Lukas Rathmann

Why user friction in design is not always a bad thing: www.lukasrathmann.com/blog/frictio...

11.06.2025 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When thinking about making things easier, it helps to know where the complexity is and if you can move it away from the user. You may not be able to eliminate complexity altogether, but you may be able to increase the complexity of the system to reduce it for the user.

05.06.2025 09:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Know where the complexity is

Reducing complexity is often a goal of design work, but you can only do that to a certain degree. Complexity may even be necessary because you are designing something inherently complex.

05.06.2025 09:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Landing page for Aurelius, your mentor for personal development.

Teaser visual for Aurelius, your mentor for personal development.

Design exploration for Aurelius, an AI tool that acts as your daily journal and mentor with a focus on stoic philosophy.

28.05.2025 07:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Today I learned about view transitions, thanks a lot!

27.05.2025 12:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This also helps you to understand if you are solving the right problem. If you have trouble answering those questions, you are likely not solving a relevant problem or discovered a good opportunity.

25.05.2025 16:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Every design is only as good as the reasoning behind it

This thinking should be part of the design process: Always ask why this is the right solution for the problem considering the circumstances? How does this solution help customers and the business?

25.05.2025 16:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I build a simple meditation app with 9 different AI tools, here is what I learned: treat AI as your teammate doing the job with you, not your tool that does the job for you.

More learnings: www.lukasrathmann.com/blog/learnin...

20.05.2025 07:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“The ultimate inspiration is the deadline” (Nolan Bushnell).

Working on your personal website is a prime example for the importance of deadlines. No stakeholders, no constraints (besides time), no nothing.

Set deadlines, it helps.

03.03.2025 05:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Meditation app onboarding screen. Photo by Lance Anderson (unsplash.com/@lanceanderson).

28.01.2025 15:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Light and dark mode design of a mobile banking app

Minimal banking app

26.01.2025 15:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Moving from Design Twitter to Bluesky and this list of great people to follow on here was super helpful: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Thanks @usabilitycounts.bsky.social for putting this together!

24.01.2025 15:23 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0