Wil Nichols-Higgins

Staff Designer at Zello

  1. July 2025

    1. 01 once more: on romance
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      01 “I’ve got rooms in my heart I didn’t know existed. I’ve got so many rooms left to discover, still. … Those rooms are there if you’ll only let yourself go through the darkness, in blind faith, toward them.”

  2. June

    1. 30 Monthly Notes No. 2
        30 June’s monthly notes
      • 28 Staff Designer
          28 Moving from Design Director to Staff Designer.
        • 27 Austin 8
          • Album

      • May

        1. 31 Monthly Notes No. 1
            31 May’s monthly notes
          • 21 We Deserve Better Stories
              21 “The 2016 primaries were just like that time Snipe smooched Dumbledore in the ninth book” and that genre of commentary.
            • 11 Five Square 2
              • Case Study
              11 The Solitaire of Chess. My second iPhone app to ship with Opt-6 Products in 2009, Five Square later received an overhaul in 2011 with a brand-new, shining UI.

          • April

            1. 28 Adam Newbold on Introspection
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              28 “If you can stop buying into the prevailing status-quo-preserving mindset of stuff like “the sin of empathy” or the notion that changing your mind is a weakness, you will discover completely new ways of relating to the very many different people that inhabit this world, and you will enjoy your time here that much more.”
            2. 24 Bad Tastes
                24 Side-stepping the 'why bother?' of individual consumer choice.
              • 20 Divine Losers
                  20 “If your heart is breaking right now, it means you still have a heart.”
                • 08 Diligence
                  • Case Study
                  08 Way back when everyone and their dog were designing GTD apps, a friend and I explored our own functionally minimally and visually rich task list.
                • 02 Remembering Alex Rogahn
                    02 Today I learned that a childhood friend committed suicide in 2019.

                • March

                  1. 29 Elle on AI Art
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                    29 “people want to harness the pureness of miyazaki's vision for their own purposes without having to go through the empathic study that miyazaki goes through to hone his style, thereby completely missing the point of what makes it good”

                • February

                  1. 11 Ed Zitron on Masculinity
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                    11 “True masculinity... it’s a sense of responsibility for both oneself and others and the things that we do, and finding strength in supporting and uplifting those close to you. And loving more, and caring more for people.” - 23:24-23:42
                  2. 10 Liège Waffles
                    • Recipe
                    10 I took part of Belgium with me.
                  3. 06 Practical Performativity
                      06 Sometimes it’s a good thing.

                  4. January

                    1. 27 Design at Zello
                        27 My thoughts on Design and how they apply at Zello.
                      • 23 Accountability
                          23 How to address Manton Reece, and what I believe on related topics.
                        • 22 Project Update 02
                          • 13 Partners for Life
                              13 I got married. Here’s what that means to me.

                          • December 2024

                            1. 25 Nearsighted Solutions
                                25 We misattribute instigation when observing healthy boundaries.
                              • 03 The Personal Agency Fallacy
                                  03 We mistake agency for impact.

                              • October

                                1. 10 Pas tous les hommes
                                    10 Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists’ defense predicates on their entitlement to the charity and empathy of both their fellow men and larger community. Give them none.

                                2. September

                                  1. 19 Thirty
                                      19 I turned thirty today. These are some passing thoughts.
                                    • 18 My Interview Process
                                        18 Read about my interview process and exercises for Product Designers

                                    • August

                                      1. 31 Passion, Craft, and Career Advancement
                                          31 Can designers succeed without passion for craft, and does that passion predicate career success?
                                        • 11 Threatening Communication

                                        • July

                                          1. 19 Dumb Thoughts on Dumber AI

                                          2. June

                                            1. 03 Weaponized Effortlessness
                                              • 02 Project Update 01

                                              • February

                                                1. 02 Imposter Syndrome
                                                  • 01 Performativity and Anti-Marketing

                                                  • January

                                                    1. 30 Opening the garage
                                                        30 Working openly and publicly is good for community learning.
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