Loren Baxter

Nature, surf, design, art, music. Designing creative tools for map-makers @felt. Past: head of design @remix (acq. by @ridewithvia), founder @priime (yc w15)

[Jackie B @jackieberardo]

Remember when Figma made everyone a designer? @Felt is doing that for spatial applications.

We need more targeted applications of low-code tooling, not more generalist tooling..

Type 'animate river flows' or 'build a neighborhood comparison tool' --> create a working app

[Felt @felt]

We're thrilled to introduce SQL queries in Felt, putting the full power of your database directly at your fingertips. ✌️

For years, teams have trusted Felt to build maps, apps, and dashboards that bring spatial insights to life.

Now, we're taking that capability to the next level. With SQL queries, you can tap directly into your data warehouse and craft custom queries within the Felt environment you already know and love.

[Loren Baxter @lorenbaxter]

Echoing this desire for more proactive screening. Cancer is sneaky because it can develop in anyone, even those young or otherwise healthy, and catching it early can be life saving.

[Ben Blumenrose @benblumenrose]

If you’re 45 and over/ are at high risk + have some means - consider yearly Galleri cancer screening test + yearly full-body MRI. Space them 6 months apart. The chance of catching things earlier will pay for itself many times over, let alone what it will do for quality of life…

[Felt @felt]

2025 is right around the corner, but we're not done shipping awesome new features for our users this year! 🎁

Today we are excited to announce a powerful new addition to Felt's enterprise dashboards: Spatial Filters.

Now your whole team can easily get the answers they need on the fly.

[Loren Baxter @lorenbaxter]

@soleio @EnriqueAllen Gathering some favs from the thousands of DF pictures I have, and thought you might appreciate this one. 2013

[Loren Baxter @lorenbaxter]

Crushed by the loss of Enrique, one of the best people I’ve had the fortune to call a friend. He filled the world with his warmth, kindness, and vitality, and knowing him constantly made me a better person.

[Ben Blumenrose @benblumenrose]

It is with a heavy heart that I share that Enrique Allen passed away this week. He was an incredible partner and friend. He will be dearly missed... 💔
https://t.co/wmuWs9JgK5

[Felt @felt]

We've designed Felt to be fast and easy without compromising security. And today we've given our enterprise users even more control over where their data is stored.

With five new regional hosting options – US, UK, Canada, Australia, EU – our users can choose exactly where they want their data to stay.

[Felt @felt]

Meet Felt’s native H3 support.

Just like all things we build, it really flies.

Here are 3 reasons H3 in Felt is so unique ⤵️

#GIS #Mapping #SpatialData

[Loren Baxter @lorenbaxter]

@felt We just missed the devastation in North Carolina. We're fortunate to have enjoyed the fall beauty there and saddened by the hurricane impacts that came through after we left.

[Loren Baxter @lorenbaxter]

Just completed another cross-country road trip and planned it in @felt, anyone else done this?

• Draw the route and stops
• Add drive times
• Use forest service & BLM layers for dispersed camping
• I add photos to the route afterward for ✨memories✨

https://t.co/li1NoavXTE

[Jayneil Dalal @jayneil]

This is how a top designer does design explorations in Figma

He also leverages AI tools like @midjourney to explore crazy design iterations

@lorenbaxter shows the different design explorations for @felt in @figma 👇

[Loren Baxter @lorenbaxter]

Here I showed how I set up our Figma color variables to make all of our UI designs easily changeable (and testable) between light and dark modes

[Jayneil Dalal @jayneil]

This is how a top designer designs for light and dark mode in Figma

The way he is using tokens, variables in Figma is insane 🤯

@lorenbaxter shows how he designed light and dark modes for @felt in @figma 👇

[Felt @felt]

1/ 🚦We recently teamed up with @replica, a transportation data and solutions firm, to explore the impacts of NYC's controversial congestion pricing proposal. @STurell, Replica’s Chief of Staff, shares a fascinating visual analysis using Felt, including:

[Nate Houghteling @nhoughte]

The official Fault Lines trailer is live! 🚨🚨

Four years ago, we set out to tell the story of America’s housing crisis through the prism of what was happening in our own backyard of San Francisco.

Today we’re excited to bring this film out into the world with our first trailer and a series of advanced screenings around the country.

Learn more: https://t.co/WdiGprzWmE

[Loren Baxter @lorenbaxter]

@karinakedo @jayneil Kind of you to say so! Appreciate it!

[Karina Kedo @karinakedo]

Been catching up on SneakPeek from @jayneil post-Config and so far my absolute fave is @lorenbaxter's episode. So many valuable tips on UI details and product thinking hidden in here. https://t.co/teEYn1SaOF

[Felt @felt]

1/ Felt 3.0 is here with GIS superpowers for your entire organization. Get your data out of data silos, and empower teams to build geospatial apps and dashboards in seconds without heavy development. 💪

[Loren Baxter @lorenbaxter]

Been working on designs for @felt 3.0 for a while now - stoked to take this thing to another level with dashboards and powered data.

[Loren Baxter @lorenbaxter]

@can @SlackHQ lol they gotcha

[Loren Baxter @lorenbaxter]

@imryanreid @figma @felt Likewise!

[Loren Baxter @lorenbaxter]

Yo! @figma moving to dynamic, inset floating panel ui like we have at @felt. Nice validation to arrive at similar answers to some deep interaction questions

[Ryhan @ryhanhassan]

After years in the making, I’m so excited to share our redesigned Figma, stripping back the interface to really focus on your work, and introduce a broad range of usability improvements across the system.

We’re rolling out in beta starting today at Config, and I can’t wait for you to try it.