Michael Olson @molson.design · 27/06/2026I’m mainly blown away that they added more types of variables while variable management itself is still a nightmare. But I do appreciate the motion stuff. 120
Michael Olson @molson.design · 07/11/2025The passkeys I’ve set up just fail without explanation like half the time! I can’t fathom trying to get my parents to use them. When they actually work it feels pretty nice though. 010
Michael Olson @molson.design · 31/07/2025every time coal comes up I remember that the entire industry employs fewer people than Arby’s and have a good little chuckle www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp...washingtonpost.comAnalysis | The entire coal industry employs fewer people than Arby’sCoal helps significantly fewer U.S. workers get jobs than Donald Trump would have you believe. 1046785
Michael Olson @molson.design · 24/07/2025Also shoutout to www.webdesignmuseum.orgwebdesignmuseum.orgWeb Design Museum - Discover old websites, apps and softwareWeb Design Museum exhibits thousands of websites that chronicle forgotten trends in web design from its beginnings in the 1990s to the mid-00s. 000
Michael Olson @molson.design · 24/07/2025Link to the thing: web.archive.org/web/20020206... Ashamed to admit that it took me this long to donate for the first time, but it's really easy and they don't try to trick you into donating monthly. archive.org/donate?origi...web.archive.orgmain 000
Michael Olson @molson.design · 24/07/2025Huge personal news: I have learned that the official Flash website for the award winning motion picture, Shrek, is available to experience via the Internet Archive. 210
Michael Olson @molson.design · 25/05/2025walgreens, don’t pretend to be cool. this is embarrassing. 020
Michael Olson @molson.design · 21/05/2025I don’t miss the Fitbit life but it did last around 3x longer and emailed me before it died. Okay, I miss it a little. 000
Michael Olson @molson.design · 21/05/2025- apple watch: dies while sleeping - every app with access to my sleep info: YOU GOT ONE HOUR AND FOURTEEN MINUTES OF SLEEP YOU ARE DEAD 110
Michael Olson @molson.design · 07/05/2025Yeah, lots of cool new stuff but they sure are letting some half baked features languish. 020
Michael Olson @molson.design · 04/05/2025This same scenario played out with something I returned a couple years ago, with 2 separate returns. Except the stuff Amazon claimed to receive in the boxes I sent were definitely NOT what I’d shipped. I suspect the UPS store swapped things out—that location was shut down a few months later. 020
Michael Olson @molson.design · 04/05/2025elegant or over-engineered way to handle horizontal navs on mobile? I think it's neat, but it might not make it to production for a few reasons. #uxsky #designsky 020
Michael Olson @molson.design · 26/04/2025It’s incredible that Clair Obscur was made by French people; it seems intent on confirming all cartoon stereotypes about French people. 000
Michael Olson @molson.design · 18/04/2025Would ~love~ to see behind the scenes stuff for this. Can’t fathom the process of planning it out. 010
Michael Olson @molson.design · 16/04/2025The sooner you redesign your website, the sooner you can redesign it again 010
Michael Olson @molson.design · 15/04/2025I love the phrasing “every single episode” here. buddy, the whole show is shorter than most movies. 010
Michael Olson @molson.design · 16/03/2025rebuilding portfolio website, day 1: nothing fancy, I just need to do the bare minimum, make it look good, and be done in two weeks day 93: I have implemented a bad version of figma’s comment system 010
Michael Olson @molson.design · 09/03/2025We change TIME ITSELF and every time I hear about it through word-of-mouth like it’s a trendy new bar. 000
Michael Olson @molson.design · 09/03/2025If we have to continue living with daylight savings we should at least have fun citywide sirens. 110
Michael Olson @molson.design · 24/01/2025I finally turned off the “Michael, you’re on a roll on LinkedIn!” emails that I seemed to get every day despite never opening LinkedIn, and it’s the most noticeable improvement in my quality of life in roughly 3 years. 020
Michael Olson @molson.design · 15/12/2024Don’t feel too bad, that’s definitely a share icon and they’re using it wrong. 010
Michael Olson @molson.design · 13/12/2024Here's one of the very few just-for-fun illustrations I've actually finished. Heavily inspired by Arnie Jorgensen's work in Banner Saga, which is inspired in part by the art of Eyvind Earle. Dated March 9, 2020 😰 020
Michael Olson @molson.design · 06/12/2024Somebody putting way too much effort into a joke is truly the internet at its best 010
Reposted by Michael OlsonMatt Nava @mattnava.bsky.social · 23/11/202410th anniversary Journey thread, recreated: I was the art director of thatgamecompany's Journey. It set the course of my career and my art. I'm forever thankful to the community of players and their incredible love for the game. This is a thread comparing early dev images and how things shipped. 11331761154
Michael Olson @molson.design · 27/11/2024I added a day counter to my portfolio site starting when it launched, so everyone knows I was 3 years dumber when I made it. (I did this to avoid working on a new version) 010
Michael Olson @molson.design · 26/11/2024I borrowed some of how their system’s modals function a few years back and regretted it almost immediately 🫠 — a good lesson to learn 000
Michael Olson @molson.design · 23/11/2024My first thought was to check how video game designers handle this, it’s pretty much their bread and butter. This “skill atom” concept is sort of kind of close-ish and pretty interesting. www.gamedeveloper.com/design/the-c...gamedeveloper.comThe Chemistry Of Game DesignCan you create a practical technique for game design? In this exclusive Gamasutra feature, acclaimed Lost Garden designer Daniel Cook explains how the proper ingredients, when combined with a working ... 000
Michael Olson @molson.design · 23/11/2024Dear #uxsky, Are there any good inspo resources out there for user flow charts & diagrams? I’m working on some things with a lot of forking paths and user attributes that my standard practices feel clunky for. 120
Michael Olson @molson.design · 23/11/2024This is cool! In case you haven’t noticed, I’m seeing some weird jitters scrolling in mobile Safari. 🤔 110
Michael Olson @molson.design · 23/11/2024Great suggestions — I agree with all of this except that combining it into one sentence makes it a bit harder for me to parse 000
Michael Olson @molson.design · 19/11/2024The best-looking set with Korean characters I could find a couple of years ago was based on the K-pop group Blackpink (it's black and pink). I didn't realize until I was putting them on, but the return key label is "Boombayah." I love pressing that key. 120
Michael Olson @molson.design · 17/11/2024If you’re like me and built your whole life around being sort of good at drawing when you were a child, I think you should watch Look Back. (Or if you just appreciate great animation and have a Prime account) 010
Michael Olson @molson.design · 16/11/2024As my first official act on bsky, here's a list of all the fine folks I could find here who've been guests on the good good design podcast dive.club by @ridd-design.bsky.social. Hope to see more soon! 121
Michael Olson @molson.design · 16/11/2024Hi internet friends! It was tough, but I made the incredibly noble and righteous and brave decision to delete my other account (with a really, really big following!) and come here. 050
