Kent de Bruin
@kentdebruin
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Designers at Config nervously clapping, but about to lose their job
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A friend who is new to Twitter asked me for some must follows:
@naval
@sivers
@waitbutwhy
@craigmod
@frank_chimero
@Alex_Danco
@lehrjulian
@david_perell
@fortelabs
@vgr
@paulg
@patrickc
@eugenewei
@gruber
@jelleprins
@Conaw
@dhh
@andy_matuschak
@jasonyuandesign
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The echo chamber that Twitter is sometimes. I can't tell if lambda school is actually popular or if my twitter following just loops hype on it
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Every app is multiplayer now... except the web browser. In early 2021, I joined Sail (now
@feelmuddy
) to build a multiplayer browser.
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Maybe collaboration should just move to one metalayer instead of a per application created solution
What if
@googlemaps
had real-time collaboration? 🤔
Mapus is a free & open source tool to explore and annotate collaboratively on a map 🗺️ Draw, add markers, create lines and areas, find places to go, observe other users, and much more.
✨
@github
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Digital fluency (inbox zero, password management, clear folder systems, reviewing and storing information) is so fundamental for today's knowledge worker. Should be part of every job interview in my opinion.
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Card design explorations while making Sail. (cc
@feelmuddy
)
These represent website tabs that open up when clicked.
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This is really cool:
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From the moment I discovered
@futurelandtv
5 years ago I knew I wanted to get involved somehow. Very excited to bring Futureland to the next level.
Honoured to share
@kentdebruin
, from Amsterdam, is joining our team to lead UX design from now on
Kent is a long time user, he's been helping us behind the scenes for the past few months, and he's why we've been able to rapidly iterate towards Futureland 2
we're v lucky, ty
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| New longform essay |
Software is Polluting the World
• Digital pollution is an invisible problem that not many people seem to be aware of.
• How to nudge people into more sustainable behavior
• Two small Sustainable UX design iterations
↓
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Idea 23: 'The Megabar' – a browser that lives on top of a canvas (from
@feelmuddy
archives)
An early prototype to question: how do we fit a full-size browser inside of a spatial canvas app?
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Who wants to hang in 🇨🇦 Toronto?
Futureland designer
@kentdebruin
will be flying in from amsterdam for New Demos 2, and just to hang out in toronto to see what's happening.
He will be here from April 5 – 15 if you want to grab a coffee with him, you'll see him at New office hours and more as well.
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Did a short exploration of an “Quasimode inbox” in
@iAWriter
. Inspired by Jef Raskin and
@museappHQ
So many gems in the book The Humane Interface by Jeff Raskin:
A humane interface never puts your work at risk.
“The interface should require you to explicitly delete text if you want to delete text and not delete it as a side effect of another action.”
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This was something special, this was something new.
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I’ve been taking a picture of the sky almost everyday. Today’s entry was special!
All tracked with
@futurelandtv
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Patty sticker from
@newdemos_
2 immortalized at Revue cinema in Roncesvalles, Toronto. And no one’s taking it down because ya’ll ain’t sixfootseven
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I'm Kent de Bruin, a multi-disciplinary designer & creative based in Amsterdam.
I'm currently working on Futureland. Previously I've worked on projects ranging from personal computing, artificial intelligence, architecture, creative tooling, furniture, government & housing.
Futureland designer
@kentdebruin
will be flying in from amsterdam for New Demos 2, and just to hang out in toronto to see what's happening.
He will be here from April 5 – 15 if you want to grab a coffee with him, you'll see him at New office hours and more as well.
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Long way to go but this seems like the first signs are very positive. We are laying the groundwork to make the whole experience social. Layering features one by one. Keep giving us feedback, we listen to everything.
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So many gems in the book The Humane Interface by Jeff Raskin:
A humane interface never puts your work at risk.
“The interface should require you to explicitly delete text if you want to delete text and not delete it as a side effect of another action.”
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Just saw Perfect Days by Wim Wenders. What a beautiful movie! The structure of daily routine is the backbone of the movie. Throughout the film, the camera captures the main character doing the same things repeatedly.
Reminds me a lot of
@futurelandtv
.
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It’s crazy to see your work on a huge movie screen. That was New for me.
Futureland 2 is software to track anything in your life by
@internetvin
,
@lucaslovexoxo
, and
@kentdebruin
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Kinopio is such inspiring software.
@pketh
has been cooking for years, and he really embodies this intersection of software and art.
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Why is all our software, loud, so so loud? How did we end up with so many apps and services that completely neglect their customers and only focus on growth, numbers and profit? Is there a solution?
I wrote an essay exploring these questions. Read it:
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Google maps has a feature called ‘last visited. If you think of the internet as a map, browsers should support the same to create an overview of when you were last on a particular site.
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We’re cooking
Futureland will begin experimenting with new multiplayer features, which might include a "daily tournament" where users compete to meet daily goals, with eliminations until only one winner remains.
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We currently focus with
@futurelandtv
on getting people in their optimal bedtime zone, as it significantly impacts overall sleep quality.
We could do a lot more around gamification and storytelling.
Might experiment with this soon with
@futurelandtv
. Gamification around health data is a super interesting space
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Working with a small highly skilled team on a tight deadline is the best feeling in the world
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Interesting take on the original 1000 true fans.
Today, creators can effectively make more money off fewer fans, shifting to 100 "truer" fans.
I see this emerging right in front of me with courses from
@david_perell
or
@fortelabs
for example.
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I want a
@RoamResearch
x
@AREdotNA
hybrid.
is the missing social part of a second brain. The stuff that you want to share with the world. RoamResearch the private part.
It would be Zettelkasten on steroids
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This is so, so good. Every creator should read this again and again.
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Incredibly proud of my brother who just published his first photo book Puebla Rasa.
A super personal project because all pictures are shot with the same camera our dad used 45 years ago in Mexico.
I’m super excited to finally announce that I am self-publishing my first photobook, Puebla Rasa.
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Been playing around with
@runwayml
as a machine learning tool. Amazing what you can create with zero lines of codes. This really enables creatives to use AI. We have come a long way.
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Happy where this landed!
WIP: A new refreshed interface for viewing everything you track, in detail.
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Color theory is no joke but very happy where this landed. Another small step in the right direction. App is getting better every week.
Futureland 2 now supports themes.
Thank you for everything.
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@Austen
That's why I am working on Acaboo. We build interactive e-learn courses that disrupt physical textbooks and enhance the student's study experience.
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@craigmod
See this thread:
Google have changed their search results design, but it's not good news...
Why Google's new search results design is a dark pattern
(a thread) 👇
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@craigmod
Reminds me of this great essay by Eugene Wei called Invisible Asymptotes.
“People hate shipping to an irrational degree”
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Challenges can stimulate people to get stuff done. When you are in a challenge the colors take over to show a sense of urgency and fun.
WIP: A New Interface for Challenges Between You and Your Friends.
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Might experiment with this soon with
@futurelandtv
. Gamification around health data is a super interesting space
$1M business idea: Sleep gamification.
Pokemon Sleep made $100M in its first year 😱
Basically an iPhone app that tracks your sleep and lets you collect Pokemon & level up if you get good sleep.
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I just graduated Cum Laude from the Master Digital Design in Amsterdam.
Here is a small video where I talk about my design practice:
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I’m in, will be crafting an all star team of engineers, designers, and artists.
Introducing: New Hacks
An all day hackathon in Toronto on Saturday June 22nd.
New Hacks is designed with a game jam like feel for committed designers, engineers, generalists, and artists of all skill levels who value the production of something tangible.
LMK if you want.
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Think I'll start a hacker house.
Rent something off-grid with 4/6 friends to work remotely, learn new skills, and build cool stuff.
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Dot is cooking, curious where this projects is heading, still processing it after onboarding, lots to learn.
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A visualization of the median global temperatures between 1850 and 2018
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I love Things 3 by
@culturedcode
. What makes them unique is this minimalist approach to new features. "We get tons of requests from our users, but we're very careful in thinking them through too much." Most app updates tout big new features. Updates to Things focus on simplicity.
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📜
@broskoski
() on company outcome:
Our ideal outcome as a company is not becoming the next Facebook (god forbid), it’s becoming the next Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Japan, and one of the world’s oldest businesses (founded in 705 AD).
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The colors are based on people’s selected theme color. We are looking into different ways to let people distinguish themselves from each other: colors, avatars, usernames.
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Still experimenting loads with the UX but the art direction will feel like a new kind of game you can play with your friends.
WIP: Create Your Own Challenges, Choose from Last One Standing, Streak, Race, and Team Challenges
Compete with your friends on anything you can think of, from exercise minutes, to sports, to hobbies, to any kind of habits, or make up your own random fun games.
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This is Futureland
Latest cut of new film for
Visuals close to final. Sound design is not, but we will finish over next few days. Seems my voice is making final cut which is p cool
Hope to work on more films about software because it makes me v happy
Dir by. Marvin Lau
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Working on a new tracker grid for
@futurelandtv
entries. There are a lot of moving parts so it's challenging to give everything a spot. But feel like I'm moving in the right direction
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I want a meta-layer over the internet.
A layer where you can see the discussions, comments, highlights, and page links of any specific page.
One giant web of cool places.
@AREdotNA
x
@instapaper
x
@reddit
x
@twitter
x
@newsycombinator
x
@Pocket
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A sneak peek of tracking together in Futureland 2. Dm me if you want to track pushups, tennis hours, coffee, stretching.
Track Anything with Your Friends on Futureland 2.
See How
@tommytrxnh
Tracks Bouldering with Others.
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Like I have thought about every pixel on that screen, but in tech there are not many places where you can show your work in that way.
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Frosted windows in Japan photographed by Awoiska van der Molen
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It’s easy, so easy
@caseploeg
@hussamfyi
@tommytrxnh
@melodykuo
@1vnzh
@wisamjs
@badcryptobitch
@dhrumilcse
@kentdebruin
@pondermars
@ShifraKhan
@jtalms
@Ahm_Mrad
I heard Kent actually created the trail we walked on last night. He spent 8+ hours shovelling and arranging gravel for us.
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New sticker
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Kinda like the „Memories“ from Apple Photos. „Here is what you listened to last Saturday.“
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Makes such a difference to be able to see the size of an ebook
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Who knows an ambient artist? I want to create a soundtrack for the Futureland onboarding
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So bumped I’m going to miss this one, if you are in Toronto lx you should def go!
Introducing: New Demos 2
A showcase of what we make with our computers.
April 10, 2024
8pm, Revue Cinema
Roncesvalles, Toronto
Tickets now on sale. Link below.
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My journey for a week without social media:
*starts with me searching for 20 minutes for the logout button on Twitter*
still not found
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I’m also doing some online onboarding sessions, DM me if you want to be be a part of these.
Futureland 2 Toronto Sessions begin next week, Feb 7, in the junction area of Toronto: 300 Campbell Avenue.
Participants get access to an early prototype of Futureland 2, can share thoughts on its design, and any advice on improving our tools.
Join in:
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@craigmod
Instant buy for an e-ink device that runs iOS for reading articles (instapaper, pocket), books (iBooks, kindle, etc) and pdf’s.
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We are doing a Pomodoro challenge today with a bunch of Futureland users. This is my 5th Pomodoro of the day. I'm currently in third place.
Working on a new tracker grid for
@futurelandtv
entries. There are a lot of moving parts so it's challenging to give everything a spot. But feel like I'm moving in the right direction
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