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I like computers and using them to empower people to do cool things. Doing those things @materializeinc . Head barista @ .
SF, sometimes elsewhere
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If you're working to make software and computers more approachable, expressive, or better in any way, please let me know.
I'm working on some things I think you'll be interested in and would love to chat.
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Bro Palantir has the military using kanban boards to execute strikes. There's no way💀
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tfw when you realize Stripe uses 8+ drop shadows on their buttons…
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Such a boring take.
Do side projects for the vibes, nothing else. Any money you make from it is just a bonus
If your side-project doesn’t have the potential of becoming your main project, consider a pivot.
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HOT TAKE
Learning to code as a designer doesn’t make you a better designer and you don’t have to actively contribute code even if you do know how to.
But what it does do is make you a better team member and allow you to communicate much better with other people, not just devs.
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Where are ya'll looking for visual and UI design inspiration these days? I'm getting so bored of the current aesthetic and everything feels either too boring or as way too much going on *cough* web3 *cough*
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For every one of you designers who thinks designing accessible products only means meeting contrasts ratios, watch this video then think about how many people you have excluded and how much you’ve missed.
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I need an app that lets me see and use…
iMessage
Twitter DMs
Instagram DMs
Telegram
WhatsApp
Signal
Discord
Slack
MS Teams (i know 😔)
…in one place. I can’t keep up.
If you’re building this, take my money.
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💾🖥🖱💻
Introducing !
A tiny microgrants experiment focused on encouraging people to start projects and share ideas about the future of computing.
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Being a "product minded" engineer feels like the ideal role at a startup. If you work somewhere that isn't overly prescriptive with roadmaps, you can identify some problems and build something to solve them. Meanwhile, we lowly designers and PMs have to ask nicely for engineers…
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Question for design twitter.
When you were starting in your career, what are some resources (books, podcasts, blogs, etc.) and advice that you wish you had that you now have today?
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Does anyone have any theories to why writing about your craft on a personal blog is so much more prevalent with programmers than designers?
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Who here is a designer turned product manager? I have questions and want to talk to you.
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Anyone else feel like every other week they consider becoming a PM or is it just me?
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Today is my last day at Pallet.
It's been a great experience building with this team over the last year and I'm extremely proud of this team and the work we did.
Now it's time to relax for a bit and catch up on life before a new adventure :)
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who wanna start a lil research lab with me in SF?
The mission is to make computers go brr
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Is anyone doing interesting work rethinking the primitive pieces of how we interact with computers today? Particularly curious about any research/innovation to things like window managers, search/query engines, file systems, etc?
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if I made a
@trycampsite
for fellow solo designers to share work with each other, would anyone want to join?
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I think one of the best hiring tactics startups can use to hire talented designers early on is showing that the engineering team cares about the details of the product. The design doesnt need to be fantastic, but if you show that your team cares, designers will be more interested
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Seeing
@Casey
share the stories and help those who have been affected by COVID makes me even more proud to be a small part of the team working on the
@1kprojectorg
. If youre in a position to help, I'd love to help connect you with a family in our network!
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My Therapist: "What keeps you up at night?"
Me: "Design Twitter"
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Designing a damn date picker for the 100th time. Maybe this time I'll get it right.
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Hi frens,
After ~3.5 years in LA, I’m moving back to SF in December.
I would like to see new and old friends once I’m back up here! 👋
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Twitter, I need your help.
After working your work day/week, (how) do you find time to work on side projects or learn something new? I have so many things I want to do, but by the time I get home I’m beat. I used to be good at this :(
HELPPPPP ME, I want to make things!
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💻 💾 🖥
This week, the first batch of grants for was sent out. I'm so excited and impressed by everyone who took the time to share what they're working on with us.
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Personal News:
I will be joining the
@playvscom
team as a designer in Santa Monica after I graduate.
I’m super excited to be involved in esports again and bringing competition to the high school level.
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So yesterday was my birthday, and I'm making one promise to myself, but I know it will be hard.
To have more good days than bad days.
The last two years for me have been full of some good days and a lot of shitty days. I want more good days.
Tweeting this for accountability.
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Designing software is fun and all, but I kinda wish I was making rockets or reactors or something
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Someone explain to me why it takes until 5pm for me to hit my flow state with design work.
I stare at a blank screen all day and then *boom* at 5pm I know how to solve the problem
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So a good product designer? You are talking about a product designer.
Prototype Managers > Product Managers
ProtoMs: communicate with code, develop an understanding of where technical complexity lies, validate ideas quickly
ProdMs: write 10 page PRDs, agonize over ticket status, waste eng time
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I wish it were easier to find "study buddies" for online courses :(
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If you were designing a new operating system from the ground up, specifically for the work you do on a computer, what is the number one thing you wish it supported out of the box?
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I would pay a monthly subscription for walkthroughs of how people set up their sketch/figma workspaces. I need to pick up some new tricks.
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A few times a year, I rediscover Alan Kay's Quora account and spend days reading all the new answers.
Today is that day. If you need me, I'll be here
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I (sadly) envy people who in their free time can just sit down and design something that looks cool...with no constraints, no specific direction, nothing. Just the thought of "I'm going to go make a cool looking picture today."
I am lost without context.
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Anyone who doesn't set their Big nudge to 8 is wrong.
Sorry I don't make the rules.
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What type (HA PUNNY) of person are you...Option 1 or 2?
For the record, I'm not exactly sure which is typographically correct, but I'm Option 2.
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Keyboard-driven design tools 😍
Your move
@figma
I’m going to show you how to make this Surf Card design in SwiftUI and I’ll be doing this all with the new keyboard commands in
@detailsproapp
.
Check it out and have a great weekend!
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I think everything is starting to catch up to me 😔.
I want to sleep for a week.
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I never thought I’d say this, but I (currently) deeply miss working in an office.
Remote work is nice when it reduces stress and gives you more autonomy. But its horrible when it does the opposite.
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I'm tempted to start a newsletter like
@workspacesxyz
but for personal libraries/bookshelves. Am I the only person who'd be interested in this?
Who wants to be the first feature?
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This is by far the best side effect and most useful aspect of the rise of web3…everyone connects to your wallet. No more dealing with 100000000 passwords.
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Spent the day building a little prototype spacemouse / joystick to make navigating around Fusion 360 a bit easier.
The print quality sucks and the sprint contraption needs some refinement but the sensors are working 🙃
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Thinking about how to structure this a bit tonight
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🎯🎯🎯
"If you work in tech or startups, focus on the craft of your work. Avoid, “the scene.” For some, having a startup is a lifestyle and there are always people who want to appear like they are doing stuff but don’t care about the work."
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I have a new obsession with Japanese joinery…do I advance further into designer stereotypes and take up woodworking?
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Excited to be a part of
@beondeck
's 6th cohort next month!
Thanks
@thatguyBG
for the encouragement to apply and for the On Deck team
@david__booth
,
@eriktorenberg
,
@julianweisser
team for letting me be a part of this.
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I feel like more startups should list "we use good software" as a perk on job openings…the culture is so different when you work somewhere that tools can't be blamed for issues and inefficiencies.
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For anyone who works at companies where there are unique position/titles for "Product Designer" and "UI/UX Designer"...what is the key difference (responsibilities, expectations, etc.) and how do you differentiate it internally?
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twitter people will literally use anything as opportunity to write a thread and promote themselves. it's disgusting
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I think timing is an extremely overlooked and misunderstood piece of the puzzle when trying to decide what to build.
It shouldn’t always be “can we build this” or “is this the right thing to build” but also “is it the right time to build this”
There’s my ranty tweet for today
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Hi Twitter,
I want to become a better writer. Aside from writing more, which I know is crucial, what are some good resources out there to learn from?
Thanks,
Parker
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We need to talk more about spite-fueled productivity. Because that shit is powerful
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🚨Attention Designers🚨
I've been spending more and more time helping friends and startups find and attract designers for both full time and part-time/freelance work, so I'm deciding to make a list to make it easier!
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Met
@DannPetty
and
@krispuckett
who along with my mentors helped me get to
@Epicurrence
which ultimately landed me a job
@redbull
.
Thanks
@twitter
, you did good.
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Every piece of a design should be accompanied by rationale and reason. If you can't explain why you put that button there, then it's flawed.
That is my
#ThurdayThoughtLeader
tweet for today.
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Happy Ink & Switch day!*
*I hereby declare any day that new Ink & Switch research is published as a global holiday for all computer nerds.
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tbh I'm just happy to be here
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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Are there any strong examples of people creating new "notations" for solving a specific type of product/software design problem?
This example from
@rjs
is one I frequently think about and use.
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I pledge no allegiance to any tool, but holy hell is
@figmadesign
's new plugin API good. It's so refreshing to use after battling sketch and Adobe APIs for so long.
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Where do all the solo/lone product designers hang out?
I miss being able to bounce ideas around with other designers on my team. Thinking about trying to recreate it if anyone is in a similar boat.
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🛑 Personal Update 🛑
Last week was my final week at PlayVS.
I don’t have anything lined up. With that being said, I am now looking for product design or product management opportunities in LA or SF.
If you or anyone you know is hiring, I’d love to chat!
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My new favorite hobby is building skill trees for random things I want to learn
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What do you wish you had studied in school that would have helped you in your current position today? Specifically curious to hear from fellow designers and product folks.
I haven't gone, but I firmly believe studying economics would have the largest impact on my career thus far
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My commute went from 45 min to 5 and I don’t know what to do with myself in the mornings.
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Twitter, I had an excellent conversation with a coworker today about whether being a generalist vs. a specialist is better for a person's career (in tech specifically).
What are your thoughts?
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Spent my Sunday relaxing and improving my vim config.
Very satisfied with it :D
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I’ve recently realized that I unintentionally have stopped referring to something I’ve created as a “design”.
An artboard in a design tool isn’t a design. That artboard is the remnants/outcome of the process of designing.
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This post from
@ShaneAParrish
and
@farnamstreet
is one of the best pieces I’ve read in a long time.
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@evanlapointe
It’s extremely hard to quantify and measure…which makes it hard for people to grasp the value and impact of it.
The value of design comes from exploration, yet many people aren’t pleased when you tell them you spent a month exploring a feature only to decide not to build it.
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How many of my twitter friends are in NY? Taking a poll for something 👀
Like this if you are there.
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🔶 2019 Goals 🔶
- Slow down and think
- Build and release at least 1 side project
- Stream design/dev things on
@twitch
- Read more (40 books?)
- Go to the damn gym (we’ll see how this goes 😂)
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