Andy McErlean
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Andy McErlean
@andy_mcerlean
Director of product design at https://t.co/DGvn3t40JU. I make music in American Giant.
Katılım Şubat 2023
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うつの中でジムに行ってきました。
１時間ほど運動してきました。
体は重くて動かない、
気持ちも沈んで前に進めない、
「やめてしまいたい」と何度も思いました。
途中で投げ出したくなってもおかしくない中で、
最後までやり切りました。
しんどい中出来た自分を褒めたいと思います。
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@isaacrrr7 It also means your art is probably not good enough to monetize organically.
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@alex___carter Totally. Speed without quality output isn’t speed at all if you have configure it all anyways.
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The Flex design team is redesigning its web experience and I've been building the new design system in Figma with Claude and Desktop Bridge. Thinking I'll share a video of the end-to-end process when everything's done, but it's amazing to see how much better Desktop Bridge is than the vanilla Figma MCP for importing code into Figma components.
✅ Builds components properly
✅ Builds with autolayout
✅ Builds tokens
✅ Builds WITH those tokens
✅ Builds text styles
✅ Builds with EXISTING components in the file
Building the new design system from scratch would've taken days of 100% focused effort.
Now I'm doing it in between calls. Amazing stuff.
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May be a hot take, but Paper releasing new shaders vs. making the tool enterprise-level is a miss.
Shaders are a fad. They're cool now. They will fall out of favor for something else, eventually.
What designers need is software that best bridges the component to code divide so they can build according to their vision.
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@Samuelelliot41 Agreed. Makes it way easier. Still have to go through with a fine-toothed comb, but not having to add tokens to every single component is a god send.
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@andy_mcerlean I built a design system in two weeks back when AI wasn’t nearly as popular as it is now. Honestly, AI has made the work so much easier now.
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When this account posts a meme template, it's a signal that the template is dead lol
AWS Developers@awsdevelopers
when you log into the console and you're in the wrong region
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seriously truly what the fuck is this. You’re a CRM platform
Kylie Robison@kyliebytes
saw an ad for zendesk that literally said: ignore us at your own risk. self-improving AI is here
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@ogbenipelumi @FlexSuperApp Just opened. Forgot I had closed due to spam.
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I'm hiring brand and product designers at @FlexSuperApp. DM me you portfolio if interested. #hiring #design
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@shibutaro_18 If you turn the locking knee in towards their head, it makes it much tighter.
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三角絞め
相手の背中の方で足を組んだり、足首同士を組み合わせたりすると上手く絞めることができません。
絞めを上手く極めるには、
①膝裏と足首を組み合わせる
②相手の肩の前で足を組む
③角度を付ける
④身体を縮こまらせて相手を寄せる
他にも腕を流すことやお尻を高く上げるなども大事です！
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@jayneildalal PMs punting a prototype to you and saying "build this" with no context is bad PM'ing.
Instead, the prototype should come with documentation and a walkthrough on the thinking. Should convey: here's why the like it, what's core in their minds, etc.
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This is how a top designer deals with PMs who send her vibe coded prototypes and ask her to design that
She doesn't get mad. Instead she asks: "What are you trying to communicate to me here?"
That one question changes everything
A PM sending you vibe coded prototypes is just exchanging ideas. It's not a replacement for design thinking
👀 Christina explains why AI won't replace designers:
youtu.be/1qVWJeI9Yec
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Jayneil Dalal@jayneildalal
This is how a top designer decides when to use Figma Make vs Replit vs Cursor Stop asking "which AI design tool is the best?" Instead focus on these questions: - How realistic does this prototype need to be? - Do you care more about speed or polish? - How tight does it need to be with our design system? The answer decides the tool not the other way around 👀 Watch the full video on Sneak Peek: youtu.be/1qVWJeI9Yec Christina shows how the @descript design team decides when to use @figma Make vs @Replit vs @cursor_ai 👇
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Who’s hiring designers right now?
Reply with the role, location, and how to apply.
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@skirano Agreed. I was hoping it was going to be Figma's answer to Paper, but alas. It feels like the first launch of Gemini.
10ish minutes to generate screen is nuts. With a good component library, a good designer can just rebuild the screen in half that time.
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Figma canvas generation vs MagicPath same prompt.
By the time I sent one request to Figma, I had two views and 3 variations of my designs in MagicPath, fully interactive.
After 7 mins of waiting for something, I gave up.
This is an embarrassing release.
Video is 2x speed
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I think this is an ownership. Product managers/owners are viewed as those who own core elements of a business, whereas designer (+ eng) are doers.
However, what we're doing at @FlexSuperApp is that we implore designers to own, too.
Designers that can own product are equally valuable, if not more.
Lenny Rachitsky@lennysan
I don’t know exactly what’s going on here, but it does feel AI-related. Unlike PM and eng, which started growing in 2024 (two years post-ChatGPT), design didn’t. If I had to venture a theory, I’d say that because AI is allowing engineers to move so quickly, there’s less opportunity—and less desire—to involve the traditional design process. That said, you’d think design would become a differentiator as more products compete for attention. Something to think about for your company! We’ll keep watching this trend and AI’s impact on org design more generally. One interesting observation we made when we went a level deeper: the ratio of demand for PMs vs. designers has flipped. In mid-2023, we went from more open designer roles to more open PM roles. And ever since, PM demand has been pulling away (currently 1.27x). This will be another trend to monitor, in terms of how AI is reshaping org design.
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Andy McErlean retweetledi
Proud to see Flex listed by Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2026 list with great company like Nvidia, Anthropic, Robinhood, Bilt, Plaid, and Circle. Day 1.
@FlexSuperApp
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