that has happened on my team since I've become a pm: the engineers are so much more involved in the design process. they have been playing in figma and in prototypes. the designs are better and the process is more collaborative.
designers, we're the problem.
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To me, the biggest indicator of company culture is how often teams show appreciation for their teammates' work on a day-to-day basis, not just when someone goes above and beyond.
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@jenistyping
I think there used to be a progressive feeling in tech that it was helping people and that drew optimists in. but as it became less radical and more incremental OKR or straight-up capitalism and bs jobs the people drawn to original ideals left to pursue direct progressive helping
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I just got my varier thatsit chair and now i’ve finally fulfilled my Nuni the Art Dealer potential
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did I miss something? why has no one been talking about this?
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do I want to go back to grad school or is it just a nice fall day? we’ll never know 😌
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Today I hit one of my biggest fitness goals: being as strong as the average man
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gonna print this on a not-black t-shirt and wear it to config
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Today was my last day at webflow. It's been a privilege to work with every person there and to help build the future of web development. I'm going to miss them so much. I've already cried four times today and will continue to blubber every time I look at their figma goodbye card.
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if I could make every product designer read one book, it might be Blood in the Machine. This is just a small snippet
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updating the browser to arc in my portfolio designs like "how do you do, fellow kids?"
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Silicon Valley: You don’t need a college degree! *looking at white, well-connected people*
Also Silicon Valley: “Pay us $300 for the opportunity to interview without a college degree.” *looking at everyone else*
Google is launching Career Certificates. It will cost $300 only, you can complete in 6 months and Google will consider it equivalent to 4 years Bachelors degree when you will apply for a job at Google - Data Analyst, Project Manager, UX Designer etc -
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I think it's really cool when brands do mixed media, collage-style branding but I can't stop seeing angela anaconda
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Tech will not be more diverse or inclusive if the ways in which we enable people to work in the industry are not diverse or inclusive.
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I really wish someone would have warned me that just bare minimum taking care of yourself becomes a full-time job when you're an adult
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some days the pixels are flowing and some days you just need to sit on the shower floor for a long time
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sometimes when it's cold, I hold my cardigan tight, take a big sip of coffee, close my eyes, and dream of her ❤️
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so I know I'm not normally enough of a morning person to watch live and you probably aren't either, but...
I'm going to be on the Today show tomorrow
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A sentence I just saw on Product Hunt: "I think it will be huge for millennials seeking second home ownership."
I... need to know who those people are.
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I regret to inform myself that after 4 days of not working I am indeed a totally different person
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Skeuomorphism, flat, who gives a fuck? H̶o̶w̶ ̶a̶b̶o̶u̶t̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶d̶e̶s̶i̶g̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶w̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶f̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶b̶r̶i̶e̶f̶?̶ Literally nothing about pixels matters right now people are dying.
Skeuomorphism, flat, who gives a fuck? How about just designing what fits the brand and brief?
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So many people in the replies bemoaning the flat design, not enough bemoaning how everything is so atomized and component-ized that there’s no art (and very little design) anymore
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I’ve been pretty quiet about my professional life, but I started a new job recently. I feel so grateful to work on this product and with this team. They are so kind, thoughtful, smart, and funny. I can’t remember the last time I felt so inspired. I might actually like design???
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are there any communities (especially of women) who are into traditionally tech bro-y things like investing, weight lifting, keto, intermittent fasting, sleep tracking, etc, but don't spew the same toxic hustle stuff and have advice geared towards women?
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speaking of staging, this home in LA is maybe my favorite thing I've ever seen. the art, furniture, and finishes are just 🤩
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my instagram ads really came through with this sad lamp ring light
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my bf doesn't understand how going to target is a date and not an errand 🙃
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If you're like me and want all of the perks of city living with all of the perks of living in a single-family house, do I have the place for you. This house *on top of* a high rise.
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this is exactly the kind of thing we used to dream about in HCI classes
Travel planning starts in a variety of places but a majority of it is text: notes, emails, articles, etc…
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some of you have never facilitated a session that wasn't post-it note brainstorming + dot voting and it shows
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There are so many amazing architects whose work has shaped our conceptions of American architecture who don’t get talked about because they’re of Asian heritage. I wanted to do my part to reverse this pattern.
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literally who has the energy or desire to do this shit anymore
Unless it's something that you'd really like to do, you don't need to redesign your entire portfolio during the holiday break this year.
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A stranger on the street just asked me for the time. I told him and he said "as good a time as any to go to the beach" then hopped on the bus heading that direction. And wow did that blow my little office-dwelling mind
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idk it feels a little weird to be like “designers don’t worry about ai” when none of us are the bosses making the hiring or spending decisions? i’m not a doomsdayer but it feels disingenuous to mark us as safe so soon. the only way you can do that is as a founder or investor
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oh so *this* was why the vibe was so weird
idk it feels a little weird to be like “designers don’t worry about ai” when none of us are the bosses making the hiring or spending decisions? i’m not a doomsdayer but it feels disingenuous to mark us as safe so soon. the only way you can do that is as a founder or investor
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this is how I'm designing all of my sign-up flows from here on out
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y’all I just finished all of the classes needed for my real estate license with straight A’s 🥲
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I want it to be known that when I leave the Bay Area, it won't be for all the reasons people write about on Medium. It'll be to retire and live in this house in the woods in Michigan.
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One of my favorite things about working
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is the culture of gratitude. Everyone is kind, thoughtful, and genuinely cares.
A coworker wrote this about me and I cried. Recognition is nice, but knowing that your coworkers really ✨see you✨ and appreciate you is the best ❤️
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I am so upset because I wanted to showcase this house in the newsletter this week. It was on the market yesterday and disappeared today 😩
Everything about this place was perfect down to the address: 34 Road to Misery.
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I found my dream ny apartment (which I can't afford) and it's already under contract 😭
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Black lives mattering
Two big Design Twitter divides are dark theme and parallax. What else?
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the worst thing about working at a company where everyone is very nice and Very Online™️ is that I have nowhere to vent about the absolutely inane stuff about work that drives me up the wall
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