Henry Modisett
@henrymodis
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That it will never come again
Is what makes life so sweet.
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Companies have limited opportunities to express their brand internally. What makes working here different from there? We want to feel like we are making something that could last forever, but when building software, it can feel difficult to reflect and visualize where all those
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In the looming era of agentic software + facade, this was the most prescient UI ever designed
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Happy to share that I'm hiring another brand designer to our team. You will get to make stuff all day, have a lot of creative ownership, move quickly, and help us build a brand around knowledge, discovery, and curiosity.
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Something an LLM could do in a kindle is offer a quick recap every time you open up a book again. Sliding window summary of last few pages to make it easier to get back into the flow.
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Join the small but mighty Perplexity Design team.
Early innings.
Special kudos to
@henrymodis
for designing a breakout, consumer grade experience to rival some formidable incumbents
Go work for this guy!
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Perplexity iPhone users, I apologize for leaving this menu so buried in settings but please enjoy a custom icon!
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We used Putnam to generate these icons
I've been updating the
@perplexity_ai
icons. I started with some of the primary icons and extended the style into some of the secondary ones. It's been fun!
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Last week, I moved back to SF. I'm very excited to see old friends and make some new ones.
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Pete
@pklada
designed and engineered many great details into Pages but tucking the index behind the image gallery takes the cake
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Rather than forcing each designer into a stencil, our visual brand is the sum of its stewards; there are bits of all of us in there. It keeps the brand evolving and it allows each designer be the best version of themselves.
I've been Risograph printing some Perplexity designs. This first one is a three-color 11"x14" print.
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I'm really excited to share this because we made the product more powerful and sophisticated without making it feel more complex. In many ways, it even feels simpler and easier to understand, as it explains to you what it's doing.
We’re excited to announce an updated version of our Pro Search that can perform deeper research on more complex queries with multi-step reasoning, Wolfram|Alpha, and code execution.
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There are many different approaches and values that lead to great software design. I think the most effective ones match the product, the market, and come with clear tradeoffs. Here are the v0 perplexity design team values:
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the fun part of design is when you helped ship something and people use it. You get to see people use the software and experience delight, utility, or fun. Organizations that have turned designers into idea visualizers, maintaining complex mockup systems have lost the plot.
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how you do anything is how you do everything
Last week we shipped a small visual change to
@perplexity_ai
on web: a version of our logo which animates while a response is streaming.
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I don't want to create software that feels like the future; I want it to feel like it’s always been there. It should be such a natural extension of us and a solution to our needs that we simply forget there was another way.
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Any numbers aside, making it to someone’s dock or home screen is what makes me feel the most proud of our team. Now just need to keep earning it.
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Dream come true to have something I made be featured in the "Before" section on Under Consideration
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So excited to have another designer-builder on the team. We're already going faster!
Excited to share that I recently joined
@perplexity_ai
as a product designer / ui engineer, working alongside a phenomenal team (and
@henrymodis
, again!). AI-native search is just beginning to take flight and I’m happy to get to play a small part in its development. Let’s go!
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We put a bench in a room in the office. A frontend engineer and a backend engineer sat down and worked together. Every idea in “A Pattern Language” immediately validated.
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Welcome!! Jumping right in
I'm a brand designer at
@perplexity_ai
now! I just started this week and this poster is the first thing I made.
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Speak your mind ~ Another special experience from
@gunnargray
Ask any question — hear the answer.
Available on iOS for Pro users starting today.
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Dear everyone,
UI design lesson learned over & over: people learn by using a product not by being told how to use a product.
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Always exploring
Proud to announce our partnership with
@elevenlabsio
Discover Daily is our daily podcast, designed to integrate into your day—whether you're on the move or enjoying those in-between moments. Each episode is curated from our Discover feed and brought to life through
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Another home video from us. New tech enables new products that need great storytelling. Thank you
@apostraphi
for always doing so much with so little.
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In case you missed it ~
Happy to share that I'm hiring another brand designer to our team. You will get to make stuff all day, have a lot of creative ownership, move quickly, and help us build a brand around knowledge, discovery, and curiosity.
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Phi does it again
@apostraphi
We're teaming up with
@brilliantlabsAR
to integrate our real-time answers into Frame, their AI-enhanced glasses. You can ask about what you see, instantly — all in your line of sight.
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I'm looking for someone to come work with me! If you are interested in thinking about systems and process as well as building tools for designers, engineers, and data scientists, then consider this unique design role.
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I think the most important thing I've learned as a designer in the last year is how much more important it is to be obvious than clever
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+100000000
Thrilled to be joining
@henrymodis
,
@apostraphi
,
@pklada
, and the incredible team at
@perplexity_ai
as a Product Design Lead. AI is changing the way we search and discover on the web and it's been inspiring to see this team lead the way 🚀
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Fastest year of my life!
Today marks the first year anniversary of the launch of , launched on Dec 7, 2022. Lot of people ask me why we ended up being the best product in this category. If I had to pick one word: it is conviction. We believed world needed answers rather than links.
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this value is pretty much all I want in a teammate. It's a joy to make nice software.
In my last interview round, someone asked me why I am doing this. I thought that people usually respond with some grandiose statement...
"is it ok if I just like making software?"
That's the dullest thing about me, but it's def. the truth, regardless of financial standing.
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"The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but simply live in it."
question for people a decade plus in their design careers — what keeps yall going?
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From the most basic version of Perplexity until where we are now, I've always had conviction that we've made something useful and that it will only get more useful. A big part of the work ahead is getting more people in the world to ask their first question.
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🍿
CONVERSATIONS
ON QUALITY (2024)
A limited series.
Premieres Oct 11.
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First course
We're experimenting with a new format for discovering stories on Perplexity, rolling out on iOS. Spotted the changes? We'd love to hear your thoughts – your feedback is always appreciated!
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incredible year 🫡
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(∩^ω^)⊃━☆ﾟ.*
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I'm really happy to share this update. So much information and context lives in images and video. Not only do they enhance the reading experience but they provide new paths for getting the answers to your questions. This gives us an elegant foundation for more to come.
Your quest for knowledge expands beyond text. Our latest update brings a new dimension to your search, seamlessly integrating images and videos to visually enhance every answer. Try it now on !
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The
@irondavy
coaching tree
Crazy little SFBA design-scene fact:
@irondavy
's reports at Quora ('13-'19) went on to be Heads of Design at
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@AnthropicAI
-
@perplexity_ai
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@scale_AI
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@watershed
- @~~my mysterious employer~~
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@TeamBlind
(we think?)
- Quora itself!
NICE DESIGN COACHING TREE!!! 😤😤😤
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Welcome!!!!
Excited to share that I'm now a product designer at
@perplexity_ai
! Honored to work alongside such a talented group and make contributions to a product I use every day.
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I'm working on a series of posts about Product Thinking and all the different ideas that define it. Here's the first one!
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All the code I was writing for Perplexity was set in Berkeley Mono. Then we were fortunate enough to find a place for it in the brand.
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Dear students of design, please do side projects and build something real.
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What if boarding passes in Apple wallet deleted themselves after your flight instead of you having to do it manually 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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I’m really proud of all the work that everyone put into this. So much new design and code giving us a much better foundation. What a month!
Our mobile apps are revamped and upgraded from the ground up. Carry the world's knowledge right in your pocket. Ask anything, anytime, and take it everywhere you go. Available on iOS & Android today.
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be a pathfinder
"The best designers and the best programmers aren’t the ones with the best skills, or the nimblest fingers, or the ones who can rock and roll with photoshop or vim, they are the ones that can determine what just doesn’t matter. That’s where the real gains are made."
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Really really excited to share this new brand foundation. Thank you
@apostraphi
@mikesmith187
@Smith_Diction
@UprightTRex
@JustinLawes
for creating something special.
try it now
Knowledge is power. Experience our new brand, designed to unlock our curiosity, one question at a time. Discover knowledge and explore endless possibilities:
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😍
✨ We launched the
@retool
rebrand today ✨
Check it out:
Huge props to the brand team—I’m immensely proud of my talented teammates and everything we’ve achieved together. And a big thanks to everyone who helped us along the way!
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Happy September to those that celebrate
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nothing brings people together better than a really solid naturally occurring phenomenon
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The best part of hot tubs is that they have benches in them. Pools and oceans aren't like that
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I don't know who needs to hear this but... here's my playlist for testing new headphones / speakers
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Everything about this makes me really happy
Arc 🤝 Perplexity
Head to Settings > Profiles > Choose Perplexity > Ask anything about everything.
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I wrote a post about looking at product design process through a new lens: Code is Law.
http://t.co/GbJf9RdhTX
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This is so good!
Had fun making generative art for this post using Claude/chatgpt and processing! Even fired up the plotter. Excited to expand on this theme.
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I love doing this type of software design that unlocks and encourages unknown emergent behaviors. You find that the problems and decisions you are faced with are much more akin to urban planning than to designing an object like a clock.
The best systems in our world are composed of few parts and few simple rules that give rise to maximum freedom, possibilities, complexities, while keeping things as intuitive and obvious as possible.
Designing software is no different.
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Every shooting is painful. This one happened where I grew up. That was my grocery store. That’s where I went for a snack after school as a kid. That’s where people I love would be. I feel hopeless America.
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It's okay to be a Know It All.
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Lol even promo shots of Uber are stuck on the loading screen
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when you get head count
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If anyone wants to hang out i’m about to order some dinner
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Welcome!!
Very happy to share that I've joined
@perplexity_ai
! So stoked for the journey ahead and grateful to be surrounded by some true design legends. Let's gooo! 💫
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Speaks to innovation vs. optimization. Innovation comes from people willing something into existence that they wish they had. Afterwards, you optimize by adapting that to the market. Also speaks to why many great things end up dying through optimization
This advice from
@RickRubin
hits home:
"The audience comes last. I believe that. I'm not making it for them. I'm making it for me. And it turns out that when you make something truly for yourself, you're doing the best thing you possibly can for the audience.
So much of why if
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Stressfully preparing talking points as I walk to get my haircut realizing that nothing IS new with me!
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There's so much efficiency to gain by improving all the tools, experience, and process around programming. Merging, deploying, dev environments, lint errors, etc etc. These things kill the flow more than anything
is anyone working on AI for seamless git merge conflict resolution? i would pay for that.
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@hobdaydesign
@linear
I shipped this Quora navigation pattern like 8 years ago. At the time, there was nothing like it that I was aware of but phones were getting bigger and thumbs were not getting longer.
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To anyone i've ever interviewed, thank you for the hard work you put in to build your portfolio
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Making an iOS7 version of your app shouldn't mean stripping out your brand.
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Today I figured out that instead of telling Alexa to “turn off” the lights I can say “Alexa kill the lights” which has totally changed the vibe of my apartment
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@nabeelqu
@shortfanelacap
We want to reduce the time between wanting to know something and knowing something. Different goals lead to a different product.
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The engineers are watching a live feed of an IOI competition while we the design team watch this live feed of bears
http://t.co/LhD7l7Wyjg
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I couldn't make up my mind when picking colors for my personal site so... choose your own adventure!
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