Matt Ström

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Macromanager. Leading design teams at Stripe. he/him
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I sat down to write about design and AI and somehow ended up spending all morning tracking down a citation for how many airline pilots there were in 1969.

✍️ New post:

Tapetenwechsel, or: Breaking the Sameness

https://matthiasott.com/notes/tapetenwechsel-or-breaking-the-sameness

Tapetenwechsel, or: Breaking the Sameness · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
fediverse friends: what is the best (simplest) way to cryptographically sign a web page? I’d love to include a signature on my blog posts that establishes provenance in an independently verifiable (public key?) way.
Huge respect for the team behind Wikipedia's latest design updates. I can't imagine how hard it is to confidently change a framework that has so many users, edge cases, and technical history.

Reading Donella Meadows’ “Thinking in Systems.” a. It’s a great book, please read it, and b. It’s reinforcing my belief that optimism or pessimism can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/thinking-in-systems-international-bestseller-donella-meadows/8755142?ean=9781603580557

A new post! In which I do some math about micromanagement.

https://matthewstrom.com/writing/the-micromanagers-dilemma/

I shared some background behind this post in my newsletter. You can sign up from (almost) any page on my site.

The micromanager's dilemma

Why micromanagement isn't going away, and how to thrive despite it

Really love this breakdown of the process of designing airline route maps, especially the regional maps at the end:

https://somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/on-airline-mapping/

On Airline Mapping

A couple of months ago, I had the opportunity to redesign the route map for a major airline, to be printed in their in-flight magazine. This is not the final product that I ended up creating for th…

somethingaboutmaps

My team at work just launched new research on the #TwitterMigration: We analyze which platforms are growing - especially #Mastodon, #Tumblr & #Post.

We look at which sites users are adding to their Twitter bios, posting to their friends about & downloading apps for.

Please do boost this, and love to hear any comments or feedback on it!

Download it here:
https://www.deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-Twitter-Migration-December-12-2022.pdf

micro design tool UX you might never have noticed (I didn't)

@[email protected] hides the selection UI when you style your selection; then shows the UI again either after 2 seconds, or immediately when your cursor exits the sidebar.

Writer friends: what's your favorite thesaurus? I'm looking for something like http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blog