I design and build digital products with particular care for interaction, motion, and craft.
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who do i look to for great digital storytelling in the saas space? i think where there are real world interactions (NFC, credit cards, etc.) it's easy to imagine how to tell those stories in design that really breaks out. but i feel like i have a mental block for someone doing this well when the interactions have no real world implementation.
i feel like i need to see someone do this to unlock a new part of my brain.
I made this in about 9 hours. And most of that time was spent putting little touches on things and backtracking original ideas as operator needs started to become clearer.
Having good taste, a product mindset, and actually caring about what you put out into the world is the super power to have when you can use LLMs and strong judgement to make product determinations.
Made this one inspired by @SeaMachines, with the vessel layer styled after their STORMRUNNER autonomous surface vessel: sea-machines.vercel.app/
One thing I did not prioritize here was mobile view. I don’t think anyone will be doing this from a phone. But maybe that isn’t the point?
Right now, interaction starts at the vessel and immediately leads to the drawer.
This takes the user from the vessel, to the drawer, to the map, and back to the drawer for route planning.
I think a better interaction for this might start with and remain at the vessel, with the full-on mission overview aspect living in the drawer.
This way, the user is doing everything around their main focal point.
We really need to get back outside. Like… we need the economy to heal. Everyone wants to get back outside. I love software. I love building. AI is cool AF.
But there’s no reason to talk to an AI about what you do, what you like, etc. just for that AI to suggest a connection.
Go outside. See someone you think is beautiful and possibly fun to hang with and say hi.
Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn’t. Maybe it’s just a friend.
Why are we treating this as some sort of inefficiency that needs an ai solution as opposed to embracing the realities of being a human.
So, love this perspective and absolutely agree with the approach here.
And I love the way that “junior” might be the wrong framing for many people who are skilled problem solvers who don’t have the social backing.
I’ve had people with many more years experience than me not understand how I just go from idea to thing so quickly. And this was before LLMs got popular.
The best thing here is to focus on the business, above all else. Things seem a bit bleak right now, but I sense a change coming (hopefully soon) that will welcome in a new wave that isn’t defined by 5+ years at XYZ.
The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month.
I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: felixrieseberg.com/hunger-be…
I need to find a cheaper way to apply to roles. I take a good chunk of time to build thoughtful, on-brand things, but they've never gotten me more than a simple acknowledgement.
And don't get me wrong, I love doing that and think something special is always a good idea. Above and beyond wins.
I just don't know if the ROI on these is really hitting for me, at the moment.
And a video of here's what I'd do seems too far on the other end.
Open to ideas.
Reminder: It costs $0.00 to be kind.
As someone who’s had a non-linear career path, I think I’m going to make some changes to my portfolio that speak to that instead of the narrower design engineer lane I’ve been pursuing lately. It boxes out the rest of my skills and leaves no room to show my range otherwise.
I think maybe that puts me more in the space of creative technologist, because of all my skills, my biggest thing is being able to bring product and brand experiences to life. And now I have the tech skills to do cool things, but the most important thing that has helped me crush it in roles is simple: make people see you care.
It’s led to the greatest wins. Scale isn’t overrated, but trying to scale before/without care is a recipe to fail, for many types of businesses, especially outside of enterprise.
Love this. Going to take my own approach to this. As someone who’s crushed it in sales, field marketing, email marketing, social marketing, B2B strategy, learned to code, now builds, leads with strategy, manages stakeholders, sees creatively, knows how to balance that with strategy and human psychology, and learned all of that from reading and practice and deployed that in the places I’ve worked to prove the theory is more than just that, I’m having a hard time.
I have skills. I don’t shy away. I take hard conversations. With anyone. And I lead to delight because what even is there to disagree on?
This is our time. But to win, you have to position yourself.
And the time to fight this battle is NOW! Love this approach.
the world is going a little crazy rn
and every business needs people who can do many things: find the problem, build the thing, ship it, sell it
i'm one of them, and unemployed for a bit 😌
no resume explains how i work, so i made a tiny game instead 👇
itspsneha.com/hire
hire me. or just talk to me.
There’s lots of talk around tech companies struggling to find people who tell good stories. And I think when I was making this using @ElevenLabs, I discovered a pretty wide chasm that’s being overlooked that might need an me-shaped fill.
Really excited to be writing something long for the first time in a while. And really proud of how this whole experiment turned out.
I heard the @wander team is on the hunt for design engineers, so I made some custom artifacts focused around their Watchmere property to show some enthusiasm: wander-artifacts.vercel.app
What's inside:
1. A flow for extending your stay with ease to make that "I wish we could stay longer" moment a reality in a few clicks.
2. A dynamic postcard that shows a view of the property that morphs from day to night.
3. A deck of digital cards that can be shared with arriving guests so the person who booked doesn't have to field all of the questions from various parties.
A nice touch in 3, I used LLM-powered voice generation to create a personalized, dynamic welcome message for guests.
It offers tailored recommendations on how to make the most of the property and explore neighborhood activities, incorporating the weather forecast for the duration of their stay to make the experience even more relevant and engaging.
Really love the work the team is doing and hope to hear from you all soon!
@jaentwistle @nathanrpotter @KyleTibbitts
“You can be wildly optimistic about what’s possible and still be ruthless about what’s real. In fact, the optimism only matters if you’re willing to protect it from nonsense.”
I feel like this is the minority now and this is the piece that actually matters. Everyone is out here making promises and claims and telling you exactly what’s possible and profitable now and when things settle and you ask them, they find magnificent ways to say “I have no idea wtf is going on”.
One of the most important things I’ve done has been letting go of defining myself by a role. I did this last week. And it immediately opened up the things I’m working on and how I see now and the future.
“If you were to start over again today, what skills, tools, or frameworks would you focus on learning?”
gabrielvaldivia.com/notes/ev…
Legit question: how does anyone on either side of this make it anywhere?
238 likes, 115 comments, AI bots assumed. This just seems like complete overwhelm.
We need a new way to do this.
whats everyone's general consensus right now between Claude and Codex? I've stuck to Codex because I remember early with Claude getting limits soooo early. Wondering if that's changed.
Every tech brand struggling with story needs to look to fashion brands.
There’s clear crossover, to me. I think tomorrow I’ll finally write the piece I’ve been meaning to get out of my head.
I love how I went from content marketing because it was grossly undervalued in the job market and took years to learn to program only for LLMs to commoditize things and now all of a sudden companies need people so are good at content and think the technical part is the easy part.
