Ehsan Nour

I just had my aha moment with @paper 🙌 This is pretty much exactly what I want my design workflow to look like moving forward

Attention is often framed as a resource to be captured, but conceiving of it as a practice places the power to bestow it back in our hands. I'm inspired by @AE_Robbert's perspective on this, and grateful to host him at the second Art of Being Human event at @imbue_ai :)

What conversations happen if you gather product leaders from companies like Anthropic, Figma, Gamma, and Stripe for dinner and a fireside chat with @joulee and @kanjun? Here were the top 3 highlights: 1) The roles of engineer, designer, and PM will converge, but taste will be the differentiator. Taste often seems ambiguous, but the core of it is understanding your user's needs. Traditionally, product managers have overseen coordination between designers and engineers. But as prototyping becomes easier than ever, ideas can now be evaluated through demos made in an afternoon. 2) You probably don't need more than 3 people to ship a successful product. Small startup teams have the advantage of decision-making speed, and AI expedites this even further. In January, we leaned into this at Imbue: we reorganized into multiple small project teams, each with a directly responsible individual (DRI) taking ownership of outcomes. Four weeks in, we're preparing to launch multiple end-to-end products. Our engineers now have the autonomy of founders, and are more energized than ever. 3) To preserve craft while balancing the speed of AI, carve out more time to think. Execution is no longer the moat; ideas are. While engineers have 10x-ed with AI, a designer's main challenge was never the speed of rounding corners in Figma, but the thinking behind making products useful and beautiful. The more designers are able to reflect about the user's needs, the stronger their intuition will be; increasing the conviction of their design decisions and subsequently the impact of their products.