brandon

head of experience & design @cloudflare | founder @outerbase (acquired)

[Will King @willking]

What content from a design team would get you to stop and read it? What is useful to you?

[brandon @burcs]

@willking day 2 and he's already outsourcing his work...

[brandon @burcs]

@vanschneider @willking yeah he is lovely, and i'm glad to hear it let us know if there is ever anything we can do to make you happier!

[brandon @burcs]

have been trying to work with @willking for years now. pumped that it's finally happening!

[Will King @willking]

Day 1 → Internet Improvement Dept

[brandon @burcs]

@littlealison93 @willking thanks for the heads up, i've adjusted my expectations accordingly

[brandon @burcs]

@willking does that make us dope dealers?

[brandon @burcs]

@awnishsrivastw @Cloudflare @CloudflareDev will take a look, thank you!

[brandon @burcs]

@mattrothenberg @ritakozlov see that little block right there? the one holding everything up? that’s where dad works

[brandon @burcs]

i don't think they contradict?

first i don't think it's directly comparable, this isn't a dashboard but just some thoughts sketched down, in an ideal world i'd have an rss feed that your agent could just consume (maybe soon?)

however with the disposable dashboards, what i'm proposing is you can have skills/components that coincide with your mcp/cli/apis that agents can consume so you are still presenting the data in a way that you as the owner of the product knows makes the most sense

just that you are no longer burying it in information architecture that your users have to learn

seems like best of both worlds, you can design the primitives/blocks/etc... that make the most sense, and the user can determine what they want to see in those blocks and when

[brandon @burcs]

realized i forgot to share the actual post,

tl;dr it's often faster for me to generate an entirely new view than to learn how to hold your interface the right way, excited to see this trend continues to develop

https://t.co/3ps6DPxDxy

[brandon @burcs]

i want to start writing more...

of course that required an overhaul of my site, i also wanted to make it personal, so i made my handwriting into a font, then of obviously i had to hand draw my icons, and finally it needs to be interactive!

check it out: https://t.co/upFdVpR6qd

[matt rothenberg @mattrothenberg]

Half-baked, but I've been wondering what "change review" looks like when agents do most of our UI work. How can we make it easier to see what changed visually + experientially? And how can agents check their own work against all the different permutations?

[brandon @burcs]

@JeremyMorrell definitely an interesting time to be focused on frontend/design haha 😅

honestly though it’s fun trying to meet users in whatever form factor they’re using

[brandon @burcs]

@threepointone @GrantSlatton @Cloudflare on it 🫡

[brandon @burcs]

pro ai, but anti slop

[rita kozlov 🐀 @ritakozlov]

back home from cloudflare connect and filled with creative energy

this surprised me too — not what you would expect from a tech conference and very counter to the “everything is ai slop now” narrative, but let me share just a few examples i found inspiring and artful

humans are creative creatures and i don’t see that changing with ai, only shining more

[brandon @burcs]

@tjcages thanks dude <3

[brandon @burcs]

planetscale doodle is pretty lit, kudos to the doodler

[brandon @burcs]

@Jilles @kristianfreeman thanks homies!

[brandon @burcs]

@just_be_dev thank you!

[brandon @burcs]

@wwwjim the best compliment, thanks dude

[brandon @burcs]

i want to start writing more...

of course that required an overhaul of my site, i also wanted to make it personal, so i made my handwriting into a font, then of obviously i had to hand draw my icons, and finally it needs to be interactive!

check it out: https://t.co/upFdVpR6qd

[brandon @burcs]

@tjcages this might be the most beautiful launch video i've seen, amazing work