Cameron Moll

Executive Design + Leadership ᴇꜱᴛᴅ 1999. Design @ Desquared. Meta alumni, Authentic Jobs (acqd.), Buzzsprout. Love to see the temple. Teller of fine dad jokes.

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

How a Chief Design Officer (yours truly) uses AI to design like an IC. This demo is for any designers that haven't yet embraced AI in their workflow.

I’m one of two designers working on this plugin. I manage an organization of about 40 designers of various flavors, but I still keep myself in the trenches whenever possible. Lynt is one of these efforts.

The examples I share are intentionally very simple to demonstrate how any designer at any level can leverage artificial intelligence to amplify and accelerate their human intelligence.

AI is revolutionizing how we work as designers, yet I think of it more like a renaissance; a return to designing in consideration of the medium in which our designs are rendered, much like we did years ago when I first started.

Arbitrarily, something like 80% of what we do as designers (in the act of designing) is exploration and iteration. For the past decade or more so much of that has happened in Figma and previously Sketch. These are great tools.

But as a result of designing exclusively in a static environment, many have lost the ability to connect ideation with execution. Handholding your work from start to finish eventually gave way to handing off your work, and we never looked back.

Artificial intelligence flips all of this on its head, positioning you (the designer) to be the one who first turns your design into code, iterate and iterate again, and experience using your work as users will, literally from day one of your design process.

All the while freeing our engineering colleagues to focus on the work that only they can do, while designing alongside them.

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

@soleio @joellewenstein Excellent snippet. Looking forward to watching the full wisdom here.

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

Our fourth son Hudson married his sweetheart Alyssa, bringing our total to 3 of 5 sons married (so far).

Here are some things I think we've done well as their imperfect parents.

1. Suzanne and I have modeled what real love between husband and wife looks like in both word and deed. They've seen it flow easily on the good days and not so easily on the bad days.

2. Date night every week. We're still very affectionate including in front of them.

3. "I love you" nearly every morning and every night, at the very least from one of us. Sometimes we've missed on hectic days. It's not consistent now that most of them live outside the home but it continues especially when they visit.

4. Hugs from mom and dad for everyone after nightly prayer together with those left in the home. And whenever they visit.

5. Dinner was always a family priority. Again, not perfect especially on sports nights. But it was expected.

6. We decided early on that we wouldn't over-index on trying to find perfect schools for them. We've reminded ourselves often that the best school can have the worst teacher, and the worst school can have the best teacher. We've had both extremes and they've grown from it. They've all excelled academically regardless of the situation.

7. We've tried not to helicopter-parent but we've stepped in when teachers or coaches were out of line. We've encouraged them to take the first pass to address it, but often we've had to take the second pass and on a few occasions escalate. Really poor mentors are an unnecessary hardship.

8. Suzanne and I have both kept journals and we've occasionally read from them as bedtime stories as they got older. Some of the entries are hilarious and we laugh every time we re-read. Others remind them that we got through a tough experience together. And others remind them (and us) how wonderful really are.

9. Suzanne read to them nightly when they were young. I was never good at this. She was excellent. I remember countless nights hearing her read in their bedrooms.

10. We chose to have more kids in spite of the financial math not adding up. Life found a way.

11. We've had some of our most memorable experiences through sports. Frequently we question the value of demanding practice schedules and exorbitant costs (spoiler: both are too much and they start too young) but there's no denying we've made some great memories.

12. We did "Guys Night" regularly when they were younger, almost weekly. Just the boys and Dad (we only have boys). Tons of fun together and often we rotated who chose the activity.

13. I've had them help (often against their will!) with countless home projects and repairs. Drywall repair, wire nuts, soldering, woodworking, plumbing, etc. I'm pretty sure they know a lot more than the average adult about handyman stuff, especially as STEM replaced any and all trade skills in middle school and high school.

14. We've had many family councils over the years, some more formal than others. We've included them on big decisions like moves or significant changes to our schedule. For years we had a large whiteboard mounted next to the dinner table and would use this regularly in our discussions.

15. We've taught them to use technology responsibly through our mobile phone contract and other means. They've heard us say that every technology is a blessing and a curse. They came to dread Dad's "tech talks" when they were younger :) We've tried our best to teach them to use every new technology with caution and curiosity.

16. We've made an effort to apologize when we were in the wrong as parents. Sometimes it didn't come until the day after and that was OK. Sometimes we parents need a little time to process our frustration and realize we could have done better.

17. We love to see the temple (pictured). We're grateful they do too. We've spent many hours inside these with our children.

Maybe something here will resonate with you. 🤍

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

@nathanbarry I'm about to find out in a couple weeks how well my UK friends will handle this deck 🤞

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

Figma Slides is the undisputed, best all-around tool for slide decks.

Almost as shareable as Google Slides, animation options are lacking compared to Keynote, yet it's a far superior design tool to both.

And its typography is improving. Check out those st ligatures! 🤩

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

@diegozaks @tryramp Outstanding 🔥

Congrats @RikinPatel13 & crew!

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

@eglyman This is wild. As in wildly innovative marketing. Congrats!

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

https://t.co/yl1VjkSJ8g

[Linda Dong 🍉 @lindadong]

🤲 Designing for iPhone Duo? 🤲

Everything *hinges* on you watching this video by @malonso and @vincelane from the Apple Design Team.

https://t.co/O7RUBRr6sk

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

Design/Eng resources to prep your app for iPhone Duo

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[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

https://t.co/GTdRlybtkT

[Linda Dong 🍉 @lindadong]

Hi ravenous designers. Here are the iPhone Duo bezels, design kits coming up soon.

https://t.co/QYk906kyli

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

Smart. iPhone Duo shifts to a dual layout when slightly creased like a book.

[Linda Dong 🍉 @lindadong]

Hi ravenous designers. Here are the iPhone Duo bezels, design kits coming up soon.

https://t.co/QYk906kyli

[Atilla @_atilla1]

I feel honored.

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

@_atilla1 So fitting. 💛

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

@ThomasKanze This is awesome. Keep at it. Share when you're ready!

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

@ThomasKanze This was Saturday morning while most of the family was still asleep.
https://t.co/gcKtb3bhyr

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

I've been building w/AI for more than a year and I still audibly gasp, like today, at how quickly I can render ideas like this as functional UI (+audio blip on hover!).

This would have taken me an hour to code. Cursor hammered it out—and the rest of the responsive page—in 5m.

[miggi from figgi @miggi]

Apple out here giving UI designers more to do.