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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The platonic ideal of web design is a blank screen with a single button and every UI tries to get as close to that as possible without sacrificing utility

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

One of the great regrets of my life is I'll never get to program in the beepboop room

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Conical Mash with Froggy Dots

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I hate how this Lyft notification just reminds you "heyyy, Don't forget we're analyzing your behavior to build a nice little profile on ya 😘 now order a car, piggy"

Lyft notification saying 'drivers are ready when you are. You're just a few taps away from requesting a ride back"

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I will never forgive LLM's for how my fight or flight gets activated upon seeing this word pattern. As an English major, how dare you ruin one of the most useful—oh what's the point. Why do I only post when I'm mad? What has become of us? As people? Was the internet always like this?

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

There aren't enough shades of purple someone needs to make some more

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Trying to learn to do pixel art. Here's my progress on drawing buildings. Having a hard time getting used to perspective, but starting to get the hang of it!

Screenshot of 4 increasingly well-drawn pixel art houses.

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Getting absolutely roasted on hackernews rn lol

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

When I said "use tokens" this isn't what I meant

A list of Figma variables for padding where the name equals the value.

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Case studies are hard bc when I don't know who I'm writing for, I write recursively. "The problem was, it's hard to use this data. Which is a problem because we need it. And we need it because our customers expect it. And they expect it because it's where the value is. And it's valuable bc...

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Currently in mild shock after being told it's more important for your career to post about designing than to actually design. I think they might be right

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

The makers of Xbox One X Series S didn't nail the naming?? 😱😱😱

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

How do you demonstrate your "process" in a way that doesn't make you look like a fresh grad? (Tired of 'case study guides" that just prove that you know when to use a radio button vs a checkbox)

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Never forget what they took from you

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I wanna meet the artists behind the macOS desktop wallpapers. How do I do that?

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I figured out how to find the perfect amount of space between any two lines of text of different sizes

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Also the more time I spend here and tumblr vs reddit and IG the more I'm like "ohhhh this is why I used to love social media so much when it was first happening, I forgot it used to just be like this."

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I'm starting to think that I've become the monster I sought to destroy (the guy who works on his side projects on vacation)

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Lol Twitter won't allow me to upload a photo unless I allow access to ALL my photos/videos. If you choose "limited"or "ask every time" etc it refuses to load it. Dark pattern or bug? #ui #ux

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

This left me speechless. Found in someone's Figma file today #ux #ui

Screenshot of Figma variables table where padding values of 4, 6, 8, 10, etc are saved to variables for no reason

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Chainlift @chainlift.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Update from LiftKit Studio: Development has officially begun, and the style config panel is underway. You can preview different prop configs for each component and edit the major styles. Excited for what's next!

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Wow, so design twitter is just LinkedIn with more pictures. Glad I'm here

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Oh my God they're not kidding www.blackgate.com/tag/the-fate...

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The Fate of Nations – Black Gate

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WIRED @wired.com · 27/12/2025

Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.

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Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Well if this isn't the most uplifting thing I've read all day

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I swear to God quitting Reddit is like quitting nicotine. Except with nicotine I can throw the vape away and just sweat it out. But Reddit? It's always in my pocket. I find myself opening it as a reflex without realizing it. Then I wonder why im stressed all the time!

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

“This moment reflects the heart of San Francisco,” said D’Arcy Drollinger, owner and artistic director of Oasis and Oasis Arts. “Saving Oasis is more than keeping a venue open, it’s about protecting space for marginalized artists to take risks, share their stories, and build sustainable careers.”

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

No joke the DMV's UX team is fuckin *on* it.

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Honestly you should be allowed to leave up Christmas lights until daylight saving time starts again. This "dark at 5pm" BS is depressing

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

UX idea for @netflix.com: as someone watching a comedy with subtitles, I want the ability to activate "punchline mode" which would pace the subtitle displays to avoid showing the whole joke at once, so that I can't read the whole joke before the character can actually deliver it

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I love when tech terms accidentally overlap with niche gay slang. Like, just found out a large bearded man I follow has "bearblog" in his bio, and it took me a COUPLE OF MINUTES to realize he didn't have a secret salacious Tumblr

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Floptropicans + UX Designers are at the intersection of a venn diagram but I can't tell what the two sides are

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I designed Chainlift's syntax highlighting theme based on this little toy vacuum I had as a kid. The colors match the tints on the balls inside that would whirr around. Now, the code subconsciously reminds me of a happy thing when I look at it. I hope it makes the devs reading it feel happy too

Code snippet above a photo of a vintage toy vacuum. They share similar color scheme

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

This is why I tell people majoring in English can make you a better designer but damn it's a tough sell

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mike @chiangku.me · 23/12/2025

I don't know who needs to tell Disneyland this but if you have to put up a digital screen explaining to people how to use your digital screen 15 feet ahead, you have a very bad user experience and/or interface

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

eye doc: what do you do? Me: UI design. I do a lot of subpixel stuff" Doc: oh! I didn't realize we even companies needed that! Me: they don't Doc: so what's it for? Me: uh... I have this... need for control Doc: oh Me: yeah Nurse: "lwhy doesn't SF have hot dogs I've never seen one here

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

This would do numbers in San Francisco

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I feel so bad for all the social media managers whose bosses are gonna be like "WHY AREN'T PEOPLE VISITING OUR WEBSITE"

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Kept googling things out of spite until I accidentally became a design engineer

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

The cruelest irony of being a UI/UX designer is that sharing your work online doesn't actually prove how good you are because the real skill is in everything AROUND the finished product, and also good UI design is usually subtle often boring to look at

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Garrett Mack @garrettmack.bsky.social · 18/12/2025