Brandon Karl Webster

> sees latest work by design geniuses > turns nose up at it

Everyone’s an expert at first - thanks for your insight about the aesthetic value of something made Jony Ive and Ferrari lol

If I saw this on the road I’d be very impressed. It’s stunning. And we all “know” when we see it: this is the car Jony Ive designed; this is Ferraris take on an EV. There’s nothing cooler than that for the design-lover and tech-lover. It’s not made for everyone (especially not for motorheads).

Ok, let’s talk about Luce, shall we. What if we forget it’s Ferrari and start thinking about thought chain here. So, probably, to achieve some descent speed and drivability engines was developed first. As there are four of them, there is somehow we should feed them with energy and we need A LOT of batteries or extremely clever software to provide and power and descend mile range. Assuming software and optimisation isn’t here yet for first car, we have enormous battery pack, with comes with weight, size and temperature. So on the foundation we have very long heavy car. Now we have to design a box around it. And suspension, what can trick our mind. Classic sport shapes don’t work as battery floor is too high and you can’t make a holes for passengers(as Mercedes did in amg gt in cost of rear seats), so proportion of the final vehicle is quite off already, car is taller for the size of the battery. Why we can’t make it lower? Ergonomics, roof has to be in the place you don’t beat your head all the time. So as a designer you have to fight with visual disproportion and hide it graphically, aerodynamics, safety standards, ergonomics etc. I believe it is a descent job here counting all restrictions and challenges, and surely design not really deserved to be on the posters in your bedroom, it should be lovely car to have. So. We have the most accessible Ferrari yet. Yet it’s inaccessible for almost everyone.

@ormanclark @kyleanthony @m_p_y @Michaelcina Lots of Michaels lol

@ormanclark Lately it’s been Kyle Anthony Miller (@kyleanthony) - but my lifelong favorites are Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Young (@m_p_y) and Michael Cina (@Michaelcina) WeWorkForThem was like home base for me as a young designer. It was such a good era.

who’s your favourite designer?

@ormanclark @kyleanthony @m_p_y @Michaelcina Oh and I have to mention @ianTDR from TDR and I should have listed @michaelcplace (BUILD) among my primary favorites.

@adilmania @SlackHQ @37signals @dhh @jasonfried Me too. Some of the best minds in software have tried to replace slack (e.g. ONCE) - we all hate it lol. At least you’re not stuck on Teams or something worse lol.

@bkwebster @SlackHQ @37signals @dhh @jasonfried i love once <3

i hate @SlackHQ. is anyone building a better alternative?

@adilmania @SlackHQ @37signals @adilmania once.com/campfire - made by @dhh and @jasonfried

@adilmania @SlackHQ But if you just want something better for yourself and your own team I’d check out Campfire by @37signals - it’s free and self hosted and really chill.

@adcock_brett Congrats that’s awesome!

I’m excited to announce that Figure has signed a commercial agreement with Catalyst Brands, the operator of JCPenney, Aéropostale, and Brooks Brothers We’ll work to deploy humanoid robots at scale, starting with initial deployment in Reno, NV

@HermesAgentTips 5.5 high - /fast turned off (it’s fast enough)

whats your favorite model to use with Hermes agent?

@AlexAperios If you need an engineer hmu I’ve worked with a lot of agencies building for a lot of brands. I’m a designer as well, so I love this kind of work.

I’ve ended up securing more website projects than brand work over the last few months. Honestly, it’s been refreshing pushing out more web design again this year. The interesting part is it naturally opens the door to brand conversations too because most companies quickly realise the same thing: Without strong branding, a website just feels weak. You can build the slickest site in the world, but if the identity underneath lacks clarity, personality, or confidence… the whole thing falls flat.

Problem is each of those buttons might be a different team’s responsibility and changing the bg color on hover might take a week and 5 different people approving. I’ve worked on teams like this.

@Jaytel iA Coder would be a very clever drop right now

i want Sublime Text, but with the taste of iA Writer

@thsottiaux Imagine drafting like a weeks worth of dev all at one time over multiple projects, hitting go, and letting it run in the bg for a few days while it tests its own results and stops to share progress with a prompt to continue. That would be amazing.

Should we bring batch compute to codex? Aka /slow mode

Anyone hiring a design engineer or senior frontend?

Hermes is better

@thdxr It looks really good

oh man i can't wait for this

@colditioner Looks a bit like Taxi Driver

90s Asian Cinema is the art of making urban loneliness beautiful