Design person. Open to new stuff! Previously @Meta, @Microsoft, @Google, @Tumblr and a bunch of other things.
Brooklyn, NY
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Now that I no longer work there, I will say that something I really disliked about Google (and this may just be a Big Tech thing and not unique to them) is how much of the job was self promoting and the theatrics of demonstrating impact.
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People are posting the most basic designs and acting like they painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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I want a tech podcast for people who hate tech but also work in tech and also love tech.
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One of the best startup websites I’ve seen in a while physicalintelligence.company
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This is so pure. My parent’s dog does this too, but my dad grows marijuana in the garden...
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It’s a sign in bottom sheet. There are a million like this. What details are you even talking about.
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👏SOME👏PERSONAL👏NEWS👏
I’m starting a new full-time job @Google later this month. I’m staying in NYC. I’m very excited!
That is all.
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WTF, when did @framer get so good at website building. This is substantially easier to use than Webflow
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People should really watch the fucking movie before tweeting at @harikondabolu
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Today I learned that my manager worked on the team at Apple that turned NeXTSTEP into OS X. I jokingly asked if he created the genie effect... turns out he did... also magnification on the dock.
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I love @browsercompany but it’s built on top of Chromium, has a limited user base, and likely doesn’t have the same localization, accessibility, and security standards as Chrome. It’s 100000x easier for them to ship new features.
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I feel like accusing this show of white washing, when they made multiple white characters black and hired Asian leads, is a bit lame. Ed was tan because she lived in the desert. She had a French/European name, and her dad was white.
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Anyway, I’m gonna be working at @Microsoft and I’m beyond excited
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Most senior+ designers don’t share client work because they’re too busy working on shit.
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This is an incredibly dumb take.
Auto-Layout was the worst thing that happen to design creativity.
It created drones with poor eyesight thinking shift+A "aligns" the interface. Then lots of shifts, offsets, ugly templatized design ensued. Crap.
You're responsible for all the boring. Shift+A bro.
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UIs I’d love to design:
- airplane inflight entertainment system
- a smart tv’s built-in software
- a car’s nav/infotainment system
- a commercial espresso machine
- an enterprise multifunction printer
- the UI on an oven, refrigerator, or washing machine
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I’m currently a design lead on Microsoft Edge, but I will admit that I am kinda jealous of the work @arcinternet @browsercompany is doing.
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Been messing around with a beta of @figmadesign's new Auto Layout 3.0 feature. IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD.
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What are everyone’s favorite @figma plug-ins? For a long time at work we haven’t allowed 3rd party ones, but we’ve just changed that and I have no idea what’s good.
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Hello. I don't often share design work, but here is a successful design exercise I did for a company I'm interviewing with: dropbox.com/s/8ic9322ub6fej5…
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Smith & Diction literally have stopped since the Perplexity work dropped. An inhuman run.
💥New work for @Superhuman (@Grammarly & @coda_hq)💥
It’s a cursor, it’s a cape, it’s an incredibly complex identity system!
So your company acquires another company and now you're changing your name to the smaller company. Let's dig in.
Full case study
smith-diction.medium.com/bra…
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It is, this was honestly my first big corporate job (first salaried one anyway). Maybe I was just naive.
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It’s not at all surprising that a dude who invented a bland baby formula for adults because he was tired of deciding what to eat, one of the few joys in human life, has a terrible, privileged, and out of touch take on politics.
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I’m managing a couple of designers at work and trying really hard to do the opposite of every shitty manager I’ve ever had. It turns out it’s not that hard to be a good manager!
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What is the best prototyping tool these days? I find the feature set in @figma to be really limiting. I also find origami to be overkill for making basic demos quickly.
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The idea of anyone seeing this and being rude to you or your sister is beyond me. Some people suck :(
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He posted a login screen bottom sheet for OpenAI, as far as I can tell he doesn’t work at OpenAI, and even if he did, he’s mock up is just a basic login sheet. I’m not even saying it’s bad, I’m just wondering why anyone would bother posting something so basic?
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I have no idea what any of this means, but “poverty television fonts” is objectively a hilarious thing to say.
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Honestly, with everything going on in the world, the thing that feels the least important to me is the feud between Apple and a weird email app.
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This feels like a weird thing to complain about when you know it's very clearly an X issue. It's not like it's not possible in iOS, they just didn't set it up that way. I think there are plenty of reasons why you'd want to have control over that.
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An ex once said “I think that we will probably break up eventually” and she was so cold and casually about it. I was just like “then what are we even doing?”
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I don’t know why this stuff gets me so worked up, but I just hate the narrative that all teams at big companies are slow and unproductive. Yes, things move shower, but the stakes are higher and the processes are more rigid and often for good reason
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Since that tweet about Google blew up, I just want to say that I am truly grateful for the 3 years I spent there (6 months as a contractor and 2.5 years as a full-time employee). I learned a ton, met awesome people, and did a lot of work I’m proud of.
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This M1 MacBook Air may be the best computer I’ve ever used. Completely silent. I played a game via stadia in Chrome and then ran a graphics benchmark. It barely got warm. Everything feels fast. Apple really made a better computer... it’s fucking crazy.
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There are some cracked folks at Microsoft actually, but you gotta save them before their soul is crushed
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Why isn’t there a great, well supported, easy to use advanced prototyping tool? Like the Figma of prototyping? Prototyping in Figma is extremely limited. Principle is the closest thing, but it’s one guy making it.
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Occasionally you find that one recruiter who treats you like an actual human being even when you don’t get the role. Been talking to one of those right now and I almost cried because they’ve been so helpful.
I don’t want to dox them, but they are at a FAANG company, amazingly.
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I am probably not interested in working at your web3 startup.
I’ve heard so many pitches recently and none of them are compelling.
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@sketch was this icon made in sketch, if so can you release the source file?
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I know these are usually produced at extremely high resolution. If Apple ever asks you for assets they usually want them super blown up
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Sorry for all the depressing tweets, it’s just been kind of a shitty year between job searching, relationship stuff, losing a few close friends for various reasons, family stuff, and some health issues. Really a perfect storm of shit.
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Anyway, Hi, I’m Ben. I’m a designer based in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. DM me if you want to be pals and maybe we can get a drink or something.
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Please shoot many more commercials with Mitch. I don’t own a car or even have a driver’s license, but it’s very important to me that you continue to give this great man work.
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Furniture and lighting are touch but stuff like the classic Duralex Picardie Tumblers are reasonably priced and great quality duralexusa.com/collections/t…
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I’m just gonna start ignoring recruiters who don’t name the product or even what it does in their pitch
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My toxic trait is that I will do literally anything for someone I care about, even if they wouldn’t do the same for me :/
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I think if you use any OS long enough it will be jarring when you switch to another. I find android painful to use. When I worked at Google, none of the designers used Android.
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Shout out to @elvin_not_11 for these @googlechrome dev and beta channel icons. He added texture, stitching, and realistic lighting to the ribbon. It even accounts for the bulge of the raised circle, with the text slightly skewed.
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Installed this TV by myself today including fishing a cable through the wall and installing a pass through outlet.
Yes, I am single and my love language is acts of service. Think of the possibilities.
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When I moved to NYC 10 years ago, nothing seemed too far away, I would take the subway or walk everywhere. Now, going to Williamsburg from Prospect heights seems like a hassle. I’ve become what I hated.
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Just got an email from Google’s overpayment department about recovering $3,500 they somehow overpaid me. I know that person is just doing their job, but seriously, way to rub salt in the wound.
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Lucy, is good and healthy to check out from work for a bit! You’re still young! Don’t burn yourself out!
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What cool NYC companies are hiring designers? I’m kinda tired of working remote and want to have a hybrid work week.
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I feel bad about that, but also I think it’s a sign that these businesses shouldn’t rely solely on one platform.
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Shout out to all of the designers and developers at NYTimes, 538, Washington Post, Apple, and Google for making beautiful interface for tracking election results.
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This looks like such a tedious product. Lots of amazing tech here, but no one ever stopped and asked if it was actually a good idea
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You do realize that the foundations of modern mathematics come from Arab cultures? You are an absolute buffoon.
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I’m losing my fucking mind. The entire point of this fucking country was to escape a monarchy.
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Deleting that tweet and going back to my stance that a UX designer doesn’t need a public take on world events.
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