Creativity is the only thing, moving from Figma to Protopie, semantic color palettes

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“We may be in the middle of one now, a period of change and awakening. And like previous periods of same, there are so many things to be currently worried about — potential authoritarianism, genocide, religious fanaticism, climate change, uncontrolled AGI, unleashed nativism — that a period of change is handmaid with a period of struggle again. We’ve made a queer mess of life, it seems.

In uncomplicated times, it is easy to dismiss creativity as unserious. In the hardest times, it’s everything there is.”

Creativity is the only thing →
By Joe Alterio

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Great branding isn’t just about design. It’s about the soul.

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Shipping is capturing value →
“The platonic ideal of software development is a world in which changes and improvements are instantly and comprehensively understood by all stakeholders; the delta between this ideal and reality is much larger and more pernicious and more valuable than software itself.”On not using copilot →
“LLM assistants are chat interfaces. You beg the computer to do something, it does something wrong, you ask it to fix the problem. You’re managing. You’re acting as a manager, and chatting.”You are all wrong about the Jaguar rebrand →
“Here’s the thing about rebrands: they’re not just about slapping on a shiny new logo. A brand is an ecosystem of meaning, emotions, and experiences that lives far beyond the design.”