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While interviewing at Stripe: “We have a strong documentation culture”
Day 1 at Stripe…
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Hi internet 👋
This is my first week on the design team @stripe 🎉 Send me your remote on boarding tips!
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Don't get me wrong – this is a pretty tough one to design for, but:
1) The illustrations ARENT EVEN THE SAME STYLE,
2) There must be a more elegant way than to scream "PROMO" "PROMO" "PROMO" everywhere.
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Designers, not sure if there's a place for you at startups—I've made it easy for you.
The answer is: YES.
Even B2B startups are hiring designers often as their first 10 hires. (thx @lennysan for this awesome chart)
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what a fun night with hosting @diegozaks @jenny_wen @alhyunsoo — everyone spewing life (and design) wisdom so hard
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🎉 the news is out! I’m joining @contrarycapital to help find the best talents in the world and support the companies they build.
Going from tech to VC is a big jump, but here’s why 1/
We’re excited to share that @ryanlyma has joined as our very first designer from Stripe! Ryan brings with him extensive design experience and we’re excited to see many of our initiatives come to life under Ryan’s leadership.
contrary.com/blog/welcoming-…
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Got to work on some really fun icon illustrations for @contrarycapital's VP program recently.
Sometimes its so nice to JUST be a p̶r̶o̶d̶u̶c̶t̶ ✨designer✨
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So… guess I should to share the news that I left Stripe’s design team a week ago ✌️
After a lot of contemplating on how I wanna grow my career, I came to realize it’s time to try my hand at some really different than your big tech design teams.
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Right before #Config2024 , I gave a fun lil' lighting talk at a happy hour about Designer Archetypes... from the perspective of a Pokémon Trainer.
😙 thought it would be fun to share here ...
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The most savage emoji @browsercompany
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It’s happening! #Config
✅ Badge
✅ Config Common
✅ Dua Lipa blasting in the background
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Evaluating startups is often the most difficult part of a job search.
Today, we're launching ✨Contrary Research @Contrary_Res ✨ a new hub for understanding any private tech companies, whether u're thinking of joining or investing.
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🥹 thanks for coming to my first @contrary design week panel on “Scaling Your Team as an Early Designer”
Special shout out to my panelists @davidhoang @maroun @angelaliu22 for sharing all the things u learned
👇here are some takeaways
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Config Common is the block party to any designer’s heart — #Config2025
ps. u can always count on @yescynfria for a killer #confit
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The second print volume of #FoundationsAndFrontiers is out! Feat. 3 of @annasofialesiv's essays on satellites, modern rocketry, and the tech innovation required to one day colonize Mars.
DM me if you'd like a copy!
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Spencer Althouse
Wrapping up another week with 5 cool companies who are hiring for Design / UX roles👇:
1️⃣ @Replit (Series B)
@davidhoang is hiring for a lead UX researcher and a research co-ordinator.
📍 SF / NYC preferred
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@figma #Config2023 is happening this week, here are 5 sessions that I'm especially excited for:
1/ AI & Future of Design
AI is on everyone's mind, & I can't wait to hear from @diagram 's team on how they are empowering designers to go further, faster with new AI tools
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Meeting all the internet celebz.
Capping off a really fun, eventful design week at @contrary NYC. 🙏 grateful for you y’all @chloepark @davidhoang
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Today is my last day Lyft.
🚗🚙🚲💨
The last 2 yrs have been such a crazy wild with many highs and lows. Here’s what I’ve learned looking back... 1/
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Super pumped about Contrary’s NYC design week program!
From learning what it’s like to join a hyper growth start up, to how to run your first design crit, there’s something for everyone
👇 check them out here:
We’re thrilled to announce that we will be hosting an in-person Design Week event series at Contrary NYC starting May 16th — join us throughout the week to mingle and learn from leading designers in tech.
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Hello world 👋 — meet the first “Foundations & Frontiers” zine by @annasofialesiv and yours truly
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...and that's a wrap!
After 3 incredible years, this week marked my last at Contrary. So grateful for the amazing HQ team and I'm really proud of what our lil' design team accomplished with Contrary Research, Foundations, Frontiers, and many more projects. 1/2
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What an amazing group of people! Can’t wait to be hosting the next one 🥂
I can’t believe the incredible group of design execs and angel investors @contrary @Jenyangwong @ryanlyma put together. What an incredible night of amazing conversations and food.
ALT Group of design execs and angels
ALT Pasta
ALT Contrary menu
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Contrary threw a little birthday party today.
I’m still constantly in awe at how much Contrary has accomplished in just 5 yrs. Couldnt be more proud to part of this team. 🥂 to another 5!
Today, Contrary turns five. @etarczynski wrote some reflections on the milestone, and what's ahead.
We're incredibly grateful for the partnership that our founders, community, and LPs have entrusted us with.
contrary.com/blog/five-years…
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📡 Big updates coming to Radar! Excited to share some of the work I’ve been doing to help businesses better measure and fight fraud at Stripe
Send me a dm if u got any feedback!
We’ve overhauled the Stripe Radar dashboard. It’s now easier to analyze and understand the state of fraud for your business—and quickly take action. dashboard.stripe.com/radar
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Build a UI design system and component library for any project. 👏 ANY 👏
Its a misconception that you should only do so for big projects, or once everything is in a *final* state.
Having a system allows you to design, test, and iterate at scale.
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PSA for any designers interviewing: your presentation shouldn’t be a step-by-step retelling of how u did the work. It is a vehicle to demonstrate your ability as a storyteller.
Just like any good story, here are specific notes you wanna hit 🧵
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I honestly know so little about the payment space 😧 im coming into this 70% over-the l-moon excited and 30% scared, but in a good way.
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Say what you will about SF.
There are *many* moments that remind me of the magic of living in San Francisco. Riding in my first @Waymo is one of them.
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WHO’S IN TOWN FOR #Config ???
I’m throwing a little pre-config design happy hour with lightning talks featuring some awesome design peeps from Hex, Faire, Replit and Glean.
Link to rsvp in 👇
Designers, start your Config week in SF at Pixel Punch, a curated event of design lightning talks and drinks with senior design leads from Replit, Hex, Faire, and Glean.
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Welcome to the new Contrary Research!
We spend months rebuilding every pixel of @Contrary_Res from ground up to make it the best place to anyone to start their research into any private company.
When Contrary Research launched in 2022, even we didn’t appreciate how much demand there was for private markets research.
Since then we've grown to 50K+ subs covering companies like Anduril, Ramp, Figma, and more.
Today, we're unveiling the new look for Contrary Research:
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After a very, very, very ,very long wait… I can finally share some of the proudest work I’ve done @lyft. Shared ride is coming back with more options to have u save 💵 , and lock in a better route 📍
theverge.com/2021/7/15/22578…
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This is a hill I’m willing to die on — #Hongkong is still one of the best places on earth for NYE fireworks
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Feels so lucky that i got to watch two of the beach volley quarter finals in paris last week.
✨ definitely one of the most iconic venues for the oympics
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I’m a product designer…
The product this weekend:
(A small brick counter top for an Ooni pizza oven)
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4⃣ @AutoblocksAI
Autoblocks build dev-tools to monitor and improve AI features, and they are hiring for a founding product designer.
📍 Remote / hybrid
careers.autoblocks.ai/
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Config is just 1️⃣4️⃣ days away! And I am really stoked to kick it off on June 25 with a happy hour featuring some awesome design lighting talks with @contrary's friends from across the industry.
lu.ma/PixelPunch
👇 See who’s gonna be there
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White-boarding exercise seems like the most daunting part of a product design interview.
Here are 5 tips on how to nail it:
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It's been so long since I've written some legit code... the last time i did, the internet was fighting over the color of a dress
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Who's hiring for design?
Gonna start a habit of threading some exciting design opportunities every week.
Here are 5 open roles to check out 👇
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Look ma, I gave a talk about pokémon today for work ✌️
Was a blast kicking-off a week of design festivities at Pixel Punch tonight!
Pixel Punch lightning talks have started!
@ryanlyma is presenting about design & Pokemon of course.
Excited to be kicking off Config week with so many great designers.
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I’ve never really had to build a design systems from scratch before. 🫣 so…twitter fwends:
What are the best advice / resources out there for a crash course?
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Took last week off to hang out at #Config2023, but the job thread🧵 is back, and we got some fun ones this week – 🤝🛍️🌊🪪🗣️
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@skuwamoto and Jonathan Gay talking about Flash just brings back memories of #Neopets 🥹🥹🥹
#Config2024
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Welcome to the new Foundations & Frontiers—the essay series on the past and future of industry-defining technologies by @annasofialesiv.
contrary.com/foundations-and…
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So if u or your company use @stripe to move money... let’s talk 📩💌
I wanna learn more about how you do it
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So honored tn to share the stage w/ @IDEANEU @EClubNEU & other Mosaic orgs @Northeastern #StudentEntrepreneurship
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If you haven’t been following @annasofialesiv’s writing, you’ve been missing out.
In this pieces about Mars Colonization, she breaks down the concrete steps required and how our progress currently measures up to a mission to Mars. 🚀🪐
Settling Mars will involve compressing all our technical and industrial capabilities into their most compact forms — a life starter pack for a planet millions of miles away.
For 2024’s first piece, I wrote an overview of what it would take to do that.
contrary.com/foundations-and…
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Grateful for fwends who take new profile photos for you and send you the best outtakes. ty @victoriaromulo_ 💖
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🤔 I think I just saved an acre worth of trees using @figmadesign FigJam instead of physical post-it’s in a design sprint.
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Totally blow away by the many attendees at the Generative AI hackathon!
Congrats to @brandonthezhang and @RishiGowda19 for running an incredible event this weekend
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POV: You're in some old Figma file trying to figure out which shade of blue to use for @contrarycapital 's design system. 🤦♂️
Alright, you're coming on a journey with me to fix this.
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All introvert designers be like…
the morning after #Config2023
ALT A skeleton in a hotel bed surrounded by Figma’s Config conference swag. It is wearing a hot pink Apple Watch and has Jen Yee’s conference badge around its neck.
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Still so very grateful for the 1+ year I got to spend at Stripe and the amazing people I got to work with.
For now, I’m just gonna enjoy a few weeks of funemployment in 📍 London 🇬🇧
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Whether you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, or an ambitious operator — @contrary’s venture partner program is one of the best way to learn about building and evaluating startups hands-on.
VP application is open until Sep 15.
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Lastly, we are excited to welcome @WarronBebster to give us some insight into how AI has changed their users’ relationship with @Replit , and @ryngonzalez to share her experience at @DoorDash and the importance of Design Engineers at early stage startups.
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aaannnnd that’s a wrap. ✨
The most special thing about #config25 isn’t the talks (they’re great!!) but the relationships u get to rekindle. It’s the one time a year where I recharge the “ahh, you belong here” battery.
Time to sleep and hermit ✌️
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I’ve been so jazzed about the @NASAWebb today… so my boyfriend decided to call me a 👨🚀 space cadet
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What's next? I'm gonna take the summer off to travel, do some creative projects and play with some new design tools!
While I plan my next adventure, I'd love to connect with startups (especially travel ones—I'm a travel nerd at heart). DMs open! 2/2
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Honestly this is such a stellar team of amazing people.
🚨 if you’re looking to join a growing start up doing some incredible work in AgTech
And since bringing on Ali Aas (aas.design 😍), now’s the right time to scale our capacity for amazing design engineering.
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Huge props to the masterminds behind this herculean effort @kwharrison13 @InvestiAnalyst & @Jenyangwong for keeping us on track. And we're so excited to welcome @borrowed_ideas to Contrary to lead Research.
a little bts from the many, many zoom meetings that made this happen
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A pretty charged take on the future of battery tech (🥁 if you will 😉) by @annasofialesiv
Many forget that advancements in battery tech are what made our world of portable and powerful electronic devices possible in the first place. That’s why this week on Foundations & Frontiers, we’re investigating the frontier of battery tech!
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For whatever reason, if you have a break in your career, take a sabbatical to recharge (if that’s an option.)
I don’t think I’ve spoken to anyone who regretted doing that.
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where are the tweets about building trust? lately I’ve been learning thru lots of trial and error.
few that worked tho 1/ admit your insecurities and vulnerability (in a safe space). it instantly felt like a break thru in the relationship. ⚡️
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I had 50% off unlimited Eats order for two week. It worked with pick up orders so my roommate and I ate like kings for two weeks straight.
And that was last year. 🤯
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"Moore's law no more"
I had a lot of fun designing the graphics for @annasofialesiv 's new piece on the future of Chips, when chips no longer double in power or decrease in manufacturing cost over time.
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Congrats to the @AryeoHQ team! And really proud that contrary had a small part to play in your success! 🚀
.@Zillow Acquires @AryeoHQ!
4 years ago, we met the team at Aryeo. @branickweix, Matt, and Brendan had a vision to eat the real estate data stack starting at the source: photography.
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Can't be more excited about this investments in @oneschema_co, cofounded by @ChristinaG325 from our fellowship community.
Contrary is about supporting founders through their entire career, and we're stoked to have played a small part in Christina's – Congrats!
The world will always run on spreadsheets.
@oneschema_co is making CSV data effortlessly manageable, so we're excited to invest in their $6.3M seed alongside @generalcatalyst, @sequoia, @ycombinator, and @eladgil.
Read the story here: contrary.com/blog/investing-…
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