Why user friction in design is not always a bad thing: www.lukasrathmann.com/blog/frictio...

Know where the complexity is

Reducing complexity is often a goal of design work, but you can only do that to a certain degree. Complexity may even be necessary because you are designing something inherently complex.

Design exploration for Aurelius, an AI tool that acts as your daily journal and mentor with a focus on stoic philosophy.

Every design is only as good as the reasoning behind it

This thinking should be part of the design process: Always ask why this is the right solution for the problem considering the circumstances? How does this solution help customers and the business?

I build a simple meditation app with 9 different AI tools, here is what I learned: treat AI as your teammate doing the job with you, not your tool that does the job for you.

More learnings: www.lukasrathmann.com/blog/learnin...

“The ultimate inspiration is the deadline” (Nolan Bushnell).

Working on your personal website is a prime example for the importance of deadlines. No stakeholders, no constraints (besides time), no nothing.

Set deadlines, it helps.

Meditation app onboarding screen. Photo by Lance Anderson (unsplash.com/@lanceanderson).

Minimal banking app

Moving from Design Twitter to Bluesky and this list of great people to follow on here was super helpful: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Thanks @usabilitycounts.bsky.social for putting this together!