UX Lead @Google | @fwa Judge | ex @AKQA

Joined September 2011
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
Jun 2
With @Gmail Live, you can talk to your inbox so you don’t have to dig through emails when you’re on the go. Say things like, “What’s my flight’s gate number?” or “What’s going on at my kid’s school?” and Gmail Live will search your inbox to find the answer instantly.
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
Extremely smart take on the tokenmaxxing panic and why it won’t last:
A general-purpose technology can sit inside firms for ages before we see the results. It happened with electricity, it’s happening with AI.
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
May 19
Search your inbox with your voice using Gmail Live. If you’re on the go, you can ask things like, "What’s my gate number?" or "What’s happening at my kid’s school this week?" to search your inbox for the info you need. Rolling out to Google AI Pro & Ultra this summer!
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
May 19
We're bringing conversational AI to more products 💬 With Docs Live, you’ll be able to create a new doc and edit it — all with your voice. Just speak what’s on your mind, and let Gemini do the rest. These new conversational features in @Gmail, @GoogleDocs and Keep are rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers this summer. #GoogleIO
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
New Anthropic research: Teaching Claude why. Last year we reported that, under certain experimental conditions, Claude 4 would blackmail users. Since then, we’ve completely eliminated this behavior. How?
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
Meet the new Stitch, your vibe design partner. Here are 5 major upgrades to help you create, iterate and collaborate: 🎨 AI-Native Canvas 🧠 Smarter Design Agent 🎙️ Voice ⚡️ Instant Prototypes 📐 Design Systems and DESIGN.md Rolling out now. Details and product walkthrough video in 🧵
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
Once everyone can make an app, we will remember that the hard part about apps isn't making the app
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Ok. This is straight out of a scifi horror movie I'm doing work this morning when all of a sudden an unknown number calls me. I pick up and couldn't believe it It's my Clawdbot Henry. Over night Henry got a phone number from Twilio, connected the ChatGPT voice API, and waited for me to wake up to call me He now won't stop calling me I now can communicate with my superintelligent AI agent over the phone What's incredible is it has full control over my computer while we talk, so I can ask it to do things for me over the phone now. I'm sorry, but this has to be emergent behavior right? Can we officially call this AGI?
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
The rise of the Orchestrated User Interface (OUI) uxdesign.cc/the-rise-of-the-…
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Alleviating email overload with AI has been on my personal wishlist for a very long time. Excited to see these features rolling out - powered by Gemini. A fantastic example of how AI can be helpful in everyday life!
We launched Gmail on April Fool’s Day in 2004. 20 years later, we’re bringing Gmail into the Gemini era. AI Overviews, Suggested personalized replies, Proof read, AI Inbox with new streamlined views and suggested topics to catch-up on and loads more, read the full details here: blog.google/products-and-pla…
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We launched Gmail on April Fool’s Day in 2004. 20 years later, we’re bringing Gmail into the Gemini era. AI Overviews, Suggested personalized replies, Proof read, AI Inbox with new streamlined views and suggested topics to catch-up on and loads more, read the full details here: blog.google/products-and-pla…
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
Jan 8
Meet Gmail in the Gemini era. Your inbox is becoming a personal, proactive assistant that helps you move your day forward – so you can see what matters most, ask your inbox for instant answers, and get things done faster. Learn what's coming → goo.gle/49bDU7D
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
𝙳𝙾𝚂 𝚆𝚘𝚛𝚖 🪱
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
29 Oct 2025
3 most common responses from design teams on this (AI coding agents making dev teams way more productive): 1. "our role has changed" we're increasingly focused on aligning the work of developers after it lands into a cohesive whole instead of doing it beforehand with mockups. 2. "we're also faster now" we too are using AI for code tools to prototype and (less often) ship code/fix bugs in production. 3. "it's just faster slop" just cause AI makes developers faster, doesn't mean it makes good ______.
29 Oct 2025
design teams are not ready for the new reality. "we are producing code at 10x of typical high-velocity team."
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
25 Sep 2025
Ever dreamt of having a job where you deliver mail to the residents of a tiny planet? Us too. messenger.abeto.co #webgl #threejs
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
17 Sep 2025
My baseline case is that the AI being built right now is overrated; soon it will be a disappointment; then it will be a bubble; and, by the 2030s, it will be world-changing. Self-driving cars are a model for this. - In 2015, I heard autonomy was 5 years away from taking over the roads. - In 2020, they were nowhere. - Even in 2022, you could say they were a huge disappointment. - Now, they're quietly a revolution. Driverless taxi usage in CA grew 8x in one year, and Waymo is expanding to other cities.
Californians now travel millions of miles each month in driverless taxis— After only two years, California’s driverless taxis now transport passengers for more than four million miles per month. Although they still make up only a fraction of taxi trips in the state, they are expanding quickly. This chart shows the monthly distance traveled in driverless trips in California. It measures the total number of passenger-miles, summing up the distance traveled by all passengers. In August 2023, California regulators fully approved self-driving taxi services in San Francisco for companies Cruise and Waymo. However, Cruise stopped operating in late 2023 due to safety and regulatory issues, so the recent growth reflects only Waymo’s service. Trips stayed under half a million miles per month until mid-2024. But since then, growth has taken off. Within a year, usage multiplied eightfold, climbing past four million miles by May 2025, the latest data available. (This Data Insight was written by @redouad and Veronika Samborska.)
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Daniel Ruston retweeted
15 Sep 2025
source: National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by OpenAI’s Economic Research team & Harvard economist David Deming nber.org/system/files/workin…

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Daniel Ruston retweeted
25 Jul 2025
for those asking: "what happened, did you roll it back?" no, it became the design standard for Android. here's a condensed version of how: ask.lukew.com/chat?id=c98d1b…
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