Bradford Ulrich

Design at Jack in the Box

[Bradford Ulrich @adbrad]

A group of our friends decided we're all going to make Powerpoint presentations about random stuff we're interested in and present them to each other. We finally got around to starting it yesterday, and I taught everyone about the Voyager golden record.

[Bradford Ulrich @adbrad]

Such compelling design and writing. Excited to see what they’re releasing.

[Opal @opalelectronics]

the table.
an update on opal electronics.

https://t.co/91eGxO5qV6

[Ritwik Pavan @ritwikpavan]

no idea what opal is building but i always loved their camera design and they’ve got an impressive team

this is probably one of the cleanest sites I’ve seen

curious to see where they go from here and what openai saw

[Lost Internet @LostMemeArchive]

NBA Jam had hidden code that made the Chicago Bulls miss last-second shots against the Detroit Pistons.

The creator was a Pistons fan.

So if the Bulls tried to win at the buzzer against Detroit, the game quietly sabotaged them.

Petty coding at an elite level.

[Teddy @WarnerTeddy]

i mounted a tiny microphone on my apartment balcony to listen for any birds passing by and built a site to collage them as they're heard

[Adam Hutchinson @adjohu]

Great summary of how we make @linear fast.

Our dev tools help keep this stuff front and centre when building too.

[Bradford Ulrich @adbrad]

Turn anything into an AI sparkle with...
border-radius: 100%;
corner-shape: scoop;

[Bradford Ulrich @adbrad]

I didn't know about corner-shape CSS! Pretty fun to see the other options for it beyond the squircle (I'm sure that was the main reason for this). Chrome only for now though. https://t.co/BD672CsLai

[dylan @dylangonzalez21]

“55 points 55 rebounds 55 blocks 55 assists 55 steals”

[Bradford Ulrich @adbrad]

Gimme that wiggly fisheye drone shot. Then immediately cut to a low angle from the corner.

[Tyler Parker @tylrparkr]

When I’m watching a basketball game, I want them to use the weirdest camera angles possible. Anything is cool with me, so long as it makes it harder to figure out what’s going on. I watch to be confused.

[Jaytel @Jaytel]

This is fully realtime — not sped up.

I’ve been experimenting with Realtime-2 and trying to move beyond “turn-for-turn” conversations. No toggling Whisper. Just endlessly talking into the terminal.

Paired with Codex Spark, the immediate feedback starts to feel pretty magical. By EOY, I imagine we’ll be doing this with top-tier models.

[R/GA @RGA]

I guess I am an artist, because I am personally responsible for several of these

[𝑨𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑶𝒏𝒆 @AshenOne_VI]

Mixtape’s pause menu is way too clean :P

[Bradford Ulrich @adbrad]

Need to make a Claude wrapper that looks like Where in the World Is Carmen San Diego. Complete with midi audio.

[Eliot @CDTEliot]

the braintrust at pixar is a pure “standard‑holding” mechanism. it concentrates experience, pattern recognition, and taste, but not authority.

directors are obligated to listen and to engage seriously with the feedback, but they are not obligated to obey it.

so you still get the benefit of accumulated taste without freezing the system around a small set of decision‑makers. new work can still emerge that doesn’t look like the previous hits, because the standard is advisory rather than veto power.

basically, architect your organisation so that taste is maximally shared and consulted, but minimally centralised in the actual decision pipeline.

[aman @amanmathur_]

Fidelity Slider

Idea I've been thinking about for past few years on direction of ai software prototyping tools. Represent and bind multiple layers of fidelity so that things can be reasoned about through the lens most relevant to you. Each step in the process affords a different type of feedback.

Changes from one fidelity propagate and update in realtime. Pretty slow today, but exciting to think about.

[Bradford Ulrich @adbrad]

@jdreeves Love that S with the tracks through it 👌

[Brandon Kainoa Jacoby @JacobyBrandon]

the problem with this line of thinking is looking at # of people in a role before looking at % of any given job function performed by AI

while slowing of designers getting hired is likely (although, contrary to this post, has not really begun happening at scale, yet)… that has been a preexisting trend, unrelated to AI momentum

a few years ago, the industry started to prioritize smaller, leaner, higher caliber design teams, completely separate from AI progress

the designers that thrive in that have always been ones to go beyond delivering static mockups; whether as builders, delivering prototypes or building things themselves, or on the front side, helping define what to build/why/etc.

meanwhile, engineers’ workflow has entirely shifted BECAUSE of AI, and the % of their role (quantified by amt of code written) has been outsourced to it

if you’re a designer, make yourself valuable. it likely looks like doing more than producing static mocks. but that’s been the case for many years.

[www @w__h_]

its 2007. your online friend is gonna send you a ffffound invite. you're excited to try a plugin called scriptographer. you just discovered experimental jetset. 'infinite scroll' sounds like an item from an mmorpg. no one calls themselves a product designer.

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

The handcrafted magic behind Apple's MacBook Neo introduction

[Bradford Ulrich @adbrad]

The complete Space Jam (1996) soundtrack is not available on any music streaming platform. Only Apple Music even shows the full track list. Look at what they have taken from us.