Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Design is still the “silica gel” inside many orgs. It’s this weird thing that’s just there, some say it’s dangerous for you, but they also say it keeps things from getting mouldy. Nobody really knows what it’s doing or how it’s doing it. 100
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Designers in 2026media.tenor.coma man in a lab coat and bow tie is measuring liquidALT: a man in a lab coat and bow tie is measuring liquid 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 07/01/2026What is the verbal equivalent of the physical idiom for “my hands are itching to”? 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 07/01/2026If you’re in Product Design in B2B spaces and you’re sleeping on subframe.com - I hope your alarm goes off on the loudest setting right now and you get reverse scare hiccups ⏰ ‼️subframe.comSubframe – The best way to build UI, fast.Build stunning UI in minutes with a drag-and-drop visual editor, beautifully crafted components, and production-ready code. Optimized for React & TailwindCSS. 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 23/11/2025So it turns out that listening to Stardew Valley autumn season soundtrack on a rainy day is a legit productivity unlock. Who knew. 050
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 05/09/2025The people that surround you in the early days of your startup define the odds of your failure or success. #startups #founders #hiring 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 03/09/2025If a path to someone’s heart is through their stomach, the path to the heart of an organisation is through its CMO 🤌. #justCMOthings #attributionContribution #howsyourCAC 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 19/06/2025I’ve posted this 6 months ago. 🚧 Roadworks update. It’s going hella great. Turns out creating a 10 lane highway of your own making is a lot more fun that doing hard labour for someone else to collect the toll payments. 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 16/06/2025That feeling when you present early design progress to the exec stakeholder group and they love it.media.tenor.coma man with a beard and sunglasses is driving a car with his arms in the air .ALT: a man with a beard and sunglasses is driving a car with his arms in the air . 030
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Apple just unlocked a new meaning for “glass cannon”. #apple #glassmorphism #productdesign #wwdc2025 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Design is where emotion births utility in agony. #design #ProductDesign #ouchie #ButThemShareholderReturns 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Early stage startup founders sitting on their MVP tech stack like 010
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 12/05/2025The best type of people to know: WYSIWYG people. 👏 010
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 30/04/2025What I gathered from the street videos of Spanish blackout: What we are prepared to forget for sake of pragmatic efficient utility can carry more positive emotional utility instead. 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Something I can’t reconcile. UX’ers posting about problems not solved and offering no path to any solution. I love complaining, but this seems rather counterintuitive. 010
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 29/03/2025I secretly love seeing fellow design leaders from known tech brands drop by profile on LinkedIn from comments and swiftly depart: “ah poo, she’s not ex-Google, how disappointing” 010
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 29/03/2025To everyone in the world of Product Design and UX: If you think that user needs come first - they don’t. Revenue does. 110
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Has anyone ever saved a ton of money by purchasing software? Not just a bit, but a lot. What software was it? Obviously, asking for a friend. #startups 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Design should not be iterative. It should be adaptive. 020
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Post a current event snapshot and answer “What would Teal’c do?” Teal’c: It would appear this weapon is ineffective! 010
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 19/02/2025The amount of time you can spend on craft is directly proportional to the amount of bullshit work you can eliminate. #productdesign #designsky #ux 010
Reposted by Elena CrossCommon Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago. 18982332218
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Aight.media.tenor.coma man in a yellow suit and white hat is dancing in front of a sunAlt: a man in a yellow suit and white hat is dancing in front of a sun, from Always Sunny in Philadelphia show 010
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Running list of things I love about founding a company: ⚪️ I can pick any titles. Absolutely any. Word is my oyster. “Chief Oystering Officer” “Revenue Gandalf” “Principal Code Combobulator” “Lord of Marketing” “Master Cat Herder” (reserved for HR) “Supreme Sage” (for advisory roles) 150
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I find it insanely strange how we’ve “designed life”. ✅ 9-5, but take kids to school ✅ get a mortgage, but prove you can take on crippling debt prior ✅ spend remaining time on “life admin” from 35 suppliers with no single source of truth. Shit design, and an even shittier user experience. 120
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 21/01/2025It’s really not funny how the cycles of history repeating itself are getting faster and not in a good way. 130
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Next time a new product update goes awry, I am so going to use “unscheduled disassembly” when explaining why a whale of an account is pissed. #productdesign #shipit #b2bsaas #spacex #bugs 010
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Sid Meier’s Civilization is a live executive suite sim. Except for the possibility of culture victory. 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 17/01/2025A gentle reminder to AI worshippers: There’s a fat, dollar-quantifiable reason why Microsoft Xbox decided to sunset Avatars feature. We just don’t love and hate synthetic humans with the same ferment as we do real ones. #agentwithnoagency #ai 010
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 17/01/2025The way to add more “masculine energy” to big tech is not by decimating DEI, but by tripling down on it. The “manliest man” in the room is not the one starting “beef”, is the one ending it. #atomicallysmallballs #diversity 140
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 17/01/2025So it turns out bad design is bad for business. And particularly bad for your executive career. How thoroughly unexpected. #productdesign #ohnoanyway www.fastcompany.com/91259432/son...fastcompany.comSonos CEO steps down following a disastrous app redesignAfter Sonos redesigned its app last year, the company saw its revenue tank and announced layoffs. Now its CEO is stepping down. 331
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 14/01/2025It’s categorically the avocado toast. And definitely not trickle-down bullshit. #economicallyChallanged #LayOOofs #NeedForGreed 010
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Things move so fast now, that it doesn’t matter if the wheels are flying off, everyone is just like “fuck it, inertia will get us there!” 020
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 03/01/2025So Meta just went and said to their advertisers: “Our platform is Jack Daniel’s, but with like 99% water.” #meta #ai #awhy #myspacediditbetter 120
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Happy New Year, #bluesky people! May it be majorly less shittier than 2024 was. Here’s to the good people, there’s so few of us 🥂 #happynewyear #sodonewith24 #letsdothis #newyearmedia.tenor.coma woman in a striped shirt is holding a glass of wine in front of a sign that says fleabagALT: a woman in a striped shirt is holding a glass of wine in front of a sign that says fleabag 050
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Opinion poll: Worst enterprise software you’ve ever used? We’re talking I’d-rather-punch-concrete-walls-bad. #easeofuse #enterprisesoftware #baddesign 040
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Live footage of Figma prototyping tools. #productdesign #figma #prototyping #fmlmedia.tenor.coma dumpster that says dbb arc is on fire in the waterAlt: a dumpster is on fire in the water 120
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 17/12/2024@splinetool.bsky.social was always cool. But now it’s officially - super cool 👏🤌🎉 #design #productdesign #webdesign #interactive #supercool 040
Reposted by Elena CrossMP @mindaugaslt.bsky.social · 16/12/2024Everything that happened on "Design Linkedin" in 2024. What did I miss? 131
Reposted by Elena CrossJason Cohen @asmartbear.com · 29/11/2024In new products, customers forgive simplicity but not incompleteness. They might even prefer simplicity, but they don’t prefer barely-functioning software. That’s why "MVP" is the wrong idea. Agree?longform.asmartbear.comYour customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead.“MVP” implies a selfish process, abusing customers so you can “learn.” Instead, make the first version SLC: Simple, Loveable, and Complete. 8413
Reposted by Elena CrossShow Your Soft Side @softside.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Super-sweet senior kitty Tinsel was trying to survive outside, in December, while being blind. 💔 We don’t know exactly what her future will be, but thanks to kind people she’s now safe at the Cat Shack. Help her find the most wonderful home. Adopt: www.facebook.com/1194596703/p... or please share! 17491129
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Why is it that 37, 38, 39 become a countdown to 40? What is it about the jubilees that makes us so uncomfortable? Who set this sh*tty cultural expectation? I wana have words. 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Today is the first time I followed a politician on a social network. Because it’s the first politician who appreciates the help cats provide to humanity. It’s a tangible public service. 000
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I’ve been told so many times to stay in my lane, 99.9% of the time - by men. So I’m building my own damn road. I don’t like traffic. 🚀 110
Elena Cross @elenacross.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Founding is really f*cking difficult, and you are your own biggest enemy. #founders #startups 030