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Joe Russell
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Product designer, living in sunny Brighton. Design, music, gaming, football, people.

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Surprised the new World Cup ball isn’t a bigger story! Really think it’ll change up the game.
www.dezeen.com/2025/10/03/a...
The best football player of all time sitting on the huge new World Cup football. It’s Lionel Messi.
October 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Love this setup screen in Helium browser, detailing the privacy differences between search engines. “Your personal data fuels its monopoly. Market-dominant due to anticompetitive and anti-consumer practices.” Obviously Google. "Subjectively overwhelming Ul” is funny, describing Bing.
A screenshot of Helium browser’s setup screen. Choose a search engine. Search engines listed here are shown in random order. You can update your choice later in Settings. Microsoft Bing: Collects extensive personal data. Privacy controls are buried and limited. Subjectively overwhelming Ul. Kagi: Privacy-focused. Customizable results without ads or tracking. Requires a paid account. Ecosia: May plant trees for clicking ads. Relies on Bing and Google. Sends tracking data to Microsoft and Google. DuckDuckGo: Privacy-focused. Relies on Bing results but never tracks or profiles you. Qwant: Based in Europe. Uses Bing results. Sends tracking data to Microsoft. Google: Your personal data fuels its monopoly. Market-dominant due to anticompetitive and anti-consumer practices.
September 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Pleasantly surprised to find OmniWeb is still being worked on, in some form! It was so ahead of its time, and somehow still has some nice features most browsers lack, like visual tabs. omnistaging.omnigroup.com/omniweb/
Screenshot of Omniweb on Mac. Browser window showing the start page, which has “Omniweb 6” and a search box shown. On the left of the window are tabs, showing thumbnails of the webpage. The tabs are the start page, the Omniweb download page, and the Camino browser website.
September 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I made a silly poster for my friends’ gig
A poster for R.I.P. Zola. Really important party. It’s a black and white painting in the background of a poodle holding in its mouth a basket full of kittens. The headline in neon green and is covering the dogs face so the O and A kind of look like its eyes. There are details about the gig like the venue in Nottingham. It’s on Saturday 29th November and there are 4 bands in the lineup. There are slivers of the headliner’s album or EP covers in the background, behind the old dog.
August 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Nintendo emailed me today and suggested I download a wallpaper featuring one of Mario’s nipples. #mario #marioNippleWatch
An email from Nintendo. Soak up the summer fun! Whether you're heading to the beach or staying cool indoors, we've got a few suggestions to help you make the most of your summer. Free summer wallpaper. Get yours. Mario ‘summer’ wallpaper from Nintendo. Mario is riding one of those dolphins that is a playable character in Mario Kart World. I think they were enemies in a 2D Mario game. There’s an angry sun in the sky, possibly from Super Mario Bros 3.
August 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Probably the best banana I’ve ever drawn. Mario Paint is surprisingly great! There’s a lot of playfulness to the interface that must have influenced the wonderful Game Boy Camera.
A screenshot of Mario Paint, played on the Nintendo Switch 2. A Yoshi stamp from Super Mario World sits on top of a shaded large banana. The background is a colourful mess of random patterns and stamps.
July 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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People still see ‘Product Designer’ and think this
July 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Went to a video games conference just down the road. Not the whole industry is doomed, it seems! #developBrighton
A name badge for the Develop Brighton 2025 conference. Joe Russell. A knitted pear is in the corner of the photo.
July 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Don’t worry about Apple beta software. In 1998 this was in a Mac OS beta
A screenshot of Mac OS 8.5, shown on an orange iMac. A colourful clown like theme is applied to the OS.
July 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Somehow it took me 20+ years of thinking Mac OS X’s dock magnification is cool to kind of replicate the effect on a website
July 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The pinnacle of icon design, for me. Recognisable, aesthetically pleasing and a solid visual metaphor. Netscape Navigator, 2003.
Safari Mac OS X icon, from 2003.
June 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Cool to see modern apps like ‘Twitter’ have the liquid glass effect applied to their app icons #ios26
Screenshot of a folder in iOS 26, named ‘necessary evils’. In the folder is an app icon for WhatsApp, Twitter and Microsoft Teams. The Twitter icon has a glass lighting effect applied to the edges of the bird shape.
June 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Respectfully, what the heck. 1/10 stars. #marioKartWorld
June 16, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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June 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Enjoying playing Mario Kart World as a bored dolphin
A bored looking dolphin driving a smiling cloud along a canal A bored looking dolphin jumping across a colourful race course A bored looking dolphin looking to the side at the camera, while grinding on something on a go kart A bored looking dolphin on a canal with a Shy Guy behind it on a barge
June 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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From 2023, by @alexwidua.bsky.social, who now works at Apple. #iOS26
More lovely stuff here: archive.alexwidua.com/projects/pro...
June 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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If #iOS26 is going to go full visionOS with the translucent frosted glass look, surely it has to show something BEHIND that glass, just like on Vision Pro?
May 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Oh. Nice they repaired/replaced this for free though… Anyone interested in buying a like-new Nintendo Switch?
A lonely joycon controller in a cardboard box
May 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Woah what an exciting time to receive a special parcel from Nintendo!
A brown cardboard box with a big Nintendo logo on the front
May 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Seems the demo sites from #FigmaSites aren't so responsive they work at tiny sizes. Tiny bit embarrassing. It's no Framer or Webflow, but I’m sure it'll be useful for some people!
Screenshot of a demo Figma site, in a narrow browser window. The web page’s content doesn’t fit and is cropped off at the sides.
May 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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“Higher fidelity prototyping and maybe some kind of publish to web (compete with Framer?)”
Looks like my third #figjam in a row predicting this, it’ll finally come true!
Image via @wongmjane.macaw.social.ap.brid.gy on birdsite.
Screenshots of a Beta Figma Sites, with a very similar interface to Framer or Webflow. Welcome screen says “Build and publish in one place with Figma Sites”
April 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Might have to get the latest in cutting edge video game hardware…
April 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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I love this video - it explains exactly what I’ve long tried to - the variety of football that makes it so different (and I think so much better) than most sports. #football #dataanalysis @tifofootball.bsky.social

https://youtu.be/K6KhzmxVWJc
A diagram showing sports from most ‘discrete’ to most ‘continuous’. Ten pin bowling, darts, baseball, cricket, rugby, football.
April 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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A curly dog looking back at the camera. Sitting on a stoney beach facing the sea
April 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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I find out tragically funny that Nintendo gives pre-order priority to people who have shared all their data for advertising #NintendoSwitch2
Screenshot from Nintendo’s store: Initial invitees will be selected based on the following criteria: Nintendo Switch Online membership status • Has been a Nintendo Switch Online member for at least two years continuously by 31/03/2025, with an active membership on the day that the pre-order is placed. For family memberships, the person who purchased the membership will be eligible. Other people in the family membership are not eligible. Play time • Has spent a certain amount of time playing purchased/paid Nintendo Switch games, prioritising those with more playtime. • Sharing usage information with Nintendo. • Has opted in to share usage information with Nintendo to customise offers and recommendations. Receive email messages from Nintendo • Has opted in to receive promotional emails and messages from Nintendo, and be opted in on the day the invitation email is sent.
April 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM