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Design exec to Builder. Previously design leader at https://nitter.cf/t.co/hFk9Iti0xk, Honey, Autodesk

Los Angeles, CA
Joined December 2010
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Taste is felt. NOT solved.
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Instrument Serif becomes the new purple gradient.
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Ppl are just content coding.
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Efficiency = Mediocracy in the AI era.
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The most lost craft among us. That’s why everyone is using the same free icon libs.
icons are one of the most underrated aspects of a design next to fonts and colors, they set the tone of the entire vibe of your product and must standalone often without labels and still make sense rounded? fun. squared? serious.
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When creating art, human and AI are both impressionist. Key difference is human creating impressions based on real world, while AI creating impressions based on human’s impressions. #worldmodel #LLMs
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Brand design has evolved into mockups competition.
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the timeless George Carlin: "Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. Israeli murderers are called commandos. Arab commandos are called terrorists."
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Most powerful statement I heard in a decade by @bchesky “Designers need to rise up and start more companies. ”
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Designer things
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Best design recruiting ad.
For 2023, we really want to get back to our roots of quality and craft, by fixing paper cuts like this. @NotionHQ should stand for “high quality, useful software — for the many people”
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In #China, CCP censors all online platforms and sometimes shuts down the internet in protest sites. Protestors need safe and free internet access to circulate information, and the world needs to know the truth. Should @elonmusk launch Starlink to support Chinese citizens now?
92%✅Starlink in China now
8%🚫Starlink not for use
7,520 votes • Final results
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上海乌鲁木齐路 民众高喊 共产党 下台! 这是迄今为止最为激进的口号。
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Tiny design detail: nested border radii look really funky if they're the same. To maintain the same curvature, the outer radius = inner radius + padding.
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We always mimc each other. Aren’t the previous version the same? If you look at Revolute, Airbnb, Spotify. It’s not homogenization of tech logos. It’s homogenization of homogeneity.
Replying to @david_perell
The homogenization of tech logos.
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it’s incredible how reading this feels like finally unlocking 100% of your brain (via @christophepas)
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Avoiding the risk is riskier than taking the risk.
0. Startup CEOs: if you want to hire the leader for a particular function, follow this playbook.
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SQUARESPACE: A visual (and wordplay) triumph. Stellar copywriting, Zendaya's enduring charisma, amplified by gorgeous cinematography—and topped with an Andre 3000 reveal at the end—make this an easy favorite. #BigGameReviews #SuperBowl
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Design leaders who want to improve visual design in products should spend as much time advocating for better UI engineering practices as they spend focusing on practices within their team. Quality of UI shouldn’t be dependent on a lottery of which engineer builds it.
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