Hire extraordinary designers. The most brilliant founding designers often don't have pretty portfolios — this is one of the best essays that breaks it down. Here's everything you need to know on how to hire founding designers:

Always liked the good design work at Tavus... would be interesting to try fork it

This Ronald Reagan joke never gets old.

Must-read for anyone hiring founding designers: https://t.co/xC1x3oHyCF

Read the full essay: https://t.co/B1sBdp5nLt Thank you @hannah_ahn for agreeing to be featured, @heyitszeth @almas_sapar for proof reading. And @bindra_dhruv for inspiring me to write this through our conversation!

Industrial designers make brilliant software designers. They are wired to put in way more care and intent into what they ship. This is still very underrated.

@felixleezd @peakxvpartners @ADPList Thanks @felixleezd those were the early days… great to hear these stories and has been so much fun to be on the @ADPList journey with you 🙏 Onwards! 👊

The best thing I ever did was to slow down. Unpopular opinion but, personal growth can only happen when you slow down every once in awhile.

@IKEA Their launch:

IKEA's new beautiful design for home device is so brilliant and intuitive.

I came across a post here that made me know about @ADPList. And after a session today with a mentor, it just felt as if I've found a gold mine.

Design for startups is hard. After designing for 7 startups that exceed ~100M users, I've decided that few things are do or die. Design in 0-1 is extremely hard—but I've learned a lot along the way. For designers/founders in startups, here's everything you need to know to build

Everyone is a designer. But not anyone is a good designer.

Our first investor, Pieter (@P_Kemps), is leaving @peakxvpartners (fka Sequoia Capital). I need to tell you about a story from June 2021. Because that day taught me something about belief that I didn't understand until now. We're on a Zoom call. @ADPList has no revenue, just

This design taste is breathtaking. It blew my mind when I first saw it. What an elegant use of modern form with a nostalgic touch. Is this the new design trend? I bet so. 🤯

Genius, brilliant design. When you toggle the lights, the entire page dims to create a more immersive sense of the lighting. This is the stuff that really gets me going!

feel honored to be mentioned by @felixleezd in his newsletter – he writes one of the best insights for early-career designers for free can't recommend his content enough 🙏

tfw quick call isn't always quick

Figma Make will make you a superhuman. But only if you know how to use it effectively. After 50+ builds and errors in @Figma Make, here’s the ultimate list to help you build better products ⚡️: 1/ Attach Figma frames to guide Make Drop a design frame into the chat and anchor

I have a new website. https://t.co/6XmFlsagLW I am not a developer but this blew my mind. I built it entirely on Claude Code + Cursor. It isn't perfect, but I think its cool and proud for v1. I'm optimistic. Take a look!

No one says this enough - the thing about taste is that it doesn't stick. Good taste today can be bad tomorrow. It's an insidious cycle - when AI generates good taste, it enters mainstream and will eventually become slop. A forcing function for designs to be authentic.