A product designer making and breaking things with vectors, pixels and code.
Porto, Portugal
Joined May 2010
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Remember to make your hit targets generous, your animations semantic, and your motion dynamic 👌
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Stop sharing the work of other designers as if it is your own.
I am saddened that this is even a conversation we apparently need to be having, but I'm seeing an increase in posts where work is shared in a way that subtly—or not so subtly—suggests the poster is the one who created it, while giving no credit to the original designer.
I think folks do this under the guise of marketing, trying to just 'share inspo' or get traction so they can drop their subscription design service in the comments, but it's a shameful way to try and grow.
At best you are cheating yourself out of the chance to actually connect and engage with those creating the work that inspires you.
At worst you will inevitably get called out, look like a fool, and immediately go on 'do not hire or refer' lists that you probably weren't aware even existed.
Our industry is small, and careers are long. It may seem tempting, like any shortcut is, to do it for the views or as a way to get started, but I promise you your integrity, authenticity, and relationships are far more valuable.
It's great to share work that inspires you! We all love discovering new things. But when you do, share it in a way that honors and credits those who made it.
The day will eventually come when you wish someone did the same when sharing your own work.
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The Death of Product Development as We Know it
Much has been written about what AI’s magical powers can enable—whether engineering, design or documentation. But I believe something just as interesting is happening with how teams build in the era of AI.
Traditional product development has been best practice-ized until it resembles an Ikea instruction manual:
The Idea (conceived in enthusiastic brainstorming chats deemed “groundbreaking” and “innovative”)
→ Mocks (polished until it’s a sparkling good storyboard for stakeholder alignment)
→ PRD (a beautifully formatted 12-page novella admired by many but read closely by precisely zero)
→ Code (with deadlines extended as frequently as the MCU)
→ Launch (with ample hopes and dreams and craft beer and pizza)
→ Surprise! (most of the time, the surprise is why users reacted with a collective shrug rather than thunderous applause)
This worked when software moved in cycles of months. But now that we have AI at our disposal (who is today an insanely productive, cheap yet junior talent that must be aggressively micromanaged), that tidy linear path is going the way of the dinosaurs.
Ask yourself:
1. Why brainstorm for hours when AI can generate 50 ideas (and roast the bad ones) in minutes?
2. Why show static mocks when AI can build a version of the damn thing for your stakeholders to play with?
3. How much effort should you put into your PRD when AI changes the rules of what’s possible every other Tuesday?
4. Why spend a bunch of time debating engineering flows when you can’t deterministically predict what the technology will do?
5. How much more would you achieve if you could learn the Surprise! of your launch in a fraction of the time?
Continued in the latest edition of my essay on The Looking Glass.
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After advising 50+ consumer companies over the last year, the one thing that separates those who can execute and those who can't:
Having a full-time designer in the room at all times
I've met with countless companies that have raised millions—and even one that has raised billions—that do not even have a designer on payroll.
This makes product development broken:
1/ You simply cannot have constructive conversations about ideas without visualizing them in real-time
2/ Your experiments will frequently have inconclusive results because users cannot discover features or they misunderstand how they work
3/ There is no one who can galvanize the team with a vision of what the product could look and feel like
And to be abundantly clear: I'm not referring to visual UI or graphics. I'm talking about someone who can think through the fundamental building blocks of product comprehension—like navigation, interaction and copywriting—and is technically savvy enough to visualize those components in high resolution.
There can certainly be exceptions to not having a designer, like where the CEO is an exceptional visual thinker, but that does not scale beyond a small team.
At the end of day, products live and die in the pixels: it's what the users see and tap. And without someone shepherding that process, you are effectively wandering the desert blind.
Built a quick prototype of an AI agent interface for test case management. Main features:
• Real-time highlighting of agent activity (you always see what's being added & where)
• Smooth state transitions
Made with React and @motiondotdev 🫰
Excited to share that I'm joining @JITERA_official as a product designer! Looking forward to building amazing things with this incredible team 🚀
ワクワクしてる！
Why do details matter? Well, here's why.
Below I'll show the CSS I used to implement it. 🧵
ALT Image of the landing page of the e-commerce website without details like gradients and backgrounds
ALT Image of the landing page of the e-commerce website with gradients and backgrounds.
I think in AI-powered apps where users create content, showcasing great examples is crucial to inspire and guide them. I’ve spent disproportionate amount of time generating AI images for Explore section 😅.
ALT Two screens of the AI image generator mobile app. First screen is an empty state of the AI image tab, second screen is the Explore tab with several AI generated images there.
I’m now mostly on Mastodon mastodon.design/@vrmchk especially now when 3rd party clients are essentially blocked here 🥴
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🚀 Hand Mirror v2 is out now!
It's a complete rewrite and it includes Smart Windows, custom positioning, window masks, Notch Trigger, alternate icons, and a lot more.
Check the thread for some of my favorite little Design Details™ and Easter Eggs 🧵
apps.apple.com/us/app/hand-m…
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It's time for another giveaway 🎉
Are you looking to revamp your workspace going into 2023?
The folks over at HumanCentric are giving one lucky Workspaces reader a free Workspace Bundle ($399 value)
Must RT and subscribe to workspaces.xyz to win
Winner announced 12/6
Thanks @iamalanwalker for spending 1,475 minutes with me in 2022. I couldn’t stop listening to Man On The Moon. #SpotifyWrapped open.spotify.com/artist/7vk5…