design @harvey. lover to 翟 and my 3T exploro
Joined June 2010
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when @ChristinaNWhite and I first led design together at @loom, I knew I’d found a forever friend advocate / someone who knows how to build the conditions for great design
excited to be joining @harvey to learn from her many others, and push myself during these wild times :)
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come say hi / i’ll be onboarding @harvey in sf that week and attending for sure ☺️
Jun 10
If you’re at Config this year, @harvey is hosting a design night with our friends at @DecagonAI across from Moscone on June 24.
Come join us, we'll have drinks, food, and conversations on the future of intelligent interfaces with other exceptional designers.
Luma link below
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Jun 10
If you’re at Config this year, @harvey is hosting a design night with our friends at @DecagonAI across from Moscone on June 24.
Come join us, we'll have drinks, food, and conversations on the future of intelligent interfaces with other exceptional designers.
Luma link below
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as a child fascinated by tech, everything seemed possible with enough exploration
then, things got slower, engineering constraints, debt, bureaucracy
now, magical moments akin to how it was but so much more powerful
Spoke with many friends recently, designers and engineers, all people who've been doing it for 20 years or more and had a lot of success doing it.
And they all say the same thing. The AI stuff is genuinely useful right now. It's fast and things that used to take a week take an afternoon. Things you never even attempted because there was no time, now you can just do them. It's the biggest enabler ever.
But in the same breath, every single one also says that it's the least fun they've ever had in their entire career. They also mention it makes no sense to do it the old way. They're all in.
It's a strange paradox which I feel myself. Everything is possible now and I've never cared less about any of it. Both things true at once.
Not sure if thats just the feeling of the current moment, or if I just talked to people who're tired of the computer (since all of them been doing it for a long time).
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Jun 1
Catch me at Config in a "design is dead" hat
The first ever Config Makeathon is coming. June 4. $100K in prizes. Powered by @contra
Bonus: pre-register by June 3 for access to Figma’s design agent beta.
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Jun 1
design doesn’t die
ALT Together, we mourn design—killed, according to X, approximately 847 times this year alone. And yet, no matter how many times we declare design is dead, it is alive. Design is everywhere, quietly thriving in the clarity of the subway map when you fear you have missed your stop, in the legibility of the dinner menu even when you aren't sure if sorrel is a vegetable or a new pasta shape, and in the dopamine-releasing notification that a meeting has been cancelled. Design doesn't die. It is not a trend to be disrupted or a technology to be replaced. It's the difference between caring about how something makes you feel, not just if it works. So here's to design—endlessly declared gone, endlessly proving everyone wrong.
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May 28
there’s a ton of anxiety and bold statements around what the design role is going to be. i don’t think we fully know yet!
…and it might not even be one role anymore, but 3 different ones, or 1 mega hybrid role.
personally, i’m releasing that anxiety of what design *should* be and focusing on the skills of making good product, given our new tools. the rest will play itself out with time and model improvements.
May 28
I think there’s a lot of shapes of designers and there isn’t one right or wrong one nor a clear end state 🤗
some will be front end eng, some strategists, some orchestrators, some storytellers, some visual artists, some all of the above. all are valid and exciting
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May 20
Bragging about how much software you’re shipping with AI is like holding down the shutter button and bragging about how many photos you took.
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the people telling us we had to code or use framer / origami / etc etc etc
now will tell us to use Claude like X or your process is COOKED
do not listen. there are millions of ways to design/build, and ai will get better and better at honing its capabilities to work w you
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someday, when @claudeai project breakthroughs can graduate / evolve naturally into skills is going to be wild
too many dots to connect right now between paradigms / memory concepts
but it’s going to get so intuitive that all these thought posts on how to build a cracked claude setup will be unnecessary
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“The king is dead! Long live the king!”
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Design agents on the canvas opens up so many doors for how we design and build products.
The first step is having agents that meet you where you are, and design with you.
I’m so stoked for the countless of figmates who put so much into this.
Over a year training our own models and hillclimbing on quality. Truly a labour of love.
See you in the Beta :)
wdym of course there’s an agent right on the design canvas that’s fluent in Figma and native to the way your team works
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Everyone talks about craft and opinionated design, but as soon as Spotify drops a fun app icon, those same people freak out.
The temporary icon is great. You know you’ve made something great when people have extreme reactions to it.
Never aim to please everyone.
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love this so much
still them, fused with the mediums of now
May 14
New art direction for Notion Developer Platform. Less jazz. More techno.
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