Pablo Stanley
Pablo Stanley's posts and comics about work, design, tech, and social anxiety
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The Doorman (opens the original)
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It’s easy to shrink a complicated job down to one simple thing.As designers, we can measure our value by how many screens we made this week. How many prototypes, how many Figma frames (feeling proud of getting to “Frame 10000” in the name). Our output, counted in pixels. For engineers, for decades, it’s been lines of code.So when a machine that can spit out infinite screens and thousands of lines of code in minutes shows up, it’s easy to look at ourselves and think... well, I guess I’m obsolete
Agents that read the room (opens the original)
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Building hilos (opens the original)
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The idea becomes a machine (opens the original)
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Madrid, January 1996. Sachiko Cho and Jo Watanabe cover a gallery wall with irregular wavy bands of color ink, working from a typewritten instruction: Irregular wavy color bands. One wall. Color ink wash. Sol LeWitt wrote those words. He didn’t paint the wall. And the finished thing wasn’t a Cho nor a Watanabe… it was still a LeWittHe worked like this f… Read more
Airport food (opens the original)
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