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Brendan Appe

@happyappe.bsky.social

Product Design at Microsoft AI Doodles and stuff https://happyappe.com/

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Updated my personal site. Grateful that this space no longer needs to function as a job-seeking portfolio. Back to being a place for exploring without optimizing for... anything.

Illustration is my 25 year plan: becoming an older, slightly curmudgeonly designer. Hopefully still useful?

24.01.2026 19:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I think the idea that taste is an essential skill and a necessary input into good design is often elitist and quietly anti-humanist. One of my hopes for 2026 is that we begin to reposition this… | Bre... I think the idea that taste is an essential skill and a necessary input into good design is often elitist and quietly anti-humanist. One of my hopes for 2026 is that we begin to reposition this belief...

Taste is a loaded term because it smuggles class, power, and moral judgment into what appears to be a neutral preference. It then presents that judgment as universal, when it's not.

03.01.2026 15:40 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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