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Manny

@mannimoki.bsky.social
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Designer, educator, technologist, growth-seeker. He/Him 🏳️‍🌈 mannyikomi.com

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
"What is the ROI of UX?" is shaped like a question, but it is actually two hostile premises: 1) that UX is sufficiently marginal for its value to be openly questioned 2) that the asker has the authority to judge this question, and practitioners are merely consulted on it, as a matter of courtesy
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henry ✷ @strange.website · 01/01/2026
you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song. here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Online
How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
One of few newsletters I actually look forward too and read. A MUST have for anyone working in product and technology.
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
2025 can honestly choke. Good riddance 😬
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Too young to worry, too old to give a shit ✌🏽
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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 16/07/2025
I have been back and forth over the span of 5 years about whether to publish this article. All opinions and experiences in this post are my own, or from people I personally know, backed up with recent reports and statistics.
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Why Women in Tech isn't enough
Women in Tech spaces help, but fall short in the long run. Real progress needs systemic change and active involvement from men in positions of power.
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Built a new PC for some games 🤓
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“Why don’t we actually acknowledge in our theories that companies survive and prosper once they simultaneously pay attention to the interests of customers, employees, shareholders, and perhaps even the communities in which they operate?

—Sumantra Ghoshal, London Business School
Bad Management Theories are Destroying Good Management Practices

Text is in white with some words highlighted in green on a bisexual blue purple pink gradient.The honest answer is because such a perspective cannot be elegantly modeled—the math does not exist.”

—Sumantra Ghoshal, London Business School

Bad Management Theories are Destroying Good Management Practices

Text is in white on a bisexual blue purple pink gradient.
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A very timely read for tech workers right now. My favorite takeaway as it applies to cross-functional teams, especially for designers: "in order to master your own domain, the boundaries of your specialism will often blur with specialists in other domains."
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Soon enough, people will be adding "Figma Suite" to their resumes.
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Tanya Janca | SheHacksPurple @shehackspurple.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Thoughts!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
So much to unpack here, but I also love the mini lesson in survey design.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Sometimes I wonder who has the world record for the most Workday accounts? 🤔
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
sʇouʞs 📉
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Context matters and not everything valuable is measurable. See "Why big data needs thick data" by Tricia Wang. A timeless classic imo medium.com/ethnography-...
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Why Big Data Needs Thick Data
Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Data in Research
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 29/03/2025
So called 'gender critical' thought is unscientific, reductionist, and incompatible with the historical record. Human history is undeniably and richly populated by endless examples of multiple gender identities and roles, decoupled from biological sex, throughout time, across continents & islands
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Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Something I realized about the convos around the Ghibli styled images generated by Open AI, is that a lot of people rely on legalities. They have no sense of internal ethics. We have to fight to make sure the law is on the side of ethics. Slavery was legal but that doesn’t make it right.
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Figma @figma.com · 28/03/2025
See if color contrast meets accessibility standards right within the color picker
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Why does it feel so much harder to design for yourself and not others?
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
UX design is in disarray. The idea of design-for-use has been replaced with design-for-sales, and its incentives (make more features so that you have more shit to sell) don't align with user-centered work. In this issue, I investigate the ground-level view of how this happened and how to stop it.
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Why design goes wrong and how to set it right, part 1
At the root of design's crisis is an incentives crisis throughout tech. But we have tools that let us cut through the magical thinking of feature factories - if we're willing to use them.
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Alasdair Munro @apsmunro.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Something I've noticed is that when someone says, "can I ask a stupid question?" during a teaching session, this is almost always followed by the most interesting discussion of the session It's one of the things I look forward to most about teaching
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Hollering at this episode 🤣 "At this point, I will even take, 'we will improve our NPS score'" @spavel.bsky.social 😱 www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7m-...
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Design That Counts: Lessons on UX Influence and Impact with Pavel Samsonov, Ep26
YouTube video by vaexperience
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
A T E 🔥
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
By excluding these “edge cases” it also further perpetuates the bias that “[insert marginalized group here] doesn’t use our app”. Strengthening and perpetuating the cycle through even more self-selection and exclusion, leading to more feature factory product teams.
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Can we get an executive order to end daylight savings? Too soon?
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I think it's important to remember, with everything extremely fucked up and dumb right now, that at the root of it, fuck fuck fucking fucking fuck.
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
+1 for this course! I use it as part of my interactive design course every semester with my students. Fantastic content, and approachable for everyone!
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
former colleagues from 18F have asked me to share this open letter widely - please pass on 🙏 🇺🇸 💻💪 18f.org
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We're not done yet | 18F
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 01/03/2025
18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:
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⭑ salma @whitep4nth3r.com · 22/02/2025
websites are so cool anyone can just make one about anything
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kepano @stephango.com · 20/02/2025
All the cloud platforms use your data to train LLMs. Local-first tools are the way to fight back. Security, defense, finance, healthcare, government... the reason high-security orgs use Obsidian is for the privacy and ownership of their data. Now every team can be sovereign.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 18/02/2025
Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
And yet, when learning we’re more often rewarded for having the “answer”. AI just reinforces this behavior even if the answer is wrong or inaccurate. Sometimes there’s no answer, just tradeoffs. I wonder what would happen if LLM’s were trained to help us ask better questions 🤭
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 16/02/2025
Ever notice how there's no fixing anything in "move fast and break things"
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The real hierarchy of needs
Pyramid with levels labeled from the bottom up:
- not having to use Teams
- not having to use Jira
- not having to use Salesforce
- food shelter water
- money love etc.
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
“Soul not for sale, probably won’t make no money off this, oh well”
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Yes and it’s the people you meet along the way. Genuinely connect and nurture those relationships. Be as authentic as you can. Opportunities often come when we least expect them!
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Long live the web, long live the links!
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
If I won the lottery, I wouldn't tell anyone - but there would be signs the signs:
hawaiinewsnow.com
After signs are hacked, state warns changing roadwork message boards is illegal
Anyone caught changing a sign could face a $200 fine for a first violation.
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Brad Frost @bradfrost.com · 23/01/2025
Amazing life hack: learn how to be genuinely happy for other people. Don't feel threatened by others' happiness. Don't go into comparison mode. Don't be a wet blanket. Don't avoid it. Embrace others' happiness. Bask in it. Let their smile become your smile. Let it infect you. Let it lift you up.
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Nik Jeleniauskas @njeleniauskas.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
As designers, the tools we use can shape our focus and thinking, and bias us toward narrower outputs — especially when it comes to accessibility. So how could a design tool like @figma.com help us better? I have a few thoughts. www.jeleniauskas.com/writing/to-c...
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To Create More Accessible Outcomes, We Need Better Design Tools — Nik Jeleniauskas
Visual design tools can bias designers into less accessible results. So how can these tools help improve these outcomes?
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
As long as you're sincere in what you say, you haven't got to know what you're talking about. — James Baldwin
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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 18/01/2025
if you see something that's "buy one get one free" and you're a CSS developer you can instead say "that's a 2fr one deal" hahahahahahaha
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This took me out 🤣 “If you ever think to yourself, “Well, a survey isn’t really the right way to make this critical decision, but the CEO really wants to run one. What’s the worst that can happen?” Brexit.” Just Enough Research @erikahall.bsky.social
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Fighting the good fight against accessibility overlays this week and educating my team. The overlay fact sheet was a great resource for this if you're interested overlayfactsheet.com/en/
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Overlay Fact Sheet
An open letter about accessibility overlays.
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
To be a missionary and mercenary in the same job join a design consultancy, it’s quite the roller coaster 🤭
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
It's that time of year again 🤭 new Date().getFullYear()
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Manny @mannimoki.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
"If it ain't fixed, don't break it" One hell of a statement to encapsulate what we now call responsive design 🔥 I'm currently reading Resilient Web Design by @adactio.com and this is definitely going to make it into my Interactive Design course this spring.
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