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@bence

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your interface is your brand for vol, everything started with a single circular button each subsequent page building on this visual fragment, turning ui into identity memorable products build brand in user flows not just around the product, but through it

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the most referenced app for us with @tybxyz design team right now is candy crush i’ll keep going on about this: not nearly enough consumer products, especially in crypto, use mechanisms from games that consistently hit 1 billion revenue per year they have incentive structures, economies, ux, and expressive ui figured out like no one else, literally all out in public

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lately been finding negative indicators more useful than positive ones in areas you don’t know how to find what the correct course of action is, you can almost always get there by process of elimination; speedrun all the available options, most of which are things you shouldn’t do then, what you’re left with, is the thing you should do

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more people need to systematise their creativity creative block, burnout, the ability to not make 247 is an excuse for being lazy. inspiration is fake. the only way to make something great is through volume. you can literally systematise your creativity just like any other task. sure, the system might have more complex or specific variables to produce with predictability, but once you’ve found what those are, you can pull those levers at will

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recently been super into leveraging physical constraints for ui: how easy or difficult it it to reach an area with your thumb i can imagine you’d be able to go super data-heavy here for your app: average phone screen size, hand and thumb composition, difference between genders, different interface for left and right handed users ultimate form of this would be the ui reshaping itself to the specific body of each user. over time it’d learn from your usage patterns, and use that data to design a version of itself, just for you

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our content coin product era was something else

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we’re in the era of cult aggregation a transfer of high signal output, to a highly targeted, and relatively small, group of people it’s different from audience building: you’re not optimising for untargeted reach or vanity metrics. you’re gathering signal by focusing on high volume output, then creating gravity around yourself and those ideas

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chat boxes as the de facto ai interface pattern got engrained so quickly we didn’t even have space to consider the ideal experience for professional use cases chat histories organised by threads are not ergonomic after a couple messages, no matter if nested in project or a folder. great as a google replacement, terrible as a workspace rarely will the first or main thread lead me where i want to be, or allow to explore options without getting completely lost feels a lot more comfortable to have my process visualised as a flow-chart, diagram, or canvas

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favourite button i’ve made this year (for channel.engineer)

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inflationary fiat assets and their issuing countries have very little incentives for holding and staying despite the many failures of crypto, it managed to distill a clear philosophy of brutal value exchange as the guiding principle for so much of human activity much more coherent financial structures already emerged from this, and the same will happen with governance structures

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working with external agencies is skill most startups are terrible at. from being on both sides of the relationship, i picked up on some things that 10x the value exchange 1. when communicating feedback, you need to delineate between the parts you like and the parts of dislike. most will hyperfocus on a specific thing they feel strongly about (either negative or positive), and let that influence their opinion on the bigger picture. train yourself to pick up nuances in your reaction to things. 2. know what you want as an outcome, but be open to challenging your assumptions. don’t just go with the first idea is in your head. you’re literally paying someone for their outside perspective. utilise it to the max. 3. relationships and their impact compound over time. you might only need external help for a specific thing right now, but thinking of the engagement as a years-long collab will create a environment that’s focused on your long-term success, not just a temporary value exchange.

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omakase software in a world where anyone can build anything, most won’t. if previous consumer behaviour tells us anything, it’s that we value convenience and and others’ taste way more than we think. even in systems designed for flexibility like notion, people buy templates to be able to make anything is too much choice, which is its own kind of friction. most of us don’t want infinite freedom, we want a strong opinion to follow

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meta offering to pay those insane amounts for openai employees (jony ive??) is a great move athletes had a monopoly over being poached at this level for far too long let’s normalise this

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the pace of tech really skews how we view careers was just thinking the other day how aspirational people like yohji and ando are to be in your 80s and making things our careers will be 60+ years long – we need to start moving like it

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stablecoins should be a trojan horse, not the end game they will drive adoption: more wallets, more users, more spent onchain, with most of it being mediated by banks, kyc requirements and trad rails usd-pegged tokens are a great demo to show financial systems are indeed malleable and we can revise them the point isn’t stablecoins, it’s proving the rules can be rewritten

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was creating some flows for app invites, and got me thinking what instances i actually send them anecdotally, they only work when the proposed reward outweighs the embarrassment of sending that invite

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early-ish trans experience in tech is like, i don’t feel comfortable going to events specifically for women just yet but i also don’t feel comfortable going to the average tech event that has a mostly male makeup

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so with both the cmu and mit studies pointing to specific behaviours with ai tools reducing cognition and critical thinking, where does that leave us with daily use? first, let’s be clear what these studies concluded. using ai as a ghostwriter reduces every possible important metric for cognition and output. you’re less creative, remember less, and over time become less sharp. while using ai to challenge what you’ve already made, and build on it, actually improves these metrics baseline, i think what's being revealed is you need to be at the extremes, with either: 1. writing fully without ai tools, using it only to debate your line of thinking as an intellectual partner 2. automating your writing fully, with zero input from you, apart from historical data for training

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vision os laid the foundation for so many things shortly after the vision pro was released, we were exploring interfaces with pangaia for their apps, already leaning into the the spatial design language i think we’ll see a lot more of now feels even more relevant a year later

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the desire to be chronically offline i see bleeding into mainstream culture is a sign of defeatism showing up every day is directly correlated with the desire to make great things go make some money first on the internet

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