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Ben Brignell

@benbrignell.com
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Product designer & UX strategist. Makes principles.design, real-world design principles and guides. Author of Design Principles in Practice. Design systems and decision-making. Generally a generalist. My onions are my own. benbrignell.com

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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 29/09/2026
Can't beat some homegrown carrots 🌱🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 29/09/2026
Did you add some cottage cheese
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Oliver Lindberg @oliverlindberg.com · 28/09/2026
Are your design system's principles actually helping teams make decisions? In this article, @benbrignell.com looks at the gap between having principles written down and using them to guide the everyday choices designers and developers make. 👇
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 24/09/2026
Being bitten by mosquitoes but it’s still nicer than being inside the house
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 24/09/2026
What do you want, a medal?
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 23/09/2026
If you work with design systems there's a little surprise coming soon… take a look principles.design/guides 👀
principles.design
Guides
In-depth guides from principles.design, including the Design Principles in Practice field guide.
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 23/09/2026
If you work with design systems there's a little surprise coming soon… take a look principles.design/guides 👀
principles.design
Guides
In-depth guides from principles.design, including the Design Principles in Practice field guide.
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 17/09/2026
"Our vision is a world where everyone has eyes the size of raisins…"
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 17/09/2026
A poem: Only you can see This API key
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 16/09/2026
I have been trying to catch the same mosquito for three nights. It has a cloaking device.
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 09/09/2026
LinkedIn are really pushing Patches for all these unemployed people
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 03/09/2026
I made a free 5-part email course on what actually makes a design principle useful, not just something that sounds right. Most fall apart the moment there's a real decision - "keep it simple," "make it accessible," that kind of thing. Free to join: principles.design/newsletter/
principles.design
Design Principles Newsletter
A curated collection of design principles used as decision-making frameworks. Practical examples and guidance for teams building products.
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 04/09/2026
Sometimes just a trailing slash is all it needs to bring down an entire world
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 04/09/2026
Thanks, fixed now!
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 03/09/2026
I made a free 5-part email course on what actually makes a design principle useful, not just something that sounds right. Most fall apart the moment there's a real decision - "keep it simple," "make it accessible," that kind of thing. Free to join: principles.design/newsletter/
principles.design
Design Principles Newsletter
A curated collection of design principles used as decision-making frameworks. Practical examples and guidance for teams building products.
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 02/09/2026
pardon?
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 02/09/2026
When you go swimming and get water stuck in your ear why does the water only get stuck in your ear when you get home not when you are in the pool?
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 13/08/2026
The morning after
Rudimentary DIY eclipse-viewing apparatus on the lawn
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 12/08/2026
I have been partially submerged in a wheelie bin filled with water for the past few months. What have I missed?
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 10/08/2026
Whenever people think their house is bugged and somebody is listening they put the taps on. Is that why it's called being tapped?
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 04/08/2026
Warm
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 29/07/2026
brb going to have a water fight
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 17/07/2026
Oh yeah, this website exists
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 26/06/2026
Wise words, amen
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 26/06/2026
Having a hot cup of tea to cool me down
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 24/06/2026
Warm, isn't it
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 02/06/2026
static.klipy.com
Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme
Alt: Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man Meme
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 02/06/2026
I've just seen M People are doing a short tour. They're playing one night in Devon.
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 21/05/2026
Yes I’m starting to make the sandwiches today
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 20/05/2026
Weird to think that David Byrne is going to pretty much be playing at the end of my garden in a few weeks
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 20/05/2026
Yeah I did this when I beat my high score on Candy Crush
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 20/05/2026
Have you started the revolution early?
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 19/05/2026
Did you hear that they were crowned premier league champions for the first time in over 20 years?
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 18/05/2026
Homer Simpson salt bin
A salt bin semi submerged in a bush
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 19/05/2026
If only there was a sign
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 18/05/2026
Homer Simpson salt bin
A salt bin semi submerged in a bush
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 18/05/2026
I now have a sort of dark image of the Babycham deer lying by the edge of the road
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 18/05/2026
I’m never sure how to react when you pay with your card and the cashier says “Right, that’s all gone through!” with an element of surprise in their voice
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 15/05/2026
Design is everywhere
Chalk on blackboard above a rudimentary shelf which reads “Shelf broken be careful please”
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 15/05/2026
If you are wondering about how my day is going today all I can say is I am currently using DEFCON alert levels as a task management methodology
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 14/05/2026
No you are thinking of the one where she'll be coming round the mountain
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 14/05/2026
Is that based on the plot of Jaws 2 but with a car theme?
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 14/05/2026
static.klipy.com
Energetic Old Man Performing Live on Stage
Alt: Bobby Liebling performing live, white hair flowing and looking shocked
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 14/05/2026
I love how you've centred it all as well
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 14/05/2026
I always thought it was somebody who used Futura
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Edward Philips Art @edwardphilips.co.uk · 13/05/2026
Morning. Meet my lawyers.
Road sign to Asenby Rainton Cundall and Helperby.
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 14/05/2026
Are there any film buffs on here who could help? I’m trying to remember the name of the Pixar film about the man that goes up.
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 14/05/2026
And if you can’t pay you get to clean in the kitchen
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 13/05/2026
Just had a hail storm and now I’m putting on suntan cream 👍 ☀️ 🌱
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Ben Brignell @benbrignell.com · 12/05/2026
I just hacked up 4 IKEA Kallax units with an axe into manageable sections so they could fit in the car to take them to the tip. It was surprisingly accurate, precise and didn’t make any mess. Unbelievably satisfying. 🪓
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