Thomas I. Mathew

MFA in Fiction at Brooklyn College // Product Designer on sabbatical. Simpleton, but not a charlatan. 🫩

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@krispuckett @brian_lovin … same problem with thread history IMO. Feels like I should be able to see related conversations automatically grouped alongside a chronological list. Projects sort of help with this but they rely too much on my manual work.

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@krispuckett @brian_lovin I don’t know what % of threads are long but long threads are totally underdesigned. Should auto-collapse chunks of it into summaries and even add a topic list on the scrubber. Often find myself totally lost in a thread that even with faster scroll I’d struggle to find stuff.

[alli @sonofalli]

tech bro obsessed with "storytelling" but hasn't read a book in the last 5 years

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

pretty funny that designers still somehow at twitter say this but yet the app is pretty much worse in every way possible compared to three years ago. just garbage all over. endless spam, bots. one of the worst rebrands in the 21st century. nothing materially improved

[Michael Boswell @mjboswell]

I decided to clean up Twitter’s Figma, most of which stopped 3yrs ago. I went through every file (it’s massive).

Design tells you a lot about a company.

I’d say 20% signal, 80% noise. An egregiously excessive self-justification of human labor.

FWIW, the 20% is quite strong.

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@Pandora_Delaney is that a tintin filter for the illustration

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@bensig @BrooklynDadChin you should be putting money on all of these with this level of confidence!

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@DookieWatanuki @the_dr1zzel @mancitygalore @ItzzZain10 Peak Nadal on RG would beat either in 4 sets, and that's not even in doubt. No one could beat him uninjured at his peak (literally *no one* did, including the two other GOATs). Again, not a Nadal fan!

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@DookieWatanuki @the_dr1zzel @mancitygalore @ItzzZain10 Would it be close? And are they at the level of the Big 3? I think so, personally, though it remains to be seen if they'll hit 20+ Slams. Harder said than done! Federer and Nadal were well ahead of Sinner at his age. Neither Alcaraz nor Sinner has had career-altering injuries.

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@Igi_POLCOM totally agreed, it's like they don't even realize that there's been this long line of shrewd political instinct-havers that have gotten us to a pretty good place in the past 20 years or so

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@karasmarsh every designer should move (back) here imo :')

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@bnj @variantui ! would love an invite

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@shrawberryy my Goal is to get good at both next year ... Recurse Center may be of interest to you, though it's a full time commitment so can be tricky

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

dh lawrence, nin, heinlein, leguin, maggie nelson, butler, huxley, zola, miller, gertrude stein don't exist in this person's world apparently. also i thought we were done with nonmonogamy discourse like 2 years ago, but bluecheck engagement bait keeps winning on here :(

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

Even cheating is more romantic than non-monogamy. Great literature has been written about cheating. Cheating inspires generations of art. Cheating can imply a passion so great that you're willing to risk everything in order to pursue it, oftentimes in despite of yourself, as if fate has clutched your will in its hands and refuses to let go.

Non-monogamy is just a way to try to get everything while risking nothing. What has that ever inspired except a disaster? It's a Peter Pan fantasy of epic ignorance. Baby wants all her candy and thinks she can eat it without throwing up.

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@gormankind @newitemco really cool, super elegant solution for what I think most product designers need when polishing UI. I have a client who could definitely benefit from this, but they're using GitLab, or else I'd happily sign up. will let them know about it!

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@michaelbd @scastro87 wow, $30-100k in nyc. that is, very definitively working class. good graph

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@thatguybg @jose_goncalves_ @ekuyda I wish they did, it would signify that software has made the leap beyond the functional! you could argue that social / messaging does this, but they've all tended toward centralization rather than decentralization

[Thomas I. Mathew @thomatillo]

@thatguybg @jose_goncalves_ @ekuyda clothing is much more tied to identity though. outside of tech people, and maybe the cultural dominance of iPhone in the US (probably equally attributable to the hardware as software), and maybe video games, people don't view software as identity-shaping