Colby Sato

Product designer and artist. Formerly at Meta, X, Grindr

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@samuel_spitz Tbh these look more like posters. Would look cool on a wall, but difficult to read over zoom

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

I really like how #ClaudeDesign asks if you want it to ask follow-up questions. Good design work requires context! AI requires context!

I don't know what it doesn't know or what would be useful for it to know, so it's helpful for it to prompt me.

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@ryutime64 Tokyo is an amazing city. I have never lived there but I loove visiting. I think I need to visit in the summer first to see how I deal with the heat.

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

You can tell this chart is AI slop because Honolulu is red when it's literally in the middle of the pacific ocean

[Aporia @aporia9n]

If you’re in your 20s (and ambitious) do everything to move to those 4 cities

Yes people will mog you for paying extortionate rents for such little comfort but who cares, you’re not everyone, you’re on a mission, you’re here for greatness

London/NYC/Paris/SF are basically the golden 4. They’re not just big cities, they’re global sorting machines. People move there from all over the world because they want sth badly enough to accept all the downsides. The guy born in London can be lazy. But the 26yo Frenchman, Indian, American, Italian, Nigerian, Lebanese etc who voluntarily accepts the tiny flat, shit commute and absurd rent to be there has already self-selected pretty hard

And that selection compounds. I felt it instantly moving from my hometown in France to London. Growing up I was always “the ambitious one” in my friend group. Then you arrive in London and suddenly you feel extremely average. Everyone is trying to do sth. Completely changes your reference point for what a normal person can achieve

The other thing is just how many serious games are happening at once. If you know at 22 that you’re going to be a semiconductor engineer forever, maybe there are better specialised places. But most ambitious 24yos have absolutely no clue what game they’ll eventually want to play. In London/NYC/Paris you can accidentally become friends with people in PE, startups, politics, law, media, fashion, pharma, academia etc. Your finance friend dates someone in fashion, their roommate is building a startup, you meet someone in politics at dinner. Suddenly 5 completely different lives feel plausible

That’s insanely valuable when you’re young precisely because you don’t yet know which people / industries / opportunities will matter to your 34yo self

SF is the weird exception because it’s basically one giant concentrated bet on tech/AI. Much narrower than the other 3, but that game is so asymmetric rn that it deserves its spot. If you want to build at the frontier there’s probably no other place where your reference class changes that aggressively

And yh everyone keeps saying the internet made geography irrelevant. Maybe for information. Definitely not for trust/friendship. Anyone can learn from the same people online now, send the same cold DM, follow the same accounts. Much harder to replicate being the guy someone has had 20 dinners with, worked with, travelled with, introduced to friends and randomly bumped into for 5 years

When you’re 24 and nobody knows who tf you are, geography can do a lot of the work for you. You get invited because your colleague knows someone. You end up at a dinner because your friend needs a +1. Someone you met 3 years ago leaves and starts a company. Another moves to NYC. Another becomes a partner somewhere. Most of the ROI is completely impossible to predict upfront

Basically before you have your own gravity, borrow the city’s

At 45, if you’ve built the company / reputation / money / audience / network, you can go live in Tuscany, Mallorca, South of France or wherever and people will come to you. At 24 no one is coming lol. You should probably be where everything is happening

And tbh if you have the ability to move I wouldn’t spend 3 years waiting for the perfect job / apartment / timing. Get the shitty room, accept being poorer for a while, figure it out once you’re there. Your 20s are probably the cheapest years of your life to tolerate inconvenience anyway

You can optimise sqm, weather and comfort later

At 24 I’d rather maximise how many possible lives are available to me

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

Unfortunately, Claude Design can't edit Figma Slides directly. So I'm making designs in Claude Design, having it write instructions for Claude, and then editing Figma from Claude Cowork.

What do you use to make Claude Cowork as effective at graphic design as Claude Design?

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

Claude Design is really good. I gave it the same task and used the same model as Claude in Cowork, but the output was much better.

Left: Claude in Cowork
Right: Claude Design

#claude #claudedesign @claudeai

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

Setup:
When I set up this project in Cowork, I asked Claude to make use of all the relevant design skills and gave it visual design references.

For Claude Design, I created a design system based off of the existing Figma slides.

[Matt Krisiloff @mattkrisiloff]

I’m so excited to share this update on @Conception –

We’ve generated the first early human eggs derived from stem cells.

This is a big deal -- the potential to redefine fertility is real.

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@mattkrisiloff @Conception Congratulations Matt! I remember you talking about this years ago. So incredible seeing how far you've come!

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@davidfromkansas yes

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@marissamayer Dear designer of the Shine app: feel free to reach out to me. I have 6 years of mobile app design experience and am happy to mentor.

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@beefy_burrito It's the red 40.

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@beefy_burrito I'm confused how this looks so bad. It looks like it's for iOS, so why didn't they use standard components? Maybe it was made in react?

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@prolificlaugher I really like scuba diving. Floating weightlessly, and you get to hang with cute creatures.

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@TheKandyMuse Your gradients are so soft but also graphic and expressive <3

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@durianrising :/

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@SawyerBlatz nice monstera

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@ledwards Maybe I'm overreacting, but robot police or robot soldiers in cities come to mind.

[Colby Sato @ColbySat]

@dorsiatical Glad you chose life!