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hitting 4 years at
@DesigningUber
today 🤯
on the left, my first week as a design intern, feeling major self-doubt sharing ideas in a design jam 😅
on the right, this year, taking the stage at
#config2023
as a senior designer on the design systems team ✨
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as a designer working on payments, i specialize in loading states, error handling and 3rd party redirects :’)
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turned 27 yesterday 🎂 spent the weekend snorkeling and enjoying the sunshine in belize 🇧🇿
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don’t mind me, just buttoning up my talk for
#config2023
on a island off the coast of tuscany 🌞
come join me in exploring what quality means in the context of design systems, as i challenge what designers can and should own ✨
register virtually at
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Someone stole my laptop today. I have my final uni deadline in less than a month. Big projects. Long months of hard work. Various design challenges I’m doing for roles too. All safe in the cloud. Words cannot express how much I love
@figmadesign
❤️
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i’ve been mentoring/helping a recent grad for a couple of months and she landed her first a job as a ui/ux designer and wow i feel like a proud mom 🥲🥺
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testing out a new way of announcing our component changes 🧐
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lil’ career update!
recently got promoted to a senior product designer
@DesigningUber
✨
evidence that making the switch to design systems was the right one for me – incredibly grateful for all the growth, support and trust from my team 🫶🏻
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intern days are over 😬 today was my first day as a full time product designer at
@DesigningUber
🎉
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big *pinch me* moment – i’ll be representing our
@DesigningUber
team at
@figma
’s Config 2023 on June 21 & 22 ✨
excited to share how our system is evolving to embrace its inherent technical nature and reduce the tears our components bring to engineers!
#Config2023
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Will you
⊂_ヽ
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> ⌒ヽ
/ へ＼
/ / ＼my
ﾚ ノ ヽ_つ
/ /
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i help a nonprofit with design work and these are some of the recent instagram posts i made for a campaign ✨ feels fun to be using so much color & spending time in illustrator again!!
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fun aspect of putting a link to my
@figmadesign
files in my portfolio - I get to randomly see people looking around & I usually use this component to greet them:
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what a week – i received my first ever promotion & started transitioning into a new role with our design systems team!! 🎉
the past ~1.5y gave me space to explore, grow and shape myself as a designer and i’m excited to continue that growth with even more purpose and passion ❤️
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baiscally a certified
@figmadesign
fangirl now 😍 thanks for sending through the awesome swag
@neversitdull
🙏
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if anyone wonders what I do at work
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lmao let’s go
❌ Figma
❌ Deliveroo
❌ Monzo
❌ Spotify
❌ Facebook
❌ Apple
❌ Google
and another 20-30 that never replied 😅
I’ve been rejected from:
• Apple
• Facebook
• Figma
• Framer
• Pitch
• Spotify
• (…)
Some have left me truly heartbroken, and I’d love to help normalize this.
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I somehow got all the
#GymsharkBlackout
stuff I was eyeballing - no queue, no site breaking down. I'm pretty sure I won the lottery lol
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👋design students and new grads!
Our team at Uber is looking for a product design intern to join us over the summer in Amsterdam! It's an incredible opportunity (speaking from experience 😉)
📬DM me for more info / any questions
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i...i found the first ui i ever made while still in high school and i’m deceased
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it makes me so happy when someone is asking for feedback and people ask questions like “what is your vision and how can we help you get there” and try to build upon that instead of ripping it to shreds and pushing their own ideas forward
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🚨 Looking for a product designer for our Amsterdam team
@DesigningUber
🚨
📊 You will be working on tools/services for areas like localization, machine learning, business monitoring and more!
🧑💻 1-3y of experience (junior folks please don’t hesitate to apply!)
📬 DMs open
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who needs a valentine when you can steal your friend's adorable dog? 💕
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when you know your work is shit but still put effort into the design deck
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i think this is the greatest piece of design i've produced all year
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rare opportunity to work with on Design systems
@DesigningUber
– we're looking for an experienced design manager to lead the team!
i might be biased, but it's a hell of a good time working on this team. so much so that most of us have been here for 4+ years 😉
💌 DMs are open
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adult milestone today - got the keys to my new place and i’ll have ✨ 0 roommates ✨ for the first time in my life!!
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word on the street is that the
#config2024
design systems stage has the best hosts…😉
thrilled to be sharing this totally objective and unbiased title with my co-host, the one and only
@danmall
🎤
we’ll see you in june ✌️
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I’ve been thinking a lot about rate of customization for components — what if
@figma
allowed system maintainers to see examples of components with a high amount of overrides to help us understand what’s not working for our customers 👀
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what if i told you...our team has a whole 3min sizzle full of dope work and animation delight? 👀 should we drop it?
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excited to join the
@ADPList
community – here to talk about everything design systems, finding and using your passion to create impact, and accelerating your growth as an early career designer ✨
excited to meet y'all ⬇️
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guys it’s okay, the black imac will be a separate event in another 4 months
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Have you ever wanted to design just by typing? Initially a Config 2020 demo, a powerful search on Configurator was brought to life by
@bettergui
and
@vincentmvdm
, allowing designers to create entire new screens in seconds.
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🎉 LIFE UPDATE 🎉
I can’t keep my mouth shut and it all happened very quickly, but I just accepted an offer and will be joining the Uber (
@designinguber
) Money team in Amsterdam as a Product Design Intern! 🔥🙏
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I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn’t even matter
because it all got de-scoped
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It’s getting real – the
#Config2023
agenda is here!
and if you’re wondering how writing my talk about building components that won’t make your engineers cry is going so far…😅
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me running to my manager end of day yesterday to show her my silly little
@figma
type variables experiments
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who’s gonna tell the guys in my dm-a asking me to marry them that i’m an immigrant with no green card 💀
turned 27 yesterday 🎂 spent the weekend snorkeling and enjoying the sunshine in belize 🇧🇿
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the best part about 🧵 is that my preferred username is not above the character limit lol
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today marks 3y since my i lost my mom
she was a badass single parent & my biggest cheerleader; it's often hard not to think about all the important moments in my life after she passed, that i wished she was physically there for, but i choose to celebrate the ones we had 🖤
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🚨 internship opportunity 🚨
our team at Uber is looking for a ux research intern to join us in Amsterdam starting January! 🇳🇱
📬 DM me for more info / any questions
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happy 3 years of
@DesigningUber
to me 🥳 as one of our design directors said this week – 6 years of fun and energy, packed into 3 ✨
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did i just forget to tell y’all i randomly went to the middle of the arctic circle by myself to see this?
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one year in!! 🥳 i’m just going to say i have successfully worked on payments for 12 months without getting a single grey hair 😬
intern days are over 😬 today was my first day as a full time product designer at
@DesigningUber
🎉
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Since I've moved on to a different team
@DesigningUber
, we're looking for my replacement in the Money team, based in AMS 🇳🇱 3+ years of experience, ideally a strong systems thinker.
I would LOVE to refer some more women for this role, so please slide into my DMs 🔥
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my very first article "design systems that spark joy: rethinking layout for scalability" is now live on the design systems for figma blog ✨
i touch on some topics like catalog bloat, composability and layout modeling, all through the lens of my experience at
@DesigningUber
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thank you
@figma
🫶🏻 for letting me share my thoughts on design systems quality and how we can evolve our role to be more aligned with the technical nature of our design system during
#config2023
⚡️
Talk links ⬇️
🎥
💭
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me: i will not accept 8pm meetings; i will not accept 8pm meetingns; i will not accept 8pm meetings
~important~ 8pm meeting invite with an apology for the late time comes in
me: 🤡 no worries no worries, let’s do it, sure 🤡
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guess what besties?! we have an opening on the design systems team
@DesigningUber
for a senior or staff level designer to come work with myself and a couple of other cool nerds on the core design system 🥳
💌 DMs are open for any questions
📍SF/NYC/Seattle (no remote)
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manifesting this for me 😬🤞tinkering with some topics around redesigning color systems with predictable accessibility and the realities of shipping dark mode at scale 👀
Save the date for Config 2023.
Join us live in San Francisco or virtually from around the world June 21 - 22.
Registration opens April 4.
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23 today 🎂 honestly didn’t have high expectations for this one, but it turned out to be one of my favorite days so far ❤️ very very grateful the life i have and the people around me 🥺❤️
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some days you draw rectangles that make up buttons and some days you draw rectangles that try to make sense of an api functionality and it ends up looking nice
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1 year
@DesigningUber
today! 🥰
(my official uberversary is in november but today was day 1 of my internship)
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🚨Internship
@DesigningUber
(🌎US/CAN)
💻 Join our stellar Design Systems team as a Design Engineering Intern this fall, blending design & code to power our workflow tools.
💡Familiar with web development (React),
@figma
plugins & UX processes
🔗
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to mark 2 months at
@DesigningUber
, here are 2 of my favorite things about being an intern here ✨
+ everyone’s super approachable - I’ve met so many inspiring humans 💭
+ my role doesn’t constrain my work - I’ve had the full freedom and support to explore and experiment 🧪
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my mum past away this day last year.
I honestly taught my world was going to crumble. But it somehow didn’t - I’m still here and pushing through. All for you mama, hope you’re proud ❤️
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i just want to out myself that during university i genuinely thought my best quality as a designer was naming my layers...like it’d be the top of my list of things to mention to a recruiter 🤦🏻♀️
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i love that i tried moving our styles to a new file and absolutely blew up everything for everyone 🤡
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Has someone already made a poetry book out of
@github
commit messages? Or should I get cracking with the one-liners 🙈
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our
@DesigningUber
events are back and we're going global! come join us this Wednesday, around the globe for a series of talks from Target and Uber Global Studios, talking you through their perspectives on Designing for uncertainty.
Get your free ticket:
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had a heads down weekend nearly finishing the Swift UI course from
@designcodeio
, reading documentation and playing around with it all. 🚀
I also nearly screamed out of joy when I ran the app build on my phone for the first time 🎉
Hyped to continue building and learning! 👩🏻💻
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can we normalize enjoying solo trips like the amount of weird looks and comments i get…calm down i chose to come here alone no one forced me 😵💫
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with
#config2024
around the corner,
@danmall
and i would love to know…what’s at the top of your wish list for design system feature launches? 🚀
my wish is the ability to pick which properties to expose when using nested instances 👀
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🇮🇳 we're hiring 2 designers in Bangalore! 🇮🇳
exciting opportunity to design beyond transportation and make sure you can Uber everything!
some of the products you could be working on are Uber Bus, Uber Lite, App Help & Support, Call2Ride and much more.
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didn’t get nearly enough
#config2023
pics but here’s my favorite traitor turned main stage superstar
@vincentmvdm
✨
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i’m finalizing my year in review deck for work and holy shit the difference from last year is astronomical 🚀🥺
for measure, last year i had to stretch out to highlight 3 impactful projects...this year i had to cluster multiple projects into 3 product areas i’ve contributed to!!
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@holly
I once mentioned my thesis, which is about AI (I’m a designer) to someone and they asked why I know about AI and if my boyfriend is a software engineer 🤦🏻♀️
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<rant>
I’ve been helping some students with reviewing their grad projects and it boils my blood to see every single Dribbble trend mushed into one and zero thought put into information architecture and actual usability.
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UPDATE: It just happened and I recorded it 😂 Now I’m really curious to know who it was and specially was it someone from the companies I’m currently interviewing with 👀
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2 long years without you mom...
i remember screaming at you when i was younger, swearing i will never grow up to be like you...and now that i’m older and you’re not here, i realize being like you is all i want to be - passionate, driven, ambitious and caring 💕
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i see y’all in your
@figma
swag at sfo but u don’t see me because i chose to wear my new taylor swift merch
#config2024
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