Weiwei π
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building a joyful camera @LentilRoulette; prev @sprout_place, @dynamicland1;
TPE, LAX, PVG
Joined February 2011
new experiment is live! tweet βblendβ @LentilRoulette with any photo for it to be augmented.
reply with a pic and iβll transform it for you! the result is a surprise every time π€«
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This voice message interface on WeChat is really smooth: record a message, swipe to have it transcribed or deleted, or simply release and send it as a voice message!
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New site: Since many of us spend a good portion of our time online, one of the most direct way we can encourage more folks to self-quarantine is by adding a mask to our profile pic. #socialdistancing #covid19 #coronavirus
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Semilattice ββ a collection of systems and interaction concepts for personal knowledge management tools. Really incredible thinking and work from @aoshengran
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So incredibly excited to share MakeSpace today β . It is a whole new way to be together, apart. It is a browser for you, your friends, and your community. It is also a place to co-create, co-work, or just hang out.
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I want the Internet to be about _us_. Being on the Internet has been about others: watch what others are up to, see what others are doing, read what others are thinking.
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βSo whereβs home?β Is a forever confusing and difficult question for me to answer, because itβs never a single place. i made a comic log about belonging and itβs deeply personal β .
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this is what iβve been toying with latelyβ¦ not sure where itβs going but you can essentially blend photos with emojis and tilt between realitiesβ¦. lmk if youβd like to give it a try. gonna share a few more examples below too
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we are starting to roll out our refreshed visual look & feel for @sprout_place. it takes up less visual space and gives players more room to put down their own objects . s/o to @aoshengran and @sktao for the amazing work! . some design details and explorations:
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incredibly excited to share Sprout today βοΈ. itβs been a humbling journey to work with and learn from a talented group of teammates and bring this to you
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been (trying to) think about tools and software built w considerations for wandering and passing time. one of my (personal) goal is to make artful and playful software (n hardware) β they r more than utility tools, they also dedicate and make space for curiosity n imaginations
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In case you think these moments are βunique,β I hope what I share (as I tremble) will be more data points for you to consider otherwise: .1. This same founder of cult favorite productivity tool asked me the same question during my interview.
3. During an interview, founder of cult favorite productivity tool asked me if I could empathize with the boston marathon b*mber, and h*tler. before revealing that half of his team consisted of trump supporters.
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wild to see this interactive court at Nike House 001 in Shanghai with a 4-floor high display
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1/ In Shanghai right now, documenting all things mobility / delivery / parking / related in this thread:. π¦ π π π² π¦ π.
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having relied on and for so long -- it's kind of surreal that we now have our own version of it
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Lately, Iβve been wondering what career path will help people to gain creative autonomy and financial independence. At @tiny_factories, we will all work inter-dependently to make and launch small scale products each month.
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I want to collaborate with you on your google doc in my notion page, listen to your spotify playlist from my apple music app, dm your whatsapp account from my twitter inbox. too bad they dont know how to talk to each other :(.
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stumbled upon a 7-year-old screenshot of @instagram in 2013 and it feels like we are in a whole other world now. also, yea, that's a grade 10 weiwei bio ββ
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they don't have a twitter account but if you want to follow their progress you can .visit their IG .or see their portfolio
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We started writing tiny notes on about our personal and work process. It's been extremely helpful to be able to reflect independently & together. I hope that this also gives y'all an honest view of the ups and downs we go through.
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reading the copy for iPhone in traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, and in American English side-by-side. enjoying the nuances in language localisation
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This 10-year-old public installation is a freakin bluetooth speaker for *anyone* to connect to and play music (max 80 decibels) during business hours in downtown Taipei
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Thinking about the notion of subscribing / following a feed a newsletter a person a blog. Instead of picking between subscribing and unsubscribing, I'd love a ~gradient~ of options for tuning into a river of thoughts. In particular, i'm in love with what @fffraidycat offer
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set up a lil space because we will be chatting about "designing for coziness" at @sprout_place today at 5pm pst. come hang with @aoshengran, @mayli, and i if you are around ~. (more deets below)
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i felt so lucky visiting to this library/work space in taipei every week when I was living there - it's located in a tobacco-factory-turned-creative-park with movie theatre, experiential workshops, shopping, hotel altogether
Onion Design Associates recently created the βOne-Day Passβ for the design library inside the Taiwan Design Research Institute. The inspiration for the design of the ticket comes from handwritten library cards in a world before the digital age.
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it's often hard to see and make sense of our own (career) trajectory. some of us @tiny_factories gathered to reflect and think the meaning of our work by going around to help each other identify patterns and ~constellations~ in our past work and aspirational work
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Life sometimes sends you a message π. Iβve been at a very low point lately, and as I was about to give up, I came across this note (from @ItsNeppingCakey) in a game Iβve been playing π«
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had the opportunity to sit down with @_adamwiggins_ + @mmcgrana and chat about tools for expression recently γ. we strolled through questions like why we create spaces and tools to express, when we reach for tactile tools vs digital tools, how we find balance when being online.
Metamuse 39 // Expressive tools. With @weiweiwei33 of @sprout_place. β’ Digital communication tools and our sense of belonging.β’ Online spaces that feel like bedrooms instead of stadiums.β’ Withered technology, Winamp skins, and cursor waves
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this might sound cheesy but one the main thing I appreciate about being back in Asia is the amount of intergenerational-ness I see and feel everyday as I move through life here. so much more proactive-ness in supporting, looking out & inspiring each other across generations.
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some of us at tiny factories got really good to flying airplanes and folding together paper boats with ascii :P
To celebrate our 2 year anniversary, we have made a new website sprinkled with good old ASCIIβ¨! . A mega thread introducing the new design and also the updates we made to our community Κβ’α΄₯β’Κ. ββββ
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join me in the art challenge of chilltober where we just try to relax a little more and take care of ourselves and each other.
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im really excited for what's to come this year -- . not because I know it's going to be a great year (cuz I dont) but because it's going to be a year filled with richness and textured layers.
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This was easily the darkest time of my life so far; I hope that no one experience the dark spiral I was in 5 months ago. I wish I can go talk to myself then, shield her from the lethal words she internalized & let her know that sheβs more capable than she currently think she isπ«.
Life sometimes sends you a message π. Iβve been at a very low point lately, and as I was about to give up, I came across this note (from @ItsNeppingCakey) in a game Iβve been playing π«
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TheirTube ββ a Youtube simulator with 6 portals to someone else's recommendation environment. An incredible and playful intervention by @TomoKihara .
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βHis idea was that making places that people appreciate and love is the formula to ultimate sustainability. By that, he meant: make places where people participate in making and through the beauty of that process people'll want to save them.β. on Christopher Alexander.
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look up to the sky, take a walk, wave hello to a friend. have a calm day/night, wherever you are
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how come conversing online and in public is so hierarchical? . Being the first to say something means you are the βownerβ of the topic and being the second to say something always put you in a βlower tierβ because your words always exist as nested comments/posts.
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making space in MakeSpace for a garden of flowers, pokemon, and a cat! πΈ.
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caught a few glimpse of the first day of 2021, happy new year from taipei .~*
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been learning to not let myself get in my own way ββ what a difficult but beautiful lesson.
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Joy led the first human interface group at Apple and was the VP of experience design at Yahoo. She is also humorous and a wonder to converse with. In 30min, she will be sharing some early 90s and 00s stories on clubhouse, tune in if you are around ~*
I'm beyond blessed to call @SJoyMountford my mentor and my friend. Listen in today 6pm PT as @glitchyowl and I chat with her about βπ» Design Stories from the 90s and 00s w/ Joy Mountfordβ on @joinClubhouse! #ux #design #userexperience #uxlife
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tested out @MakeSpaceTeam with the crew at @tiny_factories π±.
β§γ* We had yet another cozy and chaotic gathering on MakeSpace to share our work in progress! We had new members @midblue and @zehf joining us this month! . A thread on all the updates on the WIP the community has been making so far. ! γβ§*
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sometimes i wish time would pause for an hour so i can sip some wine and repot some plants.
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I often find myself wandering off πΎas Iβm on my way to a specific page on a website. This is a bandaid solution, but creating shortcuts in @alfredapp has helped me stay in the flow that I want to be in
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πMade a little image slider-y thing. poke at it or remix it here .π
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1/ This is a comparison of revenue distribution between Tencent & Facebook. I wanted to share a little anecdote on what motivated Tencent to diversify their source of revenue.
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no matter how cold-hearted I am with closing off tabs, 8 hours later I still end up with 3245 tabs and 3 browser windows. HALP . but srsly, what are some alternative models other than the tab life we are living in
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Iβm looking for feedback! If youβd like to help me and read through my current draft of a photo comic (about my feelings and <3 for Taiwan), please comment or dm me π
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~ new comic log. a roundup of things like images, writings, projects, and projects that flowed through in august. was thinking about ambient hardware, hasselblad-instax, diy foiling, and more.
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been thinking a lot about expressivity and "reachability" . walking through some wip prototypes and product questions we've been exploring here.πͺ΄
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1/ Tutorials/explainers can be very informational and _satisfying_ to watch. This is a small collection of soothing tutorials that Iβve come across . πΉπΉπ.
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the December me thought I was hopeless.And here I am .Looking at the first piece of software iβve ever written.END TO END . βοΈbelieve in yourself yβall.
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making new figma plugins w @ycshao and @gndclouds and the first thing we did was adding cursor sparkles.γ.β’*γ»
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We just submitted our first @figmadesign plugin! It's our first time writing in React and we'd really appreciate a code review; there were lots of things where we brute force our way through. If you can help (and are available), please let us know! My DM's also open π.
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@sprout_place my favourite part is that multiple players can screen share alongside each other!
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5. This one is particularly terrifying to share because it literally paralyzed me (for months): I was told Iβm technically useless and what I want to do cannot be achieved with how technically useless I am right now.
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I want to hug a friend so tightly itβs hard to breathe. I want to sneak into a room for a surprise. I want to roll my eyes together and laugh so hard we canβt stand straight. I want to whisper into each otherβs ears. I want to be padded on the shoulder. Am I asking for too much.
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@thesephist I have this in the archive: . Traverse between characters, timeline, and maps of the book at three different granularity levels
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incase anyone is interested in the tools we used to build this:.design in @figmadesign .code in @glitch and @superhi_ editor.hosted on @zeithq.
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celebrated my brotherβs birthday in-person for the first time in 6 years β hits different.
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We have 3 (tiny) prototypes that we are building out, they are three different approaches to batch creating/manipulating/sorting image assets. If you are interested in this space and have ~20min to look through them with us, let us know! (DMs open too!) π«.
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been feeling alive ββ its a soup of emotions that's been tumbling: confusion, sadness, fear, excitement, hopeful, energised. and maybe that's what lyfe is.
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experiment: I wrote a note on ~the gradient of social presence . and am deliberately leaving them in a public doc so you can comment by directly inserting your thoughts in-between the existing paragraphs (as opposed to commenting at the end or on the side).
how come conversing online and in public is so hierarchical? . Being the first to say something means you are the βownerβ of the topic and being the second to say something always put you in a βlower tierβ because your words always exist as nested comments/posts.
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Hello itβs Monday at 7:50am here in Taiwan; 15 hours ahead of PST. It looks like weβve got another stormy week ahead of us π©
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Iβve come to realize that, once I begin to see certain things in life clearer, I begin to unsee certain things I misunderstood as the way of life. And Iβm very grateful for those who have helped me to see and unsee.
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Cuttle is just so coool.
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enjoyed chatting about pace layering for thinking together yesterday! i ended up sharing the sprout space with everyone and it's so cool to come back and see @hydrosquall making comments on the materials in there
First #ToolsForThoughtRocks speaker is @weiweiwei33, talking about pace layering for thinking. How might tools help us collaborate at different speeds?. Presenting using @sprout_place -- mean time to silliness!
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this tree. !. when I swung by this park each morning there would be music/news playing from a portable radio. some folks would be napping, some reading newspaper, some chatting while massaging their shoulder against the tree branch . how cool
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waking up to a message full of warmth from @emdashe gave me very teary eyes. we @tiny_factories have been growing spaces for bon-fire conversations about finding our creative footing. its really hard but its a lot less alone when we know we are in this together .~*
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i've always thought signal or twitter dm was gonna become wechat of the west, but i'm now convinced telegram will.
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At the GitHub conference thereβs a feedback wall, and this might be the most important feedback on the wall
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in the future, Iβd love to explore ways to make and share comic logs in a more dynamic way β so that gifs + videos + links can be weaved into them π§΅.
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hey folks in Taipei, we are doing a lil gathering at zhongshan station this Sunday, come hang if you are up for some spontaneity ~*
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Being back in Taiwan means I occasionally mistake strangers with a certain outfit as my grandma or big aunt (who have both passed away). Even though I know it canβt be them, I still feel the urge to go up to them and ask them how theyβve beenΒ π.
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so excited for this!! Undergraduate degree in Urban Technology β "an interaction/service/strategic design programs in schools of arch and planning".
Signed on to lead a new undergraduate degree at @TaubmanCollege in Urban Technology. What does that mean? Starting point is a mix of cities, code, and design. Let's figure it out together. Looking forward to working w/ the crew, old and new alike!.
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