Christopher Pross
@C_Pross
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Design + Product. Managing Partner: https://t.co/f2p2iPHWPG Book a session: https://t.co/vExJscLelC
New York, NY
Joined July 2010
Airbnb CEO @bchesky says the chatbot is a "pre-AI interface," rather than the end-state interface for artificial intelligence: "We're in the MS-DOS phase of AI." "The future AI interface will have a reference to chat, but it's probably going to be much more visual. Most people
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30 micro product design tips I wish I had learned earlier: 1. Start mobile. Always. 2. Never ship on a Friday. 3. Test apps with one hand only. 4. Give users one job per screen. 5. Cut the “cool” stuff nobody uses. 6. If it looks slick but feels off, it's off. 7. Contrast should
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Learn UX design and product design and you will become stronger than you could ever imagine
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UX, design, actual dedication to the craft will take center stage in this next moment Actually make something people want. Software and coding won't be the gating factor. It is the ability to be a polymath and smart/effective in many domains together that creates great software.
One very important thing to understand about the future: the economics of AI are about to change completely. We'll soon be in a world where you can turn test-time compute into competence -- for the first time in the history of software, marginal cost will become critical.
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Yo! @George_Kurtz I can fill in at @IMSA while you figure things out at @CrowdStrike. cc: @CrowdStrikeRcng
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Big shout to @jblakeson. The art direction for Culprits is top notch. 👌
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Designers are often viewed as "difficult people" in their organisation, constantly asking challenging questions, ignoring the status quo, and pushing for better outcomes. By contrast the "team players" get on and do what they're told. Often out of a desire for an easy life.
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Man. Listening to @bchesky talk about how he thinks about designing the business that is @Airbnb get me fired up. I’m violently nodding over here. Well done B! 💪 #designersshouldrunbusinesses
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As a director your job is to fight for the best movie. Your DP wants more time to get the perfect shot. Your AD wants to reduce coverage to finish on schedule. Your actors want to change the blocking. Your editor wants to pull out all the music. Your composer wants to add
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just a little more abstraction bro. only a little abstraction bro. i promise bro just a little more abstraction
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- What are you being paid for? - The confidence that I have in my taste. And my ability to express what I feel, has proven helpful for artist. I feel the same applies to design most of the times. A so called good eye, taste, good ideas / direction goes a long way.
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whenever a product designer comes to me for advice on how to push back against bad ideas, i send them this video:
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An ounce of product intuition is worth a pound of A/B testing.
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Hi it's me, the stakeholder who hasn't come to any of the reviews but actually has all the power
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