Founder at Design Studio. Making things (furniture, brands, apps, & everything in between) ✦ Barcelona based via NYC ✦ Prev. @myrileyapp @etsy @healthcare
Barcelona, Spain
Joined October 2015
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In Dubai, someone will drive you to the airport at 3AM without hesitation. In New York, we schedule connections between meetings. After 13 years straddling these worlds, I wrote about the cost of convenience and why community requires inconvenience: open.substack.com/pub/meherw…
Reaching flow state my Figma MCP deals with Figma Agent to get the exact result I want within 3 prompts or less
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two stages of reading:
1. i’ve read 3 books in 8 days.
1. i have not read a single sentence in months.
Moved to BCN after 14 years in NYC exactly one year ago today and lemme just tell ya that swapping the Empire State view for Sagrada Família and East River for Costa Brava has only made me realize one thing: what a privilege to call two of the best cities in the world my home 😮💨
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Anthropic just took a big swipe at OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic is airing ads mocking ChatGPT ads during the Super Bowl, and they're hilarious 😅 Anthropic is also committing to no ads in Claude theverge.com/ai-artificial-i…
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When you toggle the lights, the entire page dims to create a more immersive sense of the lighting
Such a great design detail 💡
Life update:
After 13+ years in New York, I moved to Barcelona. “Starting over” in your 30s can feel so daunting but here I am, excited (a little nervous!) and mostly grateful. If you or someone you know lives here, say hi 👋🏽
Design Twitter 🗣️ we launched @MyRileyApp brand refresh, as a founding designer—SO MUCH thought and heart goes into a brand refresh and launch. It would mean a lot to me you could upvote us on Product Hunt (and peep the new brand 😉)
producthunt.com/products/ril…
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Honestly this is my biggest problem with the one-size-fits-all approach to parenting advice: it's too generic, and ignores where YOUR child actually is developmentally. Not just their age, but their context, temperament, and family dynamics. 🧵
Your gentle reminder that there is a very inspiring, beautiful, tangible world outside your 4 walls and AI-side quest. TL;DR: go touch some grass 💚
These new @Airbnb icons have been such a wave of design-joy this week, almost feels like a manifesto for design in the AI-design era. In a world where we've been committed to flat design post-skeuomorphism (thanks for leading the way, @Apple!)
What's emerging out of this Airbnb summer release looks a lot like the expressive and bold design of all the Memphis Group work that came after Modernism.
In a world where you can prompt an LLM to design something pretty-decent-sometimes-even-beautiful-but-definitely-not-UX-approved-(yet), these new icons raise the bar and remind us that a designer's intuition still matters.
Functional is not enough, following a UX pattern and calling it innovative is not enough, a heavy dose of spirited-alive (because I'm tired of using "delightful") to make you FEEL something (my favorite "F" word along with form and function 😉)
At @MyRileyApp we're closing out on a really fun, alive, expressive brand-update and part of our philosophy has been "thoughtful details aren't frivolous add-ons—they're the heartbeat that makes everyday experiences sing" so of course, I had to play around with our icons in @ChatGPTapp to see what they would look like with different kind of details inspired by Airbnb. I fear this might be addictive! ✨
