We did a lot at @notboring this year, but my proudest accomplishment may be hitting a career high for contributions (~2/day).
Not long ago I was managing teams and directing product decisions from a distance. Then I recognized that the creative people I admire most are not just leading their field but do so with their hands in the clay—Miyazaki, Fincher, Rubin, Baldessari.
As creative people, we're presented with false dilemmas all the time—Manager or IC track? Designer or developer? Build or lead? Rules set up by others to make you easier to manage. Don't play by someone else's rules.
Keep your hands in the clay.
here's me controlling GLSL shader uniforms using my hands. imprecise exploratory inputs — like finding the right parameters when making highly-dimensional generative art — feel like they're better suited to fluid movements.
Why do some interactions just feel great?
To find out, I wrote a 3000-word essay on deconstructing the craft of interaction design through metaphors and examples.
https://t.co/Z4jBDHcJjQ
Prototyped a little app that allows you to take frames from @figma and 'pull them into space'.
The frames stay linked to the canvas and update on any changes
We’re working on a new (not boring) app. Rather than slowly tease it over months, let’s kill any hype right now…
It’s called Vibes.
It’s a personalized video game soundtrack for your life to help you focus, sleep, workout.
For you aspiring Vision Pro designers!
🥽 New Human Interface Guidelines for Vision Pro (we added ~60k words of wisdom!!)
https://t.co/0yb3ruUJYp
🎨 Figma Vision Pro design kits
https://t.co/AKnnqd9MHg
🍏App icon tool (for previewing juicy 3d icons)
https://t.co/vApLWx6TjP
It's so exciting to have all of this out in the open, and to be able to share what it means for the future of the Immersive Web. I can't wait for more folks to get to play with this stuff - we've been having a blast so far! https://t.co/S4fASmJjjn
I put together some considerations around designing for Live Activities alongside a beautiful deep dive from @chan_k in the second half on the Dynamic Island.
https://t.co/Aql8d9EVxP