Mattias Wikman

Thanks @antonsten.com!

As people of the craft we look for simplicity so that we can bring our energy to shaping and designing. I still love how simple our decks for Ethic came out. Just a sample slide of one of the internal "ways of working" guides.

New things coming soon. We have not updated our public portfolio in over 4 years. Since then we have worked with Apple, Google, MLS, Ethic and a few more amazing companies.

Love this and fully agree - honest conversations are hard to find these days. Its all superlatives and big words.

Sometimes, you will bet on the wrong things as a designer, but you won’t know it until later. It’s all part of the journey.

Learn when it’s time to move on. Don’t stay too long on the wrong path, as it will take away your passion and drive.

We should look at nature and adapt a new financial system that celebrates long lasting and stable companies.

I think 15 year olds should be busy being 15. This whole race in the U.S is eating people alive.

And genius ones keeps on working until they have it.

Still it’s happening and its painful to see a way too complicated system not being able to control it. Maybe it’s fair in a way.

Right. And even when we do research many times it’s done by people with no experience.

Leading to validating things that actually does not solve the pain/need but just looks great.

I love research when done by people with the core skill - then it’s just magic.

Yes and always. I think this is where UX got it wrong in many ways. Sometimes you can do research in 20 minutes and sometimes you need weeks.

A super power is to ask questions. Too many people are afraid to ask questions or assume they already know the answer.

Hey are you still here @iamharaldur.bsky.social?

The Farm Belt in California. Hours and hours of fields. This is where you get your Avocados and Almonds from people.

YouTube video by Big Think Become excellent. Be unreasonable. | Will Guidara for Big Think+

Make people feel like they belong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIRu...

Another good one that never gets old. Phil Knight at Nike way back. Timeless for any type of business.

YouTube video by Oasis Dig Out Your Soul In The Streets

Still such a great story and brand campaign. Oasis in NYC in more than 15 years ago. NYC was just amazing during this time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC5H...

I love that we can give this craft space to our kids. I never had it and it’s more important than ever to be analog. To craft with your hands and your mind.

Finally some rain in Los Angeles.

Replit and VO are great. I like Lovable but their pricing model limits exploration.

Right now I prefer Replit.

I heard the Norrsken House is pretty sweet.

You seem to have a pretty happening schedule going to amazing places!

Good for the soul.

Same feeling. 1.5 years in LA. 20 in NYC before that.

I decided to see it for myself. Surreal and unreal. These photos taken at PCH and Palisades. Everything and all houses gone. And the Palisades Fire is over 17,000 acres, larger than all of manhattan.

Are major natural disasters increasing? | USAFacts Nine out of the 10 years with the highest number of natural disasters occurred in the last decade.

If you are looking for facts then @USAFacts is an amazing source. usafacts.org/articles/are...

Video: ‘We’ve Lost Everything’: Los Angeles Residents Reel From Wildfires Fires in parts of Los Angeles destroyed 2,000 structures and burned through 27,000 acres, equivalent to nearly 20,000 football fields.

Surreal. We are safe as we live 15-20 minutes from Palisades. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

The work we have done with Ethic over the past 3 years. A cropped area of one of the many things defined, designed and delivered.

Our sweet spot is clean, functional and meaningful. Good foundational design with solid thinking. Less over-promising and more over-delivering.

And it all starts with an honest partnership where we together find the story, goal and shape the outcome in a clear, crisp and pure kind of way.

I love that people have a strong moral compass. It could have been a winning strategy to have doubled-down on fact checking to build a solid place as Ai is ramping up.

The phrase: ”Hire for character, train for skills” is a nice one but kind of only works for roles that can be trained.

Great designers all have a great eye for design even early on in their career. Great taste can’t be taught.