iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

John Voss @jovo.design · 06/10/2026

Every year, Descript has a spooky film fest. This year, I used a combination of our generative and traditional editing tools to animate one of my favorite spooky stories: Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies (Or After the Outing)

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John Voss @jovo.design · 09/09/2026

Looking for a song I liked from middle school and this is the album I found it on. 🥀💀

Artwork for a compilation album called “ultimate dad”
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John Voss @jovo.design · 25/07/2026

At least a half dozen ravens cooperate to track my movements in the morning now.

At least 5 ravens in a row on a single branch in the tree behind my house.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 20/07/2026

Queer wedding realness. Hot glued and spray painted myself. Call that couture.

Me in a navy suit— cropped jacket and wide pants—with cyan ombré and butterfly appliqués.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 29/06/2026

#DesignSystems friends, I'm hiring a #designengineer. It's a weird role, and I'm a weird boss, so I made this kick-off video to introduce both! SF or Remote (US). Apply here: grnh.se/zzirri2l3us

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John Voss @jovo.design · 29/06/2026

Lil grey fox cutting across our back porch this am.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 07/06/2026

After 6 years, Wily learned to fetch.

Wily, a brindle mountain dog running down a sandy beach with a tennis ball in her mouth.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 04/06/2026

This single is up there with Book of Mormon with how well it executes the form of that which it is parodying.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 23/05/2026

The Millennial Trolley Problem

Simple line work comic.

Panel 1: Has the title “The Millenial Trolley Problem” and two people talking. Person 1 says “Okay, so imagine there’s a trolley barreling down its tracks…”

Panel 2: Depicts the trolly on its tracks. The tracks branch off in two directions. There’s a lever at the fork. On one side after the fork, there’s a row of people tied to the tracks that extends past what is visible. A text box shows the continuation of person 1’s sentence “If you do nothing, you have to watch the trolley continue to run over people for the rest of your life…”

Panel Three: Shows a close up of the big lever at the fork in the tracks. “There’s a lever you can pull to divert the trolley and save those people, but you’ll get hit by the trolley instead…”

Panel Four: Person 1 is now standing behind Person 2, holding them back by the waist, as they desperately try to grab the lever from Panel Three with both hands, which is just slightly out of reach.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 19/05/2026

When the mental health is hitting like Fiona Apple's 1997 VMA speech.

A young Fiona Apple on stage at the VMA's saying "Everybody that's watching, this world… this world is bullshit."

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John Voss @jovo.design · 02/04/2026

*To the tune of Pink Pony Club* 🎶Eating pancakes at the Cor-gi Cafe🎶

A photo collage of a neon sign reading “Corgie cafe,” a plate of pink berry pancakes, and a cute corgie

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John Voss @jovo.design · 30/03/2026

Truly unfair how the photographic skills are distributed in this marriage.

My husband Seldo look handsome but bemused by having his photo taken in front of one of the modernist towers on top of Casa Mìla / the Gaudy house

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John Voss @jovo.design · 29/03/2026

We also visited the Cardona salt mines where I ran into that mineral formation you let destroy your credit.

An iron mineral formation springing out of the wall of the salt mine. It is long, curved, and extremely phallic.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 29/03/2026

Today we visited the name sake of one of my favorite Google fonts.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 27/03/2026

Did you know the original homophobic dog meme was painted by Pablo Picasso?

A Picasso painting of a small dog giving the viewer side eye with the caption “I know what you are” super imposed on top of it.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 26/03/2026

I also like this cat, who obviously lives off pigeons and monk parakeets in Park Güell.

A slinky white cat steps across a cobblestone archway surrounded by vibrant spring flowers and bushes.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 26/03/2026

My favorite shot from our first full day in Barcelona, inside Sagrada Família.

A long row of pillars in a neo gothic cathedral lit up in a dramatic rainbow gradient by stained glass windows out of the shot.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 22/03/2026

No Stellar sea lions sun bathing today, but lots of others!

Dozens of sea lions sun bathing at Fisherman’s Wharf

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John Voss @jovo.design · 22/03/2026

She finds being perceived a burden.

A closeup low depth of field photo of my dog, staring up at the camera with big amber eyes.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 09/03/2026

And this is his site! Splinter in your neighbor’s eye, etc. etc.

A splash page that says “rotate” because it can’t be viewed in portrait on mobile.i

A landing page that uses 2010’s drop shadows and shades of gray with no contrast

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John Voss @jovo.design · 09/03/2026

No, it’s too early for this.

Cold inbound email that reads:

using Descript for the first time felt a bit like ordering from a Thai restaurant online where nothing on the menu has pictures and every dish is in Siamese. You know the Pad Kra Pao is probably great, but you're one confusing name away from going with Gusto's Pizza again.
Your dashboard gives similar vibes tbh. Lots of great stuff, but nothing really telling me "start here"
We helped Kaasai, a Microsoft-backed startup, with the same problem. Churn dropped 18%, support tickets down 30%, without removing a single feature. Just made it easier to understand what Pad Kra Pao is.
Want me to show you what I'd change on one screen? Free, takes me a quick Loom.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 16/02/2026

My new hobby is cutting rubber stamps on my Glowforge. This one was inspired by a particularly intense game of Werewolf at my team’s offsite last year.

A werewolf in a geometric rubber cut style that blends Keith Haring and medieval woodcuts, stomping while flipping the bird with both hands, shouting “Get fucked peasants!”

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John Voss @jovo.design · 23/01/2026

This morning TikTok has decided that what I need is videos of demon pugs owned by overwhelmed dads screaming in other languages, and you know what? They’re right! “AY! MA BAGUETTE!”

A close crop still from a TikTok video of a pug ferociously lunging toward his dad’s sandwich.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 31/10/2025

One in particular I would be interested in digging into with the community is the way design systems follow the same patterns as the automation of labor and knowledge work in the 19th century—and our contribution to making design and engineering automatable now.

A slide from my talk “Framing the Future”

It reads:

The automation of physical and mental labor follow the same pattern:
• Extract knowledge from highly skilled workers
• Break work into its component parts
• Standardize and govern how parts connect
• Develop technology to automate the process
• Concentrate knowledge and power at the top

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John Voss @jovo.design · 29/10/2025

I don’t know if my talk tomorrow will resonate, but I do know that it’s pretty.

The cover slide for my talk “Framing the future: Luddites, futurists, and the systems of tomorrow” it is a graphic dark black with white text and bright purple-blue graphics reminiscent of printers’ marks, a grid and a 3D infinity sign

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John Voss @jovo.design · 28/10/2025

This is cultural appropriation.

A shop in Bristol, UK named “Boston Tea Party”

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John Voss @jovo.design · 25/10/2025

My husband gets more swag than me, but *I* am a trash bandit, so guess who just got a travel backpack upgrade?

A poorly photoshopped photo of a raccoon grabbing a Peak Design backpack

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John Voss @jovo.design · 24/10/2025

Guess who I just ran into

A zine styled after Chick tracts called “Don’t build the torment nexus!” By Mike Monteiro

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John Voss @jovo.design · 21/09/2025

I think it’s well past time to take away Jakob Nielsen’s posting privileges.

A Nielsen LinkedIn post that reads:

No more UI: Once #superintelligence arrives in 2030, there will be no UI design, since users will be using their agents, instead of interacting directly with websites or traditional software.
It's even possible that the advance in #AI #agents will be faster and not require superintelligence to have higher #usability than interacting with websites, which often have atrocious design.

My full article 👉 https://lnkd.in/gqQea6yx
Song 👉 https://lnkd.in/gqcitk35

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John Voss @jovo.design · 13/09/2025

Wily develops an overbite only when she’s getting belly rubs.

Wily, my brindle Formosan mountain dog, turned upside down in bed for belly rubs. She’s got a silly look on her face and her top teeth are sticking out out over her bottom lip

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John Voss @jovo.design · 11/09/2025

Brindle cinnamon roll fan club

My pup a brindle Formosan mountain dog is curled up in bed

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John Voss @jovo.design · 09/09/2025

How would AI-powered creative tools changed if they were designed by people who actually like to create? I’ve got some thoughts… www.descript.com/blog/article...

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John Voss @jovo.design · 01/09/2025

I pay for a Nest subscription solely to get videos of the fox who lives near our house.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 01/09/2025

The face of a dog who is about to roll all over a dead bird.

Wily, looking up at the camera very happily, looking sweet and not disgusting.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 17/08/2025

Wily got to go for a—much lower stakes than lately—run on the beach today.

Wily, a Formosan mountain dog, galloping happily in the surf

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John Voss @jovo.design · 13/08/2025

I’d kill for dryer coin brain

Connie from Big Mouth lamenting ‘I want to be hot and dumb’

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John Voss @jovo.design · 10/08/2025

Dreaming of her misadventures. I hope they’re good ones.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 09/08/2025

🐾 HOME 🐾 Wily has made her way home. On a whim at 3am, Laurie checked outside and there she was waiting for us at our front gate. We knew she was looking for us, and I’m so happy she found us. Thank you to everyone reported sightings and offered support. My heart is very full right now.

A photo of Wily with her duck stuffy on the floor of our apartment.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 07/08/2025

This is some bootlicking shit that may actually get me to go green bubble. apple.news/AzMrIDu9rSQi...

Apple’s CEO gives Trump a gift of glass and 24-karat gold

Tim Cook presented the gift at a White House event, where President Trump announced that Apple will invest an additional $100 billion in U.S. jobs and suppliers.

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John Voss @jovo.design · 05/08/2025

Reposting edited because I don’t want to meet harassment with harassment. But Zach Levine lost our dog and is sending us messages like this. He advertises in Sea Ranch and the Bay Area. I want people to be aware. And I’m really hoping Wily is found and the cautionary tale ends at this stress.

Yay I think the dog actually ran away
Now you don't get to buy yourself immunity through fantasies of your responsibility and love
You callous, reckless, endlessly self interested and hateful cretins
Hope the dog is run over

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John Voss @jovo.design · 04/08/2025

I thought potential Descript product designers would like to hear more about the role I’m trying to fill…and what they’re in for working with me. job-boards.greenhouse.io/descript/job...

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John Voss @jovo.design · 03/08/2025

Not a bad start to vacation.

Rolling green hills and rustic buildings on the Tuscan countryside with a rainbow shooting across a blue sky.

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