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17 connected korrents · 14 moments from 8 Jan 2013 to 29 Sept 2026. Nearly all of them are about design .
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taste Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Same subject Read this korrent: The invisible thinking behind a product, the mental model, the interaction model and the base primitives, has long been the unsung hero of product designers. The invisible thinking behind a product, the mental model, the interaction model and the base primitives, has long been the unsung hero of product designers. Last stated 3 months ago
8 Jul 2026
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Meaghan Choi — holds since 2026-07-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Being able to put your thinking into writing that does not read as written by Claude is a green flag in a design candidate. — tap to centre the map on it Being able to put your thinking into writing that does not read as written by Claude is a green flag in a design candidate. Last stated 6 days ago
29 Sept 2026
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Danny Martinez — holds since 2026-09-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Claude has surprisingly good design taste for SwiftUI applications. — tap to centre the map on it Claude has surprisingly good design taste for SwiftUI applications. Last stated 6 months ago
27 Mar 2026
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Simon Willison — holds since 2026-03-27 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Claude tends to have good default taste in web page design. — tap to centre the map on it Claude tends to have good default taste in web page design. Last stated 2 years ago
11 Mar 2025
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Simon Willison — holds since 2025-03-11 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Designers should code and ship, and a tool like Claude Design is for everything else, such as communicating an idea. — tap to centre the map on it Designers should code and ship, and a tool like Claude Design is for everything else, such as communicating an idea. Last stated 2 months ago
4 Aug 2026
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Nate Parrott — holds since 2026-08-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Don't ask Claude for a design without context: give it as much context as you can, be prescriptive, and don't trust it to be an amazing designer on its own. — tap to centre the map on it Don't ask Claude for a design without context: give it as much context as you can, be prescriptive, and don't trust it to be an amazing designer on its own. Last stated 2 months ago
4 Aug 2026
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Nate Parrott — holds since 2026-08-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Every designer should use Claude Code if part of the team's end product is code, because it beats going back and forth with an engineer. — tap to centre the map on it Every designer should use Claude Code if part of the team's end product is code, because it beats going back and forth with an engineer. Last stated 2 months ago
4 Aug 2026
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Nate Parrott — holds since 2026-08-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Hiring managers can ask for a "design engineer" and mean two very different people: a designer who knows how to use Claude Code, or someone trained as an engineer who can design for themselves. — tap to centre the map on it Hiring managers can ask for a "design engineer" and mean two very different people: a designer who knows how to use Claude Code, or someone trained as an engineer who can design for themselves. Last stated 6 days ago
29 Sept 2026
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Danny Martinez — holds since 2026-09-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Sketching a fix in a design tool is probably quicker, and closer to the intended result, than going back and forth in words with an AI. — tap to centre the map on it Sketching a fix in a design tool is probably quicker, and closer to the intended result, than going back and forth in words with an AI. Last stated 4 months ago
9 Jun 2026
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Ron Goldin — holds since 2026-06-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A business is more likely to fail from taking on too much complexity than from lacking resources. — tap to centre the map on it A business is more likely to fail from taking on too much complexity than from lacking resources. Last stated 8 years ago
29 Sept 2018
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Tren Griffin — holds since 2018-09-29 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones. — tap to centre the map on it A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones. Last stated 3 years ago
17 Feb 2024
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Adam Wiggins — holds since 2024-02-17 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A candidate negotiating an offer should make every ask fit one line of logic. — tap to centre the map on it A candidate negotiating an offer should make every ask fit one line of logic. Last stated 2 months ago
9 Aug 2026
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Adam Ward — holds since 2026-08-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them — tap to centre the map on it A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
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Isaac Asimov — holds since c. 1959 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness — tap to centre the map on it A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness Last stated 14 years ago
8 Jan 2013
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Daniel Dennett — holds since 2013-01-08 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A system trained only on what is already known cannot produce genuine surprises, because a known thing stops being a surprise. — tap to centre the map on it A system trained only on what is already known cannot produce genuine surprises, because a known thing stops being a surprise. Last stated 2 weeks ago
18 Sept 2026
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Cory Doctorow — holds since 2026-09-18 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. — tap to centre the map on it A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. Last stated 9 months ago
1 Jan 2026
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Jason Lemkin — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. — tap to centre the map on it A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. Last stated 3 months ago
15 Jul 2026
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Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls. — tap to centre the map on it A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls. Last stated 3 weeks ago
17 Sept 2026
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Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-09-17 — tap for who they are
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The invisible thinking behind a product, the mental model, the interaction model and the base primitives, has long been the unsung hero of product designers.
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Being able to put your thinking into writing that does not read as written by Claude is a green flag in a design candidate.
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Claude has surprisingly good design taste for SwiftUI applications.
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Claude tends to have good default taste in web page design.
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Designers should code and ship, and a tool like Claude Design is for everything else, such as communicating an idea.
Holds
Don't ask Claude for a design without context: give it as much context as you can, be prescriptive, and don't trust it to be an amazing designer on its own.
Holds
Every designer should use Claude Code if part of the team's end product is code, because it beats going back and forth with an engineer.
Holds
Hiring managers can ask for a "design engineer" and mean two very different people: a designer who knows how to use Claude Code, or someone trained as an engineer who can design for themselves.
Holds
Sketching a fix in a design tool is probably quicker, and closer to the intended result, than going back and forth in words with an AI.
Holds
A business is more likely to fail from taking on too much complexity than from lacking resources.
Holds
A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones.
Holds
A candidate negotiating an offer should make every ask fit one line of logic.
Holds
A feeling of responsibility is probably the greatest inhibitor of creativity; great ideas came from people not paid to have them
Last stated c. 1959
Holds
A free-wheeling, anarchic neural organization may be the secret of human creativity, at the price of susceptibility to mental illness
Holds
A system trained only on what is already known cannot produce genuine surprises, because a known thing stops being a surprise.
Holds
A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI.
Holds
A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to.
Holds
A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls.
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