svoisen

@svoisen@front-end.social

👨‍💻 Director of Design Engineering @Adobe
✨ #UX, #WebDev, #DesignSystems, #CreativeTools, #A11y
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svoisen, to random

Exciting opportunity for "front-of-the-front-end" design engineers: We have two openings for CSS and HTML specialists to help us build Adobe's design system, Spectrum. Check it out and feel free to DM with questions if you're interested. (Note: These are currently "hybrid" roles that do require being near an Adobe office.)

https://adobe.design/jobs/job-posts/prototyping-and-engineering/r145931-design-engineer

svoisen, to random

Went down a rabbit hole reading about permacomputing this weekend, mostly after digging into AI sustainability and thinking about our ever-increasing dependence on big tech cloud providers for compute or even basic functionality.

Permacomputing feels like the complete antithesis of current tech trends: small, local-first, low-power, user empowering. Aligns with Illich's notion of "conviviality."

Still learning, but the principles speak for themselves: https://permacomputing.net/Principles/

svoisen, to random

Thinking a lot about how we fund web browser development after re-visiting @robin's Web Infrastructure Search Endowment and stumbling on the minutes from the related TPAC discussion.

We know AI-based "search for me" like Arc Search threatens publisher and content creator revenue, but I wonder if anyone is writing/thinking about how AI search also threatens to alter browser funding? Maybe it doesn’t, but I have a hard time believing it won’t alter those economics.

svoisen,

@robin Thank you for the detailed thoughts.

This is what I found peculiar about Arc Search, which is emulating the same model. When I first saw Arc I thought it'd be another browser coming to drink from the search levy money firehose. But then they released something that completely undermines this future revenue stream.

So we start to approach a world where browsers are not user agents at all, just app windows in LLMs, and revenue potentially derives from a new levy on LLM traffic instead.

svoisen,

@robin I hadn't seen the video, thanks! We'll see what monetization strategy they come up with. Unlike Mozilla, they are design-driven and innovating rapidly, so if anyone could pull it off (premium subscription? teams-based product?) it’s The Browser Company (saying this as a former Mozillian who wants Mozilla to succeed).

I'm keen to see what better models we can come up with when LLM-based “search" is clearly going to remain in the mix.

svoisen, to random

Web devs: If you encounter a bug in a browser, file it! @nolan has a great write-up on how well this works.

And if you really want your bug fixed, create a reduced test case in CodePen or JSFiddle. This will go a long way in helping out your friendly neighborhood browser engineer.

When I was at Mozilla, my team heavily relied on bug reports as a signal for prioritization, but my experience was web devs often underestimated the value of filing or commenting on bugs.

https://nolanlawson.com/2024/03/03/bugs-ive-filed-on-browsers/

svoisen, to random

I lived through Mozilla's last round of layoffs when I was an employee there during the early pandemic, and it really sucked. It sucks to see this happening again because of strategic whipsaw on how to diversify their revenue stream.

I remain a devoted Firefox user and really want to see Mozilla succeed. I'm skeptical bringing AI into Firefox is going to increase market share. Innovation in UX (e.g. Arc) seems the better path but not something you can just engineer.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/13/mozilla-downsizes-as-it-refocuses-on-firefox-and-ai-read-the-memo/

svoisen, to design

For any design systems designers out there looking for a new gig, our Spectrum design system team at Adobe is hiring! https://adobe.design/jobs/job-posts/experience-design/r143612-sr-experience-designer

#design #designsystems #hiring

mia, to random
@mia@front-end.social avatar

Four months late, a year-end post disguised as a quarterly report…

A mentor once encouraged me to set priorities rather than goals. In 2023, I'm imagining a new and luxurious relationship to time, so I can waste it.

https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2023/05/06/2023-preview/

svoisen,

@mia Love this bit: “I want to cultivate a spacious openness for curiosity and discovery. I want to wallow in the possibilities of all this time that I have.”

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