ctward

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by ctward 29d ago
i've been struggling a lot with my team to standardize our presentation systems. as soon as we got claude people just started making adhoc, non-standard, slides. This is good because they're 10x better than the bullshit one offs P
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by ctward 7mo ago
Valid point. Should I stand up my own blog or should I use a different platform? What recommendations do you have?
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by ctward 7mo ago
I agree that certain icons that are common parlance can increase cognition ( vs. x). However I think expanding a users icon lexicon and forcing memorization can actually harm cognitive experience. Our users are context switching across do
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by ctward 7mo ago
Hey, author here, I'll attempt to clarify. In a data grid or table the relative cognitive load of the page is already very high. Adding iconography to the table body content is often unnecessary and increases visual noise, processing r
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Stop using icons in data tables(medium.com)
122 points by ctward 7mo ago|60 comments
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by ctward 2y ago
I think in the future product designers will shift into two factions. Live code generation and design system development. Design systems will be the backbone of any quality AI interface generation system. How we build those design systems w
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by ctward 2y ago
my push back on this is that unless you have a pretty robust visual design system the outputs are going to be incredibly unoriginal. Yes it will make solving UX problems faster but at the cost of visual differentiation. There is always goin