Nicolaus

@nicolaus

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Every time @sylvaa and I draw animal oracle cards we haven’t seen in the deck before, I like to think that new cards periodically get added to the deck like little magic software updates.

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Is there room for another $60,000 in the deficit to hire a junior graphic designer that understands typography?

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Things that used to take me hours of pacing around a room talking out loud to myself and writing down notes now take minutes thanks to Chat.

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Imagine if you could add a FigJam whiteboard as a new page within a regular Figma file.

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The best part about opening this mini app for the first time is that I wasn’t immediately met with a pop-up drawer asking me to add it to my list of apps. (The problem is that this is the first app I couldnt have added fast enough!)

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Next generation of startups have officially hit the 2010's enterprise web design level of maturity.

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Figma IPO means they’re just building bigger shoulders for the next generation of design tooling to stand on. It’s stability for the design industry to make room for more growth. And hey, they kind of just handed us all the (very janky) keys to build their own replacement.

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@bracky I miss ya. What's going on in the markets right now? What sports can I blindly jump into?

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When traveling, would you rather have guides with every thing-to-do organized by cities, or several things-to-do lists across cities organized by categories?

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Design as a utility. Old notes on building design capacity as an internal agency model with a chargeback system. This unlocked the flexibility for other teams to pursue design independently while still having internal resources at their disposal.

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I read through these about once a year to refresh myself: https://uxdesign.cc/lessons-of-design-75cc0731534

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Americans will really marvel at the walkability of NYC and European cities and then get back in their cars and complain when their city lowers speed limits.

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Feeling v grateful to exist within such a strong global network this morning. NYC was incredible — met up with childhood friends, bumped into global friends, and met some FC friends all in one melting pot of a city.

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GM Starting my first day back in Austin with an atole cortado.

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6/27 /commit A body in motion in NYC stays in motion. Biking and walking through Brooklyn this week has been an absolute joy. 47.33miles and counting on Citi saddles. Tens of thousands more steps. 🧵👇🏻

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My great design AI conspiracy is that web design is going to take a full 360 back to text-based command line interfaces that generate visual elements as needed to support decision making & critical actions. App UI always adapts to the hardware/platform it’s built on so visual interfaces are likely to stay relatively unchanged until hardware does.

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Loyle Carner's 4th LP "hopefully!" find his lyrics and instrumentals more intricate, and personal, than ever with a deeply introspective, not-quite-feel-good 11 tracks that explore themes from fatherhood to unexpected loss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERaQ5z2R3OU&list=RDERaQ5z2R3OU&start_radio=1

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Focaccia and croissants are really having a moment this year, huh

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