sebastian

Design @perplexity_ai / Ex @shop, @airbnb, @instagram, @nike

[sebastian @scspeier]

booking a conference room to eat a bag of quest chips unbothered

[sebastian @scspeier]

@benspringwater It’s just clouds on a screen but I’m already sold

[sebastian @scspeier]

The best thing about small tech is when you order the product and the founder follows you on Twitter. Truly goated feeling.

[sebastian @scspeier]

This is now a phone free zone!

⁽ᵁⁿˡᵉˢˢ ʸᵒᵘ ʷᵃⁿᵗ ᵗᵒ ᵒʳᵈᵉʳ ᶜʰᶦᶜᵏᵉⁿ ᵗᵉⁿᵈᵉʳˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵍᵒ ᵗʰʳᵒᵘᵍʰ ᵃ ⁷ ᵐᶦⁿᵘᵗᵉ ᵉ⁻ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵉʳᶜᵉ ᶜʰᵉᶜᵏᵒᵘᵗ ʷʰᵉʳᵉ ʸᵒᵘ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᵗᵒ ᵐᵃⁿᵘᵃˡˡʸ ᵉⁿᵗᵉʳ ʸᵒᵘʳ ᶜʳᵉᵈᶦᵗ ᶜᵃʳᵈ ⁾

[Elijah Wood @elijahwood]

For the first time yesterday, I experienced the new @alamodrafthouse QR code ordering system and I can tell you it’s truly awful. Rather than making ordering food and drink more efficient, it actually adds steps to the process AND if you want to order additional items during the film you HAVE to open your phone. No, your cute reference to that irony in your How To Alamo video doesn’t negate how ridiculous this is. Please don’t cut corners with your staff and revert back to physical menus and order cards.

[sebastian @scspeier]

@AnthonyMenecola @krispuckett Mallorca 2027?

[Figma @figma]

Come pay your respects.
2 Rivington St, NY, NY 10002, 11am - 9pm

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

from apps to material

software used to be something you opened

an app was a room with walls: calendar here, notes there, music there, work there. each one had its own logic, buttons, its own little kingdom. the user moved between kingdoms, carrying context in their head

but ai starts to break the walls

software becomes less like a destination and more like material. something you shape, combine, stretch, ask, remix, and leave behind as traces. a document can become an app. a conversation can become a workflow. a song can become a memory. a task can become an agent. the boundary between using and making gets blurry

the old model was: choose the right tool for each task

the new model is: express the shape of the thing you want, then refine it with the system you built

this changes the role of the interface. ui is no longer only fixed views for fixed functions. it becomes a surface where intent turns into structure. the best interfaces will feel less like menus and more like clay – responsive, persistent, inspectable, and alive

apps won’t disappear. rooms are still useful. but the deeper shift is that software stops being a set of sealed containers and becomes a medium people can think through

like paper, but executable
like language, but spatial
like memory, but programmable

software stops being something only programmers make

it becomes material anyone can shape

[sebastian @scspeier]

@soleio Oh no

[sebastian @scspeier]

@fern Perplexity Computer literally does this. It will make calls for you to providers and clinics, and will even keep track of your health charts on its own and push back when there is conflicting advise. Give it a whirl

https://t.co/Ckm7Yt7orX

[sebastian @scspeier]

They position themselves as “for the people,” a working class shoe. They often show real people in their factories in their campaign materials, and they do more community running sponsorships than any other shoe brand. (I am a former NB sponsored athlete.) I think their brand positioning here makes them feel a lot more like an underdog than they actually are. Still, they do not win podiums in the majors, just in collegiate track events. The majors are dominated by Adidas, ASICS and Nike, simply because they have better foam and carbon tech than NB. NB will always have my heart though.

[sebastian @scspeier]

@tasedan Defining through action is still defining!

[sebastian @scspeier]

I actually think it’s up to us, the designers, to define this now. A lot of people are uncomfortable with ambiguity, but greatness is born in ambiguity! I would rather be in the fog deciding what the future of design looks like, then take a step back and wait for someone else to tell me.

[jenny wen @jenny_wen]

there’s a ton of anxiety and bold statements around what the design role is going to be. i don’t think we fully know yet!

…and it might not even be one role anymore, but 3 different ones, or 1 mega hybrid role.

personally, i’m releasing that anxiety of what design *should* be and focusing on the skills of making good product, given our new tools. the rest will play itself out with time and model improvements.

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Perplexity Computer is now available inside Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Orchestrate across work with Computer directly in the side panel of your app to draft documents, model, build decks, and handle email.

Available now: https://t.co/0itt5XcFRX

[sebastian @scspeier]

@michaelmiraflor There is nuance to this!!

[sebastian @scspeier]

@elirousso @downloadlos If you remember Subservient Chicken, you have lower back pain now

[sebastian @scspeier]

@SMatsiutsia @Jaytel @wwwtinazone @wwwtinazone to thread 📟

[Tina Tarighian @wwwtinazone]

Here’s the full video that got 90k views on linkedin.

Me, browsing the web in narcissist mode🪞🪽

Selfie + Gemini API key + Nano Banana + Chrome: I WILL BE IN EVERYTHING I BROWSE 🍌🍌🍌🍌

see how crazy the last one is on amazon👇

[sebastian @scspeier]

Two things: 1. This is incredible @Jaytel — 2. The browser is still the most important consumer surface

[Jaytel @Jaytel]

I built myself a chrome extension called Pose

Any clothing model of any store becomes me.

Each brand still conveys their brand aesthetic, but I can quickly understand how something would look on me.

[Hagov Berlin 🇦🇷🇩🇪 @hagov_berlin]

Totalmente enamorado de esta propuesta de bandera planetaria. Un circulo azul para representar nuestro planeta, y el resto transparente para que el fondo sea parte de la bandera

[sebastian @scspeier]

@DarcelRegis @afshineemrani They said the same thing about solving weight loss, but turns out the TAM is greater for real solutions.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

GLP-1s have taken the world by storm.

They started as simple weight loss drugs, but they are now evolving into lifetime prescriptions. It is estimated demand will at least double over the next 5 years.

This chronic dependency will drastically expand the types of companies who benefit from the trend.

Everyone knows about Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, but there are other companies in drug development, manufacturing, and packaging verticals.

READ THE REPORT: https://t.co/IETcXbJght