Joe Salowitz

After over a decade of freelance design and owning my own business, I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined @sublime_sec as a Product Designer!

human optimism has risen again

@DannPetty @QuiverAI Wow Dann - congrats!!

I'm joining @QuiverAI as Founding Product Designer. QuiverAI is a superpower for designers. It generates clean, editable SVGs you can actually use. This has been one of the hardest problems in AI, and Quiver nailed it. Making us designers even stronger!

If you’re high agency and super curious, you don’t need to be scared of AI. On the flip side, if you’re ambivalent and low agency - AI is an accelerator to the downside. And this is most people.

I'm done with hamburger menus. It's time to normalize mini-maps in B2B SaaS.

Happened on a great spot for lunch today but unfortunately couldn’t find a table.

Building tools to help me design cooler things is my favorite thing about AI and Figma MCPs.

Not sure why smart home devices haven't jumped on the "Wrapped" design train yet.

@jshguo Man I neeeed this 😍

This is the Figma AI plugin I built earlier this year. It was just for my own use, generating quick wireframes. It sat idle for months. Today I hooked it up to Gemini 3 Pro and made some tweaks. Feels nice, and I'm considering further optimization.

Just launched a feature at @sublime_sec to nuke all those random scammy events that keep showing up on your calendar. You're welcome.

@krispuckett Oh thank goodness, my desk is messy and not tweet-worthy and I was getting worried I was alone.

This mess is blessed.

This copy was published in a 1993 report from @SandiaLabs aimed to communicate a series of messages non-linguistically to any future visitors to a waste site. It’s not 10,000 years later yet - but perhaps we should reread these warnings and heed them.

Nuclear waste site warnings are just so well written - perfectly designed to be timelessly impactful words.

@krispuckett Just be! (But also crack open that Ikigai book too)

One of the most repetitive and invasive thoughts I have: I’m 1/2 way through life. Am I doing the work and things my soul desperately calls out to complete? I feel like the clock is ticking louder and louder and I’m just so unsure where I fit or where I’ll end up.

This is the age of small teams, and independents. Discuss it with me: Several things are happening that explain why Nick's model is working so well. Design is indexing toward utility because of the bubbled frenzy of AI. Brand, UI, marketing design: they all have to get business done, fast. There’s little or no margin for speculation. Nick’s model meets the urgent needs of companies whose wheels are already turning before they’re even signed their formation documents. Big agencies are too rigid in their traditional forms. They must adapt or expire. Adaptation and improvisation belong to the independents. The need for strong, intuitive, instinctual direction in brand, messaging, marketing, and product design can often be met more potently by the more senior and experienced few. Balancing some measure of "quality" with speed is a unique circus trick and Primary Studio is a kind of Cirque du Soleil in snack form. It’s smart. It works in part because the company understands that trust has to be insanely high for a two-week experience to succeed. The same model stretched to five weeks assumes a level of scrutiny that invites wandering and speculation from stakeholders. The shorter sprint demands a higher degree of intuition from everyone involved. The larger problem is that design is increasingly treated as a commodity rather than a lens through which to envision and then build a company. An interface is a commodity. A logo is a commodity. A crafted sentence is a commodity. But the reasoned, intellectual, somatic, and expressive strategy that directs these design artifacts is not. That strategy is a living point of view. It's born of historical context, business opportunity, human need, and the raw wonder of imagination. The companies that engage design as a lens, while utilizing the types of independents with enough experience to execute quickly and intuitively on well curated priorities, will emerge on top.

@krispuckett So stoked to see good work from friends out in the world!

Joe is such a real one with his feedback and support.

@krispuckett @claudeai @AnthropicAI @perplexity_ai @AppStore LFG! Y’all - I’ve been beta testing and you need to download this ASAP!

Completed a 20 year dream of making my own software. All using tech I couldn’t imagine would be possible - @claudeai @AnthropicAI @perplexity_ai I’m so proud of this and I hope you check it out. Epilogue is official live in the @AppStore

I can’t believe I get to do this job for a living. I love being a designer.

CEO’s: Invest in design, or perish.

Incredible opportunity for young designers here. Take it by the horns, young artists!

@Rizdsgns Getting that body right before designing - love it!

No signs of weakness‼️