scottroen

@BlackRock, previously built products & platforms @AmericanExpress & @United. Intermittently training for next 🏊‍♂️🚴‍♂️🏃‍♂️

[scottroen @scottroen]

Great example of roles collapsing in a good way. Love the comment about this is the way we did it back when the web was being built…a renaissance indeed!

[Cameron Moll @cameronmoll]

How a Chief Design Officer (yours truly) uses AI to design like an IC. This demo is for any designers that haven't yet embraced AI in their workflow.

I’m one of two designers working on this plugin. I manage an organization of about 40 designers of various flavors, but I still keep myself in the trenches whenever possible. Lynt is one of these efforts.

The examples I share are intentionally very simple to demonstrate how any designer at any level can leverage artificial intelligence to amplify and accelerate their human intelligence.

AI is revolutionizing how we work as designers, yet I think of it more like a renaissance; a return to designing in consideration of the medium in which our designs are rendered, much like we did years ago when I first started.

Arbitrarily, something like 80% of what we do as designers (in the act of designing) is exploration and iteration. For the past decade or more so much of that has happened in Figma and previously Sketch. These are great tools.

But as a result of designing exclusively in a static environment, many have lost the ability to connect ideation with execution. Handholding your work from start to finish eventually gave way to handing off your work, and we never looked back.

Artificial intelligence flips all of this on its head, positioning you (the designer) to be the one who first turns your design into code, iterate and iterate again, and experience using your work as users will, literally from day one of your design process.

All the while freeing our engineering colleagues to focus on the work that only they can do, while designing alongside them.

[LangChain @LangChain]

That's a wrap on Interrupt 2025! 🚀

🌎 800 agent engineers from across the globe gathered in San Francisco for LangChain's first industry conference to hear stories of teams building agents – and we’re still riding the high!

@Cisco, @Uber, @Replit, @LinkedIn, @BlackRock, @jpmorgan, @mondaydotcom, @harvey__ai, @nubank, @Box, @unifygtm, @FactoryAI, and @11x_official
showcased their production agents built with LangGraph, LangGraph Platform, and LangSmith -- and lessons learned while building ✨

If you weren’t with us in person, we’ll be sharing content over the next few weeks, including recordings of all the talks.

[Melissa Perri @lissijean]

As more and more companies become predominately software companies, I believe the PM role and GM roles are going to merge. You won't be a great GM unless you deeply understand software, along with understanding your domain. /5

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

a little behind-the-scenes of the product design and interface development work behind #AdobeFirefly from @Adobe design team - ultimately AI is one of those technologies where the user’s experience is as critical as the tech itself. still early days https://t.co/4mhpOa39cD

[KC Varsity Combines @Varsitycombine1]

McKennon could have spent the rest of his life telling his children and grandchildren about the time he scored a touchdown in the superbowl. I'm sure he has dreamed of that moment since he was a child, and knows he may never get the opportunity again. Instead, with 1 min left, he chose to sacrifice that accomplishment to better the chances that all of his teammates get a ring. I will always be a fan. This is a picture that should be put up in every high school gym in the country.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

What happens if you take too long to launch: your product is defined by its relationship to whatever launched first.

That casual appositive phrase is worth more to Microsoft than any news story.

[scottroen @scottroen]

Not sure we need a McKinsey study for this insight, but still…”If you think your company isn’t a software company, you’re mistaken, according to McKinsey” https://t.co/9udl3ieb4U

[James Clear @JamesClear]

When making plans, think big.

When making progress, think small.

[Chris Lüders @chris_lueders_]

Is AI taking over the design world?

I used ChatGPT to build a yoga app screen and was blown away.

Check out the results and see if AI is the future of design:

[Brian Chesky @bchesky]

"You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back to the technology — not the other way around. I’ve probably made this mistake more than anybody, and I’ve got the scar tissue to prove it."

-Steve Jobs

[PM Diego Granados @PMDiegoGranados]

B2B and B2C Product Management are very different.

I worked for 5 years as a Product Manager in B2B and for 9 months (so far) in Consumer.

While this will likely not be an exhaustive list, here are the 8 biggest differences I've seen.

🧵👇

[Romeen Sheth @RomeenSheth]

There’s a multibillion dollar startup opportunity waiting to be built in wealth management.

- Large Market: 600k millennials with $3T+ in assets

- Fragmented: Mix of legacy institutions and 1000+ boutiques

- Low NPS: Subpar product experience

Here’s how I think it plays out:

[Amal Dorai @amaldorai]

I'm not surprised that Adobe is acquiring Figma for $20B, nor that Wall Street doesn't understand it and $ADBE stock is down more than $20B today. It's a smart move for Adobe because it's nearly impossible to make legacy software applications multi-user collaborative. Thread: 🧵

[scottroen @scottroen]

“In the end, it seems that mastery has less to do with pushing leverage points than it does with strategically, profoundly, madly letting go.” I wasn’t expecting to read that when I picked up Thinking in Systems, but it makes a lot of sense https://t.co/RZKJXGk231 #Amazon

[Alex Banks @thealexbanks]

Sequoia Capital released a 52-page presentation warning founders of a 'crucible moment' and a 'longer recovery' ahead.

Here are the 10 key takeaways every business owner must know:

[scottroen @scottroen]

With so much going on in the world, it was inspiring to hear the 9 @FfwdOrg tech non-profit pitches tonight. Congrats to @ersiliaio for the @BlackRock awarded grant!

[scottroen @scottroen]

@AlCavalieri It is never taking a flyer when they are willing to learn and do

[scottroen @scottroen]

@eldavis8 @GraceFarmsCT @IndraNooyi @BrookeBaldwin Great event tonight, thanks for inspiring my daughter and me

[scottroen @scottroen]

Thank you @Starbucks - I’m back tomorrow! Starbucks suspending all business activity in Russia https://t.co/5oU0zDb0Kn

[David Morris @wdmorrisjr]

People are complicated.

Leading them isn't.

A simple plan for leading well: 🧵