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Who Deserves the Sun?
#035: The gap between exponential optimism and everyday reality in a world ruled by the tech-elite.
Nov 18
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Justin Delabar
How Designer Ego Broke the Interface
#034: Why design’s return to texture and motion feels more like performance than progress.
Nov 11
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Justin Delabar
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How Design Leadership Promotions Actually Work
#033: The hidden levers that determine when — and if — you move up.
Nov 4
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Justin Delabar
October 2025
The Great Usability Recession
#032: My week with "enshitified" technology and what happened to all the unsung usability superheroes.
Oct 28
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Justin Delabar
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How Building a Design System Backwards Worked
Weekend Bonus Issue: What began as a confusing pile of YAML and JSON turned out to be the smartest way to build a scalable, token-driven design system …
Oct 25
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Justin Delabar
When Vision Stops Scaling: The Limits of the Lone Creator
#031: Manor Lords’ latest update reveals a universal truth about creative systems: brilliance can build the vision, but only structure can sustain it.
Oct 14
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Justin Delabar
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The Default Brain: Learning to Live With My Own Chemistry
A brief reflection on my brain's failings and what it means to be me.
Oct 10
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Justin Delabar
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The Behavioral Design of Everyday Debt
#030: What happens when the UX patterns that made shopping frictionless start shaping how we survive through debt?
Oct 7
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Justin Delabar
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September 2025
Flatter, Leaner, Inevitable: The Rise of the Player–Coach Designer
#029: How post-COVID corrections, collapsing middle management, and AI hype are forcing design careers into a new player–coach model — whether we’re…
Sep 30
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Justin Delabar
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Dear Future Designer: What They Won’t Teach You
#028: Tools and trends fade, but principles and people endure.
Sep 23
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Justin Delabar
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The Design We Leave Behind
#027: Every design choice leaves a trace — in steel, in process, in memory.
Sep 18
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Justin Delabar
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The Design Rules You Didn’t Write Down
#026: And why your design team is slower and ships lower quality work without them.
Sep 16
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Justin Delabar
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