Jim Nielsen

@jimniels
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Designer, developer, blogger.

Lover of food and websites.

Icon-noisseur https://www.iosicongallery.com

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📝 Been thinking a lot about this idea of: how do you best judge when to 1) bend to rules, or 2) ignore the rules and instead embrace the sensitivities of a localized context?

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/systemic-vs-localized/

The Blandness of Systematic Rules vs. The Delight of Localized Sensitivity

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Great design passes through three stages:

1. It’s shrugged off by its creator.
2. It’s opposed by the team.
3. It’s accepted as self-evident.

Hey gang, I need your help.

For @cloudfour’s design practice to survive, we need more projects.

If you’ve ever benefited from any of the 25+ talks, 80+ code repos or 500+ articles we’ve shared for free over the past 19 years, please read and share this post: https://cloudfour.com/thinks/more-projects-please/

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More Projects Please

We’re actively seeking new UX design, UI design or hybrid creative/development challenges to solve.

Cloud Four
how's your night going?
2010: Software eats the world.
2020: Software shits out the world it ate.

To err is human.

To err continuously is agentic.

I wrote about a feature that I'd really like to see in browsers https://tylergaw.com/blog/color-scheme-browser-native-control/
Browsers Should Have a Native Control for Per-Site Color Scheme

A proposal for browsers to offer a per-site color scheme control.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kepano/116289979416908671

This, but also at the feature level. Everybody so excited to be shipping any and everything right now because it’s “easy”, but so much of it is dead on arrival because there’s no appetite to actually nurture and grow it beyond v1

what are the chances this thing will be abandonware in a month?

you can make something in a few days but will you commit to maintaining and improving it for the next few years?

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