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head of design @sesame
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2007
joining @sesame as head of design today!. when I first met @brendaniribe a few months ago, his vision for sesame and his way of talking about design and craft inspired me. felt the same when i met @natemitchell. couldn’t be more excited to build with this amazing team.
At Sesame, we believe in a future where computers are lifelike. Today we are unveiling an early glimpse of our expressive voice technology, highlighting our focus on lifelike interactions and our vision for all-day wearable voice companions.
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nvidia makes these nifty PCB rulers you can find on eBay. they usually hand them out at events
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Wrapping up a fun week with the entire @sesame team in Skamania, WA. Never felt so at home on a team. Spent a lot of time talking about building great products, learned a lot about what goes into great hardware, shared some of my early designs, and spent a lot of time outdoors.
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now that Figma and iOS 26 have Liquid Glass I almost don’t want to use it. every app will be doing it and it won’t feel special. the more accessible a certain design aesthetic is, the less you want it. tastefully riffing on it with your own flavor will be sought after.
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oh boy, Sony finally made the fixed-lens full-frame RX1R III. i absolutely loved the first version. huge price increase to $5k, going up against leica Q3 now
the 11 year old Sony RX1R really was a perfect camera. i wish there was a modern version. solid metal body, tiny, full-frame, fun clicky aperture ring on the fixed f/2 lens . sure it had slow auto-focus and horrid battery life but really was something.
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@sesame @brendaniribe @natemitchell wrapping up my first week at @sesame. i got some slick hardware demos too. such an amazing collection of people working on shipping magic. i missed working with people in an office. but the most exciting thing for me is how much everyone truly cares about craft.
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found a working palm pixi on eBay to add my vintage gadget collection
people forget how influential Palm webOS was. lots of modern iOS uses similar patterns. palm was basically the OpenAI of their time. such talent density that Steve Jobs had to threaten them to stop poaching. • horizontal app card multitasking w/ flick up to quit.• edge swipe
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drove to @ILEquipment in Berkeley for a new backpack today. wanted something smaller for just laptop and got a 14L radius mini
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my favorite related insight from 10+ years ago was when Facebook had their own custom loader. when they used the custom loader, people blamed Facebook for the slowness. when they used the system spinner, people assumed their phone/ios was the issue.
Look at these 2 UIs. One of them will 100% outperform the other for one reason:. The Doherty Threshold. Here's how this psychological principle works & how to use it in your products:
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- iOS 26 beta windowing is not great on the smaller display imo so I disabled it (and would too often trigger the gesture that puts the app slightly offscreen instead of just app switching). - immediately noticed it was only 60hz compared to my iPad pro’s 120hz . - I got and then.
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got an iPad Mini for my birthday. the size is perfect—basically a big phone. feels more personal. great for scrolling X or reading NetNewsWire feeds in portrait orientation.
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33 years old and the original Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines are still relevant
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I’ve debated at some point between all of these the last few months . - 22-24 X3M Comp (lovely but poor mileage and hard to find with low miles).- 25 X1 M35i - hate interior controls, transmission feels like FWD bias / has power surge issues (can’t go past a hill-top stop sign.
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