Head of product design @Ashbyhq. Founding designer backed by Accel, Max Levchin. Enjoys playing poker and eating chips, though not particularly good at either.
Calgary/Vancouver, Canada
Joined January 2010
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Software Designers are translators. We translate what humans want into what machines can do. The translation is the interface.
So what happens to translators when both parties speak English?
Analysts still look at gross margins as an important SaaS metric - but with LLMs won’t they get worse, while operating margins significantly improve?
AKA won’t software businesses use more LLM calls and replace headcount as a result?
3. Sweat the details. I want to know why you chose to put a button there, and how it helped your users get their jobs done better. "Because this is the industry standard" is not a good reason.
Most portfolios show "here was the design" and leave it at that.
Grit doesn’t matter.
Whether you continue to work at something depends on how badly you want it minus what effort it costs you.
If you want to succeed, just increase how badly you want it and you’ll always keep going.
A great way to level up: every time you meet with your boss or someone else who changes the trajectory of your work for the better, think - how could I have caught that or have come up with it myself?
What folks are missing with Gemini 3 is that it’s the first model with taste. It’s not just another, slightly smarter model. This has far reaching implications I think
So many designers in interviews keep saying what they did. Shockingly few explain why, and fewer still have good rationale when probed.
For the new product / UX design grads, there’s no longer an excuse to not have real products in your portfolios.
Have no work experience? Don’t build a figma prototype. Use @cursor_ai @vercel and Claude sonnet 3.5 and build the real thing. That will impress employers (like me)
Whoa. I've never coded before, and I built this stock tracker in a weekend. stock-tracker-sage.vercel.ap…
Tells you what would have happened if you didn't sell that stock, for fomo :). Real stock prices via an API call.
Wild. Claude 3.5 Sonnet + @cursor_ai + @nextjs + @vercel .
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All design outcomes come through a mix of decisions and luck. I was working on a travel product when covid hit.
But - our natural bias is to associate bad outcomes with bad luck, and good outcomes with good luck.
So cool to be mentioned by a legend in your industry!
"We're all learning. There is no perfect designer, there is no perfect design work… [The designers] who accelerate their abilities the quickest are the ones who will, given the same amount of time, become the most skilled designers."— @Chkrlee
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