Steve Farrugia
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Steve Farrugia
@fasterandworse.com
Experienced user

Australian In Amsterdam

I talk about product design and I'm quite critical

open to work, open to talks

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Reposted by Steve Farrugia
apple literally wrote one of the best books on interface design (the HIG) and they clearly don’t even look at it any more

it was full of original research, done by apple, which they clearly don’t do any more
July 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Reposted by Steve Farrugia
angrily adding this to the end of my thread on knowledge and skill and cultural loss and de-skilling in design and programming
APPLE MOVED THEIR TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION TEAM TO AN OFFICE WITH NO SHELVES AND GAVE AWAY ALL THEIR BOOKS ?????????
A few years ago they moved their technical documentation team to the spaceship, to an office that had NO bookshelves. They posted on Slack that their entire library was basically up for grabs.

I got an autographed copy of Ted Nelson’s Possiplex out of it, among other treasures.
August 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
this is the book for anyone who thinks like that (and is also open to learning) dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/...
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (2nd Edition) | Guide books | ACM Digital Library
dl.acm.org
November 16, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I make a lot of posts that seem broad but in my head are within a very small context window. I by no means meant this as general description of design prototypes. It was a response to hearing experienced engineers say "not good for prod, but good for quick prototyping"
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
bsky is bad at showing threads when people delete
November 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
oh ok. Sorry!
November 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
why am I in this?
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Reposted by Steve Farrugia
what an embarrassing fucking field i am in
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reposted by Steve Farrugia
look, I'm tired, but "disrupted" is a fucking weird choice of word here
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
the B isn't blue
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM