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Wordpress founder doubles down with a checkbox

You’ve heard the stat… WordPress powers ~40% of the internet. That’s a lot of cat memes and suspect MRR pics.

What you’ve also probably heard is that WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg and hosting site WP Engine are doing their best at bringing reality TV directly to your Twitter feeds.

We will save you most of the drama (TechCrunch has the full rundown here if you’ve been offline or living under a rock for the past month).

However, Matt was determined to make it into this design newsletter in any way he could.

So he did what any petty CEO would do. Add a new checkbox to your sign up flow.

That’s certainly a design choice.

The future is near coming

Elon Musk unveiled the prototypes for Robotaxi and Robovan last night in during Tesla’s “We, Robot” event.

We can’t lie… these sure do look nice.

The only question is how many deadlines will be missed before these ever actually see the road?

UI3 is here

Figma has officially rolled out the UI3 interface redesign to all users. It’s still in beta so you can revert to the previous design if change scares you.

And because redesigning a design tool that will be mentioned in a design newsletter can’t be an easy task, they peeled back the curtain on how they approached this (hint: probably with a design system).

And in case your panels are still floating… well:

David vs Goliath vs David (🥴)

Beehiiv is no stranger to Twitter drama… they’ve been on the offensive to snatch ConvertKit… err Kit’s… customers one by one for as long as I can remember.

But someone punching up at them? That’s new.

So how did it end?

With beehiiv delivering the knock out blow… locking their account.

Which led to more drama.

See: spider-man pointing meme.

What else happened this week in design?

Adobe continues to try to protect artist’s and their work from AI.

Jordan Singer releases the first app from his new company. This is officially a Jordan Singer stan newsletter.

Visual Electric wants you to take it on the go.

Nintendo releases $99 Alarmo Clock.

Resources

🤓 (Read) Ridd gives a behind the scenes of a redesign for one of his favorite products

🎙 (Podcast) Challenging the status quo as a designer

🔁 (Plugin) Framer releases a plugin library

👥 TagTeam brings Figma files to Case Studies

〜 Presets for Framer motion

Design Dopamine

Finally some practical design.

Just do it.

Stickers worth ruining your $2,000 laptop for.

Michael Jordan’s private jet complete with a $500,000 paint job that I’d like to think was an intern’s summer project.

Overheard on Twitter