Jeremy Kanter

@jeremykanter.com

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I do all my own stunts. Design nonsense here, sports nonsense at @jeremykanter.bsky.social. (he/him)

A visual comparison of the bold 1990 logo that makes excellent use of white space, and the weird not-quite-monoline 2018 logo with barely recognizable bird and fire elements.
A text from a friend reading “Omg how did you know my password??!?!” and an attached image showing the password “mommy9SERVES!”
Then, in March, students at my eleven-year-old daughter's public middle school began receiving new Google Chromebooks, and that is when I heard the tap-tap of the cloven hooves approaching our doorstep. The Chromebooks, which the students use in every class and for homework, came pre-installed with an all-ages version of Gemini, a suite of A.I. tools. When my daughter, who is in sixth grade, begins writing an essay, she gets a prompt: "Help me write." If she is starting work on a slide-show presentation, the prompt is "Help me visualize." She shoos away these interruptions, but they persist: "Help me edit." "Beautify this slide." The image generator is there, if she'd ever wish to pull the plug on her imagination. The Gemini chatbot is there, if she ever wants to talk to no one.
A wireframe of UI cards with the following content: Athletic Elements Quarks croquet umami disrupt viral. Paradigm shift engagement… Lower Body Leverage, table stakes, and, waste of resources. Quick sync, value a… Holistic Low hanging fruit, bleeding edge, and, quick win. Disrupt, for, value… Core Bleeding edge, value add, for, quick win. Quick sync, waste of r... Upper Body Paradigm shift, waste of resources, and, quick win. Disrup....
A macOS error dialog that says "You can't open the application 'Adobe Photoshop 2026' because it may be damaged or incomplete."
The NCAA women’s basketball bracket in the Apple Sports app. When you swipe between rounds, previous rounds collapse so that you don’t have to do any extra scrolling. And if you zoom out to view multiple rounds, information is condensed in accordance with the space available (for instance, team names collapsing into abbreviations).
A comparison of dialog sheets in Catalina and dialog boxes in Big Sur.
The macOS “Type to Siri” search box.
An iPhone 17 Pro where the back glass panel includes an offset corner cutout and various small decorative text and logo elements.
A Yahoo Sports headline that reads: “Did Donald Trump keep the FIFA Club World Cup trophy? U.S. president says Chelsea given replica, pockets medal”
There are plenty of great fonts for reading on the web. Spectral isn't one of them.
The upper-right corner of the Firefox window, which features a down-chevron icon, a double-right-chevron icon, and a hamburger menu.
A frame on a Figma canvas labeled “Frame 990007.”
A screenshot from the leaked war plans Signal chat. Michael Waltz: VP. building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID. Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job. JD Vance: What?
Energy Use in Wh 10 Google Search queries: 3.0 10 DeepSeek queries (est. based on cost): 3.0 10 ChatGPT queries: 29.0 30 min Netflix streaming: 52.5
A Mastodon post from Cabel Sasser with a picture of a 10-digit smart lock with only 5 buttons, each button being shared by a pair of digits. It’s accompanied by the caption “in life, sometimes you're half as secure as you think you are” and a follow up post that says “correction: as some smart math folks have pointed out, in this instance you're actually 6.25% secure as you think you are.”
Filing a report about the “Gulf of America” on Apple Maps that says, “I don’t think we should all be forced to use incorrect maps just because our president is a whiny little racist baby.”
A rear 3/4 view of a silver Hyundai Ioniq 6 which emphasizes its Porsche-like body design.
We’re handing our design systems to growth teams so they can squeeze every last penny out of customers. We're optimizing our flows for clicks, not clarity. We stopped building tools and started building engagement traps. While in the past UX had a certain aura of care for users, in 2024 we are bluntly following the numbers. In many companies, the pursuit of growth is overshadowing the pursuit of meaning.