Christian Veigt

@lubos_volkov @zerosandohs Who’s gonna tell them?

Designers. Visual quality is no longer a nice-to-have. It’s the difference between ignored and remembered. Here’s what still matters 👇 • Good typography is everything • Obsess over details (shadows, glows, spacing) • Microinteractions > static UI • Try new tools. Don’t settle for one style • White space = breathing room • Iterate. Never settle on v1 Break the rules. Don’t just follow trends.

@lubos_volkov All good man. Getting old and tired but still passionate about design. Would love to catch up sometime though there’s no Skype anymore :D Glad to see you showcasing great work online again!

@chrisveigt Hi Christian! How are you? Thank you so much for checkin on me. It’s been a while. Much appreciated how you are doing great. 🔥😇

15+ years in design taught me this: Tools change. Principles don’t. Inspiration hits when you least expect it. Listening saves hours. Communication is key. People don’t hire the “best” designer. They hire who they trust to solve the real problem(s).

@wesbos @levelsio @Skrillex Thank you

@levelsio @Skrillex Community note: from first to last is post-hardcore grandpa, not punk

I was inspired after reading @Skrillex post on this He was lead singer for a big punk band and he'd always be on the road touring He had a laptop though and would try make electronic music with that for fun in the tour bus He had no keyboard, speakers, mixers etc. Just a laptop and he'd draw the notes in with the trackpad. He made the songs that made him break through on that ~2010 I think That taught me that I too probably only need just a MacBook Pro and no accessories and screens etc. If Skrillex can do it

@DannPetty @1cree8 And Fireworks!

@1cree8 Forgot about dreamweaver!

Some people are struggling with a few things I've said. Yes, Photoshop lost. Maybe you're new around here, but Photoshop was THE design tool everyone used to design websites and apps. Everyone. But it lost out to Sketch and Figma and now hardly anyone designs these things in Photoshop. Of course some still do but most don't. I still use Photoshop for certain things but never web design or apps. It's dead to me there. InVision didn't lose because of it's marketing–it's marketing clearly worked better than anyone else ever did. They sold us the most simple, basic prototyping tool there has ever been. It lost because it didn't innovate and it's product became the marketing. Studio didn't destroy it as it was already over for them. Studio was just their last resort and unfortunately was too little too late. I wish our current companies treated our community the way InVision did. They were so good to us. Events, partnerships with individuals, investment in individuals, documentaries, and tons of helpful content. People aren't mad at Figma because it's too hard to use–it's not hard to use. It's incredibly easy. They're mad at Figma because they lost focus on designers and got over bloated with useless features no one wanted or needed and started to focus on developers and their Config event. They use a dark pattern for payments and has become incredibly expensive. Plus many other things. They don't do much for the community. If Figma resorts back to focusing on simplifying the design process, give us our magic button one day, rework their pricing models, and focus on community and support individuals and get out of their tight clique, they will continue to be unstoppable for web and app design. I'd recommend they also think about graphic design as well to take market share from Canva (which is where more customers and money is). Yes, it will be hard for a new competitor to take down Figma. Obviously. I don't even want Figma to be taken down. I like Figma, the team, and the idea of the product. I don't want to switch products ever again. But I'm also not dumb. I've seen every tool I've ever loved fall away over the last 20 years. Why wouldn't it happen to Figma too (assuming they don't refocus)? My theory is Figma continues down it's path and becomes an even more powerful "product" design tool for designers and developers. It doesn't refocus but doubles down. They continue to do great but lose the graphic designer and web designer. Webflow or Framer realizes they are one feature away from owning the web design market. One of them will never realize it until it's too late. Everyone will design websites in one of these products and no longer use something like Figma. Figma gets a few competitors but no one will be able to actually compete. Figma is just too connected to the teams and companies that make decisions. Figma does get their pricing model right eventually. Canva continues down it's current path and doesn't care because it's making too much money and crushing all competition already. However, I think a professional tool comes out that competes with Canva without all the fluff. Notice I never once mentioned AI being a deciding factor for these tools. Why? Because they will all have it when it's ready and will be a feature just like having a type tool–it's expected. I didn't proof read this. Hopefully some of it made sense.

@CCgong @DavidBraut @ycombinator I’d love to be on the list to invest

@DavidBraut @ycombinator Devtool

My boyfriend is in YC and this is what I come home to Friday night. I make sure that he’s fed, do his laundry cut his hair. I give feedback, customer intros, and encouragement. YC girlfriends should be granted sweat equity. @ycombinator 30 days until demo day 💪

When someone asked me why I do what I do when interviewing, for a long time I felt like it had to be something profound or tied to “something bigger” than myself, but it always comes to this. I just love building components, thinking about systems, and patterns, and tokens!

@pwnies Option B. There are a few ways you can visually balance icons

You're making an icon library. This library uses a 1px stroke width as its style guide. You need to center some lines for a + icon. What approach do you take? Option A is centered, but displays as 2px. Option B is 1px, but off-center. Option C is if you hate your users.

@disco_lu @LittleDotChris @Counterprint I’m about to order Visual Research, Flexible Visual Systems and Analog Algorithm

@LittleDotChris @Counterprint Any specific ones you'd recommend?

I need some help! I'm fortunate to have a learning budget at work, and today is the last day to use it 😱 What are your favourites for: – Courses (product, design, beginner's code) – Books (product, design, business, leadership) ???

We’re coming. Tour’s coming. Album’s coming. Tom’s coming. Tickets on sale Monday. New song “Edging” out Friday. blink182.com

@mapologo Que tweet tan innecesario!

Me causa gracia esta gente que se jacta de trabajar en una empresa FAANG o wannabe y tienen tiempo para ser influencers, normalmente son bastante deficientes en ambas cosas. Pero tienen muchos seguidores que creen que por osmosis los van a contratar empresas similares.

@vponamariov Congrats. Very happy for you, Victor!

Today I got an Armenian residence!! 🥳 🇦🇲

@vponamariov Use labels Rely more on help text, less on placeholders Don’t use color alone to communicate errors

What you can do to make your users' life easier when they fill out forms 👇 🔸Ask for fewer data & actions 🔸Provide default values 🔸Group inputs in a logical way 🔸Use validation 🔸Provide meaningful hints 🔸Use masks Anything else?

Watching The Big Short tonight 🎥 🍿

@JoshWComeau We don’t deserve you, Josh!

Today was my first day at @HashiCorp! I’ve joined the design systems team as a senior product designer. Feeling excited and fortunate to be part of this talented team 🖤

Superhuman-esque product onboarding is a bad pattern IMHO. Make your product easy to use and self-serve to onboard. You can still do user interviews and research. If your product requires a human to show you how to use it "correctly" it might not be that great.

🎿📸

@charliprangley This upsets me so much. What these people are based on to say that? They don't work with you, they don't know your skillset, your everyday challenges, the problems you solve, the value you provide to @ConvertKit and the community. That's why we get to earn 6 figs. You deserve it!

I’m incredibly sure in my design skills. I know I’m a good designer. I know my web designs increase conversion rates and help users get to where they’re trying to go. And yet, comments like this make me feel like shit 🙃 thanks imposter syndrome.

In the past decade, Silicon Valley, which had long exalted the engineer, finally began to appreciate the power of the designer too. Below shows the change design : eng ratios ... what do you think caused the shift? figma.com/blog/the-rise-…