Reposted by Rune MadsenK.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 22/07/2025“A source that cannot be verified or remain consistent is useless.” Shout this sentence from on high. 9898352
Reposted by Rune MadsenMETR @metr.org · 10/07/2025We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't. 11968702993
Reposted by Rune MadsenNate Butler @nate.rip · 09/07/2025If you design digital products, I beg you to read these paragraphs 🙏 From @designsystems.international's [Product Design is Lost] designsystems.international/ideas/produc... 1121
Reposted by Rune MadsenCommunication Arts @commarts.com · 09/07/2025@runemadsen.com on the subtle ways design tools shape how we think and what we make. ow.ly/ntWU50Wn2C0 032
Reposted by Rune MadsenMike Brondbjerg @mikebrondbjerg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025A good article from @runemadsen.com reminding us that our tools shape our creativity. "the growing monoculture in digital design where everything starts to look and feel the same, not because of shared intent, but because of shared constraints" 041
Reposted by Rune MadsenAsh Guillaume @ashygee.bsky.social · 08/07/2025"The goal isn’t for designers to adopt engineering practices, but to bring distinct perspectives through an interdisciplinary way of collaborating." I really appreciated this little piece from @runemadsen.com. designsystems.international/ideas/when-f... (1/6)designsystems.internationalWhen Figma Starts Designing Us / Design Systems InternationalThe subtle ways in which design tools shape how we think and what we make 121
Reposted by Rune MadsenNate Butler @nate.rip · 04/07/2025This is a much more eloquent way of what I've been screaming to anyone that will listen. Figma is siloing so many designers in to a specific way of designing, in a field who's lifeblood is exploration, creativity & expression. Our industry is so ripe for fresh, new (or a return to old!) tools. 191
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 04/07/2025We've used Figma almost daily since the early days of @designsystems.international, and it's a core part of our creative process. Still, I've noticed that it's starting to change how designers work. I tried to unpack that idea in the piece below. designsystems.international/ideas/when-f...designsystems.internationalWhen Figma Starts Designing Us / Design Systems InternationalThe subtle ways in which design tools shape how we think and what we make 3173
Reposted by Rune MadsenShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Things are disastrous, but we’re hoping that learning together, celebrating public knowledge + the gloriously noncompliant, can be ✨✊❤️🩹🌱. We’re hosting our first zoom info session this Friday at noon ET; sign-up @ the bottom of the page:metro.orgJoin Us For Misfits: A Fall Course From The Cross-Reference CoalitionWe’re thrilled to share the Call for Applications for a fall course from the Cross-Reference Coalition: a new, interdisciplinary community learning project from the Metropolitan New York Library Counc... 15316
Reposted by Rune MadsenAndreas Refsgaard @andreasref.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Besøgte @marcelfard.bsky.social og @moltke.bsky.social i DRs radioprogram Prompt til en snak om AI og billeder. Lyt med her: www.dr.dk/lyd/special-...dr.dkPrompt | OpenAIs deepfake-maskine, digitale udrensning og tech-oligarkernes ønskesky | DR LYDOpenAIs nye billedgenerator vender op og ned på nettet - den forstår både tekst og billeder, og kan manipulere dine egne fotos med forbløffende realisme. Det virker, som om det meste censur er skåret ... 0182
Reposted by Rune MadsenMatt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi · 03/04/2025asked a bot whether it would prefer to fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses WELL 3101
Reposted by Rune MadsenShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 12/03/2025"The team spent countless hours scouring Google Maps, combing through the 40,000 islands one by one to find the studio’s geographical alphabet. Their efforts have resulted in a sculpted wordmark." This feels very Nina Katchadourian.itsnicethat.comBond’s wordmark for the world’s largest archipelago takes its shape from island formationsThe Helsinki-based studio’s destination identity for Saaristo pays homage to Finland’s wild landscape. 0123
Reposted by Rune MadsenDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/03/2025Since the start of COVID, the number of people reporting a disability soared. Yet the majority of the world acts like COVID is over, and Long COVID doesn't exist. 4730961176
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 01/03/202518F did some of the best digital work in government. This is so sad. 030
Reposted by Rune MadsenShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Those currently in power are “among the very worst human beings this 🌏 has ever produced—the most uncaring, the least intellectually curious, the most disconnected from their own humanity, the most gleefully malicious + deliberately destructive, with an all-consuming greed @ the ctr of their being”the-reframe.comThe Worst and the DimmestIt's not a coincidence that we're being led by the least qualified monsters available; it's a deliberate strategy. Facing the Worst - a series about directional alignment. 614445
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 12/02/2025I couldn't make up a better story to describe Microsoft than the fact that Azure Key Vaults (that is meant to store environment variables) does not support the use of underscore in variable names. 120
Reposted by Rune MadsenEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/01/2025I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df... 190126482736
Reposted by Rune MadsenAlvin Chang @alv9n.com · 14/01/2025The visuals in this piece are excellent. I'm sure the authors are hearing from all the dudes who think they're economically conservative and socially liberal. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 0306
Reposted by Rune MadsenKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Washington Post's traffic has gone from 22.5 million daily active users in 2021 to about 3 million in 2024, per Semafor. damn lol 1773042482
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 30/12/2024I am writing an essay on why rigid planning is bad for designers, and I stumbled on this excellent book. It’s interesting to see how an initial observation from computer science became a much more significant idea related to the humanities too. 0110
Reposted by Rune MadsenAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Don't think there is a better illustration of AI-in-everything-whether-we-want-it-or-not than an AI bro buying an AI toy for his child who played with it for a bit and then seemed singularly unimpressed with the AI and turned it off. He keeps turning it back on, and she keeps turning it off. 24266291681
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 16/12/2024“The entire academic enterprise, as it’s currently constructed, depends upon reifying power differentials between ranks and classes, keeping people hungry to advance, […] manufacturing all kinds of tests and rituals and administrative labor to deem people worthy of advancement.” 050
Reposted by Rune MadsenPlaces Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 16/12/2024“A City Is Not a Computer” by @shannonmattern.bsky.social Small enough to fit in our pocket. Filled with big ideas about “smart cities,” the fragility of urban networks, and the algorithms, cameras & “other urban intelligences” that pervade city life: placesjournal.org/book/a-city-is-not-a-computer 1275
Reposted by Rune MadsenProPublica @propublica.org · 15/12/2024We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:propub.liDo You Have Insights Into Dental and Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System.Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and how the appeal process really works. 350122916013
Reposted by Rune MadsenStewart @stewartsmith.bsky.social · 07/12/2024I’ve been making incremental updates to my personal website: stewartsmith.io (And more to come.)stewartsmith.ioStewart SmithStewart creates virtual reality, quantum circuit simulations, and more in Brooklyn, New York. 131
Reposted by Rune MadsenAndreas Refsgaard @andreasref.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Photo Booth of the Past shown last week at Kolding Light Festival. During three days 800 people tried the installation! Built using flux-pulid via @replicate.com #aiart #flux #interactive #dataart 061
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 09/12/2024I am giving a talk titled "Placing Design at the Heart of Digital Business" on January 16th in Copenhagen. The spots are very limited, so sharing this link early for anyone who's in town and interested in coming. www.meetup.com/uxdx-copenha...meetup.comShaping Up The Future, Thu, Jan 16, 2025, 5:00 PM | MeetupAn in-person series focused on helping product & engineering teams in Copenhagen bridge the gap between UX, Product, Design, and Dev, and to build better products faster, t 131
Reposted by Rune MadsenDesign Systems International @designsystems.international · 06/12/2024Our design engineer Lucas Dino Nolte has embraced a practice of “letting code loose” through small, time-boxed experiments. He wrote more about the experience in a new article that we just published on our website. designsystems.international/ideas/time-t...designsystems.internationalIt’s Time to Let Your Code Loose / Design Systems InternationalHow embracing a beginner’s mindset can help to foster creativity and innovation 082
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 26/11/2024I inherited this mechanic calculator from my grandfather. Even though it only does addition, I’m quite surprised by how useful it is even today. 291
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 25/11/2024Early prototyping for a website that uses tiny SVG images with object outlines and image descriptions as a more accessible image placeholder. Generated automatically with Meta's SAML2. 1111
Reposted by Rune MadsenAntigoon @antigoon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024New plotter-oriented SVG export library for @p5xjs by @golan.bsky.social! p5.plotSvg makes it easier than ever to generate vector files specifically tailored for pen-plotters like those from Bantam Tools. github.com/golanlevin/p... #creativeCoding #generativeArt #plotter #plotterArtgithub.comGitHub - golanlevin/p5.plotSvg: A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting.A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting. - GitHub - golanlevin/p5.plotSvg: A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting. 15614
Reposted by Rune MadsenWinston from Oakland @winslowbay.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Just trying to make Bluesky more beautiful by sharing this 092
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 19/11/202415 years ago, I wrote my first Processing sketch in a Data Visualization class taught by @stewartsmith.bsky.social at ITP, NYU. I just cloned down the repo and ran it, and it works right out of the box in Processing 4! 67714
Reposted by Rune Madsenpatricio gonzalez vivo @patricio.io · 18/11/2024New here? made a starter pack of artists and tool-makers that uses code as an expressive medium go.bsky.app/CBAUvVU 4015745
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 18/11/2024Some thoughts on the role of early functional prototypes as a vehicle for figuring out what the hell you’re building. designsystems.international/ideas/the-ca...designsystems.internationalThe Case for Early Prototyping / Design Systems InternationalThe business insights that come from code-based prototypes can make a world of difference 060
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 18/11/2024We just created a Bluesky account for @designsystems.international! It doesn't have much yet, but it'll be a good place to stay up to date with our work. 040
Rune Madsen @runemadsen.com · 17/11/2024On the left is a Danish design icon: Arne Jacobsen’s coffee pot from 1967. On the right is Marianne Brandt’s coffee pot designed 43 years earlier right before she became head of the Bauhaus metal workshop. Everything is a remix. 161
Reposted by Rune MadsenMorten Skjoldborg Madsen @totallymorten.bsky.social · 17/11/2024In a speech from 1994 @rbreich.bsky.social predicts the rise of Trump: "We are on our way to becoming a two-tiered society, composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment is easily manipulated" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnd0... #uspoliticsyoutube.comA Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert ReichYouTube video by Robert Reich 011