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Drew Stephens
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Drew Stephens
@collegewebguy
Digital designer/communicator working in higher ed. Habitual line-stepper. Hobbies include Silos, Acronyms, and Replying All.
Fayetteville, Arkansas Katılım Mart 2007
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We just launched a new AI Specialty for the UX Certificate. 5 courses. Research-backed. Built for practitioners, not prompt engineers.
→ bit.ly/475PcsC
#AIUX
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@WaffleHouse I proposed to my wife at WaffleHouse #810 in Malvern, Arkansas. The year was 2002. We asked for the yellow meal ticket as a momento, but our waitress denied this special request. Rules are rules.
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@HardcoreHistory I remember Tom Hanks "intro" narration for HBO's "The Pacific." And thinking, this could be a thing on it's own.
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May 25 at 8pm (in the USA)the History channel is debuting its massive Second World War 20-part series "WW2 with Tom Hanks". It's a colossal endeavor with lots of new insights. Includes a FABULOUS group of contributors.
I was honored to be a part of it.
aegm.app.box.com/s/4i0xqazknkp2…
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@guigadourado @theShaneLevine @html_to_design Agreed. Plugin works great. Don’t need Claude for that.
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@theShaneLevine @html_to_design has changed this workflow for me for a while. It does basically what claude code is doing now, with ease.
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Design teams have a dirty secret:
Nobody's Figma file matches what's actually in production.
Designers screenshot the app, paste it into Figma, and trace over it like cavemen drawing on walls.
That entire workflow just got reinvented with AI.
Here's the new loop:
You have a problem. Activation sucks on your onboarding flow.
Claude Code pulls the ACTUAL current UI from production into Figma. Not some stale file from 6 months ago. What users see right now.
You design. Figma is still goated for exploration. Trying 10 versions fast.
You push the design back through Claude Code. Open a PR. Engineers put it behind a feature flag. You measure if it worked.
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Ultra condensed and kinda accurate.
Frank Chimero@frank_chimero
Wrote a thousand words on taste, but think I can get it down to five: “Taste is measuring without counting.”
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@gurishsharma I think about the Figma stock and how it will probably rebound and be a great investment. But I still can’t pull the trigger. Even though I’m an avid user and see everyday how it’s changed the design industry. Something doesn’t add up here.
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>be me
>goated senior PM at Figma
>tfw you've slaved away for 8 brutal years daydreaming nonstop about that juicy IPO jackpot
>finally happens, Figma IPOs
>but stonks nosedive like a lead balloon crashing harder than my spirit every morning
>lockup period got me caged, no escape pod
>feelsbadman as I stare at my vanishing wealth
>been advocating like mad for AI tools
>pitching game-changing features to crush the comp
>tfw envisioning AI that revolutionizes design and competes head-on with Cursor and Claude
>but CEO nope.jpg, shoots it down flat
>forces us to churn out crap like vector point mover
>it's pure filler, zero hype, total meh burger
>meanwhile rivals dropping AI bombs weekly
>we're dinosaurs, getting lapped, pure pain
>hit refresh on ticker app
>down yet again, wallet weeps
>tears streaming as my ideas get buried
>why even loyalmaxx anymore
>mfw pushing trash features while stock and soul tank
Figma@figma
Grab a box, then bend reality Vector editing just got a lot easier (yay)
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@biglithium @aphysicist If you had a time machine and traveled back to the 1920’s Smackover oil boom. “Hey all this brine wastewater you’re pumping back underground.. your grandkids will be pumping it back up for magnesium and lithium in 100 years.”
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We're not promising to mine metal on the Moon. We're not promising nuclear fusion. We're not promising to install God in our electrolyzers.
What we're promising is an EBITDA-positive magnesium smelter in Arkansas that deletes Chinese magnesium supply control from the US's defense industrial base. We're promising the first new American magnesium production in two generations. We're promising a company valued on cashflows, not "storytelling".
That's hard enough to be a miracle and yet Magrathea's team is step-by-step delivering it. An expert global metals trader now joins the consortium that gets it built. Congratulations to everyone involved with helping make it happen!
Magrathea@magratheametals
Magrathea and Wogen sign offtake distribution partnership with $10M working capital injection. Read more: magratheametals.com/news/wogen
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Q for all of you. Im looking to interview a few college head coaches in person for my Netflix podcast. Not really all about sports. Life, Origin, Philosophies, failure, success, etc. Who should I target that has a great story and would be compelling?
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made a Mac app that turns photos into 3D scenes using Apple's ml-sharp: github.com/apple/ml-sharp
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What would it mean to you to win the SEC Regular Season in Basketball?
youtube.com/live/IzRyhz2ed…
YouTube
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This is legitimately the most insane post I’ve ever gotten on one of my vids.
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In one week my book about carbon comes out, and here's some nice things some nice people have said about it. If you feel moved to do so, the link below provides a means of purchase. Thank you, that is all. harpercollins.com/products/the-s…
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create your own tooling. Interesting stuff.
Carl Rivera@carlrivera
5 min from last week’s Shopify Townhall that captures the crazy momentum of Generative Design at Shopify. ① you’ve never been more empowered as a designer to make your ideas real ② the workflows involves multiple tools, stitched together, to create new experiences ③ increasingly designers are building out their own tools to accelerate these new workflows 🚀 @katarinabatina @kazdenc @lukedupont @ryancreatescopy
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@DannPetty All this hype about Figma. Wonderful tool yes, but we’re still just drawing pictures of websites.
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It's silly that I can create all this auto layout design, components, variables, beautiful math and awesomeness but I still can't push the design live.
Like, what are we even doing here. I should just be designing in code at this point.
GIVE ME THE GO LIVE BUTTON!
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@CoachZ_ARKANSAS Time to add in 35 more minutes for my Fayetteville drive time.
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Whole different Fayetteville today than it was yesterday.
Flipped like a switch.
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@EthanDriskill The one you can maintain with notepad and FTP in ten years when those services no longer exist.
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"I can spot a Framer site instantly"
Yup same with a Webflow site.
And a Wordpress site.
And a Relume to Webflow site.
And a templated site.
And a squarespace or wix site.
But one is much better than the others.
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Overcommit on work projects. As seen in nature
Science girl@sciencegirl
Appetite of a cormorant
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@jjvincent I want to do this. Never have. Can't convince my wife/kids to go with me.
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