crypto talent drain is real great product and brand designers are leaving it’s an environment that moves painfully slow to improve on the obvious, making it frustrating for top design talent outsiders with fresh ideas will drive its next ux leap

the current consumer ai space is about one thing: aggregating your data in the absence of handling this at an os-level, two paths are emerging: 1. always-on portable hardware (friend, meta glasses) 2. siloed software trying to become the os (dia, notion) both require a level

cluely and friend spending 100k and 1m on a website and domain respectively makes sense these ppl grew up on a creator that gave away 10k instead of 9k because it looked better in the video title you’re not just paying for the site or the domain, you’re paying for the

timeless design isn’t fit for the times software or digital work that tries to be timeless often ends up looking dated immediately neutrality is in fact very specific to a time period of the late 10s in digital it’s okay for things to date, especially when you can patch them

healthy tension between different branches of your org that touch the product can be a huge quality motivator product and design push each other so does design and engineering the goal isn’t harmony, it’s aligned resistance

fyi name is iris

a friend just told me about ‘regenerative content’: scheduling llms to patch written content periodically to keep it evergreen text is becoming more like software in both velocity and half-life

this feels much closer to software updates than book editioning. it’s faster, and reactive if you set up agentic llms to react to externalities (trends, context) to adjust the content, you can effectively keep the same piece alive as a conversion point for way longer

I think one of the big questions of this decade Is how do you become “post-algorithmic” While remaining economically viable

i always found it fascinating to see what apps people have on their home screen contemporary equivalent of seeing their home interior; tells you so much about their taste and priorities in life

vol made it to SIP

the ways you use data at a large company doesn’t work at a small one not only is your measuring capacity and accuracy more limited, but so is your ability to make granular adjustments on that big bets until something sticks, then you can make micro-adjustments

if you want to advocate for design at your company, do this you need to start quantifying design impact in growth terms it’s not always directly visible like sales or sign-ups but if you can find a metric or narrative angle why it matters, it’ll be the highest impact thing you

Thinking is becoming a luxury good

be a curator of people the ability to bring the right people together who will do their best work together is one of the most underrated abilities

getting designs right for desktop is often more difficult than for mobile especially for early-stage apps, it’s challenging to fill up the screen with minimal substance leaving it too empty can make things feels unrefined, like no one’s using it a lot of times it’s about

the growth strat that took you from a to b will be different to what takes you from b to c