Jose Ardila
ardilamorin.com
Jose Ardila
@ardilamorin.com
Design Manager UX Foundations at Booking.com
Blogging (rambling) at ardilamorin.com
Congrats! It’s a recognition to your hard work along all this years. You have added tons of value to the community.

Upwards on onwards 🚀
December 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Simpler, more boring approach is to use focus modes for this. Either based on time of day or location.

But yeah, surface is just cool.
(Although in just trying to hide my phone in a drawer while I work to not get distracted)
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
In some cases the design is not the differentiator, and yes… the pre made tools are doing a better-than-good job to help people put something out there fast.

But be mindful about what you preach vs. what you practice
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Is convenience and speed that powerful that we renounce completely our own mantras?
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
We (people in the design industry) complain about sameness and cookie cutter approaches to design, and then rely on those pre-made tools to show our work.
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This comes with a certain level of risk, specially when you start adding third party plugins.

But what if you were the author of those said plugins. You maintain the experience and the features you decide to add.

Having solid principles and guidelines for extensibility is the way forward.
October 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I install Firefox on any device I own just to get proper full page screenshots

Funny enough, iOS and iPadOS do a *better job at this with their built in screenshot functionality, only issues is file format is pdf
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Kudos!
Safari and Full page screenshots 🙏
October 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
And don’t get me started on having to worry about another thing with a battery to charge
October 1, 2025 at 9:54 PM