Dev Bala

As the years have gone by I've realized just how lucky I was to work at Nest with @tfadell and @MattLRogers at the helm. So many product lessons that will stay with me for life! Thanks for writing and sharing these stories with the world 🙏🏽

Teammate, friend and talented author @Rubingo's latest work showed up at my door yesterday. One for us and one for the local library! 🍦⚙️

I'll loan you mine next time

Preview of how that'll go down.

This is a really bad product/UX decision @Dropbox. Artificially limiting usability in the name of growth is :(

Free feature idea for my friends and former coworkers at @GoogleWorkspace: You're missing the layout where video is tiled *across the top*, where the camera is. Makes for a more natural level of eye contact.

A LOT. SO MUCH. More than anyone else you've ever interviewed.

For the life of me I don't get why ppl prefer @zoom_us over @Google Meet. Zoom lacks feature to go 100% fullscreen on the speaker (at least on ChromeOS). Critical for education use cases.

This is what a lack of leadership looks like.

This picture spoke to me. @JoeBiden has his flaws - as do we all - but he understands the moment at hand and the need for solidarity. #BlackLivesMatter nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opini…

This is such classically bad, focus on Facebook > the user product management. You can't turn off notifications in the messenger app, b/c that wouldn't be good for their DAU metrics.

This is terrible product design @Quora . Forcing me out of the webview just to drive up your app metrics is not at all user friendly.

I'd just like to state for the record that @roywoodjr is wearing @warriorlax RPM gloves on the @TheDailyShow tonight. #lacrosse #lax #growthegame

How do you reroute just ONE of my bags? And - the kicker - it's a car seat! How am I supposed to drive my kids home? I would expect a lot more as a Premier / 1K member @united. This is unacceptable.

LFG

Never thought I'd see the day. Bring on Boston. #LGB #LetsGoBlues

This some of the worst UI imaginable @AugustHomeInc. Right after pressing the unlock button, as the app is performing it's primary task (after failing auto unlock), you pop up a survey? "Not so great" doesn't *begin* to describe it.

I joined 10 years ago today, in part because a sneaky reporter started a Twitter campaign against changes in @Outlook 2010 where I was the lead PM - the power and scale of Twitter blindsided me, and I still tell the story in interviews. #MyTwitterAnniversary

Still remember the first time I heard about @Google Assistant working on @Nest Guard... *three years ago* when I was a member of the team. So happy to see it ship, well done!

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