Benjamin Berger

French guy • Head of Product Design @gopigment (Product · UX · UI · Brand) • ex @Wix • ex @atlassian • I launched a startup once

[Benjamin Berger @benjamin_berger]

Another round raised by @gopigment! I couldn't be more proud to be part of this team and can't wait to see how far we'll go!

[Benjamin Berger @benjamin_berger]

@LukeW Great article! Interested to know which products you’ve seen actually launch a good approach for this!

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Funny how Material design is nothing like a material at all anymore while Apple literally invented a new material for their UI

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The irony of AI image gen is that designs will look and feel a lot more « human » because creating using traditional art style just became much more accessible so we won’t have to recycle the same gradients and flat illustrations over and over again anymore.

[Benjamin Berger @benjamin_berger]

@hours Not using flex isn’t the auto-layout you think it is

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Weird that there's no app for renovations projects.

A mix of Figma & Notion, you collaborate on your floor-plan, view materials, paints, layouts. Track open items, discuss, make decision, calculate budget as you go. With a marketplace to buy products.

I expected this to exist.

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A content editor licence type in @figma would be game changer

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With the rise of zoom meetings and the influencer economy there’s probably a very fun startup to build where anyone could get sponsored and do adverts on there videocall backgrounds with affiliate links just like you see on youtube videos 😄

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@_joelmllr @figma Could you bring back the ability to only keep the edit panel expanded while hiding the layers panel and edit toolbar in the bottom? 🥺

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@jamesm @clerk Most of the time Saas go from sidebar to top bar, they revert it within a year or so because of wasted screen real estate, lack of scalability when pages are being added, no way to localize those texts, etc.

Stripe’s a good example 😄

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Always amazed to see how @siteinspire design hasn't changed in a decade and yet still look amazing and up to date

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@danmall You can also eat plain rice and chicken every meal and be healthy, but what’s the fun in that?

Sometimes we have less energy and we focus on the immediate utilitarian value, it’s fine. But designing is also about going the extra mile to bring wonders to the boring world

[Benjamin Berger @benjamin_berger]

Now that all music is distributed through subscriptions based platforms, how do you gift music to someone?

Sharing a link doesn’t have the same effect as it used to be when offering a CD or vinyl.

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I really hope that when you die, you get a recap, like stats and all.

And a ranking of how you performed compared to your alternate lives, ability to dive into the branching points and watch other lives.

Would definitely pay for that, even if it’s the afterlife premium package.

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Is there any services that let you subscribe to very well curated @X feed? I wouldn’t mind paying a fee to impersonate someone else’s feed with great design content, another with great art content, etc.

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Storytelling seems to be a lost design skills to the profit of technical user stories

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A general design hack is not having enough time to design a complicated solution, so you go for simplicity instead

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Hot take: brainstorming on @Zoom and annotate on a screen is much more productive than in a room on a whiteboard

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@jamesm Wait till you hear about G2 badges, Gartner reviews and SOC compliance 🥲

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I kind of wish that there was an option to position the @SlackHQ message input at the top of the screen so I don't have to look at the bottom of the screen all day and hurt my neck 😅 #oldDesignerProblem

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@ridd_design @webflow It makes me think of vintage japanese logo like an Atari arcade game! This aesthetic is really cool and rarely seen lately so it gives them a strong identity.
Launching the Webflow editor feels like you’re entering a cool video game.