~5 years ago I designed the logo/design system for comic THE WICKED AND THE DIVINE. Last night I got to celebrate the end of the series with creators
@McKelvie
&
@kierongillen
. Such a cool feeling to see an identity work for them for all that time ☺️
Today we're launching TRASH in beta! Hats off to the incredible team that made this happen. We're excited to share what we've been making with you and learn from your feedback :)
My company
@theTRASHapp
won an award today at
#NYLONConnect2020
, so that is nice! Thanks to the people who listened to my pitch and voted :)
Being a founder really is an emotional roller coaster tho – I couldn’t have been in a more different headspace this morning 🎢😟🎢😄🎢⁉️
@dburka
Grids. They kinda don’t exist on the web or mobile anyway and trying to make things stick to them is a waste of time / results in stiff-looking designs. Just line stuff up, give it enough space, focus on whether people can use it lol
One of my dirty design secrets is Keynote for quickly prototyping animations and video stuff. It's so fast, and you can be pretty high fidelity in it too… just change that canvas to be the shape of a phone 😈
if Spotify’s lift of the story format for their year in review doesn’t confirm that we’re all just communicating in vertical PowerPoint now, then idk what does. lol this date👇
The last 3 years were extremely professionally challenging, but 2017 was the hardest. Where those challenges took me though, I couldn’t be more grateful for. Thank you to everyone who supported me along the way. I can’t wait to show you what I’m making in 2018 :)
Recently a friend pointed out that one of the top reasons for burnout is lack of recognition, and all of a sudden so much more about my 18 yr career & complex relationship with being a woman in tech makes sense. Like, damn.
Hot take: the time to be hyper focused on TikTok (and TikTok-like apps) was 5 years ago, not now. That train has left the station. If that’s all the news you’re consuming about short form video today, y’all gonna miss the next w a v e
Designing late in LA, listening to the morning news on BBC in London. I love how radio can transport us to another place, especially during a time when we can’t travel.
Tourist: does the L train stop at every station?
Me: unfortunately
Them (still worried): even at this time of night?
Me: lol yea it barely runs it is def not an express
Them: it barely runs?
Me: nevermind yes it stops at all the stations you’re fine just stand here
Taking my first weekend “off” in forevvvver! Feels pretty sweet after a big product update this week. Driving to my friend’s Arizona lakehouse, new jams to listen to, a new pair of Spectacles to play with 🥳🤩🤓
These gmail answers are so formal / bordering on rude... at least for me to write. Can I get a “woman & millennial” filter applied to my algorithm or something? 😂
Whenever
@Photoshop
updates itself and turns something like this on by default I feel like it's mocking me. I've been using this app since I was 15. We're in a terrible relationship and I can't leave.
Thank you to all the people who believed in me and
@genevievemp
along the way, especially our investors, advisors and our incredible team. You know who you are! ❤️
Check out these amazing startups blending ML and music for their business that I got to share a stage with on Friday 🤗 Also, was so neat not to be the only woman presenting! ICYMI
@theTRASHapp
won the award 😇
For those of you who read my newsletter, you know the difficult journey it took just to get to this place, so taking a quick moment to pause and share this press 😅
Yesterday I biked 33 miles to the beach from Echo Park and back and it was so good. After years of biking from Williamsburg to the Rockaways, this endeavor has a special place in my heart 🚲☀️🌊
@odannyboy
Make something “bad” with the expectation that first drafts are shit. A sloppy sketch, some crappy writing, a janky prototype. Literally anything so the project is not a looming “blank canvas” anymore
Engineer friends, VC friends: please help me by RT’ing this dev ops job, it is cool. My co-founders
@_vade
and
@genevievemp
are rad, and we’re making something 🔮✨
Today I pitched a (virtual) room of VCs and industry peeps as part of Snap’s Yellow accelerator program. Huge thanks to all our investors who helped me write and rewrite that story to what it is today! ICYMI, here it is in video, mood lighting an all👇
This is like 100% of my design critiques. Seriously, why do designers love tiny text? It’s actually harder to work with. Do yourself and others a favor and bump the size yo!
When I read about the tech race for remotely controlled food delivery vehicles/delivery robots while looking out my window at the capital of never cooking, all I can think about is how far removed we’ve become from our food and how unsustainable this all seems...
I love Keynote. I love that it is free. But... this update gives me... donut charts!?
One day I'll be able to draw a shape without it being pre-filled with a shitty texture and drop shadow I have to remove ever. single. time. One day.
Shout out to the dude editing audio on the train on his laptop. Whenever I see ppl full-on coding or editing or wtv on the subway I want to give them some silent signal of respect
remember when startups had names like somethingr or thingly, and then they had no VWLS? hot take: this wave names themselves like music groups. trash. eternal. surf city.