Designer. Formerly @incident.io, @google. Co-founder of @_DesignClub.

Joined February 2009
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Apr 28
Chef @almonk has absolutely COOKED here
Apr 28
Today we're launching our first public Poolside models: Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, and we've built ❈Shimmer, an instant-on VM sandbox with Poolside Agent pre-installed so you can try them out. Go play out our new models for free, and build something fun → shimmer.run
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Mar 11
I made something I've wanted for ages: a simple to-do list for Figma files. Designed to look and feel as native as possible, tüdü lives alongside your designs and let's you keep track of things. That's it. tudu.tom.pe/
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Mar 11
Less 'How?', more 'What?'
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Feb 4
My new AI-native canvas ↔ code design tool dropping soon, sign up to join the waitlist
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Tom Petty retweeted
9 Sep 2025
"In a world where anyone can make anything, the rarest skill will be knowing what's worth making." Louder for the people in the back, please.
9 Sep 2025
For decades, technology was inching closer to being more personal, more intuitive, more human. 80s: point and click instead of cryptic commands 90s: the web remembered our preferences. 2000s: touchscreens let us touch our ideas. 2010s: devices predicted our needs... 🧵 1/7
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Even the biggest companies with the deepest pockets are struggling to hire top design talent. And as usual, it comes down to a fundamental misunderstanding of what drives most great designers. They want to be surrounded by other great designers and a culture that cares.
22 Aug 2025
It’s easier to raise a $5M seed round than hire a cracked designer full time
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26 Aug 2025
Strongly this
25 Aug 2025
The best designers aren't attracted to "blank slate/ground floor" (negative space) – you need to go actively create a positive image of design at your company they can picture themselves inhabiting. Typically includes: -evidence of "creative spark" that already exists inside the company -"values through evidence" - things you have done that demonstrate the function of design is important to your company (tip: saying you 'value design' does not do this) -at least one other designer they admire is a believer If you can't create these conditions yourself you need to go find someone who can help. It's extremely rare that a great founding designer will be enticed to do all this *and* design the entire product.
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3 Jul 2025
I wrote a piece about how, as designers, we need to get out of our squads and go off piste → open.substack.com/pub/anothe…

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18 Jun 2025
I decided to put some work on tom.pe that wasn't 10 years old
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4 Mar 2025
Come and work on both rounded and unrounded rectangles with us! A job so good it got me to post on here for the first time in 7 years.
The @incident_io design team is growing! 🚀 We're looking for extraordinary brand and product designers to shape the future of incident management. Both roles pay up to £135k — in London We also pay £10k for successful referrals Apply here: incident.io/careers#open-rol…
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Tom Petty retweeted
24 Oct 2018
📣 I'm looking for a Product Designer to join me at @FatLlamaHQ! Come help me design the future of ownership. DM or apply here if you're interested: jobs.lever.co/fatllama/638df…

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Tom Petty retweeted
The founders of Instagram were not “team players,” some said at Facebook. But that's just what Facebook needed: people willing to challenge the groupthink that for too long included a stubborn resistance to admitting and addressing the company’s flaws. nyti.ms/2DCgT0H
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Tom Petty retweeted
11 Aug 2018
Tech Resistance update: Tim Cook is dining tonight with the President, Facebook is making political donations to Devin Nunes, Intel is giving to Steve King, Google is working on a censorship engine for China and Twitter's CEO is on Hannity defending Alex Jones
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15 Jul 2018
GUESS WHAT HAPPENED!!!!! @ The Old Rectory instagram.com/p/BlQfbqIj0Vw/…

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25 Apr 2018
I just want to DESIGN human interactions, I don't want to HAVE them
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19 Apr 2018
Who knew that the Amex logo from the 1890's was the single greatest logo of ALL TIME?
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Are you a designer and looking to start a startup? Got an idea but not sure if it's 'a business'? We want to hear from you! Please email us on clubhouse@designclub.io with a tiny summary and we'll get back to you
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Tom Petty retweeted
11 Apr 2018
Code clubs are great, but I worry we’re teaching young people that the only way into the industry is though development. As a result we need more design clubs to help redress the balance. Like this one designclub.io/

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