Design Leader and Investor. Director of Design @Expediagroup. Previously @Convoyteam, @ibmdesign & @itp_nyu alum. Tweets are my own and do not reflect employer.
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Colin Narver retweeted
The obvious path for designers in the AI age is to move closer to code.
But the more valuable path may be upstream: closer to the customer, the business, and the problem.
If everyone can prompt agents to code, the scarce skill becomes knowing why, what, and how to build.
Colin Narver retweeted
This is really neat but it’s not a design tool as much as it’s a design _production_ tool.
The practice of design is mostly about what comes before production.
There’s no doubt in my mind that all parts of software production will become automated very soon. Writing code, making web pages, putting pieces of a design system together etc.
And that’s fine. I think few people actually enjoy this kind of production work. Wouldn’t it be better if we spent our precious time in life on what is more meaningful?!
At the core, the practice of design is methodical; like architecture, not like art. In a nutshell: We find constraints, form comprehension of the whole and propose solutions that honor those constraints. First after that do we enter some form of production phase, usually prototypes first, learn about some constraints that were hidden before, loop back, prototype and then build the production-grade “final” artifact.
These last few tasks are quickly losing value because AI tools can do it much faster (not yet better though) than humans. It’s simply just what has the best RoI for a business.
Some companies and individuals will continue to spend human time on certain parts of the “production line” as a market differentiator, but it will cost them a relatively high price compared to competitors.
Anyhow, I still haven’t seen a tool better than Figma that supports the actually-interesting part of the design process.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Figma focused their products on that, maybe separating “products for production” of “products for ideation & exploration.” The latter would obviously still leverage AI, but not to do the work for me but rather to support my efforts the way a therapist helps me live a better life (not living my life for me.)
“The hard part of design is rarely generating the form. It is understanding the problem well enough to know what and how something should exist at all.”
Colin Narver retweeted
.@Seahawks reign supreme.
Strap in for Super Bowl LX Mic'd Up! 🔊 @InsideTheNFL
Colin Narver retweeted
Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis @StarTribune. It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The scene reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s. We look back at those old photos and wonder how the authorities could have behaved so savagely; many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tried to drive away, arresting 5-year-old schoolchildren on the street, or holding a man down and spaying chemicals into his face. Thanks to the Star Tribune reporters and photographers for documenting this work; they create accountability, they make democracy work, and they make all of us in journalism proud.
Colin Narver retweeted
No hace falta que te guste Maduro para que te parezca una barbaridad que EE.UU. invada países y secuestre presidentes (por muy despreciables que sean).
Solo hace falta que defiendas el derecho internacional y te preocupe que Estados Unidos se comporte como un matón que interviene donde quiere sin ni siquiera aprobación de su propio Congreso.
Antes de que llegue la justificación de "lucha contra el narco" (hace años fueron las armas de destrucción masiva), recordad que Trump acaba de indultar a Juan Orlando Hernández, expresidente de Honduras condenado a 45 años por meter 400 toneladas de cocaína en EE.UU.
El mismo Trump que dice invadir Venezuela "para combatir el narcotráfico".
Les da igual la droga. Quieren petróleo, poder y control de América Latina.
Colin Narver retweeted
If Xi Jinping invaded Taiwan right now, and toppled the president there, on what grounds would the United States object? Or have any credibility to say anything?
Colin Narver retweeted
Venezuela’s Maduro is a corrupt, vicious dictator repressing democratic opposition . But the US unilaterally capturing a foreign leader not at war breaches every canon of intl law. Justifies Putin in Ukraine/Xi in Taiwan. Might is right. Who next on what pretext? A dark moment.
Colin Narver retweeted
Several contradictory things are simultaneously true:
1. Maduro was an oppressive, unpopular and illegitimate ruler, disastrous for his country and the region.
2. Using the US to remove him may have been equally illegitimate.
3. Venezuela would be better off with a new government under the opposition's Edmundo Gonzalez (who probably won the presidential election but is now exiled).
4. It's not clear that Maduro will be replaced by Gonzalez. Maduro's VP is still apparently in power, as are other regime figures and the Cubans who back them.
5. As we've seen in Iraq and Libya, it can be easier to topple a leader than to establish a new government; sometimes you get a worse leader, or Somalia-style chaos.
Colin Narver retweeted
The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don't want other countries to choose our leaders--so we have to stop trying to choose theirs. – at Washington, DC
Colin Narver retweeted
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Colin Narver retweeted
This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten those who speak against them with death. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a petty, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be a tyrant. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala
Colin Narver retweeted
Tim Walz: "This dude is nearly 80 years old. He damn near killed himself getting in a garbage truck."
Colin Narver retweeted
And, by the way, if you worry that food prices are too high, wait till you have a president who deports half the farmworkers and puts a 20% tax on food from abroad.
Colin Narver retweeted
The unemployment rate is currently about 4.1%, the lowest since 1968.
Inflation is low, at 2.2%.
GDP growth is the best in the world.
The financial markets are soaring, hitting 71 record highs this year.
Biden cut deficit by one third.
America doesn't need to be great again. America is great!
Colin Narver retweeted
This election will decide the temperature on our planet for thousands of years. It will decide if we have a fighting chance to stop the climate crisis or not.
AND, voting alone or voting third party won’t save us.
A 🧵 .
