Industrial designer & maker, human interface designer at Bang & Olufsen. I fight for the user in all domains. I’m passionate about photography and love food, sound and natural landscapes.
The opinions I express here are mine, not my employer’s. He/him.
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| Location | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Works / Website | https://www.tuomashamalainen.com |
| Photography / Instagram | https://instagr.am/tuomas_h |
Onko ”Digi- ja väestötietoviraston” ensimmäinen osa aukikirjoitettuna ”digivirasto” vai ”digitietovirasto”, ja mitä ihmettä kumpikaan edes tarkoittaa?
Tällaisia vaan mietin näin sunnuntaiaamuna.
While everyone else is obsessed about the new Madonna song, I'm up here rocking 'Black Waters' from Poets of the Fall, released yesterday.
This band is just incapable of making a song that I don't enjoy.
Dark mode in Music on iPadOS 26.4. What are we even doing here?
Especially notice the supremely legible text and buttons at the top and bottom of the sidebar.
Elämä Tanskassa on yleisesti ottaen ihan okei, mutta kerta toisensa jälkeen huomaan ruokakaupassa kaipaavani suomalaisen näkökulmasta ihan tavallisia tuotteita. Viimeksi tällä viikolla, kun päätettiin tehdä lohikiusausta. Suomessa sitä ostaisi pussin tai pari peruna-sipulisekoitusta ja kiusaus olisi kymmenessä minuutissa valmis uuniin, mutta täällä en ole nähnyt mitään vastaavaa.
Ostin siis pussillisen perunoita ja käytin varmaan ainakin tunnin niiden kuorimiseen ja pilkkomiseen 🙃
The entire design language and design system feels so short-sighted. There are so many things where they clearly thought “oh wouldn’t it be delightful if this thing [zoomed/glowed/morphed/melted]”, they looked at it maybe a few times in isolation, but never actually paused to think about real-world use and the edge cases that inevitably come with it.
And now we’re living with things that animate in funky ways but feel broken and unconsidered.
Many things in Apple’s new UI design language get bigger when you interact with them, and I just find it so odd. It’s relatively harmless (though annoying) with things like sidebars, but there are some elements where this actively interferes with what you’re trying to do.
As an example, in the Music app, the your current position in the seek bar is different when mouse button is up vs. when it’s down.
The player bar in Music is in general one of the grossest UI I’ve seen on the Mac recently.
Recently I read a post by some jackhole techbro who wants a default automatic feed algorithm here just like Big Social™.
Opening the door for AI bullshit is not even the worst part of this idea.
Folks, all of us here ARE the algorithm. Personal curation is a feature, not a bug.
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