Jonathan Kochis
@jonathankochis
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👨💻 Work: Principal designer in fintech SaaS (Xero) 🚵♂️ Bikes: Mountain, gravel 🌲 Outdoor stuff: Canoeing, backcountry camping 🇨🇦
Joined May 2008
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👏 Keep your feet on the ground
The only thing that matters in consumer software is velocity of shipping. You will regularly be wrong about what people want: no one is a perfect psychologist. But if you are out at the frontlines with concepts everyday, your team will have their finger on the pulse of users and
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As simple as possible, but no simpler
on simplicity: simplicity isn’t about stripping everything down to the bare minimum. it’s about finding the simplest system that can do the most things and serve the most people. removing features just to remove them isn’t simple – it’s disruptive. real simplicity comes from
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💯 Perception is reality
Having a niche isn’t about what you do. It’s about what you 📢 SAY 📢 you do. Your favorite agency that did all that flashy Nike work? You never heard that they made lots of Walmart banner ads to pay the bills, right? It’s ok to take work outside your niche, for cash or for
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Fellow early morning cyclist from a few weeks back ☀️
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True alignment is clarity on who you’re building for and the value you bring. Without that: Competing work streams, failed features, and compounding debt. https://t.co/Cj39PwNnom
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For this to work, and I really believe it will/should, we need to change how we read signals in design reviews. Polish, detail, and realism aren't signs of completeness but conversation starters with plenty of room to move.
Just shared this video with the Shopify design team TL;DR 1. No slides or presentations; show the work 2. Bring me along in your explorations; a successful review is one full of debate, not the ones that just get to a yes or a no 3. Overshoot the opportunity; let's walk back
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Perfect cycling weather this weekend. Nice to have a fan or two along the route.
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This is the route we did around Phillip Edward Island: https://t.co/CYkKU090Bk
alltrails.com
Philip Edward Island loop in Georgian Bay is recommended as a two day trip. Prevailing winds are westerly, so it is best to go around the island counter-clockwise, passing the Fox Islands, going down...
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I’ll keep using Replit (or whatever we eventually land on at work). It's fun, powerful, and only going to get better. But I’ll be reminding myself: Real doesn’t always mean right, and fast shouldn’t replace shared.
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I'm learning that speed is a gift, but also a trap. Tools like Replit help you get to something real, fast. But it’s easy to polish the wrong thing or go it alone when you shouldn’t.
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I’d already explored early ideas in Figma and worked with partners and peers to shape the experience, but I can see how easy it’d be to skip that. For better or worse, Replit makes it so tempting to just build.
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But that’s the tension. It looked finished. It felt finished. And to me, especially in my role, that “finished” feeling is the risk.
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In a few hours, I had a live prototype I could click through, showing our capabilities embedded in their flow. I was able to get to something real very quickly. So real in fact that the parter was alarmed at the resemblance.
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I’m working on a partner integration where we don’t control the UI. To explore how our capabilities might show up in their environment, I spun up a clone of their experience in Replit.
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Been using @Replit a lot lately. As a designer, I’m both energized and uneasy. Here’s why 🧵
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#1 on the list. Only one I’ve paddled (two years ago) but who am I to argue with the ranking? Absolutely stunning. https://t.co/fyHJbXw4CS
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