Derek Briggs
@PixelJanitor
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Design + Code @Shopify. Co-host @shape_fm. Angel Investor.
Colorado, USA
Joined July 2010
Told Santa I wanted Siri to be as good as chatgpt voice and he walked away what is happening
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If you haven’t yet, make sure you check this site out on desktop. Unreal amount of extra detail exposed on wider formats.
Just keep scrolling. https://t.co/c5TdV7fAwK
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This. It’s just this. If this is one person doing both, double their salary. Their passion and level of execution excellence will attract the folks you would want to join them. Teams who can operate at the level of quality _they_ require have a gravitational pull towards others
Having at least 1 incredible designer and 1 incredible front-end dev that appreciates design will totally change the way your product feels. These are 2 of the best hires you can have if you want to stand out.
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I think often about something @cameronmoll said: “Showing people the wrong thing is sometimes the way to get the right thing out of their heads.”
Your ideas are *not* you. Put them idea in the arena. Let them stand on their own merits. Fight them and fight for them — but never get attached to them. Great teams don’t avoid conflict, they seek it.
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I’m in need of a great denim jean recommendation. Have preferred Express for years, but now they’re all about holes, rips, and sheen. Anyone have a favorite tall/skinny, soft denim jean to check out?
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This is a fantastic listen and I highly encourage everyone to check it out (it's also quite entertaining). Their desires and ambitions are super exciting, and they've cultivated an environment to bring ideas to life at extremely high standards. This is why I joined Shopify.
That call where I thought @Tobi was firing me? We finally talked about it... Shopify’s internal podcast, Context, usually stays internal. But, this one hit differently—we unpacked @shop's origin story, *that* call, and how design defines every new era of technology. I loved the
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Also excited to share that James and I recently brought on @motioncoder as editor on @shape_fm. He has some more delight he's prepping too that you'll see in the new videos in the coming weeks. So stoked to team up with you, Matt!
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Just shipped Episode 6. Particularly excited about the detail shared in this one. We go into working across teams, building world class design teams, and the effectiveness of having ui engineers on design teams.
○ Episode 6: Q&A https://t.co/Iga3UtDIeF
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Hello, here's a brain dump of everything I know about animation performance. By replacing a single global CSS variable with JS animations, I took style recalculations on a popular portfolio website down from a whopping 8ms to nanoseconds. That and much more in this post.
Animating layout isn't always bad. Global CSS variables are a performance killer. Hardware accelerated blurs can crash sites. Surprised? We go into all this and more, in the first Web Animation Performance Tier List:
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Finally got to see A Day To Remember last night and it was an absolutely epic show! The breakdowns hit so much harder live.
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🎥 On the new episode of @shape_fm we're talking about things to expect when hiring people and how to land a role. @PixelJanitor and I have taken very different career paths, so it turned into a long, honest chat about our experiences and lessons along the way.
○ Ep 5: Help with hiring and getting hired https://t.co/bSr1QEPL5n
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Laravel’s design team David built while he was there is another great example of these principals in practice. World class design requires world class implementations. We recorded a @shape_fm episode today that goes much deeper into this. Excited for it to go live next week!
"It doesn't matter how good your designer is if you can't build it." "Engineers having foundational-level design knowledge helps the entire process." Couldn't agree more with these points from @PixelJanitor and @jamesm in the latest @shape_fm
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If the response starts with "You're absolutely right!", please don't charge me tokens for the correction it's about to make.
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The most important thing I learned from this video is that you can use tide pods in the detergent dispenser tray instead of throwing them in directly with the clothes.
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I'm a big fan of @jamesm and @PixelJanitor, so I threw together an intro animation for their new @shape_fm podcast 🎬🔊
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✨ On this weeks episode of @shape_fm we talk about @cursor_ai's cool new website and how your online presence impacts your hire-ability.
○ Ep 4: Your online presence https://t.co/QIgfRXhVfg
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