Last week was my final week at Perplexity. After nearly four years of full‑speed, labor‑of‑love work, I felt ready to pass the baton. I’m excited to share that @scspeier will lead the design team going forward. There are many things I’m proud of, but most of all I’m proud of the design culture at Perplexity. It fosters boldness, creativity, trust, and, most importantly, real impact. Everyone on the team lives our brand’s values, embodying curiosity and a love of learning. I have no doubt this culture will not only endure but continue to grow as the company evolves under Sebastian’s stewardship. ····
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept):
Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow
Say hello to Perplexity Computer. All your AI tools bundled and working seamlessly together in one place. So great to see the tight and fast collaboration across so many teams to ship this.
Introducing Perplexity Computer.
Computer unifies every current AI capability into one system.
It can research, design, code, deploy, and manage any project end-to-end.
We're back with BYOB, but this time in the 🍎. We’re hosting an event at our NYC office to create a space for coming together to share and talk about design. Much of design history and inspiration lives in books, making it harder to discover online. So, bring a book and share something that inspires you.
Join the waitlist 🫒 https://t.co/1vbZo16ulA
@niravbond@henrymodis@perplexity_ai At past companies, I made up projects to address personal pain points in the product. Or I used the down time to find another job. Luckily at Perplexity, we have no shortage of interesting projects for designers
My Monday at @perplexity_ai:
1. Product design team sync: no-crit meeting to coordinate projects
2. Comet Agent standup
3. Design + Eng jams on three secret projects
4. Submit 5 pull requests
5. Nerding out on corner radii and eslint
6. Designing + prototyping auras