Designer with passion for code and automation. Working on @beeper, an @automattic pager.
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Joined March 2014
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Alessandro Chiarlitti retweeted
September in Beeper: Viber, synced drafts and bookmarks, desktop chat themes, and Beeper Nicknames to make chat names and photos your own. Plus Google Voice in the cloud too.
Lots of things you've been asking for. Here's what shipped:
blog.beeper.com/2026/10/02/s…
Huge one from the team! If you’ve ever lost track of which app you were talking to someone on, this fixes it.
It’s one chat to rule them all.
Introducing the Merge Chats feature from @Beeper, which unifies all your messages with someone into a single thread.
Designers, always code with design in mind. Otherwise, don’t code at all.
I think coding is slowly killing my design taste.
ever since I started spending more time inside IDEs, something’s shifted in my brain. earlier, my default mode was pure design, obsessing over spacing, micro-interactions, tiny details that no one notices but everyone feels.
now I start with constraints. scalability, edge cases, timelines, dev effort. “can we build this?” shows up way before “does this feel right?”
and the weird part is I still see everything. I know when something feels off, when it could be pushed further, when it lacks that sharpness.
I just… don’t go there anymore.
I cut iterations faster. I compromise earlier. I settle for “this works” instead of “this feels right.”
I think being close to code rewires you. you start filtering ideas through feasibility, and slowly, taste takes a backseat to practicality. craft gets replaced by closure.
and it’s such a silent shift you don’t even realise it’s happening.
is this growth or is this how designers slowly lose their edge without even noticing it ?
“Taste in design is not just solving the problem, but solving it elegantly. Elegance is coherence, restraint, proportion, clarity. It is the difference between something that technically works and something that feels great.”
Folks, give it a read.
Alessandro Chiarlitti retweeted
The more I see companies talk about coding with agents and designing in code, the worse their UX seems to be.
Users don’t care how it was built or how fast it was built. They just want it to work well.
So walk the walk and make something great.
AI won’t kill design, but bad designers.
If your job is pushing pixels, a prompt will be faster than you.
If your job is taste and understanding humans, you’re not* replaceable.
AI makes average UI cheaper.
It doesn’t create meaning.
*Not by companies that care about design.
Alessandro Chiarlitti retweeted
After many years of development, I’m excited to share the interior of the first electric Ferrari designed by LoveFrom. Tactile controls and digital interactions blend into one cohesive interface, shaped through deep collaboration across engineering, interaction, graphics, typography, sound, and industrial design. So incredibly proud of the thoughtfulness and care the team brought to every detail.
ferrari.com/en-US/auto/ferra…
Looks like @figma is rolling out "Slots".
Finally, the dream of moving content inside component instances is becoming real.
Happy to announce I’m joining @beeper as a Senior Product Designer!
A familiar product story, now at a new scale.
Excited to get started 🙌🏻
Alessandro Chiarlitti retweeted
Design deserves better than Figma AI.
Figma was the latest company to mishandle AI and design — foreshadowing the loss of a vast array of design jobs. We should demand better from our tools and industry. sdw.space/figma-ai-and-lost-…
Alessandro Chiarlitti retweeted
excited to announce @onbeeper is joining our mission to democratize messaging and build the best messaging app in the world.
@ericmigi and i've known each other for a few years, shared similar values around messaging and built teams of the best reverse engineers in the world.
we'll:
* continue to ensure security/privacy with on-device architecture
* transition to the beeper name going forward
* merge teams + products over time
Imagine if software prioritized user experience over visual appeal.
Would our digital lives become simpler with functional yet aesthetically humble products?