Perfectionist? So how can you tell when your perfectionist traits, which in many ways have aided your creative prowess, have gone too far? If you’re prone to obsession, especially when it comes to work, there’s always a way to justify why it’s worth the agony. But, as Siqi, renald and Pablo attest, getting bogged down…

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A reflective piece on design philosophy touching on perfectionism, simplicity, UI density, and the growing prevalence of AI-generated interfaces. The author expresses fatigue with one-shot AI UIs and argues that true simplicity, intentionality, and good defaults require human taste. Also explores the tension between minimal settings and power-user needs, concluding that thoughtful design means balancing all these considerations simultaneously.

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