My name is Chris, a #UX Design leader out of Denver, CO, U.S. I usually go by the handles "freitag" or "chrisfreitag" or "creativefriday" on other platforms.
While I love my career it's not the only thing I talk about.
It’s always a troubling sign when an ‘operations-focused’ manager is put in charge of a design department. Granted Apple is founded on a very high level of respect for Industrial Design—hopefully this doesn’t usher in a new troublesome era of ‘budget-focused creativity there.
Quoting @markgurman: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/109796013680901753
This feels like the beginning of the end. Xcel Energy eagerly posted their record-breaking quarterly profits. A utility company people need is driven by the same forces that drive consumer goods. Difference being there are no free-market alternatives. We are screwed. https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/xcel-energy-customers-demand-answers-colorado-state-regulators-puc/73-d59035cd-ee0a-43db-99d6-6bc9a7cc24b0
LinkedIn is #doomscrolling
If you say resource management one more time I’m gonna run through one of your tripwires.
New #YouTube video: The #Fujifilm X-T5
Why I upgraded. Or why I chose to upgrade. Or why I could justify this big expense to myself. Or why I told myself whatever lies I needed to so I could just go trade in my X-T4 and get my hands on this thing. 😂
https://youtu.be/a84pTO8lWTI
It wasn’t Cyberdyne Systems that caused the end of the world, it was Wall Street.
I can’t believe how barren downtown #Denver is these days. This was taken at 8:10am on this Friday morning. Not a holiday, not bad weather. I worked in that building on a contract in 2016 and this intersection was *bustling* with people.
I blocked the account but what are they up to? Why mass private message a giant list of accounts?
Just got private mentioned with hundreds of other #Mastodon accounts by an unknown account. What’s the end game?
I wrote about @ivory in my latest newsletter. Check it out and consider subscribing if you haven’t already! 🐘 https://44px.substack.com/p/tapbots-launches-ivory
My wishlist for #Apple to improve the hardware of the #iPadPro
1. Admit you were wrong with the default portrait orientation. The use-cases for portrait mode are few and very specific. Put the camera where it belongs.
2. Kill the back camera bump. A device designed to lay flat and draw on should not have protrusions.
3. Add a 2nd USB-C port
Now my software wishlist for #iPadOS? That list will not fit in microblog form.
That’s my wallpaper!! MKBHD is using my wallpaper! 🤯
*faints*
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Wallpaper: https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/saltern-study
MKBHD’s Mac mini review: https://youtu.be/cneoANZKBGk
UX & Product Designer, Design Manager, Information Architecter, Problem Solver, Apple Nerder