Jon Lax
@jlax
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It's a daily operation | From the 416, now in the 415 | jonlax on Threads
San Francisco
Joined January 2008
RT @JoeRinaldi: This week on the You Can’t Lose! podcast: @jlax: As Close To Bare Metal As Possible. Find us on Spotify: ..
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This was a lot of fun.
This week on the You Can’t Lose! podcast: @jlax: As Close To Bare Metal As Possible. Find us on Spotify: ..and Apple Podcasts: .
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This was the design inspo for the AVP.
Elvis chilling in Vail, CO 1967 bout ready to hit the powder then the slopes.
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I am old enough to have watched to Bills miss wide right in two different millennia.
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By nature I am not competitive so I always found building products through a "competitive frame" difficult. Worrying about competition is different than chasing competition. Being animated by competition can lead you astray.
jonlax.framer.ai
Thoughts on systems, design and the management of both
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Enough with the Steve Jobs quotes. Let's start quoting Jim Barksdale more.
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While people are quick to quote Steve Jobs, I think the most quotable and prescient Silicon Valley CEO was Jim Barksdale.
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Designers try to change behavior or practice in a company will often create internal documents. Tools like Notion or internal Wikis make it very easy for people to create content that looks like official. These usually go nowhere.
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Inside a system, nothing matters if there is no method of enforcement.
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New post on scaling teams and using ratios to determine how many designers you need.
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How teams scale (grow) is more complex than just a ratio.
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I had some time over the summer to write. Still a WIP. Written, mainly for Designers, but really for anyone building products or complex systems.
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RT @benblumenrose: All - we just opened applications for Designer Fund Partnership: the best $500K investment and design support offer for….
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I am not at Config but if I was this would be a must see.
🚨 FYI! I’m speaking at @figma’s #config2023 and you should come watch my talk (it’ll be a frenetic speedrun of my @itp_nyu class on the design tools, processes & ethics of #XR #design). → → →
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The Righteous Gemstones and Succession are the same story. 3 kids vying to run their father’s business.
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We live in wild times.
Chef and TV personality Guy Fieri and Grammy-winning musician Sammy Hagar are sending tequila fans to flavortown with a new NFT loyalty program for their premium spirits brand @santo_spirit. @rosieperper reports: .
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After 5 years of listening to PMs panic about Apple entering the market we now confirm they are bound by the same laws of physics and use case challenges.
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I don't know how many room scale use cases will translate to world scale but a lot of the fundamental interaction patterns will cross over. I doubt the killer MR app will be a great AR app.
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