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30 Oct 2025
VERY excited to announce the release of my latest book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Design" - a witty field guide to the world of #UX metaphors. #UXDesign #ProductDesign #DesignThinking #books hitchhikersguidetodesign.com…
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Michael Gaigg retweeted
Jun 11
EVERY WORLD CUP GROUP STAGE GAME ⚽️🔥
Which match are you most excited to watch? 👀
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I was thinking of this the other day, how to use drones to bring rescue equipment - but this is amazing, the drone being the lifeline
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【発明】空飛ぶ浮き輪が誕生した。溺れた人をGPSで追跡し時速50kmで水面すれすれを飛んで駆けつけ手の届く位置に着水する。救助隊が到着するまでの数分間を命綱に変える装置として水難救助の現場で実用化が始まっている。
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Jun 10
Ready for the World Cup - check out this map app: tinyurl.com/2026WorldCupMap
#soccer #esri #map #worldcup #wc26 #SoccerFans
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Jun 10
Announcing The Hitchhiker's Guide to Design - A shared language for Product Teams
hitchhikersguidetodesign.com…
50 memorable patterns that help you recognize recurring design mistakes, product traps, and organizational dysfunction before they derail your project.
#ProductDesign #PM #UX #Design
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Jun 10
New Hitchhiker pattern dropped: "Brainstorming"
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#ProductDesign #PM #Design #UX
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Jun 8
Help needed, fellow Design Hitchhikers:
What design metaphor, pattern, anti-pattern, or organizational oddity should I write about next?
Send me your ideas 👇
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Michael Gaigg retweeted
Jun 4
Leagues with the Most Players on the #FIFAWorldCup2026
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Great Hitchhiker patterns in the queue: Brainstorming, Boilerplate, Data-Ink Ratio, Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall.
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Jun 4
🚀 New Hitchhiker pattern dropped 🚀
"Gold Plating": sometimes more effort creates less value.
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Jun 4
Attention travelers of the #Design Galaxy:
We’ve officially reached 50 Hitchhiker Patterns
✓ 50 opportunities to say “oh no… we do that”
✓ 50 strange metaphors
✓ Approximately 42% more snakes than expected 🐍
Thank you for joining this strange little journey.
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May 29
Which famous movie is this quote from folks?
"If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?'
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May 28
🚀 NEW HITCHHIKER PATTERN DROPPED 🚀
And somehow… we’ve reached Pattern #50 🥳
What better way to celebrate than with the thing that stops launches, kills demos, and appears precisely when executives are watching:
New entry ↓
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Michael Gaigg retweeted
May 20
🌎 Want a free, MapMaker lesson on Earthquakes?
Check out "Exploring Earthquakes & Their Causes" from Esri & NatGeo! Students use a sign-in-free #MapMaker tool to track seismic patterns, map plate tectonics, and examine human impacts.
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May 20
New Hitchhiker pattern dropped:
Thinking Outside the Box: nobody questioned where the box came from in the first place.
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What’s a “box” your team stopped questioning?
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May 19
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Design - a shared language for Product Teams.
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Michael Gaigg retweeted
May 18
a vessel traffic app by colleagues @KVanGraafeiland and @vannizhang
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May 19
Who says there are no kangaroos in #Austria...
Those are the problems in Austria, land of the peaceful
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May 18
New Hitchhiker patterns drop weekly - usually before they escape containment and spread across social media.
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