I'd like to share some visuals with team members on slack and the like. At the moment, I use QuickTime which does a reasonably good job with screen recording. However, the files are usually pretty huge and I need to post-process them to knock them down in size a bit.
Wondering if anyone has found a tool better than QuickTime (on Mac) that is useful for sharing quick videos of UI work with others.
We've had our HE toploader washer for about 6 years now. Been working well. But lately it's had that 'musty' smell and we finally decided to bite the bullet and dismantle it to see if it needed cleaning.
It needed cleaning. There was that pinkish/sludgy film all around the underside of the metal basket, as well as on the outside of the lower part. The outer plastic bin also had some stuff clinging to it and needed a scrub.
Yanked everything out, scrubbed it all, put it back together, and now we're good to go.
Aside from the usual cleaning cycles (which we've done) with cleaner, is there anything else I can do to try and prevent this in the future? Or is this just an inevitable chore every 6 years or so?
I'm curious as to what kind of versioning strategies people use for their design systems.
Specifically, in the component space.
Are you versioning the package as a whole? Individual components?
Our DS is AI-centric, meaning it's mainly there for AI to use. We have tokens, documented rules, and an React component system.
The design is in progress, though, so things may change regularly over the next few months as we see more screens built and make more adjustments to individual components as needed to accommodate the context they are being used in.
My original thought was for each component to have a version number embedded. Over time, teams could run an audit on their application to compare their component version numbers to the latest in the DS and make a decision as to which ones should be updated.
This seems annoyingly complex for manual updating, but since Claude is doing most of the work, seemed like an idea worth considering. Is anyone doing something like that? If so, would love to hear how you are implementing it.
OR...are people just versioning the UI library package as a whole?
I finally have a subscription to Mobbin. Been meaning to do this for a long while.
It's useful but...I'm rather underwhelmed by how useful it is in terms of finding things. And I'm hoping it's just me being dumb and missing something obvious (but have a hunch it's not).
For those of you that use it, how are you finding specific UI elements or particular patterns?
For example, I was looking for some "checklist" navigation UI widgets. But there does not seem to be a way to search for UI elements. Just screens as a whole, or text that may be on a screen.
I typed in "Checklist" and it did find some pages--though I'm not sure how it did. Are images being tagged with keywords? Is there a way to see the keywords?
For being a site designed specifically for 'finding UX and UI elements' it sure seems to be lacking in the 'finding' part.
Found 4 keepers in the goodwill bin on Tuesday. Happened to be back there yesterday and found a handful more. Most productive bargain digging week in a LONG while. :)
Been a really long time since I've found more than one or two worthy of trying out from the goodwill bins.
The sealed Blitzen Trapper and RST Popul Vuh were the surprises. I always grab MJQ when I find them. The Norteñas and Urbaniak just looked too interesting not to gamble a dollar on.
I recently discovered the swatches tool (thanks to those that answered my previous question!)
I'm not taking an illustration and moving every object's color settings so that it's using one of the swatches I created. As you can see in the image, I have 6 shades of a purple I have custom named into swatches.
The catch is that every time I select an option, then the SWATCHES color option so that I can set the color, it automatically makes a new swatch based on the current selection. I can then pick one of my purples and it updates the object, but now I'm left with this auto-named swatch that I have no use for.
Is there a setting or technique or habit I can use to avoid this?
For now, I just deal with it and when I get annoyed with there being too many empty swatches, I open up the swatches pallet and one-by-one delete the unecessary ones. But this is tedious. Hoping there's an easier way to deal with this.
Is there a way to create editable colors in inkscape. Example, I want to create an illustration with 3 colors. But then decide when finished to change one of the colors...so all instances of that color (fill stroke, etc.) need to be updated automatically. Is that doable?
It finally happened. Got rear ended. Not high speed but it looks like everything plastic on the rear left side is shot. Fender, rear panel, rear bumper, rear sensors.
Taking it in Monday to see what the full damage report is.
Has anyone had recent body work done on their Ariya? Did it go OK or were you still dealing with huge parts waiting times? It seemed last year people were waiting months for things like fenders and bumpers.
I bought a new Macbook Air and want to transfer files from my old one. New one is an M4, old one is a M1.
I bought an OWC thunderbolt cable which seems to be the best rated 'unofficial' cable. So my issues *might* be the cable.
Here's what is happening:
- I connected both computers
- both, when I got to networking, show 'Thunderbolt Bridge Inactive' with a red dot.
Tried a few things. Googling (there seems to be a lot of cut-and-paste non-answers out there).
Eventually went with the "unplug and plug it back in" and then I got a pop up asking if I wanted to connect to this new device. I said "yes" and now I see my old macbook as a device. Cool!
However, when I open my old macbook on my new one, it just opens an empty folder that says "not connected".
Looking at both machine's networking tabs, I do see the 'Thunderbolt Bridge" labeled as "self-assigned IP" and with a yellow dot.
I'm guessing the yellow means "not quite working yet..."
Any suggestions as to what I should try to get this working?
This seems like something that should be google-able but I'm struggling! I have a 2025 Ariya that we suddenly can't get the charge door to open on.
Googling this mostly returns issues of chargers being stuck while charging. That's not the problem here...the door, itself, won't open so we can start charging.
Common fix seems to be to unlock the car a number of times. No luck with that. There are some mentions of a 'release cable in the frunk' but I can't find anything that looks like a release cable (and the port is well behind the frunk area anyways).
Help! Anyone know how to open this thing without prying it open with a screwdriver or something?
We're building out a design system for our enterprise.
One team is looking at using Flutter and I've begun investigating how flutter treats the UI layer. I'm not sure I fully understand but this is what I came away with:
But I'm not entirely sure of that second bullet point. It sounds like while those both exist, the Cupertino design system isn't literally native iOS widgets, but rather Flutter widgets emulating iOS Widgets. And that if you are building a dual-OS app, one should instead customize Material design.
Is that correct? And if one wanted to emulate the native UI of both Androind and iOS, you'd essentially need two separate Flutter apps?
I'm in charge of building out a design system for our org. Our org has gone all in on AI development.
I've been playing with different ideas...markdown files, MCP server, using a github repo, etc. but have yet to find any real consensus on any of this--probably because there isn't any.
But has anyone been building out a design system for primarily AI-centric work flows and found certain things working better than others?
Our biggest issue right now is that developers everywhere are just building their own things. They may grab the brand guidelines from marketing, which helps a little, but beyond that, consistency isn't there.
I'm trying to figure out how to get something...even if rudimentary...set up to have developers point their AI at to at least get the basics of a design system figured out.
But I haven't figured out a way to do this that seems proper yet.
I like the idea of a github repo...that gives us a central, team-based place for us to manage updates to the design system. But is there a better way to go about this?
I have been playing with Claude Design's design system feature...but we're pretty much in agreement internally that it's "neat" but not really a "solution" yet.
I guess this is a bit of a rambling all-over-the-place post. I guess I'm just seeking out any real world experience others have had creating an AI-centric design system. I can find plenty of demos/tutorials on youtube, but very few real world use cases.
I'm so confused.
Xfinity sold us on a new internet package that comes with Hulu/Disney+
It does not appear there's anyway to activate Hulu through the Hulu Roku app--at least not that I can find.
After googling it said to try the Xfinity Stream app on Roku, which I've installed, but there doesn't appear to be any way to watch Hulu on there.
Is this even doable? Did we get sold a useless bundle?
