Sean Goodwin
@TheSeanGoodwin
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software design, product strategy, curious about the world ☧
Washington DC
Joined December 2012
me explaining my figma prototype to the user researcher before our customer interviews
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@gbrl_dick this is vegan math. you cancel out all the benefits by imposing your own man made detriments.
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@thechosenberg I mean obvi a reddit post is always one sided so who really knows what’s going on.
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@WGMInterfaces I'm pretty new to 3D work but I still know how to right click + save your JPEGs
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@ghosttyped I think this is why finance dominates in the city. and even then, compared to US the salaries are middling (and taxed higher too).
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@coldhealing you could not choreograph a more perfect scene. the runner missing 1st, the kid getting smacked by the ball, that little guy picking his wedgie out. amazing.
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@logic_denier @Delta Sorry to hear. Had the same thing happen to me by @Delta, totally sucks. The enployees take advantage of their position and just pocket items they find on the plane instead of turning them over. Dishonest employees and the company doesn’t do anything.
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I am a simple man. I see the party parrot emoji slack reaction, I click it.
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@other_work seems like a prime example of consumer satisficing. when production volume and quality of the “dupes” has caught up to a near-indistinguishable end product, why pay 3x the price for “authenticity”? . the rebrand is the downstream effect of ppl not caring about the origin.
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I’m laying on a sunny couch, with my wife napping to the side and my new son sleeping on me. Bliss.
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@benhylak That’s actually very nice that they’re still paying you those bonuses after you leave. I know of other companies who say you have to be a current employee.
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Without a doubt, @discourse is my favorite forum software. So so so many little UX benefits over traditional forums that help the discussions. A thousand small decisions, made well.
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OK I am dipping my toes into the fun world of NFTs while I am on some paternity leave (surprise!), this is my first I bought and I'm very excited for this project! 😍
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@Duderichy > “competitive salary”. > “we work 80+ hour weeks”. so you want someone to be willing to work way more than most jobs for a startup market salary? pass.
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is there a worse notifications experience than Notion's?.
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@_brianpotter Great post. It seems somewhat miraculous the US managed to pull off some ambitious production goals. I read Freedom’s Forge last year and also appreciated how much political opposition the administration had to overcome in order to privatize a lot of the manufacturing.
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wondering about the best way to build long-lasting network connections? the answer is easy: shared workplace trauma.
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@syswarren Useful - I get value from the tool/service. Usable - I can operate the tool/service. It’s possible to have both, neither, or only 1.
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Lots of @loom news today 😅. Was fun to sit down with @ridd_design and chat about design at Loom and shipping our AI suite. Huge shoutouts to everyone on this team!.
This week we get to go backstage with @designatloom 🙌. They teach us all about their design process and share lessons from their recent AI launch. Here are 7 of my favorite insights 👇 . (full episode link in the next tweet). 1) Capitalizing on emerging tech requires more
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@simonsarris Partially this is a self-perpetuating problem now. Service minded people can no longer function in the government bureaucracy and leave to go where they can actually have some sort of impact. You’re left with a glut of everyone who sticks behind, content to build nothing.
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[Twitter HQ]. Me: [chanting] fleets, fleets-. Other designers: fleets, FLEETS. PMs: [pounding their macbooks] FLEETS, FLEETS, FLEETS!.
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incredible imagery between the family, domicile, and spirit
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@GergelyOrosz Makes sense that Slack now advertises itself as a remote tool, given the industry shifts. But the tool doesn’t feel designed for remote work. It’s the open office floor plan as a communications tool.
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product marketing: we’re struggling with conversion on the home page. growth team: lol. lmao even.
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Surreal to go looking for design inspiration and see your own work in someone else's collection.
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@TheCryptoCPA @dragonseller88 What would a failed transaction be? Any chance of offsetting those losses?.
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@KristyT if we turn the “risk” around: literally where else can you go work for a decade and make enough money to never work again in your life?. malicious framing IMO.
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@flytip @vanschneider HMW: Bring users closer together?.HMW: Encourage more intimate conversations?.HMW: Create meaningful connections between strangers?.
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@made_in_cosmos yea, kitchen runners. you can get ones that are easy to clean. makes things so much nicer.
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if this is how I look to you in slack it means I enjoy working with you
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thinking about rebalancing my tweet folio to focus on shitposting.
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Register today and let me teach your team Figma! 😀.
Thinking of exploring a new collaborative, web-based tool for interface design and prototyping? Join us for an intro workshop in Figma with Twitter’s product designer @TheSeanGoodwin and Coda’s product designer Alicia Salvino on November 17 at 6:30 PM.
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@nwilliams030 choosing to devote yourself to a corporation instead of your family to own the libs.
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Some evergreen advice for those wanting to get into design and asking for advice: . Just go try to make something small. A logo, a book cover, an app screen, a poster. Then when you read design books, you’ll get much more from them.
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oh to be a roman solider in Noricum, working a 9-5 with your buds, blissfully unaware civilization has collapsed around you. as long as the paychecks clear am i right?
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@itspatmorgan Yes. It positioned design as a c-level stakeholder. Sometimes that meant more power than design normally gets at a company, like the capital to shutdown an engineering led project/directive. (Not saying that’s always productive, but it gives you a sense of the weight).
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Good news!!. I wish this was a heroic story of bicycle recovery, but I’ve just replaced the bike after going through the police + insurance. Such a great ride that I’ve now bought it twice.
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Once you get to Figma, most of the hard work is already done. 👀.
What's an unexpected reality about working in Product that nobody warned you about?. I'll start: You'll spend a lot of time figuring out if you're "solving the right problem.".
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“The Bear” was one of my favorite watches so far this year. Worth adding to your list
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writing AI prompts talking to my toddler. 🤝 . “Take a deep breath and work on this problem step by step”.
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@stevegraham @paulg the nice thing about kids is that as they get older you are progressively loading as they get heavier 😂.
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@nabeelqu I wonder how much his financial security impacted his decisions around industry post-35. I feel like a lot of people set financial targets and then when they reach them they either decide they need a bigger target, or realize reaching it wasn’t that important at all.
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Last week I gave a guest lecture to design students about choosing to join a startup, work in a design agency, or enter Big Tech. Would folks be interested if I wrote an article about this? Would that be helpful to hear about?.
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probably one of the most fun books to browse through if you’re interested in american architecture
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VERY excited for all the brand new Loom features we’re releasing to customers today 🥳.
Say hello to the next era of Loom 🔥. Introducing: Loom AI Suite, transcripts/captions in 50+ languages, integration with @GoogleWorkspace & a revamped desktop recorder. So you can get more done, faster. ⬇️ Here’s how
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“hey sean were you able to get through the design revisions this week?”. sorry, I was.
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@KristyT When I worked at Twitter, Reddit was often pointed to as an example of what community knowledge was possible to achieve. It’s a high standard!.
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lost bitcoin wallets are the modern day buried treasure.
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"job security is tied to your ability to get your next job, not keep your current one". Great way to think about your career during The Great Reshuffling by @ejames_c .
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firing up chrome to warm my hands on a chilly morning 😌😌.
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in all relationships, one partner must be the one to take hotel shampoo, and the other must not. this protects balance in the world.
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This is probably one of the most useful design articles you can read.
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Craziest thing I’ve seen in Arlington, maybe ever. Right outside the Ballston neighborhood and less than a mile from our own house.
Video of the explosion. Hope everyone was out of the house. #Arlington #ballston .@ARLnowDOTcom @RealTimeNews10
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@joeyabanks (yes, visual design work is hard! but most product thinking for me does not happen in Figma).
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the first rule of dogfooding competitor products is not to use your company email.
So last year @Wayfair, an $8B company, launched their own AI interior design tool. This week someone at Wayfair asked me to cancel their subscription of which is my AI interior design tool launched 2 years ago. I was confused why would they sign up to it
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me dropping my iphone at 2 feet off the ground: shatters. my wife dropping her phone:.
Found an iPhone on the side of the road. Still in airplane mode with half a battery and open to a baggage claim for #AlaskaAirlines ASA1282 Survived a 16,000 foot drop perfectly in tact!. When I called it in, Zoe at @NTSB said it was the SECOND phone to be found. No door yet😅
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me and the boys when we get the vaccine.
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