Aaron Porter

Designing Wearables at Meta Reality Labs. Design advisor @matter. Previously @fable_motion, @google.

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

Over two years of design + product work at Fable, distilled into one case study.

The tool doesn’t exist anymore, but the ideas do.

Link in reply.

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

@henrymodis @round @scspeier What a run! Congrats.

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

@yocline Articulate pictures = clear thinking = great products. If you sweat every detail, everything must be accounted for.

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

This feels correct

[Thomas Paul Mann @thomaspaulmann]

By the end of this year, we'll all run inference 24/7.

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

@ianbach You didn’t forward that to your entire email contact list like I did?

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

How I’m showing up as a designer in a world where code is free

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

In the span of ~2 years, being a “designer who codes” went from unicorn status to inconsequential.

Part of me mourns the status/differentiation, but also something freeing about returning to a more “pure” form of design.

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

@bnj @variantui Unreal 🔥

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@RobertJBye Returned to in-person after 7 years as well. Amazing feeling to share real-space with people.

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

@Gavmn @OpenAI Congrats Gavin!

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

So are we giving @openclaw their own Apple ID or letting it go wild? Leaning toward its own so I can iMessage it.

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

Visual explorations still happens in Figma for me. CC for loose prototypes/tools to support that exploration work.

I’ve been building personal tools on the side straight from my phone. Spin up a cursor agent to add or change functionality of the tool, blindly merge PRs. Never even look at the code, just explain how I want the design to change. Never open Figma.

I think this a byproduct of my active work streams right now. But I see my workflow evolving to be quite iterative and ping ponging between a visual canvas and code. Less waterfall and less linear. Just jam on design and code like pixels and code are free.

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

@benspringwater @byatkinson @soleio Y’all ❤️

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

I joined Meta Reality Labs a couple months ago to work on Wearables. It’s an incredible moment to be here. Craft, design, and delight are genuine priorities from the very top. (we’re hiring too!)

Also, massive shoutout to @soleio for connecting me with the team here. The best 🙏

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

BREAKING: Apple interface design chief Alan Dye is leaving the iPhone maker to become the Chief Design Officer at Meta in a blockbuster coup for the social networking giant. https://t.co/OuzpoBc82K

[Boz @boztank]

Alan Dye is one of our industry’s great design leaders and I'm so excited he’s joining Meta to help build the future of computing at the intersection of AI, wearables and spatial computing. As if that weren't enough we are also going to be joined by top design leader @billysorrentino. Over the last decade at Apple they have defined the design of some of the most iconic products of our times and now at Reality Labs they will help shape what comes next.

We’re at a historic inflection point where the AI devices we’re building are poised to fundamentally reshape the way we interact with technology. Excited to see what this team can do!

[Ben Springwater @benspringwater]

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[Mike Smith @mikesmith187]

Me in 2010: Ew I can't believe anyone would build a brand around a rounded typeface.

Me in 2025: What if the entire thing was rounded so much that it was illegible?

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

Ya this slaps

[Aleks @aleksliving]

damn, the Utah 2034 logo is incredible

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

@rogie There are some great features buried over there (like text on path or repeat) - but the mode switching is quite painful and disorienting. I usually switch over, use the feature quickly, and then immediately switch back.

[Aaron Porter @Aaron_porter]

@RHINO_KR @benspringwater @soleio @RhinoKzoo Haha, hey Kevin 👋