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4d ago

Your design system was never about components

Google, Atlassian and Figma now ship a file for the reasons behind a design. Nothing makes the machine follow it.

Three clusters of four small shapes in the same diamond layout on a black background: violet outlined diamonds, white rounded squares, and white circles.

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Oct 25

Nobody designed the saguaro

You gave every part of it a reason in under a second. Design counts on that.

Nobody designed the saguaro

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Oct 17

A thousand days of stale popcorn

A gym, a morning radio broadcast, and a streak counter are all answers to one question: how do you get someone to keep going when you can’t…

A thousand days of stale popcorn

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Oct 11

You didn’t get a second opinion. You got the average.

A 1936 stock-market metaphor explains what happens when you check your judgment against AI.

You didn’t get a second opinion. You got the average.

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Oct 4

The building was there first

A style’s real output isn’t what it makes. It’s the category it installs in whoever looks.

The road bends around the building and keeps going. The Belvédère from above

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Sep 27

The mirror never reversed you

Left and right are the only directions nobody can hand you. Every field that pays for the mistake learned to say whose.

The mirror never reversed you

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Sep 22

What is a screen made of?

Flat design was right that the screen isn’t leather. Then it assumed that meant nothing.

Three iPhones side by side on a blue background, each showing an iOS 26 home screen with widgets and app icons. Left: translucent, clear-glass icons. Middle: dark icons. Right: the default full-color icons.

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Sep 12

1,776 feet and a bare mast

After a disaster, the first weeks decide what will be hard to change later. Everything else stays negotiable for a decade.

1,776 feet and a bare mast

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Sep 7

Tetris had to cheat to feel random

Nobody can see a probability distribution. You only ever see a sequence, and sequences are where human intuition falls apart.

An original Nintendo Game Boy beside a Tetris cartridge on a dark surface.

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Aug 29

The Cul-de-Sac was the good idea

The Cul-de-Sac was the good idea

Takuma Kakehi

Takuma Kakehi

An experienced product owner and interaction designer with a decade of versatile industry experience. Portfolio: www.ta-kuma.com

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