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Their wordsI often say like if you work with him in like a kind of a creative director WebGL person pairing there's like zero technical or creative limit to what can be done.
Their wordspeople maybe think we should hire another generalist, you know, because it's obvious, but I think worth lobbying and worth making the case for these types of people because you can do just you can do marvelous things.
Their wordsI think we oftentimes see really early stage companies that do incredible expressive artful things and they kind of grow into like bigger enterprise companies and they maybe lose a little bit of that but I never really want us to lose any of that and I think if you can then then you should
Their wordsYou need to do that and have it work in order for people to understand that it's worth doing. So kind of showing not not telling
Their wordsI think as a small team, we definitely don't want to be the people that stand in the way of progress there, but rather find ways to support them
Their wordsagent optimization lands that's just like one more variant to kind of get wrong. So I think if you can apply that principle to the whole system, you can make it much more tightly scoped which is which is a good thing.
Their wordscodifying your own product design principles in the form of like an agent MD file when to use this component instead of this component guard rails against certain UI patterns.
Their wordsSo what I think it does is it doesn't replace the designer or make designers less valuable. It allows everybody to kind of move faster but at the same time maintaining like really high standards
Their wordswe are probably running through a set of subconscious rules in our head and like landing on something that we think is appropriate. So I think it's possible to some extent to codify this and I think that's worth reaching for
Their wordsif you know that we're not going to put the brakes on people building without designers then can we get that quality bar to like 90%. That's still like a success in in my eyes.
Their wordsdeck sounds boring. I think it's one of the biggest unsolved problems in like scaling tech companies and big tech companies. They're everywhere. I think the software we use to put them together is is old.
Their wordsI think that maybe the traits of that person like you say are needs to be a real systems thinker for sure and then ideally a pretty self-sufficient design engineer where the the design chops are as strong as the engineering chops
Their wordsit's really hard and it's also unfair to say hey everybody we're all going to use this new product and that's all we're going to use from now on. Um you kind of need to support both.
Their wordsand that's pain if you're a designer. I think designing in Google Slides is the most humbling thing that can possibly happen to a designer.
Their wordswould love to see something that feels like an entirely unique thought and ideally really well executed and then personalitywise folks that are really really passionate, enthusiastic about what they do.
Their wordsthe early ones were were quite bad and then like as we get closer to present day, they get better. So, doesn't really make sense for me to have a portfolio that includes all those things. Why not why not show the one or two recent ones where I've developed as a designer and I've honed the craft.
Their wordsI think it's a good signal. I think it really aligns closely with that enthusiastic piece. You don't find people that are building serious things on the side that aren't really passionate or enthusiastic about like building or designing or engineering.
Their wordsthese things can be super casual and scrappy and like unpolished, but you kind of tell you can get so much signal off the way people talk about the thing that they've designed, which I find really really useful.
Their wordsthis changed for me where I think a few years ago people wanting to get involved with you know coding agents was kind of like optional bonus I would say whereas now kind of like a preference of mine. The skill level is less important than the enthusiasm around it I would say.
Their wordsthe requirement there to to kind of thrive is to be able to imagine, to be able to invent, and to be able to like cast aside any priors that you have that are maybe influenced by more classical UI techniques and patterns.