i started playing chess again recently, 600 elo playing like a 1250 👀

calling it now: i'll be interning at vercel or linear as a design engineer sometime next year 😌

I totally forgot, since I have my own blog, I have the pleasure of adding this scroll to top button 😂 now I'm a professional blog writer

can we start normalizing the use of SVGs over images to render logos on websites pls, I feel like maintaining high quality for logos is sometimes overlooked

geist pixel is such a beautiful font

"Technology can make it easier to build or faster to build, but sometimes it also makes it harder to care for the craft." - Karri Saarinen, Crafting Quality That Endures I've been learning more about design engineering recently, and part of that was redefining what the essence of taste meant to me. it just so happens that a big part of taste involves craft. but what exactly is craft? I like to think of craft as simply showing that you care in your work. for instance, you can gauge picasso's craft through his works of fine art; you can tell that he truly cared about the art that he made. I find what @karrisaarinen says to be profoundly true because, in the age of AI, a lot of people can be so concerned with shipping fast that they often lose sight of their craft. I genuinely do believe that behind every good product, exists good craft; and good craft tends to lead to high quality outputs. if you're able to show that you care through your craft in your product, people will notice, and users will come. thus, I believe that craft is indispensable. youtube.com/watch?v=pCil7YNh…

struggle with reflection leads to internalization, and internalization with opportunity leads to success

all the more reason taste is becoming a priority

this has become one of my favorite quotes recently: "If taste is just personal preference, then everyone’s taste is already perfect.” - Paul Graham @paulg makes a very solid point here, the essence of taste is in fact beyond mere personal preference alone a good way I like to think about taste is that it's a combination of personal preference + what's societally considered of good quality (great aesthetic and great UX) when someone asks me for examples of good taste, I usually like to point them towards @linear the people at linear deeply care about their product, beyond mere product functionality. every interaction, every animation, every visual component; all of these are carefully thought through and executed in a tasteful manner if you're able to discern good UI/UX in conjunction with societal/cultural standards, I'd say you have good taste

onboarding complete!

I could get used to this 😌

felt pretty inspired by @arlanoska so I decided to create my own dedicated page for some of the cool things I make I was experimenting with figma motion earlier, so here's some stacking lego bricks view here: anthonyhoang.dev/craft

just published a new blog entailing my personal thoughts on what design engineering is! you can read it here: anthonyhoang.dev/thoughts/de…

i've officially joined the cool kids club website animations are something that have existed for a long, long time they're also one of the core components of design engineering and when they're applied properly, they provide that level of visual gratification that you never knew you craved so I'm looking forward to following along the course by @emilkowalski! if you wanna level up your theoretical and practical knowledge of animations, go ahead and check out: animations.dev/

found a bug on the @nextjs docs

added a lil easter egg hehe

here are some of the figma designs I cooked up 👀

you're the goat, @figma you guys made the right choice choosing him as a campus leader 🔥