Frank Chimero
@frank_chimero
Another designer in New York
Hey, NY parents! Seeking parents w/kids ages 4–8 to play test a storytelling toy from our @AIResidency cohort. DM me if interested. THANKS
Had to double check: Jobs has now been dead just as long as his second stint at Apple. (1997 → 2011)
Who ever is working on the web product for @midjourney is doing an amazing job. Intuitive user flows, great performance, incredible ergonomics, smart and iterative changes, works great in a mobile browser?!
“I have risen!” -Dreamweaver
cursor is now a figma-esque visual editor for your code
it’s going to take a long time for ai designers to fully internalize that most people don’t know what to ask for
Writing more. Almost ready to publish a thing or two. Am I foolish to pass up on the perceived network effects of Substack for ButtonDown/other newsletter tools?
Send: AIs expanding bullet points into email prose. Receive: AIs summarizing email prose into bullet points. Back and forth forever.
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This blog post is 10 years old and still a stone cold banger. frankchimero.com/blog/2015/the-…
Late, but: the most important part of the Ive/Stripe session is making lunch for your teammates.
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so many grifters on this app using the profession of design to scam and self-promote under false pretenses. deeply insulting to the people that do the research and put so much care and love into this craft
Expecting to feel safe during uncertainty is a unrealistic, being able to act through the discomfort is the skill you're looking to develop.
you don’t increase your agency by waiting for certainty. you increase your agency by training your body to feel safe in uncertainty
just put a wet floor reflection in a design. we are so back.
Frank’s intellectual kinship heuristics: 1. what they think of ryuichi sakamoto 2. what they think of middlemarch 3. what they think of acronyms 4. what they think of feelings
