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Drew Stephens

@thisisdrew79.bsky.social
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Digital Designer working in Higher Education. Hobbies include Silos, Acronyms, and Replying All.

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Drew Stephens @thisisdrew79.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Rio Grande Village in Big Bend National Park. What I thought I knew about the border was grossly lacking.
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Drew Stephens @thisisdrew79.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"The interface bloats. The value proposition blurs. Treat symptoms, not causes, and users inherit the complexity." renderghost.leaflet.pub/3m75kss5jfs2... @renderg.host
renderghost.leaflet.pub
Stop asking users what they want — and start watching what they do. - Annotated
People's opinions about themselves and the things they use rarely match real behaviour.
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Lou Inglese @chaos440.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Got my performance review.
Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'
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Drew Stephens @thisisdrew79.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Not turtles, but carbon dioxide all the way down. Finished this audiobook. Might listen to it again in a few weeks. That good. www.audible.com/pd/B0BY3MLVN... @peterbrannen.bsky.social
audible.com
The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. How carbon dioxide made planet Earth, shaped human history, and now holds our future in the balance Every year, we are dangerously warping the climate by pu...
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 14/07/2025
The Media’s Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work. “The only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings…” [404media.co]
404media.co
The Media’s Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
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Drew Stephens @thisisdrew79.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
take me back.
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Drew Stephens @thisisdrew79.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
“Be sure not to confuse becoming a better software user with becoming a better designer.” newsletter.kubie.co/archive/fall...
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Drew Stephens @thisisdrew79.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I've been taking browser screenshots and referencing them in Figma as starting places. But just realized Figma.to.website does a GREAT job at creating design files from any submitted url. What a time saver.
figma.to.website
figma.to.website
figma.to.website - Make websites directly in Figma
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Drew Stephens @thisisdrew79.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Hey look I graded your AI paper with AI.
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Drew Stephens @thisisdrew79.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Great perspective here. Worth a read.
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Drew Stephens @thisisdrew79.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I still think about this tweet, occasionally, as I fill hundreds of pages with bootstrap helper classes. @robdimarzo.bsky.social
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Drew Stephens @thisisdrew79.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Appropriately chosen wallpaper for my new iMac. This color is “cigarette stain yellow.”
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Drew Stephens @thisisdrew79.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"You must learn the ground truth to know how to manipulate it. You can’t transform what you don’t understand. And you can’t know what you haven’t touched, haven’t built, haven’t broken." vanlancker.substack.com/p/design-lit...
vanlancker.substack.com
Design Literacy
Design Literacy in the Age of Intelligent Automation
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Drew Stephens @thisisdrew79.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Buffalo River. Arkansas. Shadow is the best river dog.
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