Part practical, part playful, all design 🍤
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I was the original designer of Instants at Instagram.
Seeing it finally launch globally is surreal, but this thing was ready years ago. It just had to survive the machine first. 1/6
love seeing this kind of iteration in public. original animations were pretty janky, and now look at all these lovely little details.
there’s a lesson here.
A lot of small details are going into making our @bot s feel more polished and personable.
Big shoutout to @benjitaylor + @kenneth_kuh
I’ve been wayy too invested in the Kelly Clarkson animatronic bird discourse and wanted a way to flip through everyone’s opinions on the matter as if it’s live TV
I would love this feature to catch up on all the petty internet drama
A year and a half ago I had a chance to present my process infographs to an audience and I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to animate them in AE. I couldn’t do it.
Decided to revisit this idea using Claude motion and it's wild how something that felt like a massive technical skill issue now takes a couple lines of text 🥲
Claude also built this into a scrolling experience while I wrote the copy~
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melike turgut retweeted
Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are:
• Proprietary data
• Network effects
• A physical component
I cannot offer an actual bite, but you CAN tear one apart on my 404 page 🍬 meliketurgut.com/404
New portfolio is live (!!) 15 years in design in New York, compressed into 8 chapters. Less a collection of case studies, more a career told as lived experience.
You're looking at the eight things that shaped the space between who I am and what I like, make, and care about. They just happen to be represented with gummies instead of company logos.
Honestly, this site is just an excuse to share a collection of personal stories because I enjoy writing. Each chapter breaks down into what I expected, what I found, what followed (The Premise, The Reality, The Plot).
It's equal parts reflection, advice, and a look at some things built along the way.
meliketurgut.com
anyway here's the site, i tried my best with codex.
This is the good stuff. I wish people posted process like this instead of 'look what i made' with nothing behind it
A distinctive feature of Muse is the tab bar. It was one of the first things in the initial prototype, and it felt like a foreign addition for an AI app. So foreign that I recall leaving on PTO early on and leaving one instruction: "do not remove the tab bar," knowing how tantalizing it would be to simplify the app by removing it.
Beyond ergonomics, the tab bar’s core benefit is framing. Agents are capable of more than people realize – the tab bar provides the surface area to expose that functionality and make it conceptually (and physically) accessible. Each tab does this in its own way.
Ideas is the most literal example. True to its name, the Ideas tab lists ideas from your Muse about how it can help you. This is a great way to learn about the many things Muse can do, especially for people who aren’t technical. At first the ideas are universal, but as your Muse gets to know you, its ideas become much more personalized and update frequently.
If Ideas shows you what Muse could do, the Goals tab shows you what Muse is doing – whether it’s helping you with a goal or keeping track of something. Muse does so many things that it helps to visualize it all as a kind of mutual to-do list where you can monitor status. Again this serves both a practical and conceptual benefit.
More thoughts to come, but I’m glad we kept the tab bar and I’m excited about how it will evolve time.
you have one more week to look at my five year old site before it disappears forever. new tab loading…
I keep a little Arena of people doing this well are.na/melike/how-to-show-wo…
Every designer learned how to code and chose the same side quest. My X feed at any given time:
Camera → AI segmentation → collectible.
My tiny culture thesis: The best proof of culture is the work people make when they don’t have to.
Yesterday, we celebrated the opening of Shopify’s new Design Studio in NYC with a Demo Night. I got to share a few examples of what that looks like in practice ↓
...and speaking of process, the real process—the making of it all—is also the kind of work we like to share, internally and externally.
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