Vincent van der Meulen
@vincentmvdm
design engineer. ai @figma, prev @diagram 🇳🇱 i like to run and buy books that i'll never read
a tiktok-like wikipedia app that learns from you (wip). kickstart your feed by listing your interests, or simply entering your twitter username. from there, the algorithms learns from your swiping behavior!
I’m looking for a contractor to help @patinasystems with a pretty data intensive scraping + indexing project. Very foundational work for our first product. Involves lots of image processing + the Google places api. Can DM for more details, please tag anyone you think would be a…
talking to llms when you grew up online before common crawl feels like meeting someone after you’ve already lived a whole life. you can tell them everything, but it’s not the same as them having been there.
cursor's bug bot feels like magic when it finds something. identifying bugs based on what was written, but especially based on what's not there, seems close to true reasoning. it really makes you wonder "what else can these models do given the right context?"
this is a huge deal. if i had more time on my hands, i'd fork this incredible base and add ai
Announcement! I'm open sourcing @anydistanceclub, an Apple Design Award winning fitness tracker app I worked on alongside several others for nearly 5 years. Blog post here: kuntz.io/blog/any-dista…
profound is a company you know will succeed — incredible team that’s years ahead in thinking and execution. it helps that @thejamescad @dbabbs are a co-founder pairing from heaven, and the company puts design first. everyone is going to ai for answers. make sure you’re there!
Excited to announce Profound's $20M Series A funding, led by @kleinerperkins with participation from @khoslaventures , @nvidia , @Saga_Ventures , @southpkcommons & @svangel Ft angels: @rauchg , @AndrewKaram, @jordihays, @FoundersPodcast & @jsngr This capital will accelerate…
I'm excited to share Code Layers are available today in Figma Sites! I'm excited for people to build rich, interactive ideas for their sites either with Code or using AI. Huge shoutout to the team, it was an incredible amount of work and there's more to come!
code layers are now available in figma sites! i'm very excited to see how you'll use them to uplevel your websites. this has been a labor of love with @DarraghBurke_ @kernio @nikolasklein @daniel__designs @mbullington_ @infin8x and many others! more code x figma coming soon :)
Introducing code layers in Figma Sites Add interactions and animations with code crafted by you or with help from Figma’s AI
Introducing code layers in Figma Sites Add interactions and animations with code crafted by you or with help from Figma’s AI
You can doom yourself to an unsatisfying life if you have the wrong view of commitment. Using forcing functions to bind my future self, rather than waiting to *feel* committed, is so important to my life that I sometimes forget other people don't live this way. (More below.)
apple just announced this as a feature called workout buddy, nice!
My WWDC wish is a personalized running coach for Apple Watch 🏃 Here’s a SwiftUI prototype I made to explore the idea. #WWDC23
The recent resurgence in interest in Mercury OS has inspired me to write an essay coalescing my more... updated (read: unhinged?) thoughts on designing for the future of human-AI/computer interactions "God is a Parasite" We keep debating AI interfaces—chat vs voice vs touch vs…
Introducing Mercury OS: A speculative vision of the operating system, driven by humane design principles. medium.com/@jasonyuan/int…
Design at @tryprofound In a rapidly evolving world, exceptional design is essential, not just beneficial. AI has become the new gateway to knowledge, fundamentally changing the way brands connect with audiences.