Aayush Iyer

Senior Director of Product, Engineering, and UX @algolia. Prev UX @twilio.
Loves greyhounds, quiet, progressive policy, and the dark. they/them

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What should I play next?

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@lthomasnews Been watching you since 2013, and even watching live chats to distract myself as my dogs were in critical care. I’m so happy you have the extra time. It’s worth so much.

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@laurenloprete Le Pigalle is excellent. I go there everytime I'm in Paris. Liperli coffee is a 5 min walk with excellent coffee and pastries, and KB is a minute away with really good coffee and pastries too .

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@arielhelwani Liperli Coffee in the 9th is among the best coffee spots I've been to around the world. Ask them if they have any cafe exceptional in the fridge that's not on the menu and they'll be stoked.

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Open convention at the Sphere in Las Vegas. Large spectacle, media exposure, pick a candidate that the masses want. It can be done.

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@laurenloprete Preach 🤌🏾

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@skimbrel oh the irony 🤌🏾

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@kolencherry I do need to update my knockoff womb chair. Link?

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@jina Genuinely surprised to see companies verifying (or bothering with) academic details for senior UX roles. I haven’t submitted one academic detail dot the past six years. We as an industry need to be better

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As of just now, AskHistorians has taken its forums offline to protest @Reddit's policies regarding API and third-party developers.

You may well be thinking: why has such a dry-sounding issue managed to spark one of the largest user revolts in social media history?

Well... 🧵

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@ryngonzalez @ventrebleu @chrisstrahl 10 mins in, very well done!

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Dear @WHOOP, double tap band to end set, double tap band to start set for strength training sessions pls 🙏🏾. Supersets are really clunky right now

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I’ve been in design and tech for over a decade now and @figma Config is the first tech conference that I’ve gone to (which wasn’t hosted by my company).

Still surprised and impressed by organizations that pay teams to go to these.

(my ticket this year is comped)

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Let's discuss product design for dev tools!

Watch as @aayush, Director of Product, Engineering, and UX at @algolia joins the @evilmartians round table series to discuss best practices for designing, building & promoting successful #DevTools.

Press ▶️ https://t.co/tW0Z68J2Qu

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@DanielleMorrill Shizen is incredible.

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@tranhelen It might be good reading for your eventual essay. Also one of the most heartwarmingly optimistic futurists I've read.

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@tranhelen Have you read Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson? It covers some of the depressive / eventually hopeful eco-take on the same problems of how runaway problems aren't solved until they align with capitalism's goals

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I'm hiring a Director of Product Design to join my team @algolia ! In this role you'll mentor and coach product designers, work alongside our Research, Product, and Engineering teams, and influence critical business and user goals. DM me for questions!

https://t.co/JQhSToz2tD

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Watching a former great team being systematically destroyed by bad organization design is really painful.

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@jennifermarie My new office: https://t.co/nEw7R7tJXU