Celeste Layne

@lennysan @jenny_wen @AnthropicAI @figma @Dropbox @Square @Shopify This was a great episode

Design lead for Claude: The classic design process is dead. Here's what's replacing it. Jenny Wen (@jenny_wen) leads design for Claude at @AnthropicAI, was previously director of design at @Figma, and a designer at @Dropbox, @Square, and @Shopify. In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why the classic discovery → mock → iterate design process is becoming obsolete 🔸 What a day in the life of a designer at Anthropic looks like, including her AI tool stack 🔸 Whether AI will eventually surpass humans in taste and judgment 🔸 Why Jenny left a director role at Figma to return to IC work 🔸 The three archetypes Jenny is hiring for now This conversation changed how I think about the future of design. Listen now 👇 youtu.be/eh8bcBIAAFo

@jvisserlabs I can't wait to try out this OpenClaw <> Mac Mini setup

If you continue to focus on lagging macro data points and current earnings for your decision making, you are missing the exponential change that is making every week now like a years worth on innovation. All sectors are now dealing with an uncertain future. China and the US release new better AI models daily. As Elon has said, AI Supersonic Tsunami. Markets will continue to move faster as uncertainty of the world 3 years from now rapidly changes.

VCs used to say solo founders were uninvestable. Carta's data tells a different story: solo founders' share of VC dollars has grown 40% since 2019 (and they keep ~50% more equity by Series B). The data on solo founder fundraising, link below.

@MikeKhristo @bcherny 😂

@bcherny dude i thought you could be trusted, but light mode in terminal?

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently. So, here goes.

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Teaching a course on Personal Webcraft this semester. Introducing my students to using custom fonts like Basier, a contemporary Neo-Grotesque font. What are your favorites? atipofoundry.com/fonts/basier via @atipostudio

@_TomHoward @avlok Yes! Miss Workshop Cafe…and they had decent food too.

@avlok It always blew my mind that San Francisco has almost always had one of the worst cafe cultures in the world. Glad to see it being improved! (RIP Workshop Cafe)

Introducing: Founders Café from AngelList The average café is simply not conducive for deep work. They’re not open late, Wi-Fi isn’t fast, there aren’t enough power outlets and they’re not open on the weekends! We’re solving this problem by turning the first-floor of our office into Founders Café: open daily, 9am–midnight, with fast Wi-Fi and plenty of outlets. This is v.01. We will start with a two-week test and improve it like any product. Link is below if you'd like to try it.

@claudeai aw man! so bummed I missed this.

Join us tomorrow, October 4, from 9am–12pm at Air Mail newsstand in West Village, NYC. Keep thinking. (We're out of thinking caps today, but come back tomorrow for more caps and free coffee—available while supplies last.)

@benln Is the popup coming to NYC any time soon?

Wrapped up the first Cafe Cursor in San Francisco Thank you to everyone who came by!

@CasJam woah

Orchestrating subagents for every phase of development using Agent OS 2.0. Sharing more details on this in tomorrow's workshop.

@FictiveCameron @gabrielvaldivia @designerfund @AIResidency loooove this video reply

@gabrielvaldivia @designerfund @AIResidency Video Reply :buddy:

Designers! The market for your talent is back. Why not start your own company instead of joining someone else's? You are more fundable than you think. Reach out to the folks Julie mentioned (special shout out to @designerfund ) or apply for @AIResidency. A "founding designer" might get 1-3% of a company. A co-founder gets half or a third. The world needs more companies with great design built in from the start, not tacked on later.

how can engineers (or anyone) get better at design? i get this question a lot. as someone who went from cs to design, here's a real path: start with systems thinking engs already get this. design is just systems for humans & our senses, instead of machines. read “thinking in systems” if you haven't. learn the fundamentals there are systems we humans evolved for centuries to visually present and receive information. you cannot escape these even for the cli: - typography — start with “details in typography” by jost hochuli - color basics — start with “interaction of color” by josef albers - grid systems — start with “grid systems” by josef müller-brockmann - visual hierarchy, reading rhythm, symbols & conceptual systems, motion, accessibility, … — you’ll pick more up as you go open your eyes & brain look at things around you, digital and natural. observe the beauty and sameness in everything. think why is it made this way. make connections between what you observe and what you think and make. break away from rigidity, linear thinking, let loose. stare at the sky, do nothing. see through everything. then just start making stuff now that you notice things, try to make things better, your way first. redesign apps you use daily. copy designs you love pixel by pixel — you'll learn more in a week than months of theory. then share it with others, get feedback, and design for more people. key mindset shift: feelings first stop optimizing for the computer, start optimizing for the human. engineers think in edge cases and error states. designers think in happy paths and emotions. the feelings and how things fold together ends up to be way more important to humans than the edge cases. tools don't matter much Figma is industry standard. learn it in a weekend (it’s basically visual flexbox). use Cursor to dismantle and prototype with existing design systems and study how they are built — frontends go deep. most important: find your design voice through constraints. pick one great typeface, limited color palette, and make 10 different layouts. constraints breed creativity. iteration is how you get there. great engineers already understand systems, logic, and problem-solving. just need to apply that to human concepts and problems instead of technical ones. start tomorrow. redesign your personal website or a simple app. ship it. share it. repeat.

Introducing Figma to Bolt Go from Figma to pixel-perfect full stack app — just put bolt․new in front of the URL & start prompting!

@Wattenberger @BenFictional Is this "emotional wheel" a Svelte component? What is this UI element called? It reminds me of a color wheel. Would love to see it in the wild in other use cases :-)

@BenFictional oh absolutely agree - plus, it's not like all emotions/adjectives can be ordered into a neat spectrum!

it's really interesting how an interface shapes the act of creation! here's a quick Sunday noodle on a ui for Stable Diffusion I'm betting that uis will replace the bulk of prompt crafting - why should everyone learn how the model thinks when we can bake it in?

sheesh. experimenting with @StabilityAI to create a text to image user interface. #workinprogress

@profgalloway wham! All the way for new #pivot

@VickyNguyenTV Thank you so much!

@layne_celeste Here you go:

@VickyNguyenTV can you post about your segment this morning about Elder Scams … this has become super relevant with me and my friends

@profgalloway 😂😂😂

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