Sejal

product designer @voxel51

[Naval @naval]

Good Products are Opinionated.

“Every great founder I’ve seen up close, or even from afar, is highly opinionated and they’re almost dictatorial in how they run things.

Also, early-stage teams are opinionated. And the products they build are opinionated. Opinionated means they have a strong vision for what it should and should not do.

If you don’t have a strong vision of what it should and should not do, then you end up with a giant mess of competing features.

@Jack Dorsey has a great phrase: “Limit the number of details and make every detail perfect.” And that’s especially important in consumer products. You have to be extremely opinionated. All the best products in consumer-land get there through simplicity.

You could argue the recent success of ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots is because they’re even simpler than Google.

Google looked like the simplest product you could possibly build. It was just a box. But even that box had limitations in what you could do.

You were trained not to talk to it conversationally. You would enter keywords and you had to be careful with those keywords. You couldn’t just ask a question outright and get a sensible answer. It wouldn’t do proper synonym matching, and then it would spit you back a whole bunch of results. That was complicated. You’d have to sift through and figure out which ones were ads, which ones were real, were they sorted correctly, and then you’d have to click through and read it.

ChatGPT and the chatbot simplified that even further. You just talk to it like a human—use your voice or you type and it gives you back a straight answer.
It might not always be right, but it’s good enough, and it gives you back a straight answer in text or voice or images or whatever you prefer.

So it simplifies what we looked at as the simplest product on the Internet, which was formerly Google, and makes it even simpler. And you just cannot make a product that’s simple enough.

To be simple, you have to be extremely opinionated. You have to remove everything that doesn’t match your opinion of what the product should be doing. You have to meticulously remove every single click, every single extra button, every single setting.

In fact, things in the settings menu are an indication that you’ve abdicated your responsibility to the user. Choices for the user are an abdication of your responsibility. Maybe for legal or important reasons, you can have a few of these, but you should struggle and resist against every single choice the user has to make.

In the age of TikTok and ChatGPT, that’s more obvious than ever. People don’t want to make choices. They don’t want the cognitive load. They want you to figure out what the right defaults are and what they should be doing and looking at, and they want you to present it to them.”

[Sejal @_sejko]

the first step to a successful design is questioning - the mess, the meaning, the maker

[Sejal @_sejko]

@MakeDesignPop @shl That would be an ok answer to “your website”

[Sejal @_sejko]

@ridd_design 🙋🏻‍♀️

[Eric Jiang @veggie_eric]

why is pizza in the Bay Area such absolute trash

like wtf, we nerds can cook up a recipe for a gajillion-parameter model no problemo but can't figure out a mildly appetizing ratio for some flour, water, and cheese

[hamza zia @ziahamza]

You are staying up all night fixing AI slop, while @GitStart PRs are getting merged to production!

Here is how🧵

[Sejal @_sejko]

@felixleezd @ycombinator I’d love to join the chat!

[Deep Patel @potlee]

yet another quarter showing consistent execution from $HIMS. they have been growing at this rate long before GPL-1. can you even find when they started doing weight loss in the subscribers chart? (you can't)

[Neall @neallseth]

No one warns you but moving to SF means persistent, low-grade euphoria every time you go outside

[Isaac French @isaacfrench_]

I designed & built a personal office / art studio in the forest behind my home.

We call it "the nook,” and it took 4 months start to finish.

Want to see inside? 🧵

[Brian Moore @brian_e_moore]

Our biggest release yet! 🚀

Evaluating models interactively alongside your data is a powerful technique for understanding their weaknesses and identifying the right actions to take to refine your data and models.

Now available natively in FiftyOne 1.1 and 100% open source! 🙌

[Voxel51 @Voxel51]

🎉 They're here...FiftyOne 1.1 and FiftyOne Teams 2.2 are officially live! We’re thrilled to introduce these latest releases packed with powerful features to streamline your visual AI workflows. Here’s a glimpse into what’s new:

✨ Model Evaluation Panel: Analyze and evaluate model performance with just a few clicks

🔎 Data Quality Panel: Catch and fix data issues before they impact your models with automated detection and remediation workflows

💻 Builtin Compute: Schedule compute-intensive tasks to run on our infra in the background while you work

📊 Data Lens: Query billions of samples from your data lake with ease and import the exact data you need into FiftyOne datasets

⚡ Query Performance Panel: Add field indexes and summary fields on your dataset to speed up data exploration and visualization, without leaving the App

We're just scratching the surface of what's possible and will continue adding more functionality around these panels and workflows to make your AI smarter, faster, and more efficient!

🔗 Check out the announcement here: https://t.co/IqpeIMt1ca

#VisualAI #AI #ML #FiftyOne

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

@AMAZlNGNATURE Size comparison of different tsunamis 🌊

[Sejal @_sejko]

@wrstlrboy03 @Circle10 No offense, but if he had ten women at his beck and call, chances are he wouldn’t be knocking on this particular lady’s door!

[Sejal @_sejko]

@gauravsabnis I feed them outside our restaurant @amboeats every single day 🩵

[Sejal @_sejko]

@sweetgreen should rename their topping to Spicy Broccoli Stem!! 👎🏽

[Sejal @_sejko]

@YoungParikPatel @amboeats is based in nyc and even better than Chipotle 🌱

[Sejal @_sejko]

@sievish deadmau5

[Sejal @_sejko]

@valyus @WdeB Same thinking. This is just bad product design lol!

[Sejal @_sejko]

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