Designer. Formerly @incident.io, @google. Co-founder of @_DesignClub.

London
Joined February 2009
Chef @almonk has absolutely COOKED here
Today we're launching our first public Poolside models: Laguna M.1 and Laguna XS.2, and we've built ❈Shimmer, an instant-on VM sandbox with Poolside Agent pre-installed so you can try them out. Go play out our new models for free, and build something fun → shimmer.run
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I made something I've wanted for ages: a simple to-do list for Figma files. Designed to look and feel as native as possible, tüdü lives alongside your designs and let's you keep track of things. That's it. tudu.tom.pe/
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Less 'How?', more 'What?'
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My new AI-native canvas ↔ code design tool dropping soon, sign up to join the waitlist
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Tom Petty retweeted
"In a world where anyone can make anything, the rarest skill will be knowing what's worth making." Louder for the people in the back, please.
For decades, technology was inching closer to being more personal, more intuitive, more human. 80s: point and click instead of cryptic commands 90s: the web remembered our preferences. 2000s: touchscreens let us touch our ideas. 2010s: devices predicted our needs... 🧵 1/7
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Even the biggest companies with the deepest pockets are struggling to hire top design talent. And as usual, it comes down to a fundamental misunderstanding of what drives most great designers. They want to be surrounded by other great designers and a culture that cares.
It’s easier to raise a $5M seed round than hire a cracked designer full time
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Strongly this
The best designers aren't attracted to "blank slate/ground floor" (negative space) – you need to go actively create a positive image of design at your company they can picture themselves inhabiting. Typically includes: -evidence of "creative spark" that already exists inside the company -"values through evidence" - things you have done that demonstrate the function of design is important to your company (tip: saying you 'value design' does not do this) -at least one other designer they admire is a believer If you can't create these conditions yourself you need to go find someone who can help. It's extremely rare that a great founding designer will be enticed to do all this *and* design the entire product.
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I wrote a piece about how, as designers, we need to get out of our squads and go off piste → open.substack.com/pub/anothe…
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I decided to put some work on tom.pe that wasn't 10+ years old
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Come and work on both rounded and unrounded rectangles with us! A job so good it got me to post on here for the first time in 7 years.
The @incident_io design team is growing! 🚀 We're looking for extraordinary brand and product designers to shape the future of incident management. Both roles pay up to £135k — in London We also pay £10k for successful referrals Apply here: incident.io/careers#open-rol…
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📣 I'm looking for a Product Designer to join me at @FatLlamaHQ! Come help me design the future of ownership. DM or apply here if you're interested: jobs.lever.co/fatllama/638df…
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The founders of Instagram were not “team players,” some said at Facebook. But that's just what Facebook needed: people willing to challenge the groupthink that for too long included a stubborn resistance to admitting and addressing the company’s flaws. nyti.ms/2DCgT0H
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Tom Petty retweeted
Tech Resistance update: Tim Cook is dining tonight with the President, Facebook is making political donations to Devin Nunes, Intel is giving to Steve King, Google is working on a censorship engine for China and Twitter's CEO is on Hannity defending Alex Jones
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GUESS WHAT HAPPENED!!!!! @ The Old Rectory instagram.com/p/BlQfbqIj0Vw/… – at Hastings, England
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I just want to DESIGN human interactions, I don't want to HAVE them
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Who knew that the Amex logo from the 1890's was the single greatest logo of ALL TIME?
Are you a designer and looking to start a startup? Got an idea but not sure if it's 'a business'? We want to hear from you! Please email us on [email protected] with a tiny summary and we'll get back to you
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A classic piece of @almonk. Lovely. “Designing & building our design toolchain” — medium.com/@almonk/designing…
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