Tom Lowry

Advocacy @figma. Designer, also likes front-end dev, cycling, and woodworking.

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

@alessio_joseph The Travis Bickle vibes of the OG are so good.

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

@bslobodin @Wealthsimple @TD_Canada Wealthsimple is better but I think I’ve seen way more ads/promos in the mobile experience than I have on TD if I am honest (I use both).

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

🍁 Fall is too short.

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@tokifyi lol. I just want them to increase their interest rates after BOC announcements as fast as they seem to decrease them.

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

If you trick me into downloading your app to track a package I promise to never install your app for eternity.

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

All sorts of things. I like it taking ideas and interactions further where its helpful to have full range of what is possible with code.

As an example, on another project I had a bunch of input fields inside a scrolling pane. I was able to refine behavior of how to advance the scroll as I tabbed through the inputs so that the scroll position wasn't constantly moving, and so the user wasn't editing a form field jammed up at the bottom of the scroll pane.

I've found those sorts of details easier to discover and refine when you can bring them to life.

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

It feels so good to explore different variations of interactive ideas with Code layers on the same canvas as my other visual explorations in @figma.

Here is a small blog filter interaction I have been playing around with. A few more thoughts in the next post 🧵.

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

Some ideas are hard to describe with words in a prompt box. Starting this way can be a challenge: you prompt, wait, and only then realize that it's not quite right because you unknowingly left a bunch details for the model to decide.

A quick sketch of an idea can give signal to whether or not the idea is working much quicker in many scenarios. For this, it felt very way more fluid to explore an idea visually on the canvas and then stitch together a quick happy path prototype with noodles to visualize it. After some refinement to figure out animation sequencing, where I wanted delays, etc; I was able select all of those frames, and build them as a working code artifact where I could add data, new categories, explore edge cases, and continue to refine.

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@cheweileee Looks great!

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@amylimabean Let’s goooo! Good luck, Amy!

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

@oscargws @github Can't fault that choice.

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

@_amirul_hakim_ Motion with agent works really well! Glad it is going well and so cool to see the setup with motion and components! @miggi would dig this!

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@pmarquees This happened to my feed on Sunday out of the blue.

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

@googlechrome Feature request; I wish vertical tabs (in their collapsed state) respected width of the pane set in its expanded state. Right now the hover state when using collapsed tabs feels too narrow and there is no way to adjust it.

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

@rsms @maxvoltar @retrodotapp I now want to use a bandsaw to actually cut through blister packages.

[socrates @sochar__]

As I get my hands more and more on @figma's Code Layers, it feels so meta. Unreal.

Such a big bet on turning the Canvas into.. a solid, super advanced creative brain.

Every moment with Code Layers is a WTF moment.

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

This is a such a wild (and very cool) workflow!

[Shawn Farsai @ShawnFarsai]

how to channel your ai psychosis and creativity into arr featuring @Figma and @ElevenLabs

[Tom Lowry @negativespaceca]

@JamesMikrut @figma @payloadcms Let’s go! Congrats!!