James Donovan

Design lead @TikTik. Previously @Meta. Always curious and creative.

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Coachella from a product designers perspective

https://t.co/z6EUt6mnee

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I’ve published 20+ articles about my design framework. Read more at https://t.co/htFOifrnq2

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The Flow Factor: Designing Momentum Into Your Experience

https://t.co/4EtSUBWgjm

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Designing with information in mind helps to clarify complex experiences. Designing for clarity is shaped by the structure of meaning.

https://t.co/PLq4hgYAhQ

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I’ve been working on a design framework for systems thinking.

https://t.co/NJbyv5WmN1

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As a product designer, @ChatGPTapp still has a long way to go in terms of interpreting @figma wireframes. When people say AI is equivalent to a mid level engineer, I would level 4o below a new grad in terms of practical execution.

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Having built AI tools with the latest models, my takeaway is that these models are equivalent to extremely-educated highly-motivated novices. #R1 reasons it’s way out of finishing complex, #Llama politely gives up and tells you to try python, #LLaVa gets easily distracted.

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@javilopen Funny, haha. Who is the artist?

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@haynes_dave @benz145 @wooorldXR It’s The Sims for the real world. Visit the set of Jurassic World, talk to the Kardashians at the Armenian memorial, play Survivor in San Francisco, watch a play at the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial. The future everyone wants for MR

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@dnscollective Congrats 🎊🎉

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@benz145 I think you’re completely discounting gesture. Apple has released one gesture, but as the device develops there could easily be hundreds of gesture and eye tracking control combinations that completely transform VR interactions. I personally hate designing for controllers.

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@benz145 The public has spoken. VR ist outz. Branding isn’t marketing. The “VR” brand is dead, the VR market is growing. Apple launched a VR headset and didn’t mention VR. Facebook rebranded to Meta and eliminated Oculus, the old school VR unicorn. It’s just marketing gossip

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@jasonlk Daily but working on a chat bot app

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@andruyeung I’d join

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@cpheinrich Honestly, best decision for Apple. Most mobile games on iOS are Unity based. Unity is also more designer friendly. Both these business decisions are a better fit for Apple. Apple has no problem freezing out major players. Wouldn’t bet on Unreal support or Unity failure.

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@benz145 @PalmerLuckey Apple usually takes advantage of the peripherals market. I’ve had a hard time developing 3rd party devices for Quest. Long term I imaging this is an opportunity for developing new devices more than jailbreaking a vision / quest Frankenstein

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Apple announced Vision Pro. The VR community guessed many of the features, price, and form factor: no controllers, external battery, and LiDAR. The surprises were spacial audio, a convincing bi-directional pass through, and unity integration at launch. Very excited for this!

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This week @nvidia announced Nueralangelo, a 3D reconstruction algorithm that blends insta-NeRF and photogrammetry. Excited to try this out

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@bchesky I wish you had better tools to do market analysis for home acquisition and new construction. Where should I buy, what should the home have, what insights can you provide to hosts