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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 13h

It seems like @bsky.app could solve their bot problem by simply not allowing anyone with the name "Julie" to sign up.

A screenshot of my recent new followers, four out of the five of which use the display name “Julie” and are clearly bots.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 30/09/2026

Like, what is this animation choice? Who decided that this menu should violently shudder every time you open it?

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 18/09/2026

Golden Gate is such a huge improvement over Tahoe, but what is the point of a toolbar background that only appears when a window is backgrounded?

A comparison of the Messages window in macOS Golden Gate when it’s foregrounded and backgrounded. When the window is foregrounded, there’s no toolbar background behind the compose, contact details, and FaceTime buttons. When the window is backgrounded, there is.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 11/09/2026

Firefox, why are you like this.

Three website shortcuts on the Firefox “new tab” page. The label for the middle one, “HeyDesigner” drops just the “r” down to the second line rather than hyphenating or truncating.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 10/09/2026

This is the exact moment of the keynote where I, as a UX designer, broke out in a cold sweat.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 18/08/2026

Made my first Figma plugin. It generates a wave shape that fits inside a circle. www.figma.com/community/plugi...

A variety of waves in different shapes, styles, and color combinations made using the “Wave in Circle” Figma plugin.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 08/07/2026

I need everyone to see how hard the Phoenix Closures logo went in the 90s before they decided to ruin it in 2018.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 17/06/2026

It also gave my very first user maybe the greatest password ever created, so there's that.

A text from a friend reading “Omg how did you know my password??!?!” and an attached image showing the password “mommy9SERVES!”

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 16/05/2026

Nice little design detail in Indigo by @soapboxsoftware.bsky.social. User avatar overlaps image carousel when the carousel scrolls.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 04/05/2026

Screenshot from the original post with alt text.

Then, in March, students at my eleven-year-old daughter's public middle school began receiving new Google Chromebooks, and that is when I heard the tap-tap of the cloven hooves approaching our doorstep. The Chromebooks, which the students use in every class and for homework, came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. When my daughter, who is in sixth grade, begins writing an essay, she gets a prompt: "Help me write." If she is starting work on a slide-show presentation, the prompt is "Help me visualize." She shoos away these interruptions, but they persist: "Help me edit." "Beautify this slide." The image generator is there, if she'd ever wish to pull the plug on her imagination. The Gemini chatbot is there, if she ever wants to talk to no one.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 30/04/2026

I asked @figma.com's AI to fill in these descriptions with lorem ipsum text and the result came out absolutely cursed.

A wireframe of UI cards with the following content:

Athletic Elements
Quarks croquet umami disrupt viral. Paradigm shift engagement…

Lower Body
Leverage, table stakes, and, waste of resources. Quick sync, value a…

Holistic
Low hanging fruit, bleeding edge, and, quick win. Disrupt, for, value…

Core
Bleeding edge, value add, for, quick win. Quick sync, waste of r...

Upper Body
Paradigm shift, waste of resources, and, quick win. Disrup....

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 27/04/2026

If @adobe.com is going to make me keep Creative Cloud (and its dozens of helper apps) on my computer to manage my Adobe app installations, you'd think the least they could do would be to prevent this from happening.

A macOS error dialog that says "You can't open the application 'Adobe Photoshop 2026' because it may be damaged or incomplete."

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 18/03/2026

This is the greatest bracket UI I’ve ever seen. Whoever at Apple had a hand in this, bravo.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 17/03/2026

When Apple replaced all the sheets with floating dialog boxes, that's when we should've realized that macOS software design was in decline.

A comparison of dialog sheets in Catalina and dialog boxes in Big Sur.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 12/03/2026

Why the hell isn't “Type to Siri" just one of the options within Spotlight?

The Spotlight search field, expanded to show quick links to applications, files, shortcuts, and clipboard.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 10/03/2026

Noticed the PayPal app got a new icon. Opened it up to see if they had updated anything else about the design. Got hit with 8 different layout shifts or UI stutters in 9 seconds.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 12/09/2025

Is it just me, or does the iPhone 17 Pro come off as vaguely cyberpunk to anyone else?

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 07/08/2025

Tim Cook is using a familiar strategy to stay in Donald Trump’s good graces: handing him a shiny toy and telling him he can keep it.

A Yahoo Sports headline that reads: “Did Donald Trump keep the FIFA Club World Cup trophy? U.S. president says Chelsea given replica, pockets medal”

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 06/08/2025

The worst thing about Substack is all the nazi stuff, but the second worst thing is how many of its newsletters use Spectral as a body text font. I made a Safari extension that replaces it with something more readable. apps.apple.com/us/app/spect...

There are plenty of great fonts for reading on the web. Spectral isn't one of them.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 07/07/2025

I want to love Firefox, but this is absolutely unhinged UI.

The upper-right corner of the Firefox window, which features a down-chevron icon, a double-right-chevron icon, and a hamburger menu.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 04/06/2025

I started work with a new client a couple weeks ago and this is how new frames were getting numbered in their existing files, so this feature has actually been a godsend.

A frame on a Figma canvas labeled “Frame 990007.”

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 26/03/2025

We all know someone who leaves Figma comments like this.

A screenshot from the leaked war plans Signal chat.

Michael Waltz: VP. building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID. Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job.

JD Vance: What?

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 18/02/2025

I went down a similar rabbit hole recently and these were graphs I scrapped together to try to put things in perspective.

Energy Use in Wh

10 Google Search queries: 3.0
10 DeepSeek queries (est. based on cost): 3.0
10 ChatGPT queries: 29.0
30 min Netflix streaming: 52.5

US Water Use in Billions of Liters Per Day

Data centers: 1.7
Golf courses: 7.9
Public water: 147.6
Thermoelectric: 427.8
Irrigation: 446.7
Other: 195.9

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 11/02/2025

It’s not gonna make a difference but it did make me feel 0.5% better.

Filing a report about the “Gulf of America” on Apple Maps that says, “I don’t think we should all be forced to use incorrect maps just because our president is a whiny little racist baby.”

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 03/02/2025

Whoa, when did ChatGPT fix their logo?

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 30/01/2025

This is just a regular Google search, no? Unless Siri asked you whether you want to use ChatGPT, don't you need to tell it "Ask ChatGPT when Apple next reports quarterly earnings?"

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 29/01/2025

At some point we need a retrospective on this moment of design in the auto industry. How did we get to a point where Hyundai has (in my opinion) the best looking EV and every luxury brand is putting out absolute garbage?

A rear 3/4 view of a silver Hyundai Ioniq 6 which emphasizes its Porsche-like body design.

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Jeremy Kanter @jeremykanter.com · 16/12/2024

Well this is unfortunately the realest thing I've ever read. trends.uxdesign.cc/2025

We’re handing our design systems to growth teams so they can squeeze every last penny out of customers. We're optimizing our flows for clicks, not clarity. We stopped building tools and started building engagement traps. While in the past UX had a certain aura of care for users, in 2024 we are bluntly following the numbers. In many companies, the pursuit of growth is overshadowing the pursuit of meaning.

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