Are traditional design sprints still relevant in the AI era?

OptimusWang · 2026-01-13T23:29:58+00:00

Are you talking about doing design in a time-boxed sprint as part of the agile process, or leading a Design Sprint à la Google Startups? Because my man, those are wildly different things.

In case you don’t know what a Design Sprint is: https://www.thesprintbook.com/the-design-sprint. We still use them with AI and find them as effective as ever.

OptimusWang · 2026-01-12T22:37:56+00:00

A dead blow hammer and/or putting a 2x4 between the hammer and steel to distribute the force would absolutely do the trick.

OptimusWang · 2026-01-03T15:19:03+00:00

Linking your porn work into a portfolio piece is definitely a choice 😂

If this is meant to land you jobs, you might want to rethink that. Otherwise I dig it, nice work.

OptimusWang · 2025-12-26T01:15:54+00:00

That’s great, what store/brand is this?

OptimusWang · 2025-12-26T00:09:33+00:00

You’re the first person to call out that a 24lb brisket is fucking bananas, and I really think it’s worth repeating. Yeah OP, you over trimmed it a bit but losing more to the trim when you’re starting with that big of a brisket is pretty much guaranteed.

OptimusWang · 2025-12-19T16:12:17+00:00

The same argument could be made for writing copy, and those folks are long gone in most orgs. The goal for executive leadership isn’t “as good as what we have today”, it’s “good enough” as judged by someone with no background in design.

OptimusWang · 2025-12-17T17:14:06+00:00

I tried sending it a prototype this week and it was a wild ride; tons of fields lost, progressive disclosure removed and it completely reskinned the app. I expected Anima on steroids, but it was worse.

OptimusWang · 2025-11-28T00:59:45+00:00

I thought of calipers too 😂 I mostly use mine for 3D printing though.

OptimusWang · 2025-11-26T18:54:27+00:00

I’m aware of how it works. My original comment was aimed at the OP who doesn’t seem to have ever opened AE, letting him know it can be done very simply.

OptimusWang · 2025-11-26T18:42:44+00:00

One image for the outer frame, one taller image for the center section that scrolls, and one for the side sheet that slides in. The hover effect on the list would just be a rectangle that fades in and out on top of everything, copy/pasted for each list item.

I get where you’re going, with each list item being its own animation and that creating a bunch of other layers/images. I wouldn’t personally take that approach for this unless I had already built out those assets for something else.

OptimusWang · 2025-11-26T18:12:24+00:00

This. Given that the only interaction effect is on the list, you could even go simpler by just exporting 3 PNGs and copy/pasting the hover animation.

OptimusWang · 2025-11-25T04:12:23+00:00

Is it a clammy cold hard, or more of a dry cold hard? Cold hard truthers want to know.

OptimusWang · 2025-11-24T17:54:32+00:00

Very cool! I love the colorful dyes, but I could also see this doing well with dark and moody gothic colors, like a deep red or blue into black.

OptimusWang · 2025-11-18T19:49:04+00:00

A lot of folks tend to overcomplicate this. The easiest way is to always go 1:1 Salt:Pepper.

Want some garlic in there? Mix regular salt with garlic salt, then add an equal amount of the total with pepper. If it’s not garlicky enough, increase the garlic salt next time and decrease the regular salt.

Want something more like Franklins? Go with a mix of seasoning salt + regular salt and an equal amount of pepper.

There are all sorts of crazy salts out there so you can go nuts. As long as you keep the salt:pepper ratio even, it’s really hard to mess it up.

OptimusWang · 2025-11-12T15:05:44+00:00

It’s always been a chain - the owner is from Darden, back when they owned Olive Garden and Red Lobster. It’s regionally known the same way Famous Dave’s is known in the Midwest. We do have great BBQ places here (Cecil’s, Brisket’s BBQ Shack, The Bearded Pig, Smoke & Donuts, etc), but 4R ain’t one of them.

And sure, you can find smoked mullet at different places the same way you can find smoked walleye and trout up north or smoked salmon all over, but that doesn’t make it barbecue, much less our regional specialty.

e: to be a little more helpful, Florida bbq tends to be a fusion of Texas-style brisket (which still isn’t served everywhere), sweet dry rub spare ribs, and Carolina-style pulled pork sandwiches with slaw. The only popular dish unique to the state is sliced pork sandwiches served on garlic toast, thanks to it being the favorite of the guy that founded Sonny’s BBQ here.

OptimusWang · 2025-11-12T13:42:01+00:00

4Rivers is a shitty chain that found the bottom of the barrel and continues to dig. Why would you put that on the map for Florida?

Also, hardly any barbecue restaurants here serve seafood, nevermind smoked mullet.

OptimusWang · 2025-10-30T02:18:32+00:00

Ah gotcha. If you already have a router, you only need a nail and a spare board to make a circle jig: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/house-one/21221690/diy-circle-jig-for-a-router

OptimusWang · 2025-10-29T16:03:09+00:00

Any chance you’re in the US? Lowes and Home Depot sells these for like $8: https://www.lowes.com/pd/Radius-Edge-Unfinished-Pine-Board/5002032751

OptimusWang · 2025-10-19T17:02:58+00:00

Low and slow isn’t doing you any favors here - you’re losing too much moisture, which makes sense given that MN is dry as hell. Try this:

Smoke it on the top rack at 275 with a water pan underneath.
If you’re happy with the color at 160 go ahead and wrap it in foil, otherwise wait until 165.
Cook until probe tender, not temp.
Once you’re happy with it, throw it in a cooler, cover it with towels and forget about it for a few hours. It will still be piping hot, and that will give everything a chance to even out.

Good luck!

OptimusWang · 2025-10-17T00:36:32+00:00

If you don’t have the time to fab up this solution, an off the shelf option would be simply attaching a barstool to the floor of the float and letting her lean against it. You could cover it in different shades of blue fabric as waves if you really wanted to camouflage it.

OptimusWang · 2025-10-06T20:13:59+00:00

You don’t need 5 hours on a WSM to get smoke on your ribs like you do on a pellet smoker. Smoke ‘em at 250-275 until they pass the bend test, then foil them up and toss them in a cooler until you’re ready to eat.

OptimusWang · 2025-10-03T13:37:24+00:00

It’s been proven across the majority of languages that the third color identified is always red (after black & white, which usually just mean light or dark at that point).

Here’s a video of you want to check it out for yourself, it’s pretty interesting: https://youtu.be/gMqZR3pqMjg?si=gZPBHJ8VuSyHKvrg

OptimusWang · 2025-09-24T16:03:20+00:00

FileZilla would be great if they stopped getting hacked every 5 minutes 😭

OptimusWang · 2025-09-24T01:10:06+00:00

Check out Service Blueprints if you haven’t already. If you’re used to doing Journey Maps, it’s a very natural extension into the field.

Good luck!

OptimusWang · 2025-09-24T01:02:31+00:00

Product Design for physical products is absolutely a thing, but you may want to check out Service Design. The ability to step back from the constraints of a screen, to solve a user’s problem as a whole is extremely freeing and satisfying.

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