Product designer @getswitchboard, photographer, and watch designer. Previously design @stir, @Hodinkee. He/Him
Joined February 2013
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Ian Cox retweeted
2 Oct 2024
i needed a *nice-looking* qr code for a recent project and wasn't happy with any of the results i found, so i made an app to do it for me and shipped it.
this is qewie - make beautiful qr codes (qews?) with a few taps. save or share them wherever you want.
live and free on the app store (link below)
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Let me know if you find it useful, I'd love to see what you make with it! figma.com/community/plugin/1…
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And here's the link to the plugin and example file if you'd like to try it yourself!
figma.com/community/plugin/8…
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Ian Cox retweeted
7 Oct 2022
Jon interviewed Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas Attorney General, about why her state banned gender-affirming care for minors - ignoring the guidelines of major medical organizations and taking the decision out of parents’ hands. Watch the full interview on @AppleTVPlus
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Ian Cox retweeted
In my experience, exactly 0% of the organizations that say “we have a custom typeface” turn out to have a custom typeface.
For orgs that truly do, it’s self-evident from their communications. As for the rest, what they actually mean by “we have a custom typeface” is:
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Gibson or the Opal C1?
22 Aug 2022
This is Gibson. He needs you to stop working immediately. All the other dogs are going to the park. 12/10
ALT a tiny blond pup peers over the top of a laptop, which is open with its screen facing the camera. a time card is open on the screen. the pup has a cute pleading expression, and his two front paws are flopped over the monitor just so.
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Ian Cox retweeted
24 Jun 2022
i’m so tired of abortion rights being framed around truly tragic circumstances like assault and incest. if you get pregnant & you don’t want to be pregnant, it is your right over your own body that is under siege. no one, including a fetus, can use your body against your consent.
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Ian Cox retweeted
8 Jun 2022
1/ @Figma is teaming up with @GoogleForEdu to help close the #DesignDivide. We’re making Figma Orgs free and easy to deploy for all US high schools and the millions of students that use Chromebooks* everyday. Join the beta at figma.com/chromebooks
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Human centered design ✨
1 Apr 2022
Jony Ive on the importance of the handle on the original iMac.
Ian Cox retweeted
This diagram by @frank_chimero is witheringly succinct. From his excellent essay “Everything Easy is Hard Again,” which bears rereading. hflr.io/JzYpfp
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Download @i_cox's plugin on the Figma community ⏰
figma.com/community/plugin/8…
I wrote a Figma plugin to help create radial systems for watch design and then made a component library for easy iteration. Final designs get scaled and exported as vector files for printing.
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Ian Cox retweeted
7 Jun 2021
💗 So glad to share that there are now inclusive design principles in Human Interface Guidelines. #WWDC21 developer.apple.com/design/h…
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Ian Cox retweeted
26 Mar 2021
This you?
25 Mar 2021
1/2 You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you? If that were true, nobody would work for us. The truth is that we have over a million incredible employees around the world who are proud of what they do, and have great wages and health care from day one.
Community note
This tweet ignores testimony from worker surveys and an undercover journalist. See:
theverge.com/2018/4/16/1724…
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Ian Cox retweeted
Hi, I don’t like talking about personal stuff here, but in light of anti-Asian violence in my native ATL, I want to share my experience of being assaulted by a group of strangers a block from my NYC apt in 2018, to shed light on how real anti-Asian hate is and always has been.
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This just in: hodinkee.com/articles/wanna-…
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