Designer. I help build and grow software products for engineering, data, and complex spaces.
Finger Lakes, NY
Joined November 2007
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Drew McKinney retweeted
i hate how being mean to LLMs give you better results than being nice to them
Drew McKinney retweeted
Any well rounded designers looking for a project?
- well funded seed stage co by top VCs
- need website, brand, product design
- fintech + AI with early traction at major companies
Cc/ @jkantro
Drew McKinney retweeted
If you don’t think this is a crisis i don’t know what to say to you. H/t @toadmeister @JonHaidt
Drew McKinney retweeted
People say crazy things to you when you change. Leaving your church, changing your body, becoming financially successful - these all trigger people.
Their judgements are self-damning signals of low self-worth and insecurity.
Kill the fear.
Live free.
This reality has often frustrated "best practice" designers who have learned through structured design programs and corporate environments. Some of the best designers emerge from creating a large body of work and shipping it, not sweating the process.
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Drew McKinney retweeted
It's been my experience in every field that the mediocre people are the biggest gatekeepers. If you get to talk to someone world class they're usually like, "Yeah, pretty much anything goes."
I can’t wait to use this!
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"Over a year ago, @figma asked me, 'What do you want to build next?' Today, thanks to the Creator Fund, I'm introducing Figlet—a tool that lets you play with the Figma developer platform and APIs right inside Figma itself. Play, learn, share! 🎉
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Dysfunctional delivery teams: "We need a 1-pager from the PM with executive approvals before we begin work on the designs. Then we need sign-off on those designs."
Mature delivery teams: "A scrap of paper or bulleted list with your thoughts is just fine. We can adjust as we go."
Working at Pivotal had a difficult to describe effect on almost everyone there. There was a genuine sense of comradery and optimism. I clearly remember believing that we had cracked the code on the best way to create software.
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This is very true of tech. Many people enter the field out of a desire to build new products. But the companies that pay well for development also share an allergic reaction to change. You end up forgetting how to go from zero to one.
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