John Voss
@jovo.design
Head of Product Design at Descript, cofounder of @queerdesign.club. Queering design, ethical tech, and dogs. Husband of @seldo.com. I write and speak, no matter how much people beg me to stop 🌎 jovo.design 📍SF / Sea Ranch
Hitler had a micropenis and Donald Trump blew Bill Clinton. Happy Friday, everyone.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Hitler had a micropenis and Donald Trump blew Bill Clinton. Happy Friday, everyone.
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I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one
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Okay folks, it's time: I'm hiring!
Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world! Our company is remote-first but this role involves in-person appearances at events so although you don't need to work in a specific office we are focusing our search in specific metro areas:
Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world! Our company is remote-first but this role involves in-person appearances at events so although you don't need to work in a specific office we are focusing our search in specific metro areas:
Developer Relations Engineer
San Francisco, CA
job-boards.greenhouse.io
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Okay folks, it's time: I'm hiring!
Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world! Our company is remote-first but this role involves in-person appearances at events so although you don't need to work in a specific office we are focusing our search in specific metro areas:
Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world! Our company is remote-first but this role involves in-person appearances at events so although you don't need to work in a specific office we are focusing our search in specific metro areas:
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May I present some ways that we might ask for our users' sex/gender on our forms in order to comply with new EOs: codepen.io/buttermilkbi...
Malicious compliance gender patterns
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codepen.io
February 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
May I present some ways that we might ask for our users' sex/gender on our forms in order to comply with new EOs: codepen.io/buttermilkbi...
*Pounding desk* Threes! Threes! Threes! Threes!
November 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
*Pounding desk* Threes! Threes! Threes! Threes!
I am back in America. Mixed feelings but it’s probably the most practical place for me to start the week.
November 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I am back in America. Mixed feelings but it’s probably the most practical place for me to start the week.
I have made it. Despite the fact that the British do not move through airports with the appropriate sense of urgency.
November 1, 2025 at 5:17 AM
I have made it. Despite the fact that the British do not move through airports with the appropriate sense of urgency.
Uber royally fucked me by canceling my scheduled ride to the airport 10 minutes after it was supposed to arrive.
November 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Uber royally fucked me by canceling my scheduled ride to the airport 10 minutes after it was supposed to arrive.
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We’ve made it way too easy for people to be horrible. Tim Cook giving a fascist an award should’ve been the end of Apple. Marc Benioff calling for thugs in the street should’ve been the end of Salesforce. A government not feeding its most vulnerable people should be the end of that government.
October 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We’ve made it way too easy for people to be horrible. Tim Cook giving a fascist an award should’ve been the end of Apple. Marc Benioff calling for thugs in the street should’ve been the end of Salesforce. A government not feeding its most vulnerable people should be the end of that government.
Over the disappointment around our technical difficulty last night and energized by the response to the talk. I would appreciate letting me know if there are conferences you think I should submit it to, or if you have a podcast and want to pick up any of the threads in the talk together.
October 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Over the disappointment around our technical difficulty last night and energized by the response to the talk. I would appreciate letting me know if there are conferences you think I should submit it to, or if you have a podcast and want to pick up any of the threads in the talk together.
Always miss the heydays of Twitter during conferences, when the attendees and convos were all in one place and easy to find.
Smaller, less toxic platforms seem to be the right call, but that’s the toughest trade-off for me.
Smaller, less toxic platforms seem to be the right call, but that’s the toughest trade-off for me.
October 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Always miss the heydays of Twitter during conferences, when the attendees and convos were all in one place and easy to find.
Smaller, less toxic platforms seem to be the right call, but that’s the toughest trade-off for me.
Smaller, less toxic platforms seem to be the right call, but that’s the toughest trade-off for me.
Love to wake up at 3:30am for a flight that’s been cancelled and pushed back a day.
October 31, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Love to wake up at 3:30am for a flight that’s been cancelled and pushed back a day.
Also I would like to thank the people of Converge for sticking with me through the technical difficulties and my Xeomin for apparently not betraying my panic.
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Also I would like to thank the people of Converge for sticking with me through the technical difficulties and my Xeomin for apparently not betraying my panic.
Converge, if you missed the URL at the end of my talk, here it is. A fairly thorough list of books, podcasts, and quotables that informed it: jovo.design/framing
Framing the Future
A compilation of sources that informed my talk Framing the Future
jovo.design
October 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Converge, if you missed the URL at the end of my talk, here it is. A fairly thorough list of books, podcasts, and quotables that informed it: jovo.design/framing
I don’t know if my talk tomorrow will resonate, but I do know that it’s pretty.
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I don’t know if my talk tomorrow will resonate, but I do know that it’s pretty.
Took a couple days before being in a country where everyone sounds vaguely like my in-laws stopped setting me on edge.
October 29, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Took a couple days before being in a country where everyone sounds vaguely like my in-laws stopped setting me on edge.
This is cultural appropriation.
October 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This is cultural appropriation.
My favorite thing to do when traveling is buy the weirdest sugar free sodas I can find. Coming soon… a review of Gingerbread Pepsi Zero.
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
My favorite thing to do when traveling is buy the weirdest sugar free sodas I can find. Coming soon… a review of Gingerbread Pepsi Zero.
Got to a Banksy at the same time as a 20-person walking tour. Now I have strong negative feelings about walking tours despite often taking walking tours myself often.
October 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Got to a Banksy at the same time as a 20-person walking tour. Now I have strong negative feelings about walking tours despite often taking walking tours myself often.
Passed a car with the plate WRIO HLE and how else am I supposed to read that‽
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Passed a car with the plate WRIO HLE and how else am I supposed to read that‽
Highlights of Bristol so far: I logged a new kind of seagull and a new kind of crow. (I got a late start this morning.)
October 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Highlights of Bristol so far: I logged a new kind of seagull and a new kind of crow. (I got a late start this morning.)
If my hotel doesn’t give me early check-in I’m going to cry in jet lag.
October 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
If my hotel doesn’t give me early check-in I’m going to cry in jet lag.
I declare that my last time flying any type of economy.
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I declare that my last time flying any type of economy.