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info sci @cornell | currently growth @nbcnews | ⵣ🇲🇦 views r my own ✌️

[douae @douaemaarouff]

The @NBCNews subscription is now out for Android + iPhone users!

A proud moment for the team -- months of work finally seeing daylight.

Media today isn’t fighting for eyeballs, it’s fighting for clarity, trust, and context. Launching a subscription product in this type of environment isn’t merely another feature release. It’s a bet that thoughtful news still matters.

Excited to keep building. Read more about it:

[Axios @axios]

Exclusive: NBC News is launching digital subscription https://t.co/SsQmAgCwVL

[douae @douaemaarouff]

@bintwa3ra the key is speaking to them in 0.5x speed

[K ⵣ @bintwa3ra]

i speak to every arab in darija and if they don’t understand me that’s their problem

[douae @douaemaarouff]

@oelma__ swedish fish obviously

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

So stupid how New York is actually as cool as everyone says.

[douae @douaemaarouff]

Day 3 of redoing my portfolio after fully nuking the one I spent months on 😬

Turning it into my laptop screen felt right. It's the most honest interface for how I think and where everything about me actually lives. Notes, tabs, half-baked ideas, you name it.

Days 1–2 were chaos + bulk building. Today is the slow grind: CMS stuff, micro features, polishing.
Reallyyyy enjoying Framer… except the shortcuts keep betraying me because I'm so used to Figma 😭

Worth it though for this new iMessage feature I'm working on 👀

[douae @douaemaarouff]

@tankots update us when he's done consolidating his findings!

[douae @douaemaarouff]

@adoomie03 what people will be tweeting in the masses during the 2033 eid christmas crossover

[douae @douaemaarouff]

1. better chat organization!! some ideas: message threads (similar to slack when you don't want to branch an entirely new chat but want a seperate convo on a specific message), bookmarking/starring/tagging chats
2. BETTER VOICE MODE rn it really lacks depth/helpfulness of the text version & i cannot stand the premature conversation endings

[Sukhada @appadappajappa]

This is what happens when someone genuinely loves their work.

[douae @douaemaarouff]

Yesterday I spent about 8 hours rebuilding my portfolio in Framer...

I had an older version that was technically “in progress,” but it stayed unfinished for so long that it started to feel like a reminder of everything I was not shipping. So I scrapped it and started fresh.

One early choice I’m loving: designing it in a MacBook frame. It sounds small, but it’s honest. My work actually happens there. Notes, drafts, Figma files, screenshots, half-baked ideas, and the final versions that eventually make it out into the world. If I’m building a portfolio that reflects me, it makes sense that it starts where my life already lives.

Initial Framer thoughts so far: it’s fast, intuitive as someone who uses Figma so much, and makes website building feel fun again. Also, I now understand how people accidentally spend an hour adjusting frames by 2 pixels LOL

I’ll share the finished version soon, but for now this is your sign that starting over is sometimes the most efficient path forward :)

[Flo Crivello @Altimor]

Anthropic is going to be the Apple of AI: the smaller, more luxury player, universally and rightfully beloved by the more sophisticated users

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

MOROCCO ARE #FIFARABCUP CHAMPIONS. 🇲🇦🏆

[douae @douaemaarouff]

@FIFAWorldCup @EnMaroc VIVA MAROCCCC

[douae @douaemaarouff]

knicks winning nba championships and morocco winning the arab cup. this week is just too good

[douae @douaemaarouff]

i’ll think I miss something and then I remember I mostly miss the feeling of being excited about it

[douae @douaemaarouff]

a24’s marketing team for “The Drama” has not missed once. every rollout piece has felt like a part of the world, and not just promo.

film marketing genuinely has not felt this locked-in in a while.

[Ara @lefilmara]

Did A24 actually placed an engagement announcement in The Boston Globe as part of the film’s marketing?

[douae @douaemaarouff]

new read! let's see what the rf kuang hype is all about..

[douae @douaemaarouff]

No one talks about how “clean” UI is built on top of chaotic thinking.

Sketches/low-fi → scraps → UI kit → high-fi → interactive prototype

The glowup is just the receipt.

[douae @douaemaarouff]

Most people use AI in silos: they think privately, get an answer generated privately, then paste it into Slack, Notion, or group chats.

What if we flipped that?

I designed a @chatgptapp high-fi prototype animation that starts with shared cognition. Groups can highlight, tag, and auto-surface insights into a shared canvas the moment they’re generated. Integration with widely used tools would be the next step.

Finals-week students would eat this up.
So would product teams, researchers, and founders.

Full UX write-up on my Medium here: 👇
https://t.co/kIzFWTE2nN