Koen Bok
@koenbok
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Koen sounds like Moon @framer @festina
AMS / BCN
Joined June 2008
The first 10 years of my web design career revolved around "what the browser could do.". Back then, browsers were not very powerful. Even when they had impressive features, Internet Explorer often blocked you from using them. As a result, most websites looked somewhat dull.
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The popular current design style for websites is basically 80s empty VHS tapes. Pretty cool.
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Excellent Mac Desktop software you might have missed, please add yours in the 🧵.
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Framer X will be entirely based on ES6 and React. We will port the current Framer library to a set of really nice (optional) React helpers for animation, advanced gestures, and interpolation. All open source, of course.
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Wow the Dutch government started a pilot visa program for "essential startup employees". Anyone who gets offered 1% equity and €2.5k/m pay or more gets a visa. I see canals full of startups with talent from anywhere❤️.
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Todays Framer release will make my not-so-secret-side-project a lot easier: teaching every designer how to code (enough to be dangerous). Start with my curated guide:
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Understanding React doesn’t have to be hard. I made a short overview for people with a basic web design background. Let me know if it helps!.
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Pretty insane to see how fast Framer Motion is growing. If you are in need of production grade animations for React, give it a try. It's really good.
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We are proud to spin out Motion as an independent open source project to make sure it becomes the best animation library for everyone.
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I haven't had this much fun building for the web since the 90s. Shipping from a freeform canvas feels magical.
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In 2014, all designers were trying to get a role in big tech and "seats at the table.". In 2024, all designers are trying to get 100k followers on YouTube and six-figure recurring revenue streams. This has resulted in a lot less yapping about design management, design systems,.
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Looking for the best product designers? I started a highly curated product design talent newsletter:
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Today, we launched Web 2.0 for designers. Fetch lets anyone use an API to dynamically update any part of a site. You can change the login state, display the user's name, show the current weather at your location, or even the Bitcoin price. Have fun building advanced sites.
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If you are an engineer who loves React and design, you should definitely join our team (full time in Amsterdam). Both CS people and self taught hackers welcome. Email or DM me directly at koen at framer dot com.
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Nice piece on our journey in Forbes today. I'd say we are more a (friendly) Webflow than Figma competitor, but I'm sure this gets more clicks :-).
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1.0 is simply amazing. I switched all my side projects over in seconds with zero issues. When do you _ever_ have that with JavaScript? . Now everything feels seriously snappy, like when I used Node for the first time ❤️.
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Had to explain SSR tonight and it was surprisingly hard with words. I couldn't find a great simple overview so I quickly made one.
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If you have have an ActionScript, jQuery or Framer Classic background, and learning React feels surprisingly difficult: you are not wrong. React uses a different programming model (declarative vs. imperative) then you trained yourself for: .
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OrbStack is a much better alternative to Docker, allowing you to run any container on Mac or Linux with a click.
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This is the year we got really good at shipping. Vector editing was the last step in our plan to make Framer an end to end design tool that is interactive-first. I can't wait to merge code and design in 2018.
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Fully switched to Vite plus for side projects. So fast and so simple. Feels like Node ten years ago ❤️.
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Designers, start prototyping for virtual reality today. Introducing the VR for Framer. –
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If you like working on component systems, direct manipulation, graphics performance or compilers let's chat. Framer Web is growing quickly and we are looking to add more experienced engineers to our team to help empower everyone to build interactive work. (Remote ok).
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I just realized that almost all talented venture capitalists in Europe I know are women. That is a fantastic outlook.
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We know basic looking sites just do a fine job. But we have always loved building _great_ websites. This might be our 20th one. What do you think?.
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Recession and a platform shift to AI? No better time to start a fund. Announcing with @jornvandijk An early stage fund looking to back your startup.
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Everything made in Framer obviously. Anyone interested if we started to share some source files to take a peek how our talented team works?.
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The new @codesandbox is insane. It can now run ANY type of project, because it's backed by a real server (using much faster hardware than your laptop). But starting projects still just takes one click and it even just works with your current VSCode 🤯
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Personally I can't wait for the neo-brutalist web styling to pass. Everything looks like a Berlin based Toys R Us.
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I have been writing quite some React intro's this year, and they work. I have now met many designers who learned React through these guides. You can do it too!. - - -
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Raycast is not just a great application launcher, but also the best AI chat interface.
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Typical Sunday coding. Writing some code: 5m. Figuring out how to serve a static file with my dev server: 2h. No success. Back to day drinking.
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Can your code editor do this? Code Highlighting just landed in Framer. http://t.co/ARpKU6XIGo
http://t.co/FtowO1i4W8.
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Introducing Framer Auto Size. Fully based on dom and flexbox. Extremely easy to use. Works very well with component variants, so you can make navigation, expanding cards, disclosing rows and much more in seconds.
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Between SwiftUI, Flutter and Framer it's great to see a whole category of code-using creative design tools finally (re)emerge. That took longer than I expected :-).
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What still blows my mind: two people in two weeks. From scratch. Used to take months.
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Announcing Framer X. A new product by Framer. Sign up for an early invite today –
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It's that time again: a fresh new Framer site: Also, fresh new typeface.
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Sites are now 50% faster interactive due to more granular suspense boundaries (with React). - Animations start faster.- Clicks register instantly.- Better Lighthouse scores.
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I always felt a bit like how we built things at Framer felt too simple, or even unsophisticated, but it works great for us. Cool to see that Linear almost works the exact same way we do across every part.
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The Spanish are ditching Tinder and instead started putting pineapples in their shopping carts at a specific brand of supermarket to find dates. It’s so popular that the supermarket is panicking. This is the way.
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We built a way to visually animate. in code. And back. Introducing Auto-Code animation in Framer.
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At every review cycle, I try to write something useful about startup jobs. This quarter: A helpful list of questions to self-review your job performance and happiness.
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Wow a potential vaccine developed in Germany by a Turkish immigrant couple. And they seem the most genuine humble people too. Europe could a success story like that!. 2020 is turning around quickly 😄.
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Browse faster on your iPhone with this one simple trick: Settings > Safari > Advanced > Experimental Features > HTTP/3.
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In our quick tests, Framer is ~40% faster on any M1 than a fully loaded 2020MBP 16" 🤯 That is . incredible.
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Lots of Framer Plugins are open source, so you can study how they work, improve them or adopt them for your team with custom behavior.
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Check out all the features for Framer X. Can't wait to get it in your hands. First betas shipping August 1st.
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I can't believe how good and fast (Metal accelerated) the latest Mistral-based models run on my MacBook Air using @LMStudioAI
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We at Framer are testing our most exciting (and impactful) site performance optimization yet: server-side above-the-fold approximation 🤯 @iamakulov will share more soon.
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We set up a dedicated Framer X beta group for feedback:. You can find the (wip) Framer X documentation here:.
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Remember Smart Objects from Photoshop? Now imagine them being instantly shareable over the wire, completely interactive, allowing for variables (props) and powered by es modules. Copy and paste them between Framer projects today, and maybe into any JavaScript project soon 🤯.
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Turn your existing designs into high fidelity prototypes, exportable React components and soon . production websites.
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The folks at OpenAI are the best. Thanks for saving our launch today.
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The next creative tools leap was After Effects in the browser for motion graphics. And today it's here. Modyfi is extremely polished and versatile, leveraging a pro non-destructive workflow with GPU accelerated graphics. And the UI is 😘.
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Help me help more people understand React. Upvote my learn guide for designers on Product Hunt.
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We are one commit away from upgrading all Framer sites to http3 by default. Plus we just added Sao Paulo and Seoul regions, plus Sydney next week 💨.
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Watch me explain how we use design systems at Framer, and how I think most designers will in the future. We compose new ideas on the canvas using the exact same interactive components that we use on our site in production.
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This is the localization I always wanted to have. Seconds to setup, AI powered and fully SEO optimized (with server side rendering). I hope this gets localization from hard and rare to simple and ubiquitous.
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I wrote a small guide on how to effectively use data in early stage startups: thanks @oscarlsson and @ashaindra for the help.
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If you are a designer who wants to learn code, we have a pretty good guide to spend a Saturday afternoon with:
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A little under two years ago we asked @mattgperry to help build an animation library that would power the design tool as well as production sites, eliminating animation handoff. Today Framer Motion is one of the fastest growing libraries out there with 1m downloads per month!.
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Zed is the fastest native code editor, with a great UI and performance.
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Speed is a feature. We just shipped an update to make the Framer canvas up to 4x faster with large projects through smarter gpu accelerated drawing.
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LM Studio lets you the latest local AI models right from your Desktop.
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So proud to have the 🇺🇦Ukraine National Defense Hackathon site built with Framer. Such a super cool looking site too, makes me wish I was a real hacker.
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❤️ It's cool to see a strong consensus on Framer AI output:. - Fun and impressive first pass.- Pretty cool inspirational results.- Great starting point for anyone.- Needs human curation for sure.- No game on real designers.
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Completely redesigned Framer site: http://t.co/kumxztI9xs. Very proud of this one. http://t.co/ojWM2FHDZv.
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