Amalgam

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🇸🇪 Swede in Hanoi 🇻🇳
Design, UX, Product and a little bit of AI —with a side of life’s quirks.
Posts mostly in English, sometimes in Swedish.

I learned way to late to not worry about the small stuff in design.

Usually people will be with you on the big stuff but they might want to change something small like the wording or the size of a button. Let them, even if they are wrong

They get a sense of control and everyone’s happy

Continuing about the jigs and tools I’ve created to help me with my #ux #design.

Today I want to share a contrast tool that has helped me with color accessibility

https://rosenqvist.design/blog/color-contrast-jig/ Building a Color Contrast Design Jig | Simon Rosenqvist

#blog

Building a Color Contrast Design Jig | Simon Rosenqvist

How I created a visual tool to explore color relationships and solve contrast requirements in automotive interface design

A while ago I read an article by @pjonori that talked about how craftsmen make jigs for themselves.

It inspired me to start sharing some them and I wrote up a quick blog post about my approach

https://rosenqvist.design/blog/jigs-for-craft/

#ux #design #craft #blog

Jigs, Not Tools | Simon Rosenqvist

Building personal utilities instead of general tools - why jigs matter for designers

I set up a feed for my blog, but it wasn’t without issues.

https://rosenqvist.design/blog/adding-rss-11ty/

While trying to publish this I had to reinstall the plugin again so the problems are still there and I can’t figure them out. But I have a feed!

#rss #11ty #blog

11ty RSS Feed Setup: Three Plugin Problems and How I Fixed Them | Simon Rosenqvist

Dependency management, configuration conflicts, and deprecated APIs while setting up RSS feeds in 11ty

We had some discussions this week about how to approach a UX strategy in the car industry. I put some of the thoughts down on paper and how it relates to the customer lifecycle model

https://rosenqvist.design/blog/ux-sales-lifecycle/

#ux #automotive #blog

UX Design's Role in the Automotive Sales Lifecycle | Simon Rosenqvist

Understanding how UX design impacts every stage of the customer journey, from initial interest to long-term advocacy in the automotive industry.

PKK dissolves itself at Ocalan's request, YPG to continue

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/kurdish-pkk-dissolves-after-decades-struggle-with-turkey-news-agency-close-2025-05-12/

Can anyone provide more context on this?

Faites un vœu ! 🌠

We're getting close to the needed signatures against conversion "therapies" in the EU!

Signed as a German. Come on the rest of you, es gibt reichliche Deutsche hier!

We now have the 7 countries over the line, we just need pure numbers - go go go

Direct link: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/

https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/114501692323303297

🧵 Vettasmannens guide till Sametingsvalet!

📢 Det börjar dra ihop sig för val - samisk politik kan vara rätt knepig för en utomstående. Så här kommer min guide till dig som är intresserad 🗳️

#samer #sametingsval #sametinget #urfolk #samiskpolitik

@privacyfoss
I'd like to have a discussion, to sharpen my thoughts on the news that Meta will be allowed to train its LLM on public user data in EU:
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/meta-facebook-and-instagram-ai-is-coming-for-eu-data-heres-what-you-need-to-know-and-how-to-opt-out

My main question is:
Q1. If you wish to opt out, what are your reasons? Be explicit. Assume I don't know anything about it.

A hypothetical question:

Q2. Would your objection still hold if it wasn't Meta, but a benevolent non-profit that would make the resulting LLM open-source and available to all?

#privacy #LLM #MetaAI

Meta, Facebook, and Instagram AI is coming for EU data — Here's what you need to know (and how to opt out)

Meta's new AI tools have come under increasing scrutiny, but the firm believes they are now in compliance with EU regulations. Here's what you need to know.

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