- Ben Barry@benbarryPatrick Stewart's masterful portrayal of Jean-Luc Picard has been personal role model and source of inspiration for most of my life. I am forever grateful for his performances. Rest in peace.0112957
- Ben Barry@benbarryBetween this and the design of macOS Tahoe, it really feels like Apple design has completely lost their way. Or, maybe I am just totally out of sync with what everyone else wants from their computer.Tim Cook @tim_cookWe brought Touch to the Mac! From the all-new iPad mini to the 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac... and now MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch, creators have new tools to do their best work yet.461559218.3K
- Ben Barry@benbarryA lot of those calling themselves designers these days are really just decorators painting by number.Rasmus Andersson @rsms“designing much faster than the others” — this so daft and makes it clear they don’t understand design at all. “Designing fast” (or slow) is just not a thing. If you conflate “producing ui by piecing together stuff” and “design” then the former (which is a form of assembly-line practice) can surely be fast or slow. What makes the practice of design challenging is not how to put a ui or poster together, it’s what the pieces are, what the message is, what is being communicated, how it all works together. So many of today’s “design” AI tools focus almost exclusively on the production part, on putting stuff together. I’d love to see an AI design tool that forms a deep understanding of a problem over the course of days or months and works like a creative partner. Call me on my bullshit, thinks about the whole, isn’t concerned really about the final arrangement of elements as much as it would understand the story and the message.11482.3K
“designing much faster than the others” — this so daft and makes it clear they don’t understand design at all. “Designing fast” (or slow) is just not a thing. If you conflate “producing ui by piecing together stuff” and “design” then the former (which is a form of assembly-line practice) can surely be fast or slow. What makes the practice of design challenging is not how to put a ui or poster together, it’s what the pieces are, what the message is, what is being communicated, how it all works together. So many of today’s “design” AI tools focus almost exclusively on the production part, on putting stuff together. I’d love to see an AI design tool that forms a deep understanding of a problem over the course of days or months and works like a creative partner. Call me on my bullshit, thinks about the whole, isn’t concerned really about the final arrangement of elements as much as it would understand the story and the message.1061931.7K110K- Ben Barry@benbarryBen BarryRT @soleio: The @firstofkind Season 3 debut is fast becoming our most listened to episode, featuring @rauchg of @vercel One Stroke Dragon on Podcasts:05014
- Ben Barry@benbarryThis aligns with my experience. 2026 is one of the most exciting times in my entire career. I feel more empowered than ever before. Things that used to be slow, difficult, or impossible are now almost effortless. If you can articulate your ideas clearly, they can probably exist.Eugene Y. @eugene_mindsetone thing i noticed after a month of calls with designers is a weird generation gap between people who are scared of ai and people who are excited about it you would expect younger designers to be more into ai, but it’s often the opposite. the most excited people i meet have been in design for 12+ years designers with about 5 years of experience came into a world that was stable: big design teams, enterprise jobs, high salaries, and a slow process of design systems and jira tasks. ai is a huge risk if you define design work around components. it’s pure production, it needs to be automated, and it was an anomaly from the start people who started 12+ years ago saw a design world without any of that. small freelance gigs, low pay, and no way to do 3d or animation on your own. but they had a lot of ideas, and that’s why they came. they worked in photoshop cs3 and indesign and downloaded brushes from the internet now design is going back to what it should be. not a huge layer of production, but meaning, purpose and form67814.6K
one thing i noticed after a month of calls with designers is a weird generation gap between people who are scared of ai and people who are excited about it you would expect younger designers to be more into ai, but it’s often the opposite. the most excited people i meet have been in design for 12+ years designers with about 5 years of experience came into a world that was stable: big design teams, enterprise jobs, high salaries, and a slow process of design systems and jira tasks. ai is a huge risk if you define design work around components. it’s pure production, it needs to be automated, and it was an anomaly from the start people who started 12+ years ago saw a design world without any of that. small freelance gigs, low pay, and no way to do 3d or animation on your own. but they had a lot of ideas, and that’s why they came. they worked in photoshop cs3 and indesign and downloaded brushes from the internet now design is going back to what it should be. not a huge layer of production, but meaning, purpose and form271217512K- Ben Barry@benbarryThis as been one of the biggest unlocks for me in collaborating with AI.Ben Barry @benbarry@adamwathan Ephemeral adjustment panels in the software you're designing. Prompt: "please create a floating adjustment panel with sliders for these variables [list], and a button to copy all settings as JSON" Turn on and off, and change variables as needed. Paste JSON back to agent.20356.2K
- Ben Barry@benbarryPosts @adamwathan@adamwathan Ephemeral adjustment panels in the software you're designing. Prompt: "please create a floating adjustment panel with sliders for these variables [list], and a button to copy all settings as JSON" Turn on and off, and change variables as needed. Paste JSON back to agent.
31356.5K - Ben Barry@benbarryI love seeing logos I designed show up in places I never imagined!Sierra @SierraPlatformA cab-load of people at our first Sierra Summit in London.20141.2K
- Ben Barry@benbarryI would like to humbly propose a new job for the future: Tradition Keeper. Our history as a species is a precious and valuable resource. Collectively, we need to invest in people who will keep that knowledge alive, because we may need it again some day.90452.7K
- Ben Barry@benbarryI credit my AI collaborators the same way I credit my human collaborators.Jonathon Toon @jonathontoon"Type Case was designed by and built in collaboration with Claude and ChatGPT." Being clear and upfront in this way is quite refreshing. As opposed to panning off some slopped-out web app as a great innovation or invention.00172.5K
Jonathon Toon@jonathontoon"Type Case was designed by and built in collaboration with Claude and ChatGPT." Being clear and upfront in this way is quite refreshing. As opposed to panning off some slopped-out web app as a great innovation or invention.Ben Barry @benbarryToday I'm releasing Type Case, a simple font manager for macOS. With Type Case, you can browse source folders, activate and deactivate fonts, and create custom collections.1093.3K- Ben Barry@benbarryI’ve worked with Joe on projects in the past, and I always appreciated and respected his perspective, but I think this post is disgraceful. It’s never easy having your work criticized, but you’re in a leadership role, and you have a responsibility to set a better example.Joe Gebbia @jgebbia@pdotcv Hi, when you are done fiddling, please send resume of top crest designer. Make sure they can do better than the 1782 official national emblem of the United States. Maybe stick to sass apps.12014816.9K
Posts @pdotcv@pdotcv Hi, when you are done fiddling, please send resume of top crest designer. Make sure they can do better than the 1782 official national emblem of the United States. Maybe stick to sass apps.112423.8K348K- Ben Barry@benbarryToday, I’m releasing Nestag! It’s an app that lets you visualize Finder tags as containers in nested hierarchies (kinda like folders). I actually created this app with AI back in February. It’s an app I have dreamt of having for nearly a decade.53505.8K
- Ben Barry@benbarryTBH, I'm way more proud of helping @thefieldcompany raise $1.6M on Kickstarter in 2016. They've created some of my very favorite kitchen tools.Ben Barry @benbarryRecently, I've noticed a bunch of designer portfolios highlighting how many millions of dollars the startups they've branded have raised. So, I did some quick back-of-the-envelope calculations for my past clients. Currently at ~$188 billion...30204.1K
- Ben Barry@benbarryRecently, I've noticed a bunch of designer portfolios highlighting how many millions of dollars the startups they've branded have raised. So, I did some quick back-of-the-envelope calculations for my past clients. Currently at ~$188 billion...13420720K
- Ben Barry@benbarryToday I'm releasing Type Case, a simple font manager for macOS. With Type Case, you can browse source folders, activate and deactivate fonts, and create custom collections.6614716.5K
- Ben Barry@benbarryDesigners. Who is the best vendor for custom embroidered patches these days?40206.9K
- Ben Barry@benbarryBarriers that have stood my entire life are dissolving before our eyes. The computer programming language is now natural language! What started as a todo list app, has become more of a mind tool for visually and spatially oriented thinkers. Download at11383.3K
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