Ted Levine

Here's Figma's #Config2025 Keynote announcements – summarized as a 1-pager for folks that missed it!

@monoprice That subcategory needs some love @monoprice :)

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@image_origins The ASMR content we never knew we needed

The way that Camels eat Cactus 😬

If you can rock your own server, then congrats, you can get super spoiled by dozens of innovate-and-refine-because-its-fun features when you use @plexamp music app with “Sweet Fades” turned on. As a DJ on the side I am *constantly* inspired by how it chooses to overlap tracks.

@_akhaliq Extremely impressed with the temporal smoothing/consistency with their solution. Excited for the next iterations of this to get improved efficiency/speed.

MS-Vid2Vid-XL model: huggingface.co/damo-vilab/MS-… MS-Vid2Vid project is developed and trained by Damo Academy and is primarily used to enhance the resolution and spatiotemporal continuity of text-generated videos and image-generated videos. The training data consists of a large selection of high-definition videos and image data (with a minimum short side length of 720), which can upscale low-resolution (16:9) videos to higher resolutions (1280 * 720). It can be used for arbitrary low-resolution super-resolution tasks. On this page, we refer to it as MS-Vid2Vid-XL.

@lindadong Super excited to learn and explore. So much thought went into visionOS' UI fitting into the user's space, reacting to it, and providing spatial awareness. Most excited to get my head around the hand-gesture controls – ditching the screentap/mouse/keyboard wherever possible = win.

For you aspiring Vision Pro designers! 🥽 New Human Interface Guidelines for Vision Pro (we added ~60k words of wisdom!!) developer.apple.com/design/human-i… 🎨 Figma Vision Pro design kits #visionos-apps" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">developer.apple.com/design/resourc… 🍏App icon tool (for previewing juicy 3d icons) itunespartner.apple.com/assets/downloa…

@jsngr @figma Huge congrats to you @jsngr on getting acquired by Figma!

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On Apple's Vision Pro, as a UX/Human-Interface Designer: Defaulting to AR (reality-connected), and then fading into VR (out of physical reality) is a subtle yet impactful design decision, helping with disorientation and mental health—likely born of 's human-centered principles.

Fun fact about the hand gesture-controls on the Vision Pro demo: you can try this out now if you have an Apple Watch – there’s OS-level control using pinch and fist gestures thanks to the fantastic AssistiveTouch accessibility settings.

Compiling my thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro: Google Glass and MS’s Holo have established market in the indust/corp spaces, so it makes sense for Apple to enter a tested market with a Pro model, while using the higher price to eventually scale to mass market – owned by Oculus.

Sadly no immersive AR demos… yet

Prediction for today’s Apple 2023 WWDC: They’ll use special links during the VR presentation that lets you demo experiences with an augmented reality app clip from your iPhone

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@TheDeltaLogic @dia1up @OneRadChee Any way I could DM you about WGU @TheDeltaLogic? I'm researching studying Comp Sci (currently a UI/UX designer) and this could be a good path!

@dia1up @OneRadChee I highly recommend WGU for anyone reading this. It's cheaper and done at your own pace. Materials are provided and you really only need to reach out to an instructor if you need help or didn't pass the first time.

The rapid pace of AI research is, yet again, eclipsed by @elonmusk rapid chewing rate

@nthonyagu Totally hearing it. The lyrics-on-the-beat of a swing drum line… suddenly I see

Is “Suddenly I See” by KT Tunstall, the same as the iCarly Theme Song?

@Machine_Drum Any/all mixes, ready and waiting

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@plexamp Been thinking about this all day. My guess: influence the up-next tracks Plexamp chooses with natural language requests: “more chill” “dancier” “funkier” for example.

Looks like the beta of Plex Media Server v1.29.2 might be out towards the end of this week, which will unlock the new Guest DJ feature on Plexamp! So who can guess what the feature is??