design, engineering, media, interaction. at @browsercompany! previously: tesla, meta, @stanford
New York, NY
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We are launching Live Calendars today!
If you're in meetings all day, Arc's got your back
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We’ve made a small but mighty improvement to the ergonomics of Arc today ☝🏻
You can now move the window around using the built-in header of the site you're on
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I’m excited to announce that I’m leading the UI design team at Tesla. Our group is responsible for the user interface of all vehicles, energy products, and apps. Things are looking up!
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So excited to introduce Peek to @ArcInternet today 👁👁
Peek seems small, but it makes my browsing better dozens of times a day. It's a lighter way of moving around the web.
Someone sends me something, I can check it out, get what I need, and move on. No tabs required.
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We are launching Live Folders today!
These folders are like little apps for your sidebar, bringing you what you need, when you need it
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We just released an update to Little Arc! This version makes it into a proper quicklook for links across macOS
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Really proud of the interaction work we're scratching at in today's @browsercompany update. The new video player uses a super-charged windowing system we built on top of macOS.
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When you point your phone at the New Yorker on the dining room table and it turns into a bustling metropolis tho
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I put together a mobile-friendly interface for the top COVID datasets. It’s a great way to check on your friends and family in other states and counties to see how things are doing. ronaviz.com
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The new skills gallery in @diabrowser gives you access to the expertise of a very talented community of creators.
Here's how it works:
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Adam has done absolutely top-class work on all of our tab and drag-and-drop interactions in Dia. update to try the latest!
We've made Drag & Drop feel super fluid across Dia, including the sidebar. Dia uses a new framework for achieving highly granular drag interactions. Tabs stay centered while dragging, allowing for imprecise mouse movement, and fluidly pop into a window preview when moved outside.
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Grateful to be returning to software engineering today. I'll be building the user interface for vehicles at Tesla. Coming to a garage near you!
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I’m joining the @browsercompany. I’ve spent the past two months building something with the team, and I don’t want to stop! Here is a photo of me cheersing a globe in commemoration of the moment.
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I feel super lucky to be a part of this project, working with people who are challenging what’s possible in our industry
I just try and make it look good
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I used Dia to help me understand this shader code and honestly... product market fit
Finally: we’re dialing-up the craft details to make you feel something when using Dia. Alpha version we tested was rough by design. Brittle, minimal, and stripped down to prove one thing: utility.
Now that we’re gearing up to ship for real we're bringing in Browser Co flair!
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But it's really hard to make progress here. This project started with a prototype from @adamstern_ and @dustin in july 2021 - look at that stack!
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We tried to build this without changing the "shape" of arc. Got a little fancy trying to always match the color of the page. And it's nice to take some of the pressure off the sidebar to do EVERYTHING in the app
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Positioning the window was a big pain point in Arc….
We love how content-focused our window is, but forcing you to find a tiny sliver of UI to move it around was BAD
People quoted "Fitt's law" at us 🥴. They had a point.
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We're still working hard to make this feel as good as we can. Replace chrome's swipe-to-go-back gesture is a PERSONAL goal of mine.
We're almost there!
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First came squares. Then rounded rects. Then squircles. And on the 7th day, Swarm created squircle rounded hexagons
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We hope it's helpful for people who want /actually/ pinned extensions. Also quicker access to split controls!
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I've never seen tan(θ) visualized with the unit circle before and now i get why it's called tangent
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But what if it's TOO easy? Internally we found that people were taking meetings in a Peek window. It looks cool, but one wrong click and you drop from the call. So now we make extra sure you're ready to sign off
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I've been trying out an iMac Pro for FCPX editing and have been really disappointed with the performance. This review confirms it: in many cases, the iMac Pro performs WORSE than this year's iMac: piped.video/watch?v=nLF3g2zF…
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Fresh open source from @chpwn: an ingenious way of applying mesh transforms to existing views github.com/facebookexperimen…
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I’ve been using this prototype internally @diabrowser and it’s lowkey addictive. Opens up the ability to manipulate sites, move data between tabs, fill anything out, all on command.
Feels illegal but maybe that’s why I like it
Last week @diabrowser launched in beta
Here's a preview of what's next
A new prototype we're testing & thinking about
Should we add this to Dia?
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This is part of a long journey for us at @browsercompany, trying to challenge the one-size-fits-all approach of today's browsers.
Not all tabs are created equal. And maybe not everything deserves to be a tab!
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As browser makers, part of our job is to seamlessly direct input between the browser and the thing you’re browsing 🔀
In this case, we needed to make sure we didn’t trample any of the other drag interactions you’d want to take in the site header (like selecting text)
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Some people love it! Some people hate it! Try it and find out which one you are. Shoutout to @pter on the design and to @alexandracoding and @thatsthemax for all the support making this thing
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Love seeing the zaps today. Don't limit your ambition to the X though. Here's my before + after 🪄
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I'm tired of rummaging around all these apps. looking at all these menus and filters and usernames and columns and cursors and clicking and waiting and sorting and clicking and waiting and looking for that thing on that tab
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Peek makes the internet a easier to navigate
If you get off course, it's a subtle reminder to get back to what you were doing
@lafillemouen calls it the anti-rabbit hole feature
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So we thought it'd be cool if you could just use the big top bar that's already there...
the header that sits at the top of all your favorite sites!
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We want Arc to shape itself around the tools you use. For me, it's a godsend. I can be lazy and organized at the same time
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Freddy is elite. Swift on windows is… actually working really well!
Today’s release of Arc on Windows brings over a highly requested feature from macOS: GitHub Live Folders! Now you’ll be able to enjoy the brilliant work of @connor and @codeblue87 wherever you use Arc. Enjoy :)
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I've decided to move on from Tesla. Very grateful for the opportunity to work with so many talented and passionate people! It was a WILD ride. I won't soon forget it.
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Darin Fisher, the original architect of Chrome, is joining browser co browsercompany.substack.com/…
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In today’s update, we do it with drags. It’s a small step towards making the web feel a bit more at home on your desktop. If we’re serious about the “internet computer” thing, the apps you use in Arc need to feel just as good as the native apps next door
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To try it out, pin gcal to your favorites. Arc will do the rest!
Big shout out to @Connor and @vivekgalatage for all the work they put into this one. Also happy to report that windows is coming SOON (along with support for other cals).
Try it out and let us know what you think!
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We are going live with GitHub today, and have some great stuff in the pipeline. But we're really focused on how we can open up this surface of Arc to everyone. That's when things get exciting
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The trackpads shipping on the modern macbooks are incredible - they deserve our time and attention! Good interactive software shouldn't stop at the smartphone.
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New "De Blasio" option in Uber tells you how long rides will take if NYC mayor's legislation passes. Only Uber.
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The future of cars can be whatever we want it to be. We are looking for someone to help us shape that future - someone with passion, dedication, and the drive to make something great.
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I'm eager to keep chasing this line of inquiry - how could we make macOS feel just as fluid as iOS? What core primitives do we need to build? How could we blur the lines between web and native even more?
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Ah, yeah. We do cache the colors so it’ll be there the next time. But our default “empty” color should probably reflect light/dark mode 💡
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This is so fun
pull rope to scroll on visionOS
dreaming up new spatial ideas with @chandlercsimon…
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In particular, we are looking for product designers with:
• deep experience in interaction, prototyping, and complex design systems
• ambitious ideas
• a track record of developing new interaction models for different form factors and interfaces. mobile counts!
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We brought the dynamics and animation of Peek to the window layer of the mac. You can swipe to dismiss them, and pop open as many as you want
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Facebook now presents a drop-down for calling your representative after you like one of their posts. (Preach Carolyn)
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You can pinch open the video player, fling it around, and move it from screen to screen. It even works on top of other fullscreen apps. You can drag it from anywhere - it doesn't have any of the stiffness of traditional OS windows.
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Had some amazing moments but high level it feels like they trivialized one of the biggest driving forces of the show with a pat, predictable, and unsatisfying finish
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What we're shipping today is a lot simpler - we only peek a link when you navigate away from a site you've pinned
That feels like the right place to start - making it a teeny bit harder to get distracted and a ton easier to get back to what's important.
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I can also confirm this reviewer's findings: the CPU and GPU are seriously underutilized when dealing with any common formats, like H264 or ProRes. The Pro only starts to show an advantage when dealing with H265/Raw/8k formats.
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We believe the result will be worth it - and we will keep at it. Shout-out to the whole crew who worked on this: @adamstern_, @dustin, @nateparrott, @alexandracoding, @p_galisz. So much amazing design + engineering work.
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After three and a half years, tomorrow will be my last day at Facebook. It was such a joy. facebook.com/bcunning/posts/…
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swipe-to-reply marked a new era in my groupchat.
feel super lucky for the chance to work with @charliedeets !
nice! career highlight of mine working w/ @charliedeets when he came up with swipe to reply.
one of those moments where it was immediately clear someone had invented a better way. we've all benefitted from using it every day since :)
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Making this video brought me from New York, to Miami, to Los Angeles, and back again. It was amazing working with Fanjoy, talking with their clients, and documenting all the love and care that goes into making their products. My biggest video project yet. See for yourself😄
At Fanjoy, our goal is your happiness. A lot of hard work goes into creating a collection with your favorite people. See for yourself: WELCOME TO FANJOY
piped.video/Wa6Tg6ArIHI
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People are sharing Instant Articles 30% more on average, click on them 20% more, and abandon them 70% less
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Anyway, super excited to keep pushing on this. If you're on Arc, play with the video player on your macbook and let me know what you think!
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Browsers are beasts, and it takes a ton of effort (and heart) to get everything right. We know there's still a long way to go. In the meantime, please check it out and let us know what you think!
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Wonderfully thoughtful writeup from Charlie on how we designed Dia.
Read it here: browsercompany.substack.com/…
I wrote about the design of Dia.
- How did the @browsercompany design team rally around the idea to make a ‘boring’ web browser?
- What purpose does the design serve?
- Where is Dia’s design going next?
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I turned CEO @chrisvaccarino into a vlog star for Jake Paul’s New York pop-up shop piped.video/watch?v=wNiycENt…
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