Lia Napolitano

Founder @ourmutualstudio. Previously designing @meta Quest and @apple Siri, and leading design for Caffeine (a16z, Greylock). Designing for inflection points.

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Hi friends! First time posting here since the pandemic.

Over the past 10 years: left Apple, designed the first Oculus Quest, led product and brand design at Caffeine, then went independent. I run a design studio now called Our Mutual Friend.

What did I miss? 🙃

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TIL my son has been listening to Babooshka by Kate Bush at preschool and I am delighted 🎶

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2¢ — I think it hurts creators and companies to elicit AI aversion, let alone for people to experience it constantly. Looking away can mean missing an insight or some hidden value, but I'm not convinced that self-protection is a personal deficiency for users to fix.

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Whenever I see AI stylistic saturation at play (tiny text, "not this, it's that") my nervous system responds as if it's fending off an invader

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"Make me believe you" — new essay on Ghost https://t.co/8sQAFniYQq

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Star Wars was religion when I was a kid, so we watched A New Hope with my 4yo for the first time for Mother’s Day.

He cried when the Death Star exploded, then yelled “yay!” when he realized Vader got away… should I be worried cc @settern @reneritchie

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I did a Hack Week project on Highlights at Medium. Inline text selection as instant save and signal — like Genius, SoundCloud, Kindle.

I'd love this as AI and OS standard. Right now key text gets lost in a sea, or pasted out. Would be smart to save core memories inline for free.

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Lately I’ve been watching my children play with physical pixels and going to the AI-inspired ballet with friends. Neither of these are nature, both are wonderful

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To be clear, I’m not high-roading anyone — I’m catching up on X and rewatching Season 1 of Succession, because even that now feels quaint and gentle

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Initial observation on being back: oh wow this is definitely 1:1 with LinkedIn on AI being the 99% discussed topic. How are we all feeling? How is touching grass going for everyone here 🍃☀️

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@rspitzer I'd love to hear about your journey! So impressed with the TMNT + Charmander + bees options it put together in a heartbeat, will be returning when we get close to our oldest's birthday 😊

[Lia Napolitano @lianaps]

Hi friends! First time posting here since the pandemic.

Over the past 10 years: left Apple, designed the first Oculus Quest, led product and brand design at Caffeine, then went independent. I run a design studio now called Our Mutual Friend.

What did I miss? 🙃

[Lia Napolitano @lianaps]

@viditb Thank you Vidit! Very inspiring projects on your site over the past few years, congratulations and kudos! 👏🏼🔥

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@rspitzer Thank you and so nice to see you on here, Rebecca! Also love Party Printables, this is brilliant! 👏

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Oh and I joined the board of an arts nonprofit and had two kids and produced three pole cabarets, AMA

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@sdw Thank you!! So exciting to see what you've been up to, congrats on your Apple role (and beautiful family)! 🚀✨

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@ladyvonchelle @MCRofficial @lindadong Omg thank you! Have the absolute best time!!!!!!

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Fun fact: I dance competitively and twice this year performed to Welcome to the Black Parade by @MCRofficial.

Tonight @lindadong and I are going to watch them perform it their damn selves!!!!

#mcrx #mychemicalromance #mcrreunion #mcrreturn #mychemicalromancereturn

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@jsatk Opened Twitter for the first time in months to see this and it was worth it 😂

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These women in design SHIPPED OCULUS QUEST TODAY! 🌈

These are just some of the people I designed alongside, fought alongside, cried with, and together we somehow also made a VR product that’s the first of its kind.

Congratulations team! YOU DID THIS 🎉 #oculus #oculusquest