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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 30/10/2025

"you stop designing AT developers, and start designing WITH them" Tech Takes | How do I actually get my designs used by my dev team? __ #productdevelopment #productdesign #startup #webdev #webdesign #ai #design

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 29/10/2025

Prepping my JavaScript for Designers course! After lots of iterations, I feel like I've finally cracked how to sequence all the JS content so it just clicks right away for designers 😁 We're up to 6 sections and over 50 lessons--can't wait to start filming!

Split-screen showing a Notion course list for “JS for Designers” with lessons marked “Not started,” and a code example explaining arrays of objects with merchants like Taco Bell and McDonald’s, followed by examples such as Airbnb listings and groceries apps.

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 10/10/2025

Anyone else naming their Figma layers like this? 👀 Feels like it helps dev/ai <> design collaboration, but could also get confusing on larger teams. Plus, it assumes design team can work with HTML/CSS structures.

A Figma layer list using HTML elements and Tailwind CSS classes as layer names.

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 05/08/2025

Stop confusing process with culture. Your team does standups. You run retros. You’ve got a Notion doc for everything. But a full calendar and all the docs in the world won't magically translate into a stellar culture.

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 08/07/2025

Most product teams obsess over features, the best ones obsess over team cohesion. Just dropped a pod w/ Jason Chen from Trestle on what makes great product teams actually work 👇

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 01/07/2025

In this week’s Tech Takes, we break down a framework called Product Elevation. It helps teams get radically clear on what part of the product they’re actually discussing.

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 24/06/2025

Great products don’t win because they have the most features. They win because users feel like they were built for them. On the latest Technically Lit, I talked to Salesforce dev Dee Knell about what it really takes to build with empathy especially when you’re not a technical founder. 🧵

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 20/06/2025

Wow 🤩 500 YouTube subscribers. Nothing like a little digital confetti to start the day! Thank you for being part of our journey so far. We have so much awesome content planned for Technically Lit, and I’m so excited to share it all with you! Next stop 1,000 💫

A screenshot from YouTube showing 500 subcribers.

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 18/06/2025

The Design Paradox: The more attached you are to your mockups, the harder it can be to ship. Try not to let let pixel perfection cost you progress! Ep 003 - Start ugly: a product design process that drives results - Tech Takes __ #productdevelopment #productdesign #startup #tech #webdesign

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 17/06/2025

BEWARE of the mockup trap 🪤 Ep 003 - Start ugly: a product design process that drives results - Tech Takes __ #productdevelopment #productdesign #startup #tech #webdesign #marketing #design #webdev #AI

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 16/06/2025

"[AI] will be just as important as electricity over time" Ep 001 - Why great developers don't just write code - Josh Knell __ #AI #productdevelopment #coding #productdesign #tech #startups

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 12/06/2025

Looking at the same data doesn’t always mean you’re reading the same story 🤔 Ep 002 - Why every marketer should think like a product team - Mitchell Wright __ #productdevelopment #productdesign #startup #tech #data #marketing #vercel #design #webdev

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 10/06/2025

It's not just about WHAT to build, it's also about WHY. Ep 004 - The Art of Product Alignment - Jason McCarty __ #tech #startup #productdevelopment #productdesign #UI #UX

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 10/06/2025

One of the most underrated (and misunderstood) skills in product development? Alignment. Not just sprint planning. Not just stand-ups. We're talking real, strategic, vision-level alignment. On Ep 4 of Technically Lit, I sat down with product leader Jason McCarty to unpack it:

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 06/06/2025

If you're looking for product-market fit, you need to break out of the office and find your users 🔎 Ep 003 - Smell your users: why distance kills good product thinking - Emiliano Villarreal __ #tech #startup #productdevelopment #productdesign #UI #UX

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 05/06/2025

Every handoff is an opportunity to build trust with your team 🤝 Tech Takes - Ep 2 - How to become your dev team's favorite designer

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 03/06/2025

If devs are guessing, then my design isn’t done. Tech Takes - Ep 1 - Building products that don’t break under pressure __ #productdevelopment #productdesign #tech #startup #coding #design

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 03/06/2025

Sometimes users tell us more than the data does 👀 Ep 002 - Why every marketer should think like a product team - Mitchell Wright __ #productdevelopment #tech #startup #coding #productmarketing

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 01/06/2025

There’s probably a better way to do this, but now I have a bunch of scripts to configure my screens for recording videos 😅

A file tree listing out a bunch of bash and apple scripts

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 26/03/2025

Had a great workshop last week with the Technically Lit content. Now to iterate and refine into videos 💪

An outline of the Technically Lit curriculum highlighting static web fundamentals.

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 10/01/2025

And yes, I’ve seen that xkcd cartoon 😅 but I still appreciate when people strive for standards imgs.xkcd.com/comics/stand...

A three panel comic.

Panel one says, “situation: there are 14 competing standards.”

Panel two says, “14?! Ridiculous! We need to develop one universal standard the covers everyone’s use cases.”

Panel three says, “situation: there are 15 competing standards.”

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 19/12/2024

I've been adding these micro user flows next to my mockups, and they've really been helping with handoffs and when I revisit the design later. Really nice little process upgrade 🤌

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 18/12/2024

Two product development "truths" I keep running into: 1. Software is never finished. 2. The reward for good work is more work.

A stacked area chart showing issue tracking from October 2023 to December 2024. The chart has two main areas: a purple area on top representing 'TO DO' items and a green area below representing 'Done' items. Both areas show steady growth over time, with the total number of issues increasing from near zero in October 2023 to approximately 600 by December 2024.

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 10/12/2024

Got our shipment of terminal coffee for Markham Square's year-end gifts. Of course, we had to go with the artisan blend 😉

A box filled with bags of terminal's artisan blend coffee.

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 06/12/2024

I'm just going to start using this instead of a resume 😂 While I do love the LinkedIn games, I feel like we're going to see a news article soon about how they're selling this data as a performance metric/score during hiring processes 🙃

A screenshot of a LinkedIn Crossclimb game result that says, "Smarter than 95% of CEOs"

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 11/11/2024

Let's take a peek at some launch day stats for @auth.gallery 👀 Interesting to see that people are into the Turmeric screen and how much traffic LinkedIn drives. Y'all need to help bluesky get those numbers up 😆

A bar chart showing that the turmeric auth screen is getting the most traffic.

A chart showing referrers ranked highest to lowest: direct, LinkedIn, laravel-news.com, pinkary, bsky.app

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 07/11/2024

Woah, Chrome has AI supported debugging in devtools now 👀

The developer console in Chrome showing an AI generated help message.

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 01/11/2024

Fun – poster of the day #5 Feel like we forget this too often. The best teams I've worked with knew how to have fun.

A poster with a cream background, a bunch of small pink dots, and a quote from David Ogilvy that says, "When people aren’t having any fun, they seldom produce good work."

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 31/10/2024

Unlock – poster of the day #4 Experimented a bit with AI here cause I can't make a whole pixel landscape in 20 minutes 😅 Felt useful for part of the overall composition, but I wouldn't want to use it for the whole thing.

A poster of a keyhole opening onto the Swiss alps with the phrase, "touch grass unlock your magic" on top.

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 29/10/2024

Laravel friends, can't wait to share this soon–any guesses?

A hero section of a website that says, "Free, [intentionally left blank] for Laravel projects.

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 29/10/2024

Bet – poster of the day #2 Perlin filters are fun 🤩

A poster with a dark background and a quote from Sahil Bloom, "Never bet against a person who just keeps showing up"

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Nick Basile @nick-basile.com · 28/10/2024

Do we like posters here? I was posting these elsewhere, but curious if anyone wants to see them here too 😄 I try to do 1 poster a day in 20 mins during the work week for fun/practice. #design #posters

A poster with stacked circles featuring a quote from Meredith Grey, "So, do it. Decide. Is this the life you want to live? Is this the person you want to love? Is this the best you can be? Can you be stronger? Kinder? More compassionate? Decide. Breathe in. Breathe out & decide."

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