Tobias van Schneider
@vanschneider
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Designing my world.
Joined January 2009
I just remembered that very specific feeling when I wrote my first e-mail on the first iPhone in 2007. It felt like such a unique experience, so hard to explain.
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We’re teaching kids history wrong. History should be a story–an exciting, meaningful account of our past that we can learn from. Not memorizing dates and last names and titles of wars. Here’s how to fix history classes:
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Why I love running a business. If you’re interested in psychology, build a product and run a business. It is a vocation inherently about the human mind. To create an effective product, you have to understand how your user feels and what they need (or what they don’t realize
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Shipped today! Funny enough, I'm sticking with Nunito myself, I kinda like it as body copy for notes (I only disliked the comical headlines, but we fixed those now as well). I hope you like this update!
˗ˏˋ NEW FEATURE ˎˊ˗ You can now change the typeface of your NOTE cards to one of the four choices (on desktop). We hope you like it!
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.@mymind is where I cultivate my own source of truth.
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Related from the archive:
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If you asked a young designer 20 years ago who their design heroes are, you'd hear some familiar names.
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To all young designers: Be deliberate about who you look up to and pick your design heroes carefully. They will not only shape your taste, but also your sense of what's worth and what isn't worth chasing. Don't just follow someone just because they're an influencer, or seem
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DEAR YOUNG DESIGNER → You don't need to become a grifter to be successful. I know it seems that way today, but trust me there is another way that's more meaningful and long lasting for you. Take some pride in your work. → You don't have to openly boast about your revenue,
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It still feels strange that I ended up becoming a designer. It barely makes sense to me looking back. Growing up, no one around me (friends or family) was a designer. Zero outside influence. I didn't even know that it was an actual profession. Nothing about me pointed in that
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None of these two attitudes are healthy long term. Self-confidence is important. But so is humility.
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Fascinating how designers on Twitter went from: “10 years in and I still feel like a fraud with imposter syndrome” to “been designing for two months, I’m the greatest alive.”
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This is my dream house in may ways: ✔ Less is more approach. One big living room, all in one. Everything on the same level. Generous, but not "massive". Few to no traditional walls, natural room separators, plants, glass, shelves etc. Everything should feel like it just
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Some small updates to the design artifacts archive.
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PS: We also integrated a BUMPED logic for when you edit notes. So if you frequently edit the same note, they will always float somewhere near the top (no need for TOP OF MIND in that case).
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"Top of Mind" is now also shipped on mobile for all @mymind members. Nice way to have your most important and frequent cards always at the top. It's limited on purpose because if everything is important, nothing is (: PS: Works the same way as on desktop! And if you have
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