13 korrents from this recording
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19:13 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Carl Rivera
Their wordswhen you're heading into a future that feels like it's covered in the clouds, there's no better tool to imagine it than through design. Because design has this magical capability of bringing everyone in on the same version of the future.
21:34 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Carl Rivera
Their wordsI really think that how we do work immediately defines the work that we put out. Like, we cannot produce AI-first interfaces if AI isn't in a very big way influencing how we create them.
26:37 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Carl Rivera
Their wordsI have this view that we're in this period where all lines are blurring, and it involves how we do work. So designers need to think more and behave more like engineers and can also do more engineering-like work. And we have engineers and product leaders that can actually produce a lot of good design.
27:31 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Carl Rivera
Their wordswhat I hope we will get to is a world where we don't have to choose a modality so much upfront, where the way that you can move between imperative and declarative interfaces, chat and point-and-click, voice, you can shift in and out of them in a very, very fluid way.
34:12 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Carl Rivera
Their wordsthe right form factor of AI will be when we stop thinking so much about AI. Like, it's just there. It's just how computers work. It's not a mode you go into.
36:06 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Carl Rivera
Their wordsit will shift the role of the merchant from being an administrator of sorts to being an editor
41:59 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Carl Rivera
Their wordsI'm basically working on this assumption that we should work on the very long term and the very short term and cut out everything in the middle.
42:25 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Carl Rivera
Our reading
It is extremely difficult to know what the world will look like six months or a year from now.
Their wordsIt turns out it's extremely difficult to know what the world is going to look like 6 months from now or a year from now.
46:18 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Carl Rivera
Our reading
Shopify should not spread its design effort thinly and evenly across everything it makes.
Their wordsI think that Shopify should not peanut butter its efforts around design.
46:26 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Carl Rivera
Their wordswe should double down on making them be 10 out of 10 experiences. And then I think a lot of our experiences can be vibe-coded 7 out of 10 things that use good component systems, are usable, but that you don't really even need to have a designer involved in them.
48:03 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Carl Rivera
Their wordscan we bring that quality of software to a level where it's actually worth paying for? Like, it's actually worth choosing to not build it for yourself using some vibe code tool.
52:37 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Tobias Lütke
Their wordsevery user of any piece of software can intuitively tell how much the people who created the software gave a shit about it.
53:08 · watch on youtube.com↗ · Tobias Lütke
Their wordsThere's zero-sum ambition and positive-sum ambition. And they are not, they shouldn't even have the same term because the outcomes, the fundamental outcomes for, like, are just incredibly different because zero-sum ambition is I want more for myself, right?