Chris Aalid

design @instagram. previously Apartment List, Trek. [email protected]

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@cyanhex @ChristinaNWhite @loom @harvey congrats! seems like a really fascinating product to work on.

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

People always complain about design not having a seat at the table when the reality is that you just have the drag the chair over

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

Codex desktop app is kinda…great?

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@soleio OpenConnect

[TV Idents @IdentEveryHour]

NBC - 1972 (unused) - USA

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@laurenloprete @mercury “Hunched over the sink” meals have a special quality to them imo

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@Jaytel Apparently the design studio can not stop cooking, damn

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@samsheffer the softer curve sides though are kind of great (as much as I think the iPhone 4/4s is the goat)

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@andyhennie It’d be sick if multiple windows (say, chrome) could have their own entries in the dock for different purposes

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@localghost Those kinds of feedback signals have always been super noisy on any product imo

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@bengold I’ve dealt with this all my life and it’s tough. DMs open if you want to talk or anything.

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@pratikbodkhe @amfonte @PrincipleApp At some point framer pivoted away from fast, hi-fi prototyping into slower but more system-driven react, and then fully into site builder (turns out that market is a lot bigger than product designers who wanted to go deep into prototyping at the time)

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

The Photoshop days were so rough looking back. But also strangely wonderful.

We used keynote with magic move to prototype. Kind of insane but it did the job.

[Filip @efftome]

Designers - how long have you been using Figma, and what was your first design tool?

Btw, anyone remember Adobe XD?

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@samhenrigold I mean I guess it looks like a sheet? Kinda? Not really? Idk man

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@abigailreadey I find sometimes screenshotting inner frames of just parts of the ui helps a lot to nail the details vs just linking an entire full frame from figma

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@amfonte @PrincipleApp fwiw origami is still the goated non-ai prototyping tool imo

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@amfonte @PrincipleApp Principle was so good. Then I got into framer back when it was coffeescript. Then origami! Now lately SwiftUI prototypes with cursor or Claude.

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

I don’t think this is a good thing.

[Balaji @balajis]

Look, if you don’t like the ending of any movie, you can soon just export the file, put it into one of the increasingly high quality open weights video models, and do whatever remix you like.

We aren’t all the way there, but we’ll be there soon. Prompts will promptly disrupt Hollywood.

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@AzianMike @stripe I like to think of this as “worst house on the best block” haha

[Chris Aalid @chrisaalid]

@millsbaker this very much resonates