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Fiona Lai

@spicyfiona.bsky.social
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an ever-changing designer. In(terweb)trovert.

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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Creepy rubbish has entered into LinkedIn... anyone else got these weird requests😬
Léo Montenegro, Experienced Product Designer at Broadridge sends Fiona a message to connect. "We grow LinkedIn profiles ans pages with real followers, reactions and comments. 10+ years in social media. Test us free with 100 followers: hyperlink"
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I still don't get why @notion.com wants to create individual workspaces... If I've been invited to a workspace, let me in there....
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Connie Chen 陳穎慈 @conniechiiiwa.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Still unemployed & it’s been hard catching up with finances. In need of help with rent, bills, & medications. If you can help financially or share this post, I’d really appreciate it. Thank you.💛 - paypal.me/conniechiiiwa - venmo.com/u/conniechii... - buymeacoffee.com/conniechiiiwa
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
this is MY design process
DETECT. A caveman holding his hand up to his ear.IDENTIFY. A caveman looking through the reeds at a rhinoceros.INTERCEPT. A caveman hiding behind a rock as his prey approches.DESTROY. The caveman walloping the beast with a club.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 25/06/2026
RAMageddon just got extremely real
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RAMageddon just got extremely real
Better get your Neo now.
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Is it just me or anyone else on Android having to deal with Threads & Instagram bug issues?!?!
Ghost component of shapes loading on the Activity page but nothing is loading to show

OwInstagram crashes and these notifications appear to state something's wrong with Instagram.
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
finding fun/new Apps being hyped on threads or tiktok that's made only for iOS is discriminatory to Android🥲 If you're going to be App building and launching, do it for both. Affordances as a signifier could not be more present than ever😮‍💨
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Glitch in the system – DesignOps.lol Melb had Aaron Vanston sharing on his personal uses and taste with Proto Vibing. Here's his pitch vibes-to-production.slides.fyi
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
finally get to see the incredible @mishmanners.tech present on using AI voice 🙌
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Name somewhere, anything that has actually made Search correctly!🙄
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Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I often tell people that I have massive ambition when it comes to bold ideas, but not when it comes to titles. Sometimes the bold ideas work out and result in career growth but I’m not motivated by titles. If it works out, it works out. I believe that the work should speak for itself.
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Erin Casali @folletto.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We already live on a planet where we could house and feed everyone with 30% of resource produced. Assuming true, of course any new tech that makes us more productive would NOT make anyone work less.
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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We all know that person, who does the invisible work, who quietly coordinates and holds projects together. They sadly rarely get credit for it though. It’s hard to measure, and often overlooked. We need to find leaders who can see and reward this invisible work.
hvpandya.com
The Invisible Work
The coordination work that holds projects together disappears the moment it works. On the unfairness of recognition and finding leaders who see it anyway.
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
People people people, if this hasn't entered in your view, here it is! bettermapformelbourne.com Anyone visiting Melbourne, this is the only map you need to getting around Victoria state!
bettermapformelbourne.com
Victorian Train Network Map – Better Map for Melbourne
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It's a great time to build software that actually does things.
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Adam Luptak @luptak.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
So, I'm an engineering manager at Stripe who is most responsible for our Design Engineering discipline, and my team would be the first to tell you that our definition is a bit imprecise. (It's actually a thing we're actively working on collaboratively as we come back for the year.) But my take:
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🤫🤫🤫 cheers to Ethan Lee for getting me in through the back for the Claude Code Meetup in Melbourne
Xavier Andueza pointing to a TV screen with a pink background displaying Claude Melbourne, sponsored by Anthropic hosted by MLAI Australia, AI Engineer
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anne gibson @kirabug.com · 13/01/2026
If anybody wants a UX Designer part-time who's making an effort to build things the "old-fashioned way" (no AI, very little javascript, etc.) let me know.
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
So, SXSW Sydney gets cancelled. EB Games in New Zealand announces to shut down all its stores. What else could sound even more demotivating?
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Also in Western Australia, it turns out FigJam isn't appropriate to say out loud... @figma.com
text message 1/2
Hey Ho! Just a thought that keeps coming to me, does anyone on your team know the very Australian acronym FIGJAM and what it means? Or is it just a WA thing?

It was also the name of a beach clothing company started here in in WA and she called it that on the back of the acronym and its underlying meaning (entrepreneurial and a sense of humour!) smiley-face

I replied with
two-eyes looking emoji x3
What is this acronym!? What does it stand for?!text message (2/2)
"F...." I'm good, just ask me
(speechless emoji reaction)

exactly

that is why I have trouble every time he says it


I replied: Surprised-emoji, Screaming-emoji, hiding-face emoji, hand-over-mouth-emoji, rolling-on-the-floor-laughing emoji "Oh dearie"

I think Sarah had the same thought today as I caught a giggle

I replied: That's why I've been saying whiteboard (rolling-on-the-floor-laughing emoji)

Figma is enough, we all know its Figma
Now, you will not get it out of your head everytime you hear it!!
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
another thing @figma.com is in FigJam, can there be a choice to choose which cursors to hide or show? If there were roles/tagged group of multi-cursors to show or hide. (1/2)
Lots of multi-player coloured cursors in the FigJam file on some low-fidelity concepts.
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Dammit Jeff @dammitjeff.com · 26/11/2025
New vid youtu.be/3a-X6FZfl2Y This was originally just gonna be a fun teehee haha jailbreak video but it ended up being much deeper and disappointing than I thought. Turns out Big calculator doesn’t want you installing apps. Anyways check out the vid
youtu.be
Jailbreaking Calculators Is (Unfortunately) a Thing Now
YouTube video by Dammit Jeff
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
people, people, throw yourself in situations and all kinds of situations!🤣 it's the way to really emotionally test moments - seriously! No AI can help you out on this!
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comiCSS @comicss.art · 13/07/2025
Meme with the title: Do you ever look at stuff and wonder how it got there... then pictures of a car on top of a tree, a horse stuck in a fence, a cat trapped on window blinds, and some HTML with the code for a Tailwind button
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Using a landmark when you tell someone where to meet after mentioning the street names.
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Seeing Marcus getting to learn from Chef Luca, Richie getting to learn from Jessica and Chef Terry and even Carmy getting to learn from Chef Thomas Keller in The Bear. I really wonder if most industries would have this type of exposure for someone to learn from another.
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Ariel Salminen @arielsalminen.com · 02/07/2025
New blog post: On Freedom, Curiosity & Happiness …Where I contemplate the intricate relationship between my personal life and the work I do, what kind of values I believe in, and what’s next after resigning from my full time position in the Nord Design System team arielsalminen.com/2025/on-free...
arielsalminen.com
On Freedom, Curiosity & Happiness
I have been recently contemplating the intricate relationship between my personal life and the work I do, particularly how these domains inevitably get intertwined and influence one another....
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
the best taste of research
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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 24/02/2025
“When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it… so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and …takes its place in the web of nature.” — Christopher Alexander (A Pattern Language, 1977)
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Web Directions @webdirections.org · 30/06/2025
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The New Separation of Concerns
Separation of concerns is a computer science principle introduced in the mid 1970s that describes how each section of code should address a separate piece of a computer program. Applying this principle results in more modular, understandable, and maintainable codebases. Web designers & developers of a certain age might remember the separation of concerns applied to the three languages of the web: HTML provides the structure, CSS provides the style, and JavaScript provides the behavior of a web page. Source: The New Separation of Concerns | Brad Frost
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
I've had the worst luck with hardware products and it shows the hardware-product-service/maintenance support continues to be underrated. Forget all the software "advancements" when your hardwares aren't even capable to last for at least a few months!
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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 22/05/2025
people will soon be selling Workflows
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 10/06/2025
The last two "big" announcements from Silicon Valley: 1) Figma sites: inaccessible mess 2) Apple Liquid Glass: inaccessible mess I can't actually remember the last time Silicon Valley came up with something that was actually good.
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 10/06/2025
Apple changed the Liquid Ass YouTube thumbnail 😅
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
If you can't make new products that people want, just charge them more for the old products you made when your company still knew how to make software.
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Early morning recharge with @samiamdesigns.bsky.social on a large screen☕️🤩 @intodesignsystems.bsky.social
samiam_designs QR code to their Bento
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Some might say I'm being too harsh on Figma but I actually think I'm not being harsh *enough.* For better or worse, Figma is the industry-default design tool. When they select their priorities, it communicates to designers *what they should consider important* both as a role model and as a tool.
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
"I hope people have big TVs at home now. I think they do" ...boyyy, not everyone has the affordance.
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Affordance lately... Work uses Enterprise plan (finally) and it's interesting that @figma.com releases trialling in Enterprise tier first...
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
@bsky.app I actually need this here. making a comment/s onto a post... clearly I'm wanting to combine my flavourful spin onto it.
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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 30/04/2025
we’re in the 1998 of AI
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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 04/05/2025
as the tools slip through our fingers, the fundamentals of using them have never mattered more
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The Verge @theverge.com · 07/05/2025
Apple is looking at adding Perplexity and other AI search engines to Safari
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Apple is looking at adding Perplexity and other AI search engines to Safari
AI search options could arrive in the coming year.
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Fiona Lai @spicyfiona.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Whoever the music beats curator for the livestreaming of #Config2025, you're my hero/es all time🤩
media.tenor.com
Jamming Bopping GIF
Alt: Bart Simpson wearing headphones in a sound studio booth jamming with his head side to side and hands in the air twinkling
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Mario Rader @r8r.at · 06/05/2025
“Let devs design & let designers code.” @matthiasott.com reminds us: the web is a material — not a canvas — and we should all get our hands dirty. Designers: learn HTML & CSS. Developers: design boldly. @beyondtellerrand.com #btConf
Matthias Ott on stage at beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf. Behind him, a large slide reads: “Let devs design & Let designers code” with bright underline accents.
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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · 06/05/2025
[New blog post] Are CSS Carousels accessible sarasoueidan.com/blog/css-car... In this post, I share some important insights from examining the accessibility of CSS-only carousels that use new features introduced in the #CSS Overflow Module Level 5 spec. #a11y
sarasoueidan.com
Are 'CSS Carousels' accessible?
– The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive design engineer
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Hà Phan @hpdailyrant.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Excited to try Figma’s new AI features. I hope it delivers.
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 01/05/2025
Goodbye Skype! Microsoft is to permanently discontinue Skype in May 2025. Skype GUI in 2003 ↘️
Skype GUI in 2003
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Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · 27/04/2025
“A book isn’t valuable because it’s in a library – the library is valuable because it contains the book.” — Mike Pepi
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Iris Meredith @iris-meredith.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
An excellent article from Pavel: "comfortable with ambiguity" usually means, in my experience, that nobody knows what the fuck they're doing or where they're going.
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