Eric Jordan

Cash App Friday is here with Afterpay. Another page built with wonderful team mates. Cool to use new tools for new pages for even bigger outcomes.

Building and shipping matter. But so does asking the right questions. And presenting the work with clarity. Balance. Consistency. Curiosity. Belief.

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AI can generate. But it can't replace your point of view. Your experience shapes what you look for. Your curiosity asks the questions the prompt can't. Your eye catches what's off before anyone else sees it. Automation speeds up execution. But the designer decides what's worth executing. The tools get faster. The ideas still come from you.

Wild how designing "by hand" now feels like you're a stoic artisan, an OG relic caught in the futuristic present. Keep building.

Shipping an idea teaches you more about it than another week of revisions. The feedback loop is in the world. Put it out there.

@rileycx @CashApp 🤝

@ejordanill @CashApp love

New week. New page with the talented team @CashApp

@MariaPesce_ @CashApp One team. One dream!

@ejordanill @CashApp Cooking!!

"Design for the feeling." An Art Director told me that once. The motion. The timing. The whitespace. The copy. The color. The balance. It all gives a feeling. People may not be able to name it, but they feel it. The feeling is the product.

"Can you make it pop?" Translation: your hierarchy isn't working. "It feels busy." Translation: you have 4 focal points instead of 1. "It's almost there." Translation: one element is off and they can't name it. Learning to decode client feedback is a real skill.

There’s a version of productivity that looks like motion but isn’t movement. And there’s a version of stillness that looks like nothing but is where the next thing gets formed. Both are real.

@without_daniel Go time!

@ejordanill Amen. Needed this reminder

The side project isn't behind schedule. You're just trying to build something real while being a full human being.

I used to think presentation was about the slides. Then I designed iPhone launch materials. Presentation is about earned trust. Every spacing decision, every typographic choice, every color call either adds to or subtracts from the credibility of your idea. Your work speaks before you do.

@framer @FramerDev Go Nandi!

🎬 Framer Creators Ep. 1 is here! Meet Nandi, the creator of Framer University. See how he went from designer to global educator, peek inside his workflow, and hear how he got to where he is today.

@jackbutcher @bentossell 🔥

The trauma response to hit Apple S in Figma

My new portfolio chatbot hit me with the vernacular today while I was doing some testing. Me: Yo yoooo Chat:

@DannPetty Used them all when I was there.

I just looked at Apple's open design roles. One requires expertise in Sketch. Another says Figma is strongly preferred. They also want you to be knowledgable in Adobe. Same company. Different teams. Build a tool belt, not a dependency.