Bri Angulo

I've always liked the infinite canvas as an exploration medium, but I could never get into Figma because I'm faster at designing in code So this weekend I made an app that combines canvas with code editor - write React, and it appears in the canvas

So elegant and peaceful ✨

@linear @karrisaarinen Yes that's what I currently do, although it feels really repetitive and slow having to type that everytime. I guess since linear is not a document app first doesn't make sense

@briangulo_ @karrisaarinen Try prompting Linear Agent to do just that! You could add an additional line to your prompt; something like: "Share the proposed draft in our conversation here before making changes to the document."

Surprisingly, found a nice way to write with AI: 1) apple notes for the raw draft 2) @linear agent to shape, iterate with my writing guidance 3) asking to create a doc to read, edit, comment on, and share No more endless chat stream, full rewrites, or slow, blocky writing

@karrisaarinen @thatguybg What is that "Focus" tab in the sidebar? I don't have that in my linear workspace @karrisaarinen

@thatguybg Linear with Granola and Slack MCP :)

what agent actually has great memory / personal context? I can't find one that can answer simple questions like "what should I talk to justin about"

@stevelauda_ It is a nice, made a prototype for state selector with it and was really easy to share which is good, with claude code I feel that is more complex

Who is actually using Claude Design? Anyone?

@embeeargh @linear @dparker313 This should be obvious but yeah, some companies like a 10 page strategy doc for some reason

@briangulo_ @linear @dparker313 Nobody is going to read your 10 page strategy doc. But they might reply to a carefully curated slack message and a specific ask

Our approach to hiring is a little different. We value slope over credentials, judgment over polish, and real work over interviews. Here’s what the process looks like: linear.app/now/how-we-hir…

@embeeargh @linear @dparker313 Now is much clear, thanks for the detailed response 👍🏼 and very interesting how linear approachs everything from the product to other aspects like hiring

Chiming in with my personal experience. There's lots of ceremony around work at other companies. Manager 1<>1s, internal presentations, alignment sessions. All of these create feedback loops that give you a steer on your work, but they come at a high cost of time and energy. We remove most of those things at Linear intentionally. Which saves you all of those calories. But it means you have to pursue other ways to "align" with your team. And it usually has a few aspects to it. 1. You have to have a stronger sense of what "good" output looks like. Some of that is the product of past experience and taste. While the other part is more how you orient yourself around the problem space and think logically through a solution. 2. You've got to get really good at asking questions to your team, particularly async - how you phrase requests, share information in Slack, keep the cognitive load low for them to understand and reply, etc. 3. You have to be your own arbiter in lots of instances. Stepping back from your work, imagining how others perceive it, pre-empting feedback These feel obvious, and any strong talent will likely do them naturally, but I've found it particularly heightened at Linear. I've noticed that candidates from companies with a lot of ceremony sometimes struggle with developing direction and feedback in the work trials, and often default to recreating all the ceremony they're used to.

@DannPetty @QuiverAI Amazing demo, I'm sold with the gradient, that's mad People who say 'why not just vectorize in Figma?' don't sound like Figma users, because if you truly are one, you know how a pain in the ass vectorization has been in Figma since forever.

a lot of you asked 'why not just vectorize in Figma?' here's why I use @QuiverAI fewer layers. cleaner anchor points. real gradients.

@DannPetty This looks amazing, might have to give QuiverAI a shot

Framer shaders + QuiverAI svgs 😱

To all the Monday morning quarterbacks:

Playing with Claude Design. I’m genuinely excited. Not having to rebuild your design system from scratch every time makes Claude Design feel far more useful than other tools.

non-designers who have never designed anything: "designers are cooked!" people who have worked in code, want to work in code, always will work in code: "future of design is code!" companies selling tokens: "move that button 4px with a prompt!" designers:

Design X has become 80% tool discourse and 20% actual design. The ratio should worry you. Because the tools aren’t the problem. They’ve never been the problem. Give the same setup to ten people and you’ll get ten completely different levels of taste, craft, and thinking. That’s the gap. And yet, every week it’s “this tool killed design” or “designers are cooked”. Most of the people saying that can barely build anything worth looking at, let alone make it useable, or connecting. No depth. No reps. No taste. Just noise. It’s clout chasing dressed up as insight. A problem that isn’t real, sold like it is. Strange time.

My Claude design experience so far

@uialexk sudo

Vibe coders are confused when they see: - npm install - nmp run dev - localhost:3000 Any others to complete the list?

@jameygannon @raycast No one knows but you have to install it

what the FUCK is @raycast

Every... single... day

Helpful reminder to all designers out there