Creative human.
Design Director @ JPMC
Former: Ogilvy, IBM, Code & Theory, Meta
Future: Skeleton, loam, stardust
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www.robharrigan.design
The irony of naming your new model `Fable` for it to be used as an threat / punishment lesson against you.
puts on tinfoil hat
What if Claude Design is just a data gathering tool vs a proper product they plan to release? Played with it last week sponsored by work and that was my takeaway.
The first programs I open now as a designer are VS Code & Terminal. Conflicted. Intrigued. Still prefer a better pencil tho.
Had a colleague say they listened to an old podcast with me today. First reaction — oh no. What did I say? 🫣
Recorded at IxDA Milan in 2020. Fun to revisit younger Rob. Interesting how little has changed — AI ethics, energy consumption, creativity — while also being a completely different world.
First 5 years of design: I just wanna make fun beautiful things…
Next 15 years: …I wanna do more than just make stuff - I want to make impact….
Now: I just wanna make fun beautiful things…
Design and creativity is a powerful roar in a silent and despondent world.
Design is design - with a pencil or pixels or AI. Don't confuse your tools with your practice.
Writing and sharing ideas about beauty in spite of the world.
Product design has undesigned itself into ephemera.
We've sacrificed intuition for KPIs and tools for craft. Design forgot the old gods. My case for getting them back.
robharrigan.design/articles/sharpened-flint-fire-figma-components
Let's see Paul Allen's token library…