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Indie designer-developer working with screens, objects and spaces. Previously: @spotify, @meta, @fiftythree, @fuseproject

New York City
Joined July 2009
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Barton Smith
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Wow, an incredible demonstration of creative interaction design.
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First pair of over-ears 😍
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What do you want to know?.
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Barton Smith
2 months
Saying “from first principles” doesn’t make you sound as intelligent or insightful as you might think it does ❤️.
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2 months
What are your favorite newsletters?. I'm looking for some goodies to add to my morning ritual in @north_mail. Especially graphic/identity design and some weird, random shit. Current favorites:.- @thedesignfiles, @hanslorei and Katie Elliott for interiors.- @visualelectric for
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Barton Smith
2 months
Hey @facetune, your NYC subway ads are disgusting. Congratulations on slowly destroying the self-worth of a generation.
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Barton Smith
3 months
Strange that these AI companies have the world’s leading technology yet they show us historical lists of chats and ask us to manually create folders.
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Barton Smith
4 months
SwiftUI: 1 hour building a view, 23 hours trying to override a single default styling.
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Barton Smith
4 months
I’m looking for a desk to rent in a creative space in Manhattan. Know of any?. Not corporate-owned, hot-desk type spots. Places where people know each other and discuss their work.
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4 months
via 吴非 (Wu Fei) on 小红书.
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4 months
Oppo’s new R&D center has finished construction in Dongguan and looks beautiful.
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Barton Smith
5 months
RT @asallen: “We made painting feel like typing, when we should have made typing feel like painting.”. Our Interfaces Have Lost Their Sense….
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Barton Smith
7 months
The US’s haste, optimism, brashness and risk/failure tolerance make them so perfectly positioned for software, in a way they never were for hardware. In contrast to Japan/Germany’s cultures of precision, perfection and bureaucracy.
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7 months
For a company that prides itself of typography, text support in SwiftUI is abysmal.
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Barton Smith
7 months
RT @DannPetty: Something I've noticed from seeing design markets come and go. I remember when Behance was THE place to be. It was filled w….
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8 months
Nice integrations layout by Ghost
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Barton Smith
9 months
Great write up from @vanlancker.
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Willem
9 months
Ask someone to define design, and they’ll likely list outputs—buildings, logos, products, apps—or fall back on process platitudes. But these narrow views miss what makes design essential today. Throughout history, new technologies have opened new fields of expression and
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9 months
Whenever you’re tackling a brand new space (social, AI, etc) there’s a lot of value in keeping the software vanilla and un-opinionated, as it creates the most open environment for behavioral patterns to organically emerge. But that can be scary as a designer if we think our role.
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9 months
I got a nice surprise while reading newsletters on.@inboundmail today—my buddy announced his launch of premium bagged tea with immaculate vibes. Go get yourself a quality sip ☕️
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Barton Smith
9 months
Sometimes I have genuine fun co-programming and problem-solving with Claude. I didn’t expect AI to solve the loneliness of working alone, but in hindsight’s I guess that’s obvious. It’s the back-and-forth discussion and small moments of celebration both ways.
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9 months
My lil pinky is constantly activating Siri type. How ‘bout you?.
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