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Forcing myself into new skills

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One of my greatest strengths is my desire to learn and discover new things. I’ve always been naturally curious, and this curiosity drives me to seek out new knowledge and experiences. Whether it’s learning a new skill, researching a topic that interests me, or just trying something new, I love the process of learning and discovery.

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Embracing AI

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There’s been a lot of hype in AI recently with so many new tools launching. AI has come a long way, and it’s only going to continue to evolve and improve. As a result, it’s natural to feel a little intimidated or even afraid of what the future holds. But instead of being scared of AI, we should embrace it and use it to make our work easier.

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HEY 👋 SICILY AIRPORT TEAM PLEASE USE THIS PROMPT TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE “NOT VIBE CODED”

@ItalyMFA

‘Redesign my entire website to look like a premium, professionally crafted website built by an experienced product designer and senior frontend engineer.

The goal: Make the website feel intentional, polished, unique, and production ready. It should NOT look AI generated, template based, generic, or vibe coded.

Follow these guidelines carefully:

1. Visual Identity

• Create a strong and consistent visual identity.

• Use a refined color palette with intentional contrast.

• Avoid generic AI gradients, excessive glassmorphism, glowing effects, and random accent colors.

• Use sophisticated typography with a clear hierarchy.

• Establish consistent spacing, alignment, and proportions.

• Make every section feel deliberately designed.

2. Layout and Composition

• Avoid repetitive layouts where every section looks like the same card grid.

• Use interesting visual compositions, asymmetrical layouts, and balanced whitespace.

• Create natural transitions between sections.

• Avoid unnecessary containers, borders, shadows, and rounded cards.

• Make the page feel editorial, modern, and thoughtfully structured.

3. Typography

• Use professional typography with carefully selected font pairings.

• Establish clear differences between headings, subheadings, body text, and labels.

• Avoid oversized headings just for visual impact.

• Pay attention to line height, letter spacing, and text width.

• Make text easy and comfortable to read.

4. Components and Details

• Redesign buttons, navigation, forms, menus, and interactive elements.

• Use subtle, sophisticated hover states.

• Keep border radiuses consistent.

• Use shadows sparingly and only when they add depth.

• Ensure icons have a consistent visual style and size.

• Remove unnecessary decorative elements.

5. Animations and Interactions

• Add subtle, purposeful animations.

• Use smooth transitions and refined microinteractions.

• Avoid excessive animations, bouncing elements, and distracting effects.

• Make interactions feel responsive and natural.

• Respect reduced motion preferences.

6. Professional Quality

• Make the website feel like a real product from a funded startup or established design studio.

• Take inspiration from the design quality of Linear, Stripe, Framer, Raycast, and carefully designed Awwwards websites.

• Do not copy their layouts. Use them as references for quality and attention to detail.

• Eliminate anything that feels like a default AI website template.

7. Responsive Design

• Perfect the experience on desktop, tablet, and mobile.

• Ensure spacing, typography, navigation, and components adapt naturally to every screen size.

• Avoid broken layouts, awkward wrapping, and horizontal overflow.

8. Important Implementation Rules

• Preserve the existing website’s functionality, features, content, and integrations.

• Do not remove working components just to simplify the design.

• Reuse the existing technology stack.

• Write clean, maintainable, production quality code.

• Avoid unnecessary dependencies.

• Fix existing visual inconsistencies and layout issues.

• Ensure accessibility and good performance.

Final Instruction

Do not simply change colors, fonts, or border radiuses. Rethink the entire visual experience.

Act like a world class creative director reviewing a mediocre website. Identify everything that makes it look generic, amateur, or AI generated, and replace those elements with thoughtful design decisions.

The final result should look like someone spent weeks refining the design, not like someone generated a website in 30 seconds.

Be opinionated. Pay attention to the smallest details. Prioritize design quality over flashy effects.’

Saw this in DFW Airport, now try to find your flight. Who thought cards will be better? replacing basic design knowledge with someone behind an AI tool 🤦‍♂️

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To put it mildly this @remote rebrand caught me off-guard.

I’ve spent way too much time looking for the Remote app, only to realize that the new icon wasn’t some random game my kids had installed.

Not a fan. I don’t know what they’re going for with this rebrand, but I don’t expect a payroll platform to look like a Gen Z gaming app.

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and you can get it now....

steer agents across devices, review their work in browsers, before & after screen shots, diagrams, code changes, etc. run terminals, scripts, custom agents across providers. all from your phone.

https://intentapp.dev

I’ve been waiting for this! Loving Intent so far and all the constant updates. Thanks to the whole team.

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yeah and we do:

1. keep developing the feature behind internal flag, anyone trying it will keep hitting issues

2. bring external beta users

3. keep using internally still

4. do feature roast where internally the whole team tries to be nitpicky as possible and write their feedback

5. release to more users

6. release to all and keep monitoring

7. team doesn't move on for a while even if the project is kind of completed, they will clean up flags, do some other work, while monitoring the feedback coming through from users

The “team doesn’t immediately move on after project completion” part is super important.

You need time to see how it actually lands, learn from real usage, and make those important tweaks while the context is still fresh.

I’m doing good, focused on family, work, trying to fit in more training hours, and keeping up with the insane pace of AI. Then Blizzard teases a new StarCraft game! 😱

All the memories come flooding back, and suddenly I have this intense urge to play it again. 🫠

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I ALWAYS tell new or young designers not to freelance.

Learn the business and process from someone first.

Work somewhere. Learn on their dime.

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I was always chasing freelance work on nights and weekends. That hunger helped because I never specialized early on. Any design or web project was “sure, I can do that.” I learned on the fly, built broad skills, and got great at managing clients.