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designer person @perplexity_ai / Ex @shop, @airbnb, @instagram, @nike
Brooklyn, NY
Joined April 2010
Now available. 💫 Comet lets you… talk to the internet, ask questions about your tabs and history, send agents out to do things for you, and syncs to your main Comet experience for sharing bookmarks and passwords. So excited to share Comet iOS with the world. We hope you enjoy
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What are your favorite examples of what I call ritual instruments — single purpose objects where the design and execution is simply uncompromising? Like the TP-7 recorder from Teenage Engineering, The Toaster from Balmuda, or !Boring apps from @asallen.
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did you just say a pool of text??? this is so satisfying i feel like i just dipped my toes in the water should i make this public?
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at
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Anyone bearish on Claude Code for design has merely been reacting to the first wave of slop that comes with any new tech. Think back to the many accelerometer beer drinking apps when the iPhone first launched. We just need to give talented designers and engineers time to let the
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when interviewing for jobs, don't talk as if they're doing you a favor by hiring you and giving you money focus on removing 100% of unknowns from the interviewer, even if they don't ask you; do you work hard, learn fast, have you done this before, show something live
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this makes middle truncation pretty trivial and performant
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at
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As a software designer I am blown away that we have finally gotten here. This is a new paradigm for layout. I know many of us have tried to do this in code and hit the wall over and over again. As a graphic designer, however, I am utterly disappointed that it has taken this long.
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at
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Driven by Zuck-thought and VC incentives, our industry developed a doctrine that the data tells the story. If option B performed better, then it was more desirable and successful than Option A. No matter how intuitive it felt, your opinion was wrong. It’s very clear to me now
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One interesting observation in this chart is the claim that demand has flipped from designers to PMs. It frames this as if orgs suddenly want fewer designers and more PMs, but that feels rooted in legacy titles, not how the work is actually getting done. On most product teams
I don’t know exactly what’s going on here, but it does feel AI-related. Unlike PM and eng, which started growing in 2024 (two years post-ChatGPT), design didn’t. If I had to venture a theory, I’d say that because AI is allowing engineers to move so quickly, there’s less
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Wake up, designers. While jobs across other functions are surging through the AI transition, design roles are stagnant. Don’t take refuge in craft and taste. All members of technical staff must demonstrate newfound productivity. If that’s a topic you’ve avoided because it
4/ Design roles have plateaued Unlike PM and engineering, open design jobs have been relatively flat since early 2023, and there are also fewer of these roles than PMs and engineers in absolute terms (about 5,700 globally).
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maybe a little silly but this feels like a significant life event, it feels weird to go from being terrified of github and the idea of pushing code to prod, to suddenly submitting 1000+ line PRs basically overnight
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Over the past two months, my most impactful move as a design manager has been encouraging and supporting every designer to start building with Claude Code. Designers used to create a “source of truth” in Figma which was used for QA and accountability.. if anything was wrong,
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excited to try this out !!
Perplexity Computer now connects to your health apps, wearable devices, lab results, and medical records. Build personalized tools and applications with your health data, or track everything in your health dashboard.
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finally a new iOS browser worth replacing Arc with
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he's done it again @gunnargray 💥🐐
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Perplexity Computer now runs on your portfolio. Connect your brokerage accounts securely through @Plaid, then ask Computer to make a personal terminal that's always on.
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We're moving fast so that everyone else can move fast, too 🚀 waitlist now open
Announcing Personal Computer. Personal Computer is an always on, local merge with Perplexity Computer that works for you 24/7. It's personal, secure, and works across your files, apps, and sessions through a continuously running Mac mini.
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