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Design Observer @designobserver.com · 15/06/2026

Your boss showed up with an AI-generated prototype. Your first instinct might be panic. @davesnyder.bsky.social makes the case that when everyone can make something look real, designers are the only ones who can say "no, that sucks." designobserver.com/your-boss-ma...

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Your boss made a prototype - DesignObserver

Good. The process was never the point.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Your client ot boss made a AI designed prototype. The existential dread you feel is normal. designobserver.com/your-boss-ma...

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Your boss made a prototype - DesignObserver

Good. The process was never the point.

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Mads McCausland @madsmccaus.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Really enjoyed this piece by @davesnyder.bsky.social: "Your boss made a prototype. Good. The process was never the point." designobserver.com/your-boss-ma... #design #designobserver

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Your boss made a prototype - DesignObserver

Good. The process was never the point.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

We’ve reached the "bill-paying phase" of the dopamine economy, and AI is about to bankrupt the brands that rely on outrage. Here is why decency is quietly becoming the ultimate market advantage. www.mediapost.com/publications...

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Is Decency The Next Competitive Moat?

The future doesn't belong to the loudest brand or the cleverest algorithm. It belongs to the companies and creators who can grow without poisoning the ecosystem they depend on.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Not every brand needs to be cool. Most brands don’t. It is what it is. The brand is bigger than your portfolio. Sucks but true.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

My latest essay is out in @designobserver designobserver.com/the-identity...

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The problem with AI anymore isn’t hallucination, it’s temporal flattening.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

We need an upside down American flag emoji.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

“Someone will design the voices we follow. Someone will shape the characters we empathize with. And when that happens, we’ll still call it culture. But it won’t be built on human expression anymore. It will be built on whoever owns the factory.” 🔗👇

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Comfort with not knowing” is no longer a virtue in Design. AI doesn’t “know” and answers anyway. And we share it. What matters now is the refusal of fake knowing. That refusal costs speed, status, and certainty. Expertise is knowing when orientation is premature.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

A culture that can’t tolerate being laughed at can’t tolerate being wrong.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

We’ve become a memetic monoculture where replication outpaces meaning.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

You don’t see cool quarterly earnings call posters very often (ever). Not sure who made these but very bueno. @quartr.com

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

“LinkedIn is down. What are we to do?” Said no one ever.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

If design is strategy made visible, decency is ethics made measurable.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Stop playing janitor in someone else’s disaster. Power doesn’t reward competence—it rewards a narrative. Write yours before someone else does. Ignore everything else. 💡 #fridayprovocation

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Design Observer @designobserver.com · 08/10/2025

Good design isn’t about adding more. It’s about knowing what not to build. @davesnyder.bsky.social argues for restraint: solve the one core problem, put in the craft, and let time and user behavior do the work. Read the full story:

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The compound interest of design: what not to build - DesignObserver

Veteran designer Dave Snyder says the secret to lasting products isn’t hype or clever features. It’s restraint, craft, and solving one core problem so well that the benefits compound over time.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The goal isn’t to go viral — it’s to be impossible to replace.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Desirability outlives usability.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Evening provocation: AI won’t democratize leadership, it will calcify oligarchy.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I’m not sure who needs to hear this but If you’re saving your paper school diploma next to a pubic hair removal device that hasn’t been touched in 10 years it’s time to let both go.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Why such extravagance in bullshit?” Why do we overinvest in nonsense, in grift, in theater—when clarity and decency could’ve scaled so easily?

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

post 4 important albums released the year you turned 18. 1995 for me.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Vibe art directing new portraits. 😂

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

2010. SoBe at SXSWi. Anyone remember?

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The Swiss passport is dope. Yes I’m late. www.designboom.com/design/next-...

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

All cruelty springs from weakness. - Seneca Indeed.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Nice write up on our latest for the James Beard Foundation from Print Magazine. www.printmag.com/branding-ide...

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I may or may not have snuck the Konami code in for an upcoming launch.

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Dave Snyder (NYC) @davesnyder.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Most people don’t realize just how much of their comfortable, predictable life is propped up by dull, invisible systems they neither understand nor even know exist. It’s the boring stuff that keeps the world from falling apart.

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