Smart Interface Design Patterns
• Vitaly Friedman
The only downside of listening to Aesop Rock’s incredibly punchy and clear beats a lot is that all the rest suddenly start to sound muddy as … mud. 😅
Common misconceptions about disability from the @TetraLogical blog:
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/12/03/common-misconceptions-about-disability/
If you're fedup with the AI and other telemetry claptrap in #Chrome, #Edge, and #Firefox, try this: https://justthebrowser.com/
That rare feeling when a device is so easily maintainable that you can just open it and fix it yourself. Withered technology ftw! 🎉 (Still a bit of a weird, flimsy construction of that knob…)
Thanks to everyone who replied! 🤗
Well ……… good morning! 😂☀️
From The Den
• Gavin Strange
Roundup #022 - Bye 25! Hi 26!
Hello there! It's been a while hasn't it!? How you doing? Surviving or thriving? Or just skiving? Sorry it's been a while since me last update, the big project I'm directing at Aardman had its big shoot in December, so it'
🚨 NEW BLOG POST KLAXON! 🚨 Grab yourself a cuppa and have a read! https://blog.jam-factory.com/roundup-022-bye-25-hi-26/
Elon Musk defends Grok feature that generates images of women and children stripped of their clothes (and much worse):
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/12/us/video/grok-elon-musk-ai-lead-jake-tapper
#Musk is beneath contempt and apparently quite stupid too.
Smart Interface Design Patterns
• Vitaly Friedman
Inclusive Design Patterns For 2025 (Free Video + Slides)
Meet Inclusive Design Patterns For 2025, a free 3h 30mins-workshop with yours truly on accessibility — with all videos, slides and examples, recorded yesterday. Feel free to share with your friends and colleagues — no strings attached!
- Google Doc (feel free to share as well!)
- All workshop slides (1150 slides, PDF, 378MB)
- Full video recording (incl. captions) (backup: YouTube)
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Smart Interface Design Patterns, a practical video library, 15% off with the code
INCLUSIVE.
Still plenty of work to do but pretty excited to relaunch my website for the first time since 2018. Lots of new typography and techniques already, and really chuffed about how it’s coming along. Welcome to the new rwt.io
Marilyn
Smart Interface Design Patterns
• Vitaly Friedman
Product Designer's Career Paths
More late-night noodling using the Blender ‘toolkit’ to overhaul my ‘Gnarlybot’ virtual pinball table! Shiny shiny!
“At this point they had to convince Claude—which is extensively trained to avoid harmful behaviors—to engage in the attack. They did so by jailbreaking it, effectively tricking it to bypass its guardrails.”
Reminds me of this great interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nn0-kAE5c0
“Share information, freely. Blog.”
👏, @Jayhoffmann
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/information-is-still-free/
(Nothing to see here, @davatron5000)
“The actor achieved what we believe is the first documented case of a cyberattack largely executed without human intervention at scale—the AI autonomously discovered vulnerabilities in targets […]. Most significantly, this marks the first documented case of agentic AI successfully obtaining access to confirmed high-value targets for intelligence collection, including major technology corporations and government agencies.”
This is fine. 🔥
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
Last night I started my journey into ‘VLM’ - using Blender to create baked light maps - which then get reimported back into Visual Pinball to make the tables look super realistic! This is a very early ‘v0’ of me testing the pipeline for my ‘Gnarlybot’ table!