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Revolut is ditching Figma.
Good riddance to Figma.
Revolut's designers are moving off Figma.
Storonsky spotted one team designing much faster than the others. What they did:
1. Gave an LLM Revolut's design system at the code level
2. Prompted it to build new flows on top of that system
3. Got a live interface they can click through on a laptop or phone, instead of static frames
Result: 3-4x faster. Now he's pushing it to every designer at Revolut.
His job, as he describes it: find what works in one team and spread it across the company.
Full breakdown here:
productmarketfit.tech/p/revo…
Youssef • Designer & Developer retweeted
Both of these guys blocked me a few years ago because I said Figma is antiquated for UI work and that if you want a future as a designer, you need to start designing in code.
Change is challenging, but it's never worth ignoring.
Youssef • Designer & Developer retweeted
Yes.
Doodling a picture of a website in figma is no better than doodling a picture of a website with crayons.
Actually, crayons are better than figma because they’re at least fun.
Real designers code.
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Look at my post from 2023, and then look at the comments below it.
Outrage and contempt at my suggestion that designers should move away from Figma.
I was right. They were dug in.
There's a lesson in that.
Both of these guys blocked me a few years ago because I said Figma is antiquated for UI work and that if you want a future as a designer, you need to start designing in code.
Change is challenging, but it's never worth ignoring.
Youssef • Designer & Developer retweeted
Branding, Marketing and SaaS design for @HostiFi
Hire me → DesignDash.co
Back in 2018 when I sold everything, travelled the world and live streamed my crypto trading.
You can just do things.
Branding, Marketing and SaaS design for @HostiFi
Hire me → DesignDash.co
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Youssef • Designer & Developer retweeted
If I have risk of missing the flight, I will be pushing through the line regardless of what everyone thinks or says. Even if 100 people will be pointing and screaming at me, I’ll still push through
Learned this the hard way. I had two flights scheduled: from Taiwan to Hong Kong, and then from Hong Kong to Moscow
If I missed the first flight, I would also miss the second flight, meaning that I would have wasted $1000 on tickets, and I would also not have a hotel
I arrived 2:30 hours before departure (which I believe is above the norm), but the queue was extremely long.
I tried to pass and I had probably like 10 old Asian men and women “discipline” me. I unfortunately listened to them and stayed within the line
And then the check-in closed. I was unable to board (at first). These Asians had tickets (and I asked them) to flights they were NOT going to miss, and they, instead of having empathy of passing me through, decided to make a childish scandal as if I stole their lunch
I believe you do have priority over everyone else in the line if you have risk to miss a flight that is about to leave. Unless they’re in the same situation as you, you shouldn’t care about making them angry. What’s better: wasting money on the flight and committing yourself to a day of inconvenience, or making some random people angry who aren’t going to miss their flight anyway
You should have enough bravado to pass through screaming and angry passengers (unless they’re also at risk of missing their flight)
In the end, I bribed some reception lady to pass me through. No way of me losing a $1000 on tickets just because of some queue
To those who think I should have arrived earlier - I arrived early and I was in the queue from the beginning. It seems in Taiwan they had one airline with one desk which took much more time to pass than anywhere I have been to (aside from Phuket)
Youssef • Designer & Developer retweeted
Hiding a fire extinguisher is a hilariously bad idea. And someone thinking it’s a great design perfectly encapsulates the mindset of most Apple cultists when it comes to anything Apple does
Mortgages are a scam because they rob and usurp society of its wealth and well-being.
The only reason the price of a house goes up, if it does, is because of the greater fool scam, where the next person is willing to take out a bigger mortgage to pay for it. At some point, this breaks. Also, when you need more money to buy the same thing, that usually just means your money is worth less. In fact, it's mortgages and debt in general, which is a main driver of inflation.
Not to mention how bad mortgages are for your sense of agency and independence. When you ask big daddy bank for money, you are basically volunteering to become part of the permanent beggar class. You now live a life of enslaved servitude to a bank. Not to mention, you have totally denied yourself the potential to actually figure out how to make the £400k by working out some gap in the market, innovating in some way, or simply putting in the graft at a higher level. Get good at something, and making more money than you otherwise would. Move somewhere cheaper if you have to, there are always opportunities.
So you are not just ripping yourself off financially when you get a mortgage; you are also ruining your sense of self-respect, dignity, and prosperity. When everyone does this, it wrecks society overall. Everyone is a beggar, stressed, miserable and afraid of losing their home. This actually makes people very controllable too, because nobody wants to lose their job (they've got a mortgage to pay after all!). They now have a obedient permanent underclass toiling away giving 40% of their salary to the big daddy bank as tribute every month. And if you miss just one payment, the house is theirs, or the car or whatever.
You are constantly told that mortgages are a great way to build wealth. Well, they are not. Like all evil things, they are a wolf in sheep's clothing. They present something as good when really, it is an evil, wicked thing. It is a story as old as time. Stay away from mortgages or any debt, including credit cards and buy now, pay later scams. They all rob you and society of wealth and well-being.
This is the way.
Jev appears like the next step towards a further surrender of critical thinking to the silicon golem.
It might be good for mass classifications (maybe, as long as it's accurate, but who is checking, hey?)
Just charge more.
Don't overthink it.
Be prepared to lose your next project, but if you get the project, then welcome to the next level in your career progression.
Don't change anything else about your pitch. Don't try to justify the price any more than you normally might.
Just increase it.
I'm happy to pay other companies to build and maintain software, even if I can roll my own.
When you pay someone to make and manage something (vs doing it yourself), it's not always about the raw labour, as people make it seem; rather, it's about delegating responsibility.
