Jamie Samman

@domesticetch @itsnicethat Love this. One of my personal pet peeves is designers pulling the “you weren’t there” card and using client/organisational challenges as a defence for the work

For my newest @itsnicethat column, I wrote about why critique matters and why we should dislike more stuff! itsnicethat.com/articles/eliza…

If you're a studio that's featured or someone who uses it, I'd love your help to keep going and growing. I've got a bunch of studio submissions to add to it, plus new features planned for the future 🔮 Any support would be hugely appreciated, thanks ❤️ buymeacoffee.com/doingcoolstuff

After a bit of a hiatus, DCS is back and growing again 📈 I'm working through a bunch of studio submissions so if you sent your site in, hang tight! I'll be reviewing them in the coming weeks 🫡 Also, check this thread to see how you can support DCS to keep it going👇

DCS has always been a self-funded passion project, that has now grown to a directory of around 1,000 studios 🤯 That's meant that some of the running costs of the site have gone up 💸

@9th Give this a look 👇 doingcoolstuff.xyz

Looking for design agency recs! Creating a brand identity for a boutique hotel. Need the best of the best 🌻

@jessebtyler @AllTrueStudio That’s awesome to hear! Glad to have you on there 🙌

@jamiesamman Hey Jamie, wanted to send a quick note thanking you for building this and including @AllTrueStudio ❤️ We've had two great leads show up out of the blue this year and both were from this site.

Here's a side project I've been working on - a directory of small to large brand and product design studios from around the globe that are doing cool stuff. Hope you like it and find it handy for finding the hottest studios out there 🆒 doingcoolstuff.xyz

@tomjohndesign Makes sense! Thanks ✌️

@jamiesamman I'm the sole designer, so each org would look different. Basically, the meeting starts, I pull up our product, and start picking things I've been wanting to change. I will say, a huge part of this is being an active user of your own product. Not everyone has that.

Design hack: Set up an hour long meeting once a week, or at least once a sprint with your dev team just to go through and fix all of the tiny UI details that could be better. All of the things that would never get prioritized in a Sprint planning. All of the things that maybe a user would never notice. All of the things that might have been missed in original implementation or just don't align since they were first built. Change colors, update icons, improve hover states, fix overflow issues, add better tooltips, make shadows better, cleaner alignments, fix typography bugs, move a pixel here, change a hex there. No tickets. No backlog. No user stories. No business justification. Nothing that takes more than an hour (or close to it). Just craft. You'll love your product more. Your team will get a chance to jam with no expectations or KPIs. I thought it would be nit-picky at first, would give the impression of busywork, but my team is as motivated by it as I am. It helps clean up old code, unify implementation, and get exposure to features that they may not have worked on. Cleaner code. Cleaner UI. Cleaner product. Tiny improvements, huge gain.

@joakimjansson That’s ace 👌 and nice idea about having the review space in Sanity. Thanks for sharing and keep up the awesome work 👏

@joakimjansson Nice, does adding to the Notion database add it automatically on your site? I could only figure out how to do that using Airtable, and Notion is a lot nicer to use tbh

@domesticetch For sure! I’ve added your site to the database 👌

@jamiesamman Ah! This is amazing!!!!! So much better than what I did quickly, will absolutely share! And, humbly, would love to be added 😇

Some of my students were struggling to find internships, so I made this master list of studios for them to reach out to and figured I'd share it here too! It skews more towards the US + branding (my own bias) but I welcome any additions / nominations 💙 bit.ly/designstudioli…

@michaeldsgns Thanks! 🙏

@jamiesamman Bro this is great a great library of agencies. Thanks for creating this 🙌

A little DCS update: there's now a ✨motion✨ tag for studios in the animation and motion design space. Any studios you know of that are doing awesome animated work, post them in the thread below. Or if you'd like to be featured drop me a line! doingcoolstuff.xyz

@interplato Hey! thanks, glad you like it 🙌 The filters are built using Webflow with the attributes script from @thatsfinsweet (which is great btw!) The search is a plugin from Jetboost which also works well 👍 Hope that helps 😃

@jamiesamman hey James - loved the faceted search/filter implementation you have on Doing cool stuff. Soo shock and smooth - Is it a custom build? Looking to implement similarly functionality - any pointers would be super helpful! Thanks

@r_drice 👋 thanks!

@gabrielvaldivia One of these 👇 doingcoolstuff.xyz

Teehan+Lax → Facebook, Ueno → Twitter, Rally → Stripe. Who's today's great product design studio?

@frilo_eth Thanks! Glad you like it 🙌

@jamiesamman Beautiful work man

@CoxDigitalcl 🤔 can you explain which bit doesn’t work for you on mobile?

@jamiesamman Does not work on mobile, fyi

@Elkobby Hey Eldad, there’s not a formal process but I’ll take a look into your site asap

@frilo_eth Designed in Figma and built in Webflow ⚡️

@jamiesamman Wow, what’s your stack?