Because that's not actually the case?

I've seen two hype waves around chat/voice interfaces before, making me a bit skeptical about whether those can ever work. First one was when Intercom and co were a big deal (2012 or so), and every website just had to have a chatbox. Then Alexa and co launched a few years later. Tons of experimentation with voice that didn't go far. Sure, we have AI now, but I am still skeptical. Voice/chat are so imprecise and slow compared to a keyboard and a mouse (or even fingers on a touch screen). But I am always happy to be proven wrong. AI has already given us lots of superpowers, maybe there are more to come.

Correcting myself. I meant to write Adobe Illustrator and not InDesign.

You know, I am just realizing that I meant to write Illustrator in my post. Not sure why I wrote InDesign 🤦🏽. Totally get your point about InDesign. For things like book layouts, you want to work with a solid grid and text styles and let things automatically flow.

I'd say Figma and Sketch for many digital designers. Complemented with photo editing tools like Pixelmator and image gen like Midjourney. Also tools like Spline for 3D and Rive for motion. They could take fresh, focused approaches and don't have to deal with the weight of their legacy. Print still seems to be mostly with the Adobe toolbox. What do you use or see used a lot?

If there was an award for least intuitive design tool, Adobe InDesign would be my clear favorite. Even after decades of occasional use, selecting things, changing a color, resizing an image, and other super basic stuff remains absolutely unintuitive and I have to keep asking AI for how those things work. Always makes me super appreciative of the latest generation of design tools.

You think it might be mostly bots?

Embrace the age of abundance.

Many social media replies are not actual replies to what was being said. People often use posts as springboards for whatever they want to say rather than actually engaging with what was written. Best to just ignore those?

Can you ever have enough Liquid Glass? I think not.

Flashback to 2019 Casa SatsTags.

Liberal democracies are awesome. They do need mechanisms to protect themselves.