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Quinn Keast
Personal blog · quinnkeast.com/writing · on HN as qkeastdesignai
Quinn Keast's personal blog at quinnkeast.com covers design and ai. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “What, then, are we paying for?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
One HN commenter links the thread on this author's eighth year as a bootstrapped founder and reflects on freelancing and design-development work as AI tools change. The comment does not judge the post's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Quinn Keast is a user experience & product designer. He solves interesting problems by putting people first—from product vision to the last 5%.
Most-linked posts?
- What, then, are we paying for?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-03
What Hacker News says?
I’m a designer who hates redoing my personal site, so I’ve had a relatively stable one at https://quinnkeast.com for years.
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Apple's Live Captions are often worse than nothing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI think it goes so far as to be unethical, because it takes advantage of a gap in understanding[1] where most users aren't even aware of the possibility of this being possible. [1] https://quinnkeast.com/writing/the-possibility-gap-its-time-...
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on “Ad Fraud on LinkedIn”Submitted Welcome to Unreality as a story · 4 points
HN discussion=== UX Designer === Location: Berlin (July–August) / Winnipeg (Current) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: UX research, strategy, and design; React/SASS/etc. Résumé/CV: http://cld.caribou.co/3J2M2m0h0S35 Email: qkeast@gmail.com I'm a UX designer with 8+ years of experience working with product teams and organizations to create better experiences. I use human-centred design to work anywhere from resea…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2018)”Submitted The Gesture and the Instruction as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://quinnkeast.com
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here?”Submitted What we learned building AI style guides for product copy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI keep track of my reading list on my website: https://quinnkeast.com/reading . I’ve mostly been reading fiction this year. On reflection, I think my favourite book of 2023 was “The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi” by Shannon Chakraborty. The “Wool” series by Hugh Howey was also a highlight.
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on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024”Submitted What, then, are we paying for? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSome highlights from this year include: - The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera - Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - The Devils by Joe Abercrombie - A Frog In The Fall (And Later On) by Linnea Sterte (A graphic novel) Overall I'm at 65 books on the year—I maintain a reading list[1] on my personal site that has the rest. [1] https://quinnkeast.com/reading
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on “Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?”Submitted What, then, are we paying for? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://quinnkeast.com/writing I write about product design, UX, and related topics as they come to mind from the perspective of a product designer.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted It's weird how design systems are so rote, yet so difficult as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThese things also on my mind recently. I'm a freelancer, providing design-development services, and trying to understand as things changing rapidly. I don't think even the tools are advancing, allowing us to build in a new way, not everyone will be able to develop production ready products. Or good looking ones. So there will be always in need for people know how to orchestrate the new workflows with good taste and…
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on “My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder”Submitted How I Approach Writing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The language of collaboration (and the phrase that gives you superpowers) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mustard (A Metaphor) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop Blaming People: It's a Design Problem as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Possibility Gap: It’s Time to Label This Dark Pattern as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The things we forget on the inside looking out: why I’m leaving Medium as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The atomicity model for product prioritization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Charting Surgery as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on inclusion as a constraint and catalyst for design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI: Seasoning, Not the Main Course as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A few echos on hearing that’s not quite there as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Design Syntropy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Perceived effort: Cycling, work, and the power of momentum as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How I stopped worrying and learned to love the AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We cancelled our user research because of the coronavirus as a story · 1 points
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