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Having a bit too much fun designing our merch page

A custom headless integration with @Shopify

Fun place to experiment with fluid transitions, including <TextMorph/> by @lochieaxon

https://t.co/b4T5mSIRyA

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Every transition should feel as smooth as butter 🧈

Bringing that principle into our new sidebar component:

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PSA: if your website uses background videos, please use progressive rendering.

iOS Low Power Mode & other data saving modes will cause videos on webpages to load a lot slower, and so you need to handle for these cases.

Only load videos if you really need to, otherwise fallback to lighter weight assets (e.g. vector graphics rendered on the canvas).

If you are using a background video, make sure you load a lightweight image poster first. This poster image can match the first frame of the video for seamless transitions.

Make sure your website/webapp looks good even for people with low battery and data saving on...

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Building a design system for humans + agents:

Designing for humans = universal search, a well-organised sidebar, and visual shortcuts.

Designing for agents = a private MCP that gives access to all tokens, components, and skills.

Everything is in code. A single source of truth.

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@lerndhelpfulnes @rjs Yep, agree, lots of room to improve!

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@Shasko Agreed, brand & marketing were never really shown much love in traditional design systems!

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I've added a Presentations tab to our internal design system + private MCP.

Now the growth team can just ask Claude or Codex: "create a deck for each prospect using our style guide"

No more wasting time maintaining templates in Google Slides, Figma, or PowerPoint.

Everything as code.

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@sandroieva This is a great point and is where judgement and taste come into the picture! The good news is that the productivity gains from this design system afford us more time to be spent on judgement and taste.

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@Xjohannesh It does!

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@sandroieva @i7os_app There is a QA skill inside the design system that essentially checks to ensure nothing breaks or regresses!

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@kunalbairwa232 Good test case suggestion! The deck designs are responsive (the beauty of being in code). There is also a QA skill inside the design system that essentially checks to ensure nothing breaks or regresses.

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@agshinrajabov Each team member can ask their agent to grab the prospect's logo.

This is just the scaffolding for consistent style across all decks and PDFs created!

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@jgebbia’s story of selling CritBuns at the beginning of this podcast is something all designers & product builders should listen to.

Very inspiring. Not to mention the incredible work at @ndstudio 🫡

[Dialectic with Jackson Dahl @DialecticPod]

59: Joe Gebbia - Design We Deserve

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@joshmillgate @ultramock Can you share more? (without revealing your secrets ofc) How did you boost performance?

I'm a huge @ultramock fan btw 🙏

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Whatever you think of TfL, their safety posters' graphic design team is pretty good.

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Who am I missing?

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A thread of delightful iOS apps 👇

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@AppOrbit by @JoshuaNewton

It's rare to see an app just focus on one thing, but do it with such care and polish.