designer of software, observer of people. 📍Sydney
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tl:dr
1. Keep an idea log that you can access anywhere.
2. Periodically go through the log and connect similar ideas, cull duds.
3. Identity themes in ideas, clock principal curiosity.
4. Build the idea u'r most curious about.
the identity crisis of having to choose between speed of building and quality of craft 🤡
check on your designer builder friends, they're not okay.
u think Y can hurt me?
i've lived multiple lives in 10 years
graphic designer (photoshop) -> UI designer (illustrator) -> product designer (figma) -> product builder (claude code) in 10 years.
my problem with vibe designing is that you need a lengthy prompt for a small change.
effort > reward. nah uh.
too soon.
Figma is still good as a source of truth.
get your agents to create the final approved prototype in Figma if only for the canvas and collaboration for now.
Revolut's designers are moving off Figma.
Storonsky spotted one team designing much faster than the others. What they did:
1. Gave an LLM Revolut's design system at the code level
2. Prompted it to build new flows on top of that system
3. Got a live interface they can click through on a laptop or phone, instead of static frames
Result: 3-4x faster. Now he's pushing it to every designer at Revolut.
His job, as he describes it: find what works in one team and spread it across the company.
Full breakdown here:
productmarketfit.tech/p/revo…
first sign of tech market recovering:
they’re hiring interns again.
who are the smartest / most talented college students you know?
i'd like to fast-track them into an @a16z-backed startup for their next internship or full-time role
tech market must really be in the dumps if DHH has to resort to ragebait for engagement
"Yes, men dominate computing. There are many reasons for that; none of them justifies collective guilt. Turning the percentages into a struggle session is nonsense." world.hey.com/dhh/be-a-tech-…
getting (begging) the first few users to sign up on to your product does the most damage to your street cred
I said what I said
Good product design is:
1. Logic - which is not universally applicable
3. Consumer psychology - that doesn't apply to all users
4. Subtraction - Simplifying to the bare essentials
5. Taste - which is a culmination of good curation over a lifetime
ask yourself, can all of the above be codified? can AI do that?
trust me, your job as a designer is safe.
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