Maxim Leyzerovich
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Innovation at @Amtrak, Professor at @GWtweets
DC
Joined July 2008
this website will eventually destroy itself. go ahead & smash that “connect” button so we can network in the post-apocalypse.
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Your coworkers are not your family. Your job is not emotional actualization. Your workplace is not your meaning.
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product designers: i can make hover states now!. architects:
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@GaurangAlat @trisweb hey. no sorry go ahead. ok well. no no ok you. ok go ahead. no go ahead.
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This note by Gene Wilder is one of the most telling artifacts of his brilliance.
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sometimes graphic design is just trying something until it works
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i feel the opposite of threatened by this.
RIP website designers. This new tool is ChatGPT for UI design. What's even more amazing: it's all editable in Figma. 👇
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Never ever present just a wireframe. Always progressively contextualize:. • Content Hierarchy.• Feature Annotation.• Tasks/Interactions.• Journey Map.• Motion Design
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Scientists added googly eyes to supermarket donation buckets and contributions increased by 48% …and nobody knows why.
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i challenge u to make a website where nothing fucking moves.
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Sometimes I wonder how many of us wouldn’t be doing what we do today if we hadn’t downloaded that pirated torrent of Photoshop or Visual Basic.
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My quarantine routine:. 7 AM: “wake up”. 8 AM: wake up. 9 AM: wake up, this time for real. 10 AM: self sabotage 🙃. 11 AM: open twitter. 5 PM: close twitter. 6 PM: crush myself with guilt over unreplied emails for the day. 7 PM: yoga/meditation (jk it’s snacks). 4 AM: bedtime!.
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the secret to most people’s success is that they are on drugs.
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we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars.
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as a Ukrainian i can say that the time to get worried has now come.
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This is over 17 years old and I still reference it almost every day.
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Principles of Spatial Design:. Design for Spatial UIs:. Shared Spatial Experiences:. Accessible Spatial Experiences:. Design for Spatial Input:.
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I got tired of setting up grid systems for interface concepting, so I made a starter template with cross-device 8-point grids and 16-column layouts. There’s also a printable version with a dot grid. Hope it can be useful to you for sketching/wireframing:.
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If we can do this with a 5-Dimensional Time Travel Multiverse Chess Simulator… we should be able to do this with design tools.
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every day i start my computer and open my favorite program
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There is no UI element more historic – more legendary – than the Start Button.
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If your resume looks like this I will fucking set it on fire.
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responding “ummm i have a boyfriend” anytime i get assigned a jira ticket.
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i cannot emphasize enough how most jobs in the AI future will boil down to this.
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imagine being developer and this is handed off to you to implement.
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both have carpal tunnel.
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“Dark Patterns” are not some occasional lapse in a designer’s “human-centered” design. They are intentional, quantifiable, and enforceable business decisions designed specifically to exploit ambiguity.
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Most people don’t know this but Twitter has a hidden feature where sometimes you can just not tweet.
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I’m coining this phrase now:. “Dark Jobs”. These are positions that require individuals to complete unethical – but legal – tasks within a larger organization that self-identifies as ethical.
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onboarding at a new job should include a transcript of your predecessor’s exit interview.
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The best way to kill an idea is to bring it to a meeting. The best way to kill a meeting is to bring an idea.
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if a 1:1 starts with “this is your time” then it’s already bad.
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🚫 not. ✨ every. 🗣 call. 🚨 has to. 🙏🏻 be a. 🎥 video. 📞 call.
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Low fidelity design gets high-level feedback; high fidelity designs get low-level feedback.
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We live in hell.
Introducing @facebook Horizon, a New Social VR World Coming to #OculusQuest and the Rift Platform in 2020 #OC6 //
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being a designer is mostly just making people feel good about decisions that have already been made.
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If you are a UX designer you'd better start studying 3D UI placement to minimize muscle fatigue.
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Here are the top 3 most impactful Design Critique guidelines I give my team:. • When presenting, call out parts that you explicitly don’t want feedback on. • If your provided feedback is subjective, self-identify it as such. • Never try to solve a problem in the meeting itself.
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my life changed when i realized you can just eat a kiwi with the skin on.
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A lack of professional mentorship is an existential threat to today’s design practice.
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