I put together 15 principles of what I think it means to be a great designer.
I wanted to summarize 30 years of hard earned lessons and share them with you.
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New design role: @browsercompany wants to pay someone a lot of money to make people SMILE.
Truly, that's the role. We're hiring a specialized design engineer focused on: motion, color, interactions, sound effects, haptics, playful transitions, and the like.
7 examples & JD...
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💥New work for @Superhuman (@Grammarly & @coda_hq)💥
It’s a cursor, it’s a cape, it’s an incredibly complex identity system!
So your company acquires another company and now you're changing your name to the smaller company. Let's dig in.
Full case study
https://t.co/0A24bhLbAs
Hi.
My name is Halli. I'm the founder and CEO of Ueno. First of all, I want to say yes, @uenodotco is back.
I'm kind of surprised myself. I wasn't really planning on it. I started Ueno in my apartment in Reykjavík, Iceland in 2014. And seven years later I sold it to Twitter for a lot of money.
But it wasn't the money. That's maybe hard to believe but that wasn't the reason. Business was great, I didn't need money. I needed a new challenge.
Ueno had grown over those seven years to multiple offices and over 100 people. We were working with the biggest brands in the world on some really exciting projects. But still, I felt like something was missing.
I had been on the outside for a long time, working for companies to make something and then we’d hand it off to them to nurture and grow it. I wanted to be on the inside of a big company and see things through, to see them grow.
I wanted a challenge and the biggest one I could find was Twitter. To help people make better connections, to find their communities, engage more earnestly.
Things didn't turn out like I expected. But in hindsight that's not really what matters. We did some great work and I learned more than I could have imagined. About corporate ups and downs, and about my own ups and downs. I saw things you wouldn’t believe.
And then suddenly I was free and I went and made some other things. I built a lot of wheelchair ramps, I built a restaurant and movie theater, a bank, a recording studio, a community for creative people. I started a podcast, released a visual album, acted in some movies.
I did everything I always wanted to do.
And it was great.
But after four years away from Ueno it kept picking at me.
This little itch. The feeling I get when someone comes with something that's just an idea and they want our help to see it become real. It feels like magic. Like alchemy. I missed that feeling.
And so, yes, Ueno is back.
Blammo!
I feel so grateful to work at a company that is willing to go HAM on AI production alongside our normal stuff.
This video was made yesterday with Veo3.
Story in the thread below... 🧵
Design has always been about removing the unnecessary so the essential can shine. @Figma embraced this from the start, becoming the canvas where the world’s most creative teams shape products for billions. I was fortunate to lead one of these teams at Meta for nearly a decade.
Now, AI carries design into its most empowered chapter yet: where tedium fades while taste, exploration, and play take center stage.
I’m honored to join Figma as CDO, partnering with @nlevin, @damiencorrell, and Viral Shah to evolve how we create, collaborate and build in this new world.
Introducing… (Not Boring) Camera
3 years, 100+ prototypes, and wild graphics tech to make our perfect camera. Only to say… forget perfection. Just have fun and capture life’s beautiful chaos. Hope you love it as much as we do—thumbprints and all 🖤
https://t.co/qIezAiHoFW
Google published a 69-page whitepaper on Prompt Engineering and its best practices, a must-read if you are using LLMs in production:
> zero-shot, one-shot, few-shot
> system prompting
> chain-of-thought (CoT)
> ReAct
> code prompting
> best practices
ChatGPT 4o's new image gen is insane. Here's what Severance would look like in 8 famous animation styles 🧵
1/8:
Rankin/Bass – That nostalgic stop-motion look like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Cozy and janky.
🚨 8020 is hiring! We're looking for a Head of Development to lead our team.
This is a leadership role for someone who can drive technical strategy, mentor developers, and refine how we build, scale, and deliver Webflow projects.
This is 8020’s first leadership hire in quite some time, and for the right person, I believe it's an incredible opportunity.
We work with some of the largest brands and creators on the internet, helping them move faster and scale smarter with Webflow — and this role will directly shape some of the platform’s most ambitious builds.
Why work at @weare8020?
• Competitive pay + a $1,000 Happiness Budget (to spend on just about anything that brings you joy)
• Remote-first, high-trust team
• Work with top-tier clients on Webflow’s biggest challenges
• Annual offsites with your team in awesome locations
No fluff, no bureaucracy — just a team of smart, driven people solving interesting problems.
If you're a strong leader, love Webflow, and want to be part of a team that actually moves fast, let’s talk!
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