@alanmclean

I never saved anything for the swim back. Designing at @googledeepmind

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Joined August 2007
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Tom Warren
@tomwarrenOct 26
Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees. This latest exit offer is available to far more employees than the previous retirement one, and comes just months after Microsoft laid off 4,800 employees. Full details here 👇theverge.com/tech/1018666/mi…

Microsoft offers buyouts to 60,000 employees

Microsoft’s buyout offer is reaching more of its 223,000 or so employees.

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Ben Blumenrose
@benblumenroseOct 6
“Is this worth my time? Does this bring me productivity, joy, or calm? I think these are the questions design has always helped answer.” Thank you to @joellewenstein and the @AnthropicAI design team for opening up about how you work, the challenges you face, and how you see the role of design evolving on product teams. Our latest AI in Design case study with Anthropic below! 00:00 Design at AI speed
 01:43 The precursor to Claude Design
 03:28 From user researcher to builder
 05:09 Treating code as clay
 08:09 A new rhythm for collaboration
 09:22 What’s worth building
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Oliver Ye@_isomerismSep 25
the moat is literally just caring about your work and being proud of your output and holy shit it does not seem to apply to 99% of people
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Waiting for the web traffic graphs for recipe and health sites…
Sam Rose
@samwhooJan 3
StackOverflow graph of questions asked per month. Holy shit.
A graph of stack overflow questions asked per month. It’s almost a perfect curve starting at 0 on the far left, in 2009, peaking in the middle in 2017 at about 200,000, then dropping down to near 0 today on the right.

ALT A graph of stack overflow questions asked per month. It’s almost a perfect curve starting at 0 on the far left, in 2009, peaking in the middle in 2017 at about 200,000, then dropping down to near 0 today on the right.

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Don’t miss @giorgialupi’s painterly guest essay on living with long Covid for 3+ years: nyti.ms/3tgcr2u Includes a visualization of what she’s experienced on every single day that — for those of us who have fully recovered from our bouts with Covid — feels staggering.

Opinion | 1,374 Days: My Life With Long Covid (Gift Article)

Chronic illness has a way of picking apart your mind and breaking your heart.

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Joe Nash
@heyjoenash9 Aug 2023
Replying to @janthonylong
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I recall at Fitbit we heard very similar exec comments when the Apple Watch came out. On the design team most of us knew it was just a matter of time.
Aakash Gupta
@aakashgupta9 Jun 2023
Replying to @aakashgupta
5. Zuck doesn’t think Apple unveiled any new tech: He boiled down the differences to design choices. He doesn’t think Apple invented any new tech Meta hadn’t considered.
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Newsletter Drop💌 Last year, we made over one-hundred animations of the most frequently used emoji; however, I didn’t blog about it on the ole bloggy letter … so did it really happen? UH, YES. IT DID. And guess what? We never stopped making more! jenniferdaniel.substack.com/…
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Eric Topol
@EricTopol30 Dec 2022
Among the best @nytgraphics for 2022, this one for #LongCovid really stands out nytimes.com/interactive/2022… @joshkellerjosh

How Long Covid Exhausts the Body (Published 2022)

A picture is emerging of the toll long Covid takes inside the body and why it can be so debilitating.

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✨Illustrators!✨ @Tidepool_org is hiring an illustrator to work on an incredible and honestly life changing product for diabetics. Get in touch with @mcfried7 here: linkedin.com/posts/maya-frie…

#designer #hiring | Maya Friedman

Tidepool is hiring a visual designer / illustrator to help illustrate a multi-step guide for the set-up of an insulin pump. Know anyone exceptional? Send my way! #designer #hiring

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🆕 ✍️ This month, Google, Twitter, and Apple fully rolled out new 37 emoji into your pocket. Among them includes a notable addition that fixes a bug that has plagued our keyboards for half a decade 🫢🤭 jenniferdaniel.substack.com/…
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I had an overwhelming response to this tweet! Thank you everyone. I also seem to have been deluged by bot accounts that look for the “job” keyword and spam via open DMs. I’ll be getting back to you all as soon as I can 🧘‍♂️
Alan McLean@alanmclean4 Mar 2022
I'm looking to hire an illustrator for a pretty cool project: To draw a library of items including food, sporty stuff, and abstractions of bodies (not portraits of people, think more cellular) Looking for a graphic-stylized artists! Please reply or DM with portfolios! 🙏
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I'm looking to hire an illustrator for a pretty cool project: To draw a library of items including food, sporty stuff, and abstractions of bodies (not portraits of people, think more cellular) Looking for a graphic-stylized artists! Please reply or DM with portfolios! 🙏
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Emily Xie
@emilyxxie27 Feb 2022
Gm! I've been working on a new generative art series. 🎨💻 #generativeart #javascript #p5js
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Wordle 205 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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bet on people who can make amazing work with no clear process over people with a rigorous process that produces average work
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This troubling story has some truly remarkable graphics by @blueshirt nytimes.com/interactive/2021…

Rising From the Antarctic, a Climate Alarm (Published 2021)

Wilder winds are altering crucial currents. The sea is releasing ancient carbon dioxide. Vast ice shelves are melting from below. See why the experts are increasingly alarmed.

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My impressive and inspiring colleague @lavine_jesse wrote a compelling article on why he, another type 1 diabetic, is working @Levels. levelshealth.com/blog/im-a-t…

I’m a Type 1 diabetes educator—here’s why I think working at Levels is the best way I can impact...

Levels Operations Specialist Jesse Lavine on why he believes that improving metabolic health for the broader population will benefit the Type 1 community.

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Designers: Come help us build something with emotional intelligence @Levels ✨
Ben Grynol@bgrynol15 Nov 2021
We're looking for a designer to join the team at @Levels The next designer we bring on will work with @alanmclean to shape the brand, design systems, and product experience We recorded a podcast to chat about the way design ties into the mission we’re on lnkd.in/eA2URjN6

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