Which needs to be done intentionally in context, not homogeneously as a rapid output of a generative tool.

The challenge is that this sets an expectation of what "design" is, de-valuing the former and shifting us culturally towards the latter and a space where "design" is seen as a subjective visual exercise with little intrinsic value.

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There’s a real-time collaborative workspace-oriented version, too.

Professionally, working on “Magic Draft,” a feature in Ditto to help designers and writers create the “draft and a half” directly in Figma, which uses a hierarchy of all your context (text, Ditto metadata, the design, your style guides, etc) to write really good starting point copy.

- The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

- Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky

- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

- The Devils by Joe Abercrombie

- A Frog In The Fall (And Later On) by Linnea Sterte (A graphic novel)

Overall I'm at 65 books on the year—I maintain a reading list[1] on my personal site that has the rest.

[1] https://quinnkeast.com/reading

https://app.letswalnut.com/calendars/0eff8913-6416-40c0-bae1...

We're both product designers, and so we're used to working in low fidelity tools like Excalidraw and FigJam. We decided to try and make a low-fidelity equivalent for calendars, and built Walnut. It's just lines and stickies, with a few different styles, no events or times.

Walnut has two versions: the super simple, localstorage-based version at letswalnut.com, which you can just pop open any time. There's also a "workspace" version which lets multiple people work on the same calendars with multiplayer collaboration, and persists the calendars long-term.

It's still rough around the edges and needs more design refinement, but we've been using it extensively personally (and my team's using it at my work for planning purposes). It's not right for everyone, but for those who like to plan this way, we think it's helpful. Curious to hear any thoughts!

Right now anyone can use the localstorage-based version. If you'd be interested in trying out the persisted/collaborative version, drop your email in the waitlist[1] and I'll send you an invite to sign up!

[1] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetOC_hY54_DBfnPCmW...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276456

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Ditto helps teams manage their copy from design to production with a single source of truth. Over 3,600 teams (from Fortune 500 companies to startups!) currently use Ditto.

We're hiring our second product designer to help to define and design our core product, from strategy to execution. As the second designer on our team, you’ll have an outsized impact on defining not only what Ditto is and how it works, but what we do next.

Ditto is a design-driven company. Our design function has high ownership around identifying and shaping problem spaces, exploring solutions, and helping to drive implementation. We don’t have a product function—instead, both design and engineering own the product lens. We think this is critical for Ditto’s product, which used by design and engineering teams in their day-by-day workflows.

More info and to apply: https://www.dittowords.com/careers/product-designer

I keep a reading list at quinnkeast.com/reading. Would love to see others’ if any has one to share!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45927351

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Ditto helps teams manage their copy from design to production with a single source of truth. Over 3600 teams (from Fortune 500 companies to startups!) currently use Ditto.

We're hiring our second product designer to help to define and design our core product, from strategy to execution. As the second designer on our team, you’ll have an outsized impact on defining not only what Ditto is and how it works, but what we do next.

Ditto is a design-driven company. Our design function has high ownership around identifying and shaping problem spaces, exploring solutions, and helping to drive implementation. We don’t have a product function—instead, both design and engineering own the product lens. We think this is critical for Ditto’s product, which used by design and engineering teams in their day-by-day workflows.

More info and to apply: https://www.dittowords.com/careers/product-designer

That’s not design, that’s an image.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243482

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