It's not that craft means building slowly. AI absolutely makes teams faster, and we should use every bit of that speed. The difference is what you do with the time AI gives you back. You can use it to ship more stuff at the same level of quality or …

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Just shipped Draftboard — an open-source internal space for teams to keep design work visible: share designs and ideas, get feedback, and keep great work from disappearing into Slack/Figma. Deploy for your team in minutes. Read more: hrescak.com/notes/draftboard

I’m trying to understand why is my whole feed full of Claude Code and hardly anything about Cursor?

You know when someone has taste. You feel it before you can name it—a through-line in their work, a coherent strangeness that signals: this person sees something I don’t. But here’s what most conversations about taste get wrong: they treat it as a starting point. Taste isn’t where you begin. It’s where you arrive. The most important thing a creative can have isn’t taste. It’s a point of view. A point of view is your compass. It comes from your beliefs, your lived experiences, your obsessions, the way you connect dots. It gives your work a spine. When that spine moves through real craft, other people experience it as taste. Taste is a byproduct. And you don’t get to award it to yourself. It’s something other people say about you. “She has taste.” “His work has taste.” That’s reputation, not self-diagnosis. Anyone who walks around claiming they have taste is a fucking asshole. Taste is like a Pulitzer. Very few people reach those heights, and when they do, they humbly accept the award. Then they get back to work. When I was starting out, I had a good eye. Maybe I had the self-delusion that I did, and over time this became a self-fulfilling prophecy through relentless effort. I was the friend who could see what would stick, what felt fresh, what carried cultural weight. Useful, but that’s instinct, not taste. I had opinions and could express them thoughtfully, unlike people who think they have taste and say useless things like, “I don’t like it.” What I did have early on was a point of view. I had strong opinions about what made good writing, compelling design, and meaningful storytelling. I read like a maniac. I studied the masters in every domain I cared about. I copied, failed, tried again. Out of that, I stitched together a small, stubborn system of beliefs. Those beliefs became my internal standard: what I’d ship, what I’d kill, what I’d stand behind. As I learned to express them with greater clarity and skill, people started calling it taste. That’s the missing step in almost every conversation about this. When people say, “In the age of AI, taste matters more than ever,” I nod, then pause. Taste has always mattered. Craft has always mattered. What changed was the attitude—a decade of cheap money and dopamine-fueled growth that rewarded speed over discernment, scale over depth. Now everyone wants the shortcut. The vibe without the values. They want to moodboard their way into originality. You can’t. Because you don’t know how to see yet. Seeing is the posture of an artist. Taste without a point of view is just styling. It’s mimicry dressed up as discernment. It’s a crypto bro wearing a Gucci tracksuit, believing he has fashion sense. What you actually need is a core set of convictions about what you’re trying to say, what you want to see in the world, and what you’re pushing against. You don’t build that in a weekend. A point of view grows as you do. It evolves as your craft improves, as you encounter more ideas, as you sharpen your tools. It’s your creative DNA. It might change shape, but it doesn’t disappear. Taste, by contrast, is contextual. It bends toward what’s happening in culture. Taste is timely. Point of view is timeless. When people say, “That person has great taste,” what they’re really saying is: this person has a clear perspective and makes consistent, intentional choices. Their work feels thoughtful and alive. That feeling doesn’t come from a palette or a font. It comes from the person behind the work. They see something we can’t, and they have the skills to bring it to life. So if you want to be someone others describe as having taste, don’t chase references. Start with the spine. What do you believe? What do you stand for? What do you refuse to do? What makes your skin crawl? What lights you up? Have conviction. Then express it, relentlessly, across everything you make. Taste is not perfection. It’s not a style. It’s a signal—the visible trace of knowing what you stand for and choosing to be seen. To translate intention and thought into an experience that makes people feel something. When I feel deeply envious of a great piece of work, I know there was thoughtfulness, craft, and a point of view. An idea expressed so clearly that I get upset I didn’t think of it myself. That’s taste. Not something the maker claimed. Something I felt. Let other people call it that. You’ll be too busy making the next thing.

haha made me smile: velvetshark.com/ai-company-l…

Aldi or more so Albrecht fam owns Trader Joe’s - wild 🤯

Last night, we at @linear hosted a design leadership event. We invited about ~25 design leaders from top companies to join @lil_dill and me to discuss b2b design, quality, and craft. There were many good comments and questions that came out of this. I'll try to see if I can share them somehow, but first, I wanted to share why I was interested to do this event: I often hear design talked about generally or in the abstract, but I haven’t really seen people highlight how design and practices differ between b2b vs b2c design. Traditionally, design hasn’t been prioritized in the enterprise, but I believe design can be much more important there than on the consumer side. Enterprise or professional software often provides tools or solutions to someone to create or generally do their job or do it better. The bar for the solution can be very high, and the user is very discerning of that solution. If the design tool the designer uses isn’t that good, the quality isn’t there, and it’s very apparent. Since people are relying on the service to do their job or run their business, the stakes and need for reliability are also higher. If you constantly A/B test random things, it can cause disruption to the workflow, and therefore in the operations of the company. Design choices and changes should be considered and validated with beta programs. Almost all companies serving other companies are in retention and usually also in net retention business. Ideally, you keep your customer forever, and you want the account to grow over time so their net dollar retention goes over 100% year after year. Design can have a huge impact on building loyalty. One main reason companies churn from products is when the product quality and design speed drop. Customers get frustrated, so they start looking for other options. Good design has the power to do the opposite. If you consistently delight the customer, you build up that loyalty and trust. I think landing customers can be a finicky process. There might be many people in the process trying to evaluate your product against some other product. Usually, customers cannot inspect your code, or even fully grasp the product strategy, but one thing they can do is experience the product experience. Good design (and obviously the quality of the product execution) can really elevate that experience and be the thing that gets the customer excited about your tool. But it's not all roses. The reason why design is hasn't been traditionally prioritized in the enterprise is that enterprise software has buyers and users. The buyers often don't use the product or even try it. If you work in a company that gives you janky tools, it's probably because the buyers had other goals and the product experience inconsequential to those goals. But I don't this is practice is going to sustain. The pressure and demand for well working and well designed enterprise tools will continue to rise and eventually buyers will realize why they are there – to elevate their teams with the best tools available.

🎾 Have to post this guy’s tennis impersonations again. Just SO good! 😂😭 Murray Djokovic Wawrinka Federer Nadal Kyrgios Tsitsipas Del Potro Thiem Stelios Gkontsaris YT 📸👏

Right: For the default ScrollView, the scroll indicator gets clipped because both the ScrollView and the content need to get clipped with the same shape such that the content always remains clipped(irrespective of the yOffset) Left: have it wrap around the corner. SwiftUI made

"I do not design all of the edge cases" Here's an inside look at how @nikolasklein collaborates with engineers at Figma 👇

Can you design this as Jony Ive would do!

Some scrum analysis from Ireland v NZ. Let me know your thoughts #RugbyOnNBC #SmallMargins #BeautyIsInTheDetail

We are. And we’re also aware that you‘re promoting a fascist German party.

Yes. And it’s called saving lives.

Really enjoyed the fireside chat and yes, lots of super valuable nuggets I couldn’t agree more with @bchesky! Great job on summarizing @maxwendkos 👌.