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Gimp 3.2 erschienen: Das ändert sich für Designer und Pixel-Künstler
Das Update der freien Bildbearbeitungssoftware bringt neue nicht-destruktive Ebenentypen, Vektor-Export und diverse Verbesserungen für Designer und Künstler.

✍️ New post: The Shape of Friction
I wrote a short blog post reply to @…’s recent post (👏) about generative AI, friction, and people.
https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-shap…

The Shape of Friction · Matthias Ott
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

I needed a simple thing:
1. Create 3000x1000 document.
2. Add a white box as background.
3. Insert a 9 KB SVG.
4. Export as SVG.
Exported SVG sizes:
Inkscape: 9 KB
Affinity Designer 2: 32KB
Affinity (new): 120 KB
Pixelmator Pro: 1 MB
2026 and Inkscape remains the only first-class SVG editor. 😳

“Horizontal Scrolling Containers Are Not a Content Strategy”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/08/horizontal-scrolling-containers-are-not-a-content-strategy.html
I’m just a boy, standing in front of a designer, asking them to lov…

Horizontal Scrolling Containers Are Not a Content Strategy
I should clarify that I am not talking about carousels. That said, because users often consider horizontal scrolling containers to be carousels, I will be talking about carousels. Also, this post is written by a monolingual American. While I discuss localization issues, there’s no way I can get into all…

SEGA: Konsolen-Designer und Branchenlegende Hideki Sato verstorben https://www.gamersglobal.de/news/340586/sega-konsolen-designer-und-branchenlegende-hideki-sato-verstorben

SEGA: Konsolen-Designer und Branchenlegende Hideki Sato verstorben
Das japanische Online-Spielemagazin Beep21, das sich auf die Geschichte von SEGA und deren klassische Hardware und Spiele spezialisiert hat, machte gestern die traurige Nachricht öffentlich, dass ...

Sources: Seoul-based AI chip designer FuriosaAI seeks to raise a $300M-$500M Series D to fund mass production of its 2nd-gen RNGD chip and is eyeing a 2027 IPO (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

I’ve been hesitant to share this since the post is strictly visuals sans alt text, but I think the examples it shows are worth it for those who are designing GUIs.
“It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons”
https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
Though if you’re a sighted visual designer, you’ve like…

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#NowPlaying #DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/70XPjbjd54jY4YbTOo1SVY

look, I’m not a designer but @… inspired something

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Jesca Hoop:
🎵 Designer Citizen
#JescaHoop
https://jescahoop.bandcamp.com/track/designer-citizen
https://open.spotify.com/track/25GjRARYrRAKn6UvTc0L9p

Studie: Designer-Wissen macht KI-generierte UIs deutlich besser
Wer KI-Modelle um Designvorschläge bittet, wird häufig enttäuscht. Apple zeigt in einer Studie auf, wie die KI besser werden kann.
https://www.

Designer [jokingly]: “We could call it Cloid, it’s a combination of clanker and droid! Haha”
Manager: “Oh that’s so cool!”
Designer: “But—“
Manager: “SHIP IT”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer

Leon Barillaro Joins Wizards of the Coast as D&D Designer
https://www.enworld.org/threads/leon-barillaro-joins-wizards-of-the-coast-as-d-d-designer.717080/
Barillaro joins James Haeck as a new employee at Wizards of the C…

Super Bowl Halftime Is the World’s Biggest Stage. He Designs It. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/arts/music/super-bowl-halftime-stage-designer.html

Sources: Chinese chip designer Montage, a Shanghai-listed company valued at $22B, plans a Hong Kong IPO that could raise $900M , backed by Alibaba and JPMorgan (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Melinda Gates opens the office door. Her new boyfriend, Floridan underground hip-hop artist bleood (formerly known as deffici1e and m4ri), nonchalantly spins in Bill's old chair, midway through popping some ecstasy. Bill's Epstein wall poster's been replaced with a CoD MWII one. It peels slightly.
"whasgood shorty" bleood exclaims nonchalantly.
"Oh... the designer sent in some more logo concepts!" she hands him her phone so he can scroll them. From…

🌴 Designer enzyme enables yeast to produce custom fatty acids, reducing need for palm oil
#biotech

Designer enzyme enables yeast to produce custom fatty acids, reducing need for palm oil
Whether they are laundry detergents, mascara, or Christmas chocolate, many everyday products contain fatty acids from palm oil or coconut oil. However, the extraction of these raw materials is associated with massive environmental issues: Rainforests are cleared, habitats for endangered species are destroyed, and traditional farmers lose their livelihoods.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/4nZvaW6zy00vYwNXzbOkNH

Quality 'Learing' daycare targeted in Minneapolis 'fraud' video blames designer for typo -- as worker snaps at Post reporter: 'Get the f-k out of here' (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/us-news/quality-learing-daycare-targeted-in-minneapolis-fraud-video-blames-designer-for-typo-as-worker-snaps-at-post-reporter-get-the-f-k-out-of-here/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251230/p12#a251230p12

Vasilena (fonhea) Georgieva | Original editorial and merchandise design :: Behance
Follow Vasilena here: @…
https://www.behance.net/fonhea/

Vasilena (fonhea) Georgieva - Editorial, graphic design, illustration in Bulgaria
Book cover designer, graphic designer, illustrator. I have completed my design education in Alois Senefelder Munich and have a lot of expereince working in the creative field. See other illustration and design portfolio work on the link above.

I thought designer dog breeds were bad when I heard about "goldendoodles".
But snickerdoodles are a new low. A Snickers bar and a poodle? How does that even work?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/70XPjbjd54jY4YbTOo1SVY

@0xdjdev@mastodon.art Here are my recs:
General design principles: https://baselinehq.com/course.html
For learning software tools: If you can access Lynda.com / LinkedIn Learning through your public library, I highly recommend it.
Additional Learning Resources:
- Extra Bold:

Da hatten sich mal wieder die Designer durchgesetzt...
...aber durch #3DDruck ist das Endergebnis etwas, dass sie so garantiert nicht wollten. 😁
https://drmrehorst.blogspot.com/2026/0

3D Printed Knobs For My LG Stove
3D printed knobs for an LG stove

His family says he designed Hall of Fame's gold jacket, claims 'NFL erased him from history' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6994306/2026/01/27/pro-football-hall-of-fame-gold-jacket-designer-lawsuit/

His family says he designed Hall of Fame's gold jacket, claims 'NFL erased him from history' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6994306/2026/01/27/pro-football-hall-of-fame-gold-jacket-designer-lawsuit/

Shares of Chinese AI chip designer Shanghai Biren Technology (6082.HK)
opened 82.1% higher in their Hong Kong debut on Friday,
kicking off the financial hub's first listing of 2026.
The strong debut follows a blockbuster year for Hong Kong's equity market in 2025
and points to a likely wave of AI and semiconductor offerings this year
as China accelerates efforts to build domestic chip alternatives
in response to U.S. curbs on technology exports.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#NowPlaying #DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/70XPjbjd54jY4YbTOo1SVY

Sources: Will Welch is stepping down as editor of GQ to work in a new role with Pharrell, the musician and men's creative director of Louis Vuitton, in Paris (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/business/media/will-welch-gq-editor-depa…

Will Welch to Leave GQ After 7 Years as Its Top Editor
Mr. Welch worked to move the men’s magazine away from what he called “manly-man tropes.” His next role will be with Pharrell, the men’s designer of Louis Vuitton.

One thing I don't get about how "AI" is marketed is this:
Almost no people want to be their own software designer, or their own doctor, or their own lawyer, or their own structural engineer or indeed their own artist.
They want to get advice from trained and experienced professionals and enjoy art and stories and entertainment from great artists.

Apple holt Halide-Mitgründer Sebastiaan de With ins Design-Team
Der bekannte App-Designer Sebastiaan de With, Mitbegründer der iPhone-Kamera-App Halide, verstärkt Apples Design-Team und wirkt am Human Interface Design mit.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/70XPjbjd54jY4YbTOo1SVY

After a long time finaly got all the caps necesary to solder and get the tantalizers ready.
Thank's for the design of the board to RIP-Felix.

✍️ New post: Weis­sKlang L1 – Punch­ing Above Its Weight
#audio #recording #microphones

WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight · Matthias Ott
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

Not off to a great start this year: wasted 300g of filament and 9 hours of print time because the designer of a model created two different versions with a 5 mm difference in size and just put all the files in one folder without clearly labeling them. And since I had to print them in batches and didn't realize the slight size difference I now have a bunch of parts that do not fit together and I'm out of that particular filament (which is apparently also no longer produced). 😒

Chinese AI chip startup Biren surged as much as 119% in its Hong Kong debut, after raising ~$717M in an IPO priced at ~$2.52 per share (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-02/ai-chip-designer-biren-to-d…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#EarlierWithJoolsHolland
- Jools and guests share their musical favourites
Jools is joined by designer Jasper Conran, with music by Telemann, Chopin and Ray Charles.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002p72m

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/4nZvaW6zy00vYwNXzbOkNH

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#NowPlaying #DryCleaning
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

Filing: Chinese chip designer Montage plans to raise up to ~$902M in a Hong Kong IPO, pricing shares at ~$13.69, and expects trading to start February 9 (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/4nZvaW6zy00vYwNXzbOkNH

Cybercrime-Jobbörse - Was Informatik-Profis im Darknet verdienen können #News #Nachrichten

Chinese chip designer Montage raised $902M in its Hong Kong IPO, jumping 64% in its market debut, the biggest rise since Kuaishou's $6.2B Hong Kong IPO in 2021 (Julia Zhong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

“All the designers listen to the developer talks and all the developers listen to the designer talks. And that’s where you discover you have an interest in something you didn’t think you had an interest in.”
@… in a lovely conversation with @…

"Scores of frogs have been removed, with the remaining sanitized ones displayed like an interior designer was called in.”
I don’t drive on Paterna Road in Santa Barbara often enough to have a good sense of how different it is,
but a Riviera resident said someone has been working on it for months now.
Anyone know more?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/70XPjbjd54jY4YbTOo1SVY

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#NowPlaying #DryCleaning
#newRelease 🆕 album
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/70XPjbjd54jY4YbTOo1SVY

Sources: Texas Instruments is in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories for ~$7B, a premium to Silicon Labs' market cap of $4.4B as of Tuesday (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/c7b3eaa5-a650-400d-beda-ba71d44cc8e7

✍️ New post: Con­tin­voucly Morged Value
Couldn't get out of my head what happened to @…’s diagram – and so I wrote down a few premature thoughts about what happens when we mistake the (AI) artifact for the work …

Continvoucly Morged Value · Matthias Ott
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

Filing: Chinese AI chip designer Cambricon reports a $316M net profit in 2025, its first profitable year; rivals Moore Threads and MetaX narrowed their losses (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-t…

Profits rise for China’s semiconductor firms on AI boom, tech self-reliance push
Domestic A-share companies in the sector are forecast to achieve substantial growth in their 2025 results, according to Donghai Securities.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer (6 Music Session, 05 Jan 2026)
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/70XPjbjd54jY4YbTOo1SVY

Filing: Chinese chip designer OmniVision Integrated Circuits seeks to raise up to ~$617M in a Hong Kong IPO; HKEX: Hong Kong IPOs have raised ~$36B in 2025 (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer (6 Music Session, 05 Jan 2026)
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/70XPjbjd54jY4YbTOo1SVY

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#DryCleaning
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/4nZvaW6zy00vYwNXzbOkNH

Sebastiaan de With, co-founder of the iPhone camera app Halide who previously freelanced for Apple, says he has joined Apple's Human Interface Design team (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/28/halide-cofounder-sebastiaan-de-wi…

Halide cofounder Sebastiaan de With joins Apple's design team - 9to5Mac
Halide and Lux co-founder and designer Sebastiaan de With announced today that he is joining Apple’s human interface design team....

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Jesca Hoop:
🎵 Designer Citizen
#JescaHoop
https://jescahoop.bandcamp.com/track/designer-citizen
https://open.spotify.com/track/25GjRARYrRAKn6UvTc0L9p

Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras confidentially files for a US IPO after withdrawing a previous IPO last year, and a listing could take place as soon as April (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-cerebras-files-confidenti…

Exclusive: Cerebras Files Confidentially For a U.S. IPO
Cerebras Systems has again made a confidential filing for a U.S. public offering, according to people with knowledge of its plans. The designer of AI chips and systems has been meeting with prospective investors before a potential listing that could take place as soon as this April, they said. The company had aimed to go public last year, but announced last December it was withdrawing its IPO

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#NowPlaying #DryCleaning
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Jesca Hoop:
🎵 Designer Citizen
#JescaHoop
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://jescahoop.bandcamp.com/track/designer-citizen
https://open.spotify.com/track/25GjRARYrRAKn6UvTc0L9p

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Dub-Stuy:
🎵 Lyrical Designer (feat. Ras Demo)
#DubStuy
https://store.dub-stuy.com/track/ras-demo-lyrical-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/3NW9gnSJPnrkSDYyRVkxTm

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
Jesca Hoop:
🎵 Designer Citizen (6 Music Session, 08 Mar 2026)
#JescaHoop
https://jescahoop.bandcamp.com/track/designer-citizen
https://open.spotify.com/track/25GjRARYrRAKn6UvTc0L9p

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Dry Cleaning:
🎵 Cruise Ship Designer
#DryCleaning
https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/track/cruise-ship-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/70XPjbjd54jY4YbTOo1SVY

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Adrian Sherwood:
🎵 The Grand Designer
#AdrianSherwood
https://adriansherwood.bandcamp.com/album/the-grand-designer
https://open.spotify.com/track/5605TA629v6OsSn5dyP8yy

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NewMusicFix
Jesca Hoop:
🎵 Designer Citizen
#JescaHoop
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://jescahoop.bandcamp.com/track/designer-citizen
https://open.spotify.com/track/25GjRARYrRAKn6UvTc0L9p

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Jesca Hoop:
🎵 Designer Citizen
#JescaHoop
https://jescahoop.bandcamp.com/track/designer-citizen
https://open.spotify.com/track/25GjRARYrRAKn6UvTc0L9p