Jason Beaird

TeamDesign.Team Social Posts - Jasongraphix I knew as soon as I registered the teamdesign.team domain and started building the site that I wanted to automatically share new posts across several

A few people have asked how @teamdesign.team automatically cross-posts to LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. I wrote a blog post detailing the 10-step Zap that makes it happen.

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An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership – A List Apart “The relationship between a Design Manager and Lead Designer isn’t about dividing territories. It’s about multiplying impact. When both roles understand they’re tending to different aspects of the …

It's exciting to see new articles on ALA and this one really hit home for me as a design manager. I love the organism analogy in balancing the strengths of people and craft leadership in a design org.

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Selfie of Amy and I from the outdoor deck at Tampa Museum of Art with the Tampa riverwalk in the background.

Photo of a sunrise over Tampa bay from our hotel room window.

Photo of Estero Segura’s “Goodby My Love” in the Tampa Museum. Three red hearts with airplane wings, hanging from the museum ceiling.

Photo of our feet standing on a rock together at the beach.

Ames and I celebrated our anniversary with a long weekend in Tampa. It’s been great to slow down, connect, and dream about our next 22 years together.

The top of a portable speaker is removed to show the battery compartment. My hand is holding both the dead battery and the new one already wired in.

This portable speaker we use for mics at the UX meetup has been out of commission for a couple months. Patched in a $13 replacement battery and it’s good as new. Gotta love an easy repair.

SaaS Is Dead. Long Live Service-As-A-Service AI is killing product-led SaaS. The future is outcome-driven, agentic services that deliver results, not tools. All heil Service-as-a-Service.

“If you’re building AI tools today, ask yourself: are you really a product company? Or are you a services firm in disguise?”
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We're pet-sitting a neighbor's rabbit, and they have a pair of these arms for it. Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it? Wish I took a photo.

Photo of a removed solid rubber tire next to the rear of an electric scooter with a new tire installed.

Changing solid tires on an electric scooter is not a fun DIY job. Our girls know not to drift on them now, but I ended up changing both of their rear tires early after they got out of round and very bumpy to ride.

Compassion is key. Having worked on a tool that enables publishers to generate alt text for social posts, I can say with confidence that AI alt text can be quite helpful, and it has increased the % of posts from our platform with alt text. Friends don't let friends leave alt text up to Threads.

Slack screenshot from settings with the text: “Always sort search results by: • Most relevant • Latest sort selection If you sort results by something other than Most Relevant (e.g. Newest) this will stay selected the next time you search.”

PSA: Slack has an option in Advanced preferences to use your latest sort selection instead of forcing "relevant" every time.

Crazy Kindergarteners - Leo movie

Prompt writing for AI agents…
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It’s Now Easier to See More Fediverse Content on Threads Our new search feature and dedicated fediverse feed help you discover more perspectives from people outside of Threads.

Of course! A day after I whine about a lack of progress toward federation from Threads, they announce a major milestone. I’m excited about the new Fediverse feed and profile search!

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Threads will let you hide spoilers in your posts | The Verge The global test is rolling out now.

While the fairy dust effect in Threads’ new spoiler alert feature is fun, there are more versatile methods of obscuring content on both Threads and Bluesky.

Implementing an existing pattern could have moved the network one step closer to federation.

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Slack modal that says, “You've reached the reaction limit. The human heart is a powerful thing; its capacity to feel is limitless! A message's capacity is 50.”

OK fine

Perfect. Just added them to the site. Thanks for the heads up, Martin!

Photo of the crosswalk signal with the same red bar still present but next to the red, don’t walk hand.

Here’s what it looks like for don’t walk.

Photo of a crosswalk signal displaying a red bar in front of the walk signal that looks like a light saber.

It’s a sithwalk!
(Virginia Dr & N Fern Creek Ave in Orlando)

Screenshot of text from teamdesign.team: What is this site? The lists here include posts from active design team blogs that meet the following criteria: Only in-house design or UX teams – Company blogs are included if there’s a design or UX-specific category to follow. No guest contributor posts. At least one post in the last year – There are many dormant team sites with great articles, but only active blogs are included. Must have an RSS feed (or be scrapable) – If anyone knows of a feed for design.google, let me know. Know of a design team blog we missed? If it meets the above criteria and isn’t listed, please let us know!

Not intentionally. I'm always looking for teams to add. Know of any gov design team blogs I should include?

“My reluctant companion.” At left, a middle-aged nerd clutches his iced coffee defensively while catching up on his Bluesky feed. At right, Clementine, a perpetually disgruntled orange tabby, stares into the void with a mix of contempt and barely-contained fury that her human dared sit down without giving her his undivided attention. (the audacity).

Happy Caturday, Jeffrey!

Two weeks to go and we already have about 40 RSVPs for this month's meetup. Gonna be a fun one!

Accessibility by design: Best practices from start to finish | Pinterest Design Blog Discover accessibility resources and best practices that can help you build a better digital experience for everyone.

Why bother maintaining a blog that nobody can follow? Every few months, I prune sites from teamdesign.team that haven't posted within a year. I just removed pinterest.design which just posted this article but killed their RSS feed, leaving no way to follow updates.
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Photo of a Midea Duo portable AC unit connected to a sliding window.

Photo of an unplugged through-the-wall AV unit.

It’s been cooler and quieter in the office shed since I installed this Midea Duo portable AC. Our through-the-wall unit has struggled to keep up every summer. Still kicking myself for not going with a mini-split when we built the shed.

Selfie with my family at sunset in Indian Shores, FL.

Silhouettes of my 2 kids playing in the surf just after sunset.

Silhouettes of palm trees with the beach just after sunset.

One of my kids digging a hole while the other plays in the surf at the beach this morning.

Family beach mode activated for the long weekend. 🏖️

Event photo with a couple of my team members.

The winning team of 4 from the catapult building game with their Ewok trophies.

A Skittle catapult built with popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and a water bottle cap.

One of the catapult competitors lamenting as his team’s catapult falls apart on first firing.

Traveling home from this week’s team meetup in Chicago. It was great catching up with friends in-person and the silly catapult game I planned was a success.

HDR‑Infused Emoji | sharpletters Supercharging Slack’s Reaction Icons

We have a bunch of these HDR emoji variants in our work Slack now and I love them and hate them equally.
There is no neutral response.
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AI Horseless Carriages | koomen.dev An essay about bad AI app design

This is a solid critique of current AI feature design. "Let me write my own system prompt" is a rallying cry.
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Four 3d-printed trophies with gold Ewoks on black bases with a gold company logo on the front of each.

Headed to Chicago next week for a product org meetup, so of course I planned another game and made more weird trophies.

Group photo of ~20 of the attendees from the meetup.

It was great to make some new friends and catch up with folks at last night’s Downtown Orlando UX Meetup.

Modern Product Launch Build buzz around your launch with this bold product template. A clean, focused design that makes it easy to highlight features, share updates, and drive early interest.

wooahh Figma's new Sites thing produces no semantic HTML at all. Every single element is a div. Incredibly inaccessible

Example:

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Animated gif showing several screenshots of the Am Dash mark in use from theamdash.com. It's essentially an Em Dash with a downward finial in the front and an upward one at the end.

Inventing a new punctuation mark to fight AI is either brilliant satire or the most Luddite possible response—either way, I love it.
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6 panels with interface illustrations that demonstrate the phases of AI product development: Product makes use of Al models behind the scenes, Product is direct interaction (chat) with Al model, Product augments Al model interactions with retrieval, Product enables Al model to make use of tools, Product runs Al models with tools concurrently, Product connects collaborative Al systems

LukeW breaks down several years of AI product evolution into a quick read and this helpful 6-panel illustration.
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