@vlh

Author of 📕 https://nitter.cf/t.co/6w18cel0b1 • Principal Designer @Adobe • Opinions mine

 Pittsburgh! ✨
valhead.com
Joined April 2007
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So excited to be speaking at Clarity again! And to be on this roster of very smart folks!!
Clarity@Clarity_conf
23 Aug 2024
Excited to share the current lineup for #clarity2024. Early birds end & full price tickets go into effect Monday, August 26th at noon PT. Join us! clarityconf.com/
Amy Lee, Ben Callahan, Cameron Moll, Dan Mall, Diana Mounter, Elyse Holladay, Ethan Marcotte, Homer Gaines, Jina Anne, John Voss, Mina Markham, & Val Head! Line up may be subject to change.

ALT Amy Lee, Ben Callahan, Cameron Moll, Dan Mall, Diana Mounter, Elyse Holladay, Ethan Marcotte, Homer Gaines, Jina Anne, John Voss, Mina Markham, & Val Head! Line up may be subject to change.

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Such a great book!
Golan Levin@golan
25 Aug 2024
Welp, school starts tomorrow so I guess I finally gotta make the syllabus. Good thing I just received this stupendous contribution by @thecodingtrain hero Dan @shiffman!
The Nature of Code book by Dan Shiffman

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Spent the weekend with a bunch of very lovely web friends. Forgot to take any pictures. Did it even happen?
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The advice from my talk that seemed to resonate most with attendees. This was my first time giving a talk on leading without formal authority and designing your own career path. Thank you @seattleinteract for being such a wonderful audience!
Seattle Interactive Conference 2026@seattleinteract
31 Jul 2024
“Everyone should have a (not so) secret mission.” -Principal Designer Val Head (@vlh) from @Adobe #SIC2024
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Feeling equal parts excitement and FOMO as I'm getting ready to take my first ever sabbatical. I definitely need some time to recharge, but I'm also in the middle of some exciting projects at work.
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I didn't expect to be reading about SEO and alt tags in an article about how AI models are trained, but here were are... "It contains less about how humans see the world than it does about how search engines see the world..." knowingmachines.org/models-a…

Models All The Way Down

LAION-5B is an open-source foundation dataset. It contains 5.8 billion image and text pairs—a size too large to make sense of. We follow the construction of the dataset to better understand its...

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On behalf of @designtokens: We’re looking to update and refresh designtokens.org. We've got some educational resources planned, but would love to hear what else y'all would like to see included. What would be most useful to you? We’d love to hear your feedback!

Design Tokens Community Group

The DTCG’s goal is to provide standards upon which products and design tools can rely for sharing stylistic pieces of a design system at scale.

designtokens.org
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Me and a few of my favourite coworkers wrote about what it means to lead as a Principal Designer: adobe.design/stories/our-peo…
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Learning all the best questions to ask containers from @TerribleMia at #FrontZurich
Mia on stage at Front Zuirch from the back of a very full room

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One of my favs from last week's shelter dog photoshoot. Ambrose was a very happy model!
Brown and white dog with a brown nose tilting his head slightly and smiling with his tongue out.

ALT Brown and white dog with a brown nose tilting his head slightly and smiling with his tongue out.

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25 slides for a 5 min presentation? I might be overdoing it.
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The Bear is some of the most stressful TV I’ve ever watched, but in the best way.
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I write a lot of comments to myself in design files. I assume this is totally normal.
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Started my day in the circle of travel hell known as flying Spirit out of Newark. It was a dark dark place, but I made it home and things can only go up from here.
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Two of my favs from this week's shelter pup photoshoot:
brown-grey pit bull mix with a big dog smile and a purple flower on her collar.

ALT brown-grey pit bull mix with a big dog smile and a purple flower on her collar.

Black lab mix with his tongue out and tail wagging

ALT Black lab mix with his tongue out and tail wagging

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Maybe don't opt me into an onslaught of marketing emails as part of the credit freezing process? It feels super gross.
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Borrowed this lovely camera friend for the weekend and it is so fun to use. Used some expired film for a little extra mystery in what the results will be.
Yashica-A twin lens medium format film camera sitting on a table outside.

ALT Yashica-A twin lens medium format film camera sitting on a table outside.

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Got to spend a big chunk of today animating things and listening to music. It was delightful.
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#ConvergeUS was such a great time yesterday! Huge thanks to @soysaucechin and @zeroheight for all their hard work putting it together. So many lovely folks, great talks, and an amazing small conference vibe! ❤️
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Loved @gerireid’s talk as an ending for Converge! And she definitely won the ending with a dog photo game.
Geri and her dog wearing matching shirts

ALT Geri and her dog wearing matching shirts

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