James Robinson

Multidisciplinary designer building the future of building things at @CoinbaseDev

[James Robinson @jamesrobinson50]

Caffeine should be on nutrition labels, if applicable to the food/drink

[James Robinson @jamesrobinson50]

Very proud of the work this team did to launch the new @CoinbaseDev portal. In particular, @heyyimrose deserves all the credit for her tireless and always top-notch design work across every single surface you see here. She's a design rockstar. 🚀

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

Our new @CoinbaseDev portal is looking awesome! It's the best place to build in crypto.

It gives access to all our powerful developer tools (wallets, payment APIs, x402, etc) in one dashboard. You can even launch a branded stablecoin, backed 100% by USDC.

[James Robinson @jamesrobinson50]

Sometimes it seems the only modern purpose for cents is to charge for bags and for psychological pricing decoration

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

High agency high taste is the unlock these days

[˗ˏˋ rogie ˎˊ�� @rogie]

I think at some rate product designers lost the plot. We were meant to be inventors, thinkers, and a bridge between humans and the message or invention.

We aren’t meant to merely declutter, simplify, or make things pretty.

Designers are meant to make the very thing humans will be working with, in every imaginable way possible.

We are not rectangle builders, we are not pixel pushers, we are inventors and builders pushing to communicate to humans or let humans communicate to our inventions.

[Dylan Field @zoink]

An excellent essay on design (and thinking) from Karri. Must read.

[James Robinson @jamesrobinson50]

@nemild I hear good things about @CoinbaseDev

[Luis Batalha @luismbat]

After rewatching Home Alone, I couldn’t stop wondering:

how plausible is the oversleep that leaves Kevin behind?
So I wrote a tiny paper and ran the numbers.

Merry Christmas! 🎄

[James Robinson @jamesrobinson50]

Training flight attendants on public speaking would be a compelling UX differentiator for an airline. In-flight announcements are so often so bad.

[James Robinson @jamesrobinson50]

Really proud of all the design we've created on this team over the last 6 months, finally starting to be unveiled. This is just the start—stay tuned. 🚀 #Coinbase #SystemUpdate

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

The next generation of Coinbase’s infrastructure products.

Whether it’s for custody, payments, trading, or stablecoins, we make it easy to integrate crypto into your business with @CoinbaseDev.

[erik.eth 🛡 @programmer]

🚀 After millions of payments on x402, we’re excited to introduce x402 V2.

Listening to community feedback, we’re releasing V2 to evolve internet-native payments with greater flexibility and power.

What’s new 🧵

[James Robinson @jamesrobinson50]

Incredibly, this is not even the first time someone has gotten a tattoo of a product I've helped design. Fired up.

[x402 Intern @x402intern]

Dedicated to the game, onchain and on skin.

[James Robinson @jamesrobinson50]

😮

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Sound on.

[James Robinson @jamesrobinson50]

We're #hiring a designer. Come design the future of the internet with me and our incredible team at @coinbase: https://t.co/kGWuNfX6BG

(No DMs please—apply directly and we'll be in touch!)

[Coinbase 🛡️ @coinbase]

Coinbase One Cards have started shipping.

Here’s the TL;DR ↓

[Coinbase Developer Platform🛡️ @CoinbaseDev]

Announcing Code:NYC 🗽

Join us this August in Brooklyn for a two-day hackathon designed for technical founders and product-minded builders ready to launch real, usable apps—not just prototypes.

Application and details below 👇

[Stammy @Stammy]

something to keep in mind the next time you're about to hop on that design trend

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Remember, every "mistake" is a test.

[yang you @yangyou]

"Somewhere along the way, the visual intelligence of design – its rhythm, tension, friction – was replaced by a vocabulary of efficiency. And we accepted it because we thought that was the price of relevance."

- Natasha Jen on design's assimilation into business, linked below

[James Robinson @jamesrobinson50]

FIGPALS! i love him