Hello I'm Miguel, a product designer with a background in designing complex SaaS products and the design systems that make them possible. Most recently I was leading design for multiple FinTech enterprise products by modernizing legacy platforms, shipping complex features, and delivering an MVP for a 0->1 product initiative. In the past I've worked on an consumer-facing LMS and internal CRM for the University of Nebraska as well. ____________________________________

Location: Lincoln, Nebraska. Open to Omaha, NE Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Figma, Figjam, HTML, CSS, Storybook Résumé/CV: https://portfolio.miguel-muniz.com/ Email: hellomiguelmuniz@gmail.com

Every piece of presentation software will eventually flake out on you, I learned long ago that there should always be a plan B. I just make it a habit to always export my presentation as a PDF or PNGs so in the worst case, I can just open it up in Preview and flip through slides.

when you could just type a question into a chatbox and receive a well thought out, nuanced response instead of having to click into multiple ad-ridden, seo ""optimized"" websites just to find an answer isn't it obvious why one is winning over the other?

for many people, they just want an answer to their question. whatever means they get that answer doesn't really matter. the new trend of locking your website content behind a sign in wall or app download is only going push more people to chatbots.

> I wish there were an offline environment like that built into firefox

Webmaker[1] isn't built in, but it does offer an offline code playground

[1] https://webmaker.app/

> Back then i noticed something, it was quite tedious to easily sift and search through knives based on length, steel, brand, and what not to find the knife for me

A lot of hobbies have this same problem. Dunno why there isn't a self-host solution. Something like https://pcpartpicker.com/ but flexible to any type of product/community

I think the main problem here is the lack of datasets! the most annoying part of this whole project is writing the scraper

There was a post the other day about this concept... open source databases for various datasets.

Something else I wonder is how have we managed to convince generations that smoking is not only horrible to your health and frowned upon but alcohol is acceptable?

Don't know what happened with iOS 16, but Spotlight has been painfully slow. Results used to be nearly instant, now it can take 6+ seconds to show an app I searched for

I installed a few apps since upgrading to iOS 16 when it came out, and those apps never show up in Spotlight. I've updated with patches, restarted the phone, deleted and re-installed since then; still broken. The main one is Slack but I've seen it with others, too.

+1 for News Explorer. Took a bit to configure, but I use it every day with no issues. Even use the Watch app sometimes

Base components are a pattern really only used by designers building UIs in Figma.

The idea is you create a "base" component (let's say a button), then create more components that wrap the base component and apply overrides on top (like a different background color). If you want to adjust the size of all your buttons, you edit the base component and your changes propagate to all the other components. [1]

This of course leads to a tangled mess of dependencies when you start building complex UIs in Figma, but it is the only way to make mass changes without having plug-ins automate it, or doing the tedious task of manually updating a bunch of components one by one.

[1] https://youtu.be/vVPSYSziRFY

To be fair, even smartphone apps these days will send you BS notifications.

Shopping apps will ping you throughout the day with "recommended" products, ride share apps will ask you to ride with them during the holidays, social apps will ask you to checkout the newest trend.

All sad attempts to get you to open their app. The worst is when apps don't even let you opt out, so you either get useful notifications and advertisements or nothing.