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Elena Cross
@elenacross.bsky.social
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Design, Tech, Uncomfortable truths.
Product design leader turn founder, yolo’ing my career away.

🫶 Building, but not yet launching https://prism.london/
💪 FinTech | B2B SaaS | Enterprise
👾 Nerd, gamer, ovaries of steel.
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- Good design is invisible.
- Say no more, fam.
Apple iOS26 notification screen with liquid glass styling.
June 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Early stage startup founders sitting on their MVP tech stack like
Mountain climbers on flimsy rest gear attached to a cliff, just about
May 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Scott, the Brits would defeat TempColor with this invention.

Yes, one is Siberian winter, the other is depths of hell fire. Choose your morning face washing fate.
Two faucets in UK sink, one cold, one hot.
April 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Post a current event snapshot and answer “What would Teal’c do?”
Teal’c: It would appear this weapon is ineffective!
February 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Your outie has great work-life balance.
A still from recreation room from the TV show Severance.
February 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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On today’s episode of “layouts that suck”.
Victorian house with skinny corridor and skinny staircase. Carpeted, obviously.
February 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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I’m seeing:
Rolling Stones Logo
January 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Throwback nostalgia for us, the digital elderly, right here.
Ecco the Dolphin video game cover for SEGA, showing dolphin jumping out of the sea
January 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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It’s categorically the avocado toast.

And definitely not trickle-down bullshit.

#economicallyChallanged #LayOOofs #NeedForGreed
January 14, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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So Meta just went and said to their advertisers: “Our platform is Jack Daniel’s, but with like 99% water.”

#meta #ai #awhy #myspacediditbetter
A picture of an Instagram profile that’s not human, but AI instead
January 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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@splinetool.bsky.social was always cool. But now it’s officially - super cool 👏🤌🎉

#design #productdesign #webdesign #interactive #supercool
December 17, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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Roundabout difficulty = 100
December 13, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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Howdy! How’s are your alternate timelines going?
I have a Loki I can lend you out if you need those sorted. Attaching proof:
A picture that f a chubby cat in a bathroom sitting in the sink and showing off his massive checks and airplane ears
December 12, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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Dystopia, now with pretty icons.
Image of instagram prompt for iOS 18.1 stating that they have to ask your permission now because of the new OS to track your activity in other apps and websites you visit.
December 12, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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This guy is incredible. If Bob Dylan’s and Jim Morrison had a baby. #blueskymusic #uhc #toptalent

👉 Give him a follow: www.instagram.com/reel/DDcSnCZ...

P.S. song keeps on giving.
December 11, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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Christmas, but make it precision manufacturing.

#design #designsky #3D #spline #ChristmasGreetings #contentmarketing #precision #engineering #socialmediamarketing #ads #PrismDesign
December 10, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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POV:
You’re Salvador Dali.
Your wife: Darling, the radiators are ugly, can you please paint a cover for them?
The cover you painted 🤌:

#justDaliThings #nagAroundAndFindOut #artHistory #bacauseICan
A photo of radiator cover with radiators painted on the cover A photo of radiator cover door open with radiators painted on the cover and very Sam radiators behind the cover
December 9, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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For anyone who needs to feel extra cozy today - Loki sends you the fuzziest warmsies. 🥹

#cats #CatsOfBlueSky #Caturday #NeverEnoughCatPics
A cute fluffy British blue shorthair kitty sleeping peacefully with a paw tucked under his cheek
December 7, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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I harbour no love for all things Soviet, but boy did that era produce some killer art, infographics and visuals.

#DesignNostalgia #Design #Constructivism #DesignPatina
An old soviet poster with infographics of industrial production metrics in constructivist style with strong red and green accents on faded paper
December 5, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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With 2024 being the penultimate year of corporate bullshit thus far, this checks out.

#SpotifyWrapped #HipBaroqueHop #Succession #ActionMeThis #HowToBeBoringAndStillBeHappy
Spotify Wrapped list featuring Nichlas Britell, Thylacine, Sofi Tukker, NF, MagunTheMagnus
December 5, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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Tech jobs RTO is Versailles with less perks and more expenses.

Louis XIV was the OG exec.

#RTO #Exec #KeepYourFriendsClose #YourQuartersIsACubicle #Tech
a meme of Louis 14th, lavishly clothed in a 17th century painting, with overlay text "Nourishing fellowship, Blyssful eard"
December 5, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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🌶️ About all those ever-changing landscapes.

It’s like a sleep-inducing, lifeless, soulless-corporate version of “the floor is now lava”.

#HumanLanguage #DoYouSpeakIt #LeadRepellents #BoredRoom #DontTellMeMore #WhenCopywritingDies

Meanwhile, the landscape:
A picture of a green field or meadow with blue sky titled “bliss”, that was a default Windows XP desktop wallpaper.
November 17, 2024 at 6:17 PM