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Designer, inventor, angel investor. Finding the element that secretly governs the whole. Writing something new. Host of @firstofkind •

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1Dec 25, '22Every time I use ChatGPT, I’m reminded of Steve Jobs describing it in this Playboy interview, Feb 1985 🔮180×2.2M12k1.5k4k
2Sep 11, '25I now fully accept the genius of Banksy.102×1.3M32k2k2.4k
3Apr 21, '24Software designers of tomorrow should study games like Tiny Glade as they look and behave more like where software will end up: 3D/spatial, adaptive, contextual, high-level abstrac41.2×512k2.8k2521.4k
4Jun 11, '25What problem does Liquid Glass solve? Layering interfaces atop of unpredictable, IRL backdrops is a problem to solve for headsets and smartglasses Apple often designs with future r38.6×480k2.2k124632
5Apr 21, '21cursor chat is the future20.7×03.6k410184
6Dec 5, '23A: Most designers are updating design files instead of production20.6×256k63553125
7Aug 22, '25View post on X18×224k99929298
8Nov 2, '25I’ve designed software, backed startups and helped founders. Now I’m writing fiction. This piece is from a collection of fables I began this year. How we do one thing is how we do 17.9×223k61143474
9Aug 23, '25Taste is Selection A museum director walks through her gallery, deciding which paintings deserve the prime wall space. Her choices shape what thousands will see, remember, and rega17.6×219k92171555
10Oct 9, '25We must identify the brilliant mind(s) behind this incredible rebrand!13.3×166k1.9k56172
11Oct 24, '24Creating a new Google doc in 2024:12.8×160k5542089
12Nov 19, '13“Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.” —Teller12.2×01.5k600129
13May 30, '25My new collab with @indievc drops today: Six episodes. Six interviews with design pioneers. In music, we have genre-defining artists. In software, we have first-of-kind designers. 12×149k33722179
14Aug 15, '25when I catch up with old friends at Meta10.3×128k1.8k36196
15Jun 30, '15Being wrong is forgivable. Being slow is not. Years later, the primacy of speed is still the best lesson from FB.9.9×0959399307
16May 29, '25Last winter in the dappled light of a redwood grove, I met @bryce for the first time in front of a camera Moments after filming stopped, @indie_burner sparked an idea for a new col8.8×109k2171564
17May 25, '24The secret sauce behind Daylight @daylightco is its proprietary display technology. It’s not e-ink. They call it LivePaper. Learn about the difference:8.8×109k39137290
18Feb 6, '23ok nature is actually healing7.5×93k7943928
19Mar 27, '20One of the best political ads I’ve ever seen.7.4×089928582
20Sep 28, '25The only design choices that matter Are the ones that ship7.4×92k1.4k69224
21Jun 2, '24This is the way.7.0×88k2271875
22May 30, '25A new show for you to binge this weekend. We call it: FIRST OF KIND Six episodes. Six intimate conversations with design pioneers. Season 1 is available: firstofkind • com6.7×83k66749511
23Sep 15, '22Palo Alto, 20146.4×01.2k70108
24Jun 11, '24Someone once said to me: “The difference between product designers and video game designers is like the difference between college and professional athletes” On a totally unrelated6.2×77k42939166
26Jul 31, '25How it started…6.0×75k1.1k59287
27Aug 27, '25Designers and design engineers: If I could guarantee you interviews with any 2-3 startups, which would you pick and why? (DMs open, I think)5.7×71k32211245
29May 26, '25On a related note: The best designers in our field no longer have online portfolios. This is commonly viewed as a flex, but lately I wonder if it’s an accidental disservice to youn5.6×69k75631186
30Nov 26, '24If you use Loom you’re going to ditch it for ツSupercut — coming soon to a browser near you.5.5×68k4499426
31May 22, '24The @daylightco is the computer of tomorrow. It does not bathe you in blue light or endless notifications. It can be used outdoors, in broad daylight, or wherever you draw inspirat5.4×67k32819100
32Oct 11, '23If you’re trying to build a leviathan: Design is not a box you check for your startup. It’s not an add-on at the end of a checkout flow. Design is either built into the core of you5.2×65k2691652
33Nov 15, '24Who is building TaskRabbit, but where the demand side of the marketplace are AI agents?5.2×65k2645189
34Oct 10, '25I think about this a lot5.1×63k1.1k873
35Mar 6Bees make honey. Bees make hives. What else could bees make?5.0×62k110697
36Apr 3, '25When most startups say “There’s no playbook for what we’re building,” they’re overstating the design opportunity Tolan is different: they’re inventing entirely new UI patterns for 4.2×52k49915358
39Oct 24, '25clicked “View Source”4.0×49k3471729
40Nov 17, '23tbh I blame @tldraw3.9×48k21435
41Jan 31, '251977: personal computing revolution 2025: personal software revolution Friday, Feb 73.6×45k53719405
42Nov 4, '25Prediction: first AI comes for Hollywood jobs then Hollywood designers come for software design jobs3.6×44k203586
43Jul 1, '25“It used to be that design was an afterthought. Now design is more than form and function. Design is how you win or lose. Design is bigger than design — and the world needs more de3.4×42k2162356
44Oct 20, '25Studying the Web 1.0 aesthetic for a new project. Send me your favorite examples. I’ll post mine below.3.3×41k3298414
45Oct 28, '25Luck is not increasing the surface of a square. It is making yourself spiky. Surface area to volume. Filaments and tendrils.3.1×38k33411167
46Sep 22, '25Perplexity @Comet is the best browser for the modern era. Faster and trimmer than Chrome. Packed with agentic capabilities. Seamless AI integrations. Send me your favorite designer3.1×38k3131253
47Oct 29, '25I love love love helping high caliber designers find breakout roles Whether as a founder or a first design hire or as the latest member on a franchise team — hmu with your best wor3.1×38k3185152
48Jan 30, '25Perplexity, Granola, Replit A sure signal that you care to compete through design is to raise money from designers and to hire top design talent2.9×36k3131399
49Apr 20, '25Design Firesides @ South Park Commons This spring I am moderating a series of fireside chats with design founders and leaders who are pushing the frontiers of AI. @spc is generousl2.9×36k3212098
50Mar 1, '23Our beloved Banjo passed away today. Can dogs be saints? Ours was gentle, strong, noble. Handsome and loyal, like a storybook character. He could maim a deer but would never harm a2.7×34k35601
51Nov 7, '25Maybe beige is one of the four horsemen of a tech bubble2.7×34k257466
52Sep 26, '242019: “designer who can code” 2024: “designer who can ship”2.6×32k3693541
53Aug 16, '24If you’re talented and you know it please for the love of humanity shoot your shot2.6×32k2421765
54Jun 21, '23Delighted to see @diagram and @figma join forces 🤝 Proud of @jsngr and his team’s visionary work, now coming to a browser near you2.6×32k247825
55May 22, '24Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome Download now:2.6×32k1853173
56Jun 22, '23Can you name a better reunion since the original cast of Friends? Such a privilege to call these guys workmates and to enjoy an impromptu #Config2023 sit down Missing the rest of D2.5×30k22347
57Nov 15, '23An ounce of utility is worth a pound of brand.2.4×29k2281020
58Oct 2, '25Damn, Ben. Put this in my eulogy. 🙏2.3×29k260052
59Feb 19, '25My oldest pals know that Macromedia Flash was my on-ramp into design & development “Thoughts on Flash” by Steve Jobs was a radicalizing moment for me He hobbled the open web an2.2×28k41721141
60Oct 3, '25First of Kind, Season 2 is underway.2.2×27k212734
61Jan 30, '19Are you interested in being the first designer at a startup? ✨ Finding the right team and role is tricky. I want to help out. For every company we invest in, we meet many more who 2.1×03045342
62Sep 8, '21✦🪡 Personal Update ✦ Today my kids kicked off a new school year in a new country. And in some ways, I’m also beginning a new chapter along with them. I now live and work in London2.1×0408227
63Jun 1, '17Good news: Last year I partnered up with @soopa to start a new design and venture firm called Combine. We are now open for business. 🚀2.1×0361260
64Apr 29, '25I love, LOVE backing design tool startups Figma, Framer, Rive, Bezi, Gravity Sketch, Universe, Visual Electric, tldraw… And now: @variantui2.0×25k3607132
65Jun 2, '25We talk too much about taste and craft And not enough about dogfooding2.0×25k2161532
66Nov 20, '24The last time I saw @EnriqueAllen was at the Config 2023 keynote where Brian Chesky told everyone we needed more designer founders. I’ll hold that moment in my heart forever. I tur2.0×25k25778
67Aug 11, '25This is the way.2.0×25k1851265
70May 10, '22Expect spotlight to appear across all your multiplayer web products in the next year or two. Brilliant work @figma ! Smells like the future1.9×03582714
71Feb 28, '25why are we resisting the inevitable1.9×23k3231213
72Dec 14, '207 year old watches me use the internet over the weekend 👦🏼 Dada? 👨🏽‍🦲 Yeah bud 👦🏼 When will you get all the cookies? 👨🏽‍🦲 What cookies? 👦🏼 All the cookies you accepted1.8×0388167
73Oct 4, '24making a note-taking app is the software designer’s version of homebrewing beer or releasing an EP1.8×23k3311444
74Nov 24, '21Q: so what do you look for in founders? A: cave art energy1.8×03282129
75May 15, '25Designers: Stop being scared When @Smith_Diction ended their #Config2025 with this message, I was beaming with unearned proud uncle vibes Here were two people leading by example Th1.7×21k1901397
76Nov 3, '22Bezel is finally in beta ✨ @Bezel3D Design in 3D collaboratively from the comfort of your favorite web browser. This will be the on-ramp to spatial design for many creative teams. 1.6×01991671
77Jul 31, '25Proud to have supported $FIG since its Palo Alto days. When you’re a first believer, the ultimate reward is seeing people rise beyond their wildest ambitions. Congrats @zoink @evan1.6×20k326127
78May 7, '25see designers should code1.5×19k2552117
80Oct 30, '19The internet was born exactly 50 years ago tonight. Charley Kline sent the first digital data transmission from his UCLA workstation to colleague Bill Duvall at SRI, located 350 mi1.5×0200747
81Aug 13, '25Remember the power of side quests.1.4×18k2311456
82Sep 8, '20Hard to imagine Figma without @rsms — but he took the plunge when few people knew about the startup. If you’re at a point in your career where you want to build a great company fro1.4×02641129
83Oct 15, '25The social currency of Silicon Valley is belief, encouragement and honesty.1.4×17k2461633
84Nov 3, '21View post on X1.3×02651120
85Jun 15, '20🛫 teaser site is now live. Designers: Want to reimagine how business financials are modeled and presented? Build a new company from the ground up? DM me 💌 My hope is to see a Run1.3×0228730
86Feb 28, '17*silently quits TextEdit and sits back mouth agape* All of the hours (maybe days?) I’ve lost to copy-pasting from a plain text document1.2×0195390
87Dec 14, '18The next great social network will likely challenge this core assumption. People are contradictory, multifaceted. Their ability to connect with new people is inhibited by their IRL1.2×01742716
88Feb 23, '18Looking forward to unveiling our new studio next month. Almost ready…1.2×024711
90Oct 26, '19Timeline: Breitbart does NOT belong in Facebook News! Me: … *opens Apple News app*1.2×0220173
91Aug 17, '24View post on X1.1×14k2021535
92Dec 22, '18Anyone else notice that the detail view of the spikes somehow… loses detail? 🤔1.1×0231140
93Feb 1, '18Good news: Combine is looking for its first design lead. 🙌 If you’re passionate about healthcare, have service design & management experience, and want to work closely with ou1.1×0186330
94Nov 7, '25hey babe, wake up: new padme-anakin meme dropped1.0×13k233720
95Dec 29, '19I used to wonder if Figma would become the “github for design” These days I wonder if Figma could become the “github for everything that’s not code”1.0×019778
96Sep 19, '25When founders shy away from showing early work to me because I’m a designer: I’ve been in the kitchen long enough to know the difference between half-baked and cookie batter. I lik1.0×12k208220
97Mar 15, '19I joined Facebook the same day as Chris Cox. It’s a bummer to see the band break up, but I admire him for bringing so much humanity and a profound sense of purpose to the company. 1.0×0193912
98May 23, '20Every once in a while I’ll be walking around the house and I’ll catch one of our cats staring at me and we’ll lock eyes for just a moment and I’ll say to him: “It’s time to build.”0.9×020333
99Jan 17, '25“@read_cv is joining the team at Perplexity in their mission to make the world’s knowledge more accessible to everyone… We’ve long admired Perplexity and believe great things happe0.8×10k211321
100Oct 31, '25Knock, knock, Neo. #FramerHalloweenParty0.7×8.1k19402
101Mar 4, '25Celebrated my birthday this weekend If I was EVER a help to you in any way big or small over the years Please consider giving to @SEEDSAccess That program sits at the root of my jo0.6×7k21916

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