Collected bits and pieces I’ve noticed this month.

Some podcasts I’ve found interesting lately – firstly, AirBnB CEO Brian Chesky on the Decoder podcast talking about how he runs the company and what founder mode is; and photographer Tyler Stalman on The Talk Show, discussing iPhone photography with some cool tips and thoughts around the colour science and photography, from old film stocks to todays digital camera systems. Check also Tyler’s iPhone 16 camera review (Youtube) and also these by from Austin Mann, and Vjeran Pavic (Youtube).

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From Petapixel – the reason why old sports photos often have a rather pleasing blue background haze.

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A two-part series from Linear on how they approached a recent redesign of their app. It’s always interesting to read and think along with how Liner work.

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iA describe, in length, how they designed and redesigned their app icons.

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Mozilla had their brand redesigned.
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Using Letterboxd? This little tool let’s you find your Letterboxd besties based on what your favourite films are.
via Kottke

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Friend is a new AI gadget, positioned as a, well, friend, who’s always there with positive vibes. I kind of like this application of AI and don’t think a made up friend is a bad thing per se.
via ATP

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In sad news, Sidebar is indefinitely paused.
With “content moving to medium and substack” are we designers enshittificating (enshitdefecating?) our online world too?

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Om Malik on “content”:

“You can tell a lot about a person and how they think about their work based on whether or not they use “content” to describe what they do.”

I 1000% agree.
Also check out this piece by Nick Heer on AI “content” and iA’s well-reasoned approach to writing with AI, or “Why should someone bother to read what you didn’t bother to write?”