Ben South
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building @variantui • past: vp @postmates, founder @sonar (acq) and @bold (acq)
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Joined April 2008
If you want your generations to feel designed and not…generated We hid a few invite codes to @variantui in this video The first 100 get unlimited credits, reply for a hint
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Design is the new bottleneck
Something I wanted to see if Claude Opus 4.5 could do: clone a fully functional Billion $ SAAS product and make it at least 100x cheaper. The first product that came to mind was TypeForm because it's very popular, very expensive, and in theory, very simple. The result is
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Design sandwich is the new design handoff: 1. Designer prototypes 2. Eng implements functionality and layout 3. Designer vibe polishes
Designers need to know how to hand off to engineers. This is how I do it: 1. I think most use Figma dev mode for handovers. Another option is Zeplin. You can upload your designs onto Zeplin, and it does pretty much everything Figma dev mode does (: 2. For bigger projects with
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Might be the best one yet
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"Making a canvas chat app" is the new "making a note-taking app"
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Design is ultimately about sifting through hundreds of wrong answers to find the right one Use whatever tools/process/deliverables you need to achieve this
the best design work i’ve ever done, and still do, came from a canvas and this is from someone who is a strong advocate for designing with code
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The future of code is design
The future of design is code.
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Coding is just one part of software engineering Moving pixels is just one part of designing software
This is a fantastic update from a fantastic team. But I can't help to think how the reactions and predictions of doom for drawing tools I'm seeing are overblown, betraying a misunderstanding of their use and value.
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Hosted it here if you want to give it a try → https://t.co/vEjyGOPSvX Let me know if you'd like to see any particular writers or features
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Hosted it here if you want to give it a try → https://t.co/vEjyGOPSvX Let me know if you'd like to see any particular writers or features
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I just throw my prompt at a bunch of famous writers, visionaries, and brand teams throughout history Annotate by highlighting, @ mention specific authors, or automatically route to the right voices Made surprisingly quickly in @variantui
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I just throw my prompt at a bunch of famous writers, visionaries, and brand teams throughout history Annotate by highlighting, @ mention specific authors, or automatically route to the right voices Made surprisingly quickly in @variantui
you know how sometimes you read text and it just stinks of ai? wikipedia has a great list of tells: https://t.co/V6CiJXuW9j i thought it'd be fun to put all of it into a system prompt to avoid having text sound AI generated - it works pretty well. prompt in the reply below:
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I would tank this interview I only use well-known products, don’t want them to change, and don’t want to think about the products I use daily
My Go-To Design Interview If I am under the gun and have to interview a software designer on a dime, I often ask more senior candidates the following: In advance of our conversation, select 2-3 apps or services that you absolutely love and use regularly, ideally ones that I am
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Trick to do this quickly: create a color layer → set to overlay → lower opacity → apply to greyscale palette Works directly on UI too
One of the tricks I picked up from working at Google is a very simple way to make sure your interface feels on-brand: Start with the core brand colour. Let's say it's blue. You create a palette of blue shades from light to dark, almost white to almost black, all with a blue
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So fun, had to ask @variantui to give this style a try (one-shot)
🎨 Just discovered ColorPalette Pro by Ryan Feigenbaum: a synthesiser for colour. I really like the music-hardware analogy.
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