we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)
museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go
.@_lhermann shared an absolute masterclass on @stagetimerio in our interview last year, and it's now available as a full YouTube video 👀 Check it out here: youtu.be/8uXz9qpgYSg
Weekly design work! This week at Relevance AI I focused on a more engaging start screen for Relevance Chat 👀
Here's my new painting video, a portrait painted over the last few weeks 🎨
Weekly design work post! This past week at @RelevanceAI_ I designed the start screen for our slides product, going from a minimal text input to a rich drawer of options and parameters to set and tweak 🎨 Here's the before and after:
This week's DrawKit update focuses on the editor! I have a simple, bare-bones first version working, with a single test illustration, and it's very fun clicking around already 🥳
Full details of this week's updates here: www.drawkit.com/post/buildi...
Full YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc-...
This week's Milestones video features Camille, co-founder of Rosie Lou, a sustainable greeting card and stationary company!
She shares everything from product research, suppliers, first customers, first markets, and loads more 👀
I'm thinking of sharing regular in-progress design work each week from my work at Relevance AI 🤓 This week projects:
- Queuing messages in the chat app
- A nice visual landing for the Slides agent
- Adding integrations to the chat app, with a fun animated Gameboy cartridge
Minimal blog layout titled "Building DrawKit #4: It's alive!" with navigation bar, hero illustration preview, date/read-time, and body text on pale background.
Lots of progress on @UseDrawKit over the last 2 weeks 🤓
User auth, Supabase, Render, Directus, dashboard page, and some fun extra things.
Check it out: www.drawkit.com/post/buildi...
This week's @milestones_so interview is with Cai, founder of Soy Street. We talk about her journey from lawyer to a full-time fashion illustrator, working with brands like Hermès, BVLGARI, Prada, Dior, and so many more 🖌️
Full video: youtu.be/Oj34FkS5Vgw...
.@reweb_so is one of the coolest design/dev tools I've seen recently, combining Cursor, Webflow, Tailwind, Figma, & more
Last year I talked with co-founder @mattiapomelli about his journey building it: challenges, successes, and future plans
🎥 Full vid: youtu.be/AkKHI5ikvew...
Setting a Cursor rule to swap any instance of "I can see the issue now!" to "lemme jus try something wild real quick"
Instagram finally broke out of their 3 column, small width desktop layout!
For everyone craving a slop-free, ad-free, influencer-free, algorithm-free social network, just reminding that @retrodotapp is wonderful!
Here's this week's DrawKit update! Finally spent time designing 🕺
🔗 The post: www.drawkit.com/post/buildi...
Here's my conversation with the very inspiring Riniapple from last year 🥳 We talk YouTube, illustration, creating webcomics, and the relationship between creative expression and the comic/publishing industry.
🎥 Full video here: youtu.be/tOksJINwwqw...
The AI apps I'm using daily:
- Granola
- Wispr Flow
- Cursor
Importantly, they all extend what I can already do. They're like the align tools in Figma; I could do it manually, but these speed up existing ability.
I wish iPhones had an option to lock the screen.
I'm tired of accidentally skipping podcasts/dismissing notifications/hanging up on someone/blasting the volume whenever I grab my phone out of my pocket.
Here's a rough idea I came up with that could work.
God I love @hankgreen 👏 youtu.be/Vz0oQ0v0W10...
When I was a kid, I saw diversity all over the media I consumed because we all understood it was a good thing. Now suddenly any display of diversity is considered dangerous. Wonder why.
Here's this week's DrawKit progress update. It was a bit of a waste of a week, due to some crazy bandwidth problems 🥲
www.drawkit.com/post/buildi...
I think the most important question we’ll need to ask ourselves as builders in the new AI age is no longer "is it possible for me to build this?" and instead "is it responsible for me to build this?"
We're squarely in the "...they didn't stop to think if they should” era.
I have beheld the orange telephone with mine own eyes, and I find it pleasing.
One of the most underrated things about @linear is they make it very hard to stuff up. The amount of times I've accidentally closed something or my page has refreshed, while writing a super long comment/ticket, only to find it waiting safely for me when I return is incredible 👏
🎥 Full video: youtu.be/sCDTtEejn6g...
@antoineminoux.bsky.social is an incredibly talented founder, building both getfernand.com/ and improvmx.com/ while working at Yelp. We chatted about his process behind building ImprovMX, the delight he aims for with Fernand, and so much more in the new Milestones video.
Link below 👇
Ooh DJI getting in on the tiny magnetic camera market 👀 this is very tempting...
One of my favourite ways to unwind each evening is portrait painting, and I've started a "paint with me" series, perfect for something relaxing in the background.
I really enjoyed the colours in this, and aiming for blocky shapes.
youtu.be/5kkXV3rLA5Y...
It's taken me a long time to get the Milestones YouTube videos format/thumbnail/title to a place I'm happy, and I think I'm finally there.
Here's the first vid with the new format, featuring the amazing Louis & AudioPen from our interview last year.
youtu.be/vQvIAkVbRAs...
