Haley Rohl

Product Designer

[Aniket @anikethanda]

Airbnb is a bad deal for professional hosts. It charges them 15 - 20% just for discovery!

While it makes sense for individual hosts who use Airbnb's full suite of services, its value diminishes as hosts scale up and start using other software to manage listings, calendars, payments, insurance, etc.

To fix this, more and more hosts have started taking direct bookings via their own websites. This helps them keep more profit and offer differentiation. But unfortunately, they are still dependent on OTAs like Airbnb for discovery :(

This is where OpenBnB comes in, helping hosts fully own their distribution and build direct relationships with their guests. The best part? OpenBnB is free!

[Haley Rohl @HaleyRohl]

So into this. I feel single purpose devices like this are the future of intentional living.

[Aniket @anikethanda]

AI Lamp in action – providing screen-free computing without any distractions

Scenarios covered:

1) 4th grade math homework
2) Any quick assistance with visual context

[Aniket @anikethanda]

What if a desk assistant could SEE and answer anything instantly?

No screens, just a simple AI Lamp

[Haley Rohl @HaleyRohl]

@AniketHanda This is awesome! I wish I had this when I was in school for solving math problems or learning languages.

[Brandon Butch @BrandonButch]

4. Vehicle Motion Cues Can Help Reduce Motion Sickness

Vehicle Motion Cues is a new experience for iPhone and iPad that can help reduce motion sickness for passengers in moving vehicles. Research shows that motion sickness is commonly caused by a sensory conflict between what a person sees and what they feel, which can prevent some users from comfortably using iPhone or iPad while riding in a moving vehicle. With Vehicle Motion Cues, animated dots on the edges of the screen represent changes in vehicle motion to help reduce sensory conflict without interfering with the main content. Using sensors built into iPhone and iPad, Vehicle Motion Cues recognizes when a user is in a moving vehicle and responds accordingly. The feature can be set to show automatically on iPhone, or can be turned on and off in Control Center.

[Aniket @anikethanda]

Thanks for hundreds of requests to build a physical device to assist building habits

This month, I'll be taking it from a prototype → ver. 1

Calling it HX1

HX1 will be a limited small batch intended for early adopters. Fill up the form below to be the first ones to get the order link

[Aniket @anikethanda]

any solution creates net new problems to solve

smart phones solved a really pressing problem and democratized mobile computing

i feel, now we are at a stage where solving problems created by smart phones will be rewarded the most

[Haley Rohl @HaleyRohl]

I love this. I enjoy using Finch to habit track but every time I use it I just end up scrolling my phone. This is a game changer! Lower tech, distraction free devices for focus. Can’t wait to see what’s next!

[Aniket @anikethanda]

For Pi Day (3/14), I prototyped a single-purpose device to do just one thing right:

Assist building daily habits.

But why?

[Kevin T. Porter @KevinTPorter]

no one:

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[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Here are some incredible things people are already doing with GPT-4

It’s been less than 3.5 hours

🧵 A thread

[Haley Rohl @HaleyRohl]

‘Nothing, Forever’ Is An Endless ‘Seinfeld’ Episode Generated by AI

https://t.co/1AEaseemwg via @motherboard

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

If you don't work in tech, it's easy to assume that people at Google are changing the world.

Most of them are actually on teams of 290 people who "own" the "Compose" button in Gmail and sit in meetings all day debating which shade of blue they should a/b test this month.

[Washington State DOT @wsdot]

Can I just say. ...What a day. What. A. Day.

[Haley Rohl @HaleyRohl]

The internet is a constant recommendations machine — but it needs you to make it work https://t.co/uiOgGcDVB1 via @Verge

[Haley Rohl @HaleyRohl]

There has to be a better way to binge https://t.co/cqr282FVNG via @Verge

[Seattle Weather Blog @KSeattleWeather]

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a spring in Seattle.” -Mark Twain

[Janelle Shane @JanelleCShane]

Tried to get #dalle to put a Waffle House in Mordor but the only effect is that the restaurant gets taller.

[Daniel G 🍌 @DanielitoG25]

This tax stuff is way too hard I think I'm just gonna go to jail

[Aniket @anikethanda]

Fashion is human expression.

Fast fashion has made us unsustainbly addicted to fashion on a mass scale.

Now in the digital age, this 2 trillion-dollar expression driven industry is going to be unleashed from its physical chains – here is why:

[Haley Rohl @HaleyRohl]

Also thinking about how this might relate to designing for people with mental health issues, anxiety, ED, PTSD etc. we all know multiple current products taking advantage of these traits for profit.

[Haley Rohl @HaleyRohl]

Excellent article on designing for safety. Let's try not to feed the dystopia. #design #inclusivedesign https://t.co/asdn0Lx5gR