inside design at teenage engineering

https://read.cv/jdsimcoe/inside-design-at-teenage-engineering

Config 2025: Figma’s conference for people who build products

Figma Config 2025 | May 6-8 - Moscone Center SF

“People don’t consider the art of icons until the icons aren’t working and they’re lost, frustrated, and confused.”

Job Application for Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Dialpad

https://github.com/mikelikesdesign/SwiftUI-experiments

https://www.uber.com/us/en/careers/list/?department=Design

Descending into the hatch. Purple lighting, scene is down a ramp with a projection that reads: BERLIN’S EVENT FOR EXPERIENCED DESIGNERS

A banner for Figma's "Release Notes" series, which will return this Thursday, October 31st at 8:30AM PT / 11:30AM ET / 5:30PM CET. You can RSVP at the link attached in the post.

https://events.figma.com/release-notes-oct-2024/SOCIAL

Pentagram (Team Luke and Jody)

https://read.cv/teams/pentagram_jl/lead-digital-designer-qKiq3Pt9R72UEFSOi86m

Do you work at a company that needs help telling the story of what you do or executing the editorial plan you have? Or are you at a museum or other nonprofit that doesn’t have in-house editors and could use an experienced outsider? Be in touch; my email address is below.

https://events.figma.com/release-notes-sept24/SOCIAL

Inside Design at AJOTO

https://read.cv/jdsimcoe/inside-design-at-ajoto

I'm very honored to share my latest Inside Design feature on @cv today. I had the opportunity to do an interview with teenage engineering's elusive co-founder and vp david möllerstedt https://read.cv/jdsimcoe/inside-design-at-teenage-engineering

working on another weight / badge design for dnworks and figured I should include the first one I did in my read.cv side projects, carry on

today was another reminder that trust in corporate leadership absolutely needs to be earned, not given based on tenure, track record, or any other nonsensical metric

last two weeks, including today and at this point probably tomorrow, have been relentless 

bleh

please, I beg of you, just lemme finish these notes!

last couple of weeks were weird
next couple of weeks will be weird
october gonna be strange
november might be alright
christmas
2025?!

meeting url friends of many years irl will never get old. I love people.

Yipeee my sticker sheets are finally on the shop for $10 each 

https://ko-fi.com/s/5198863f3d

Who am I seeing in May (in SF & London too maybe???) 

https://config.figma.com/

cruisin' through that sunday evening routine a.k.a scheduling a message in like 12 different slack channels for tomorrow morning lmfao

Spreading the good word at Creative Works East in just a few weeks.

(quote from Felix Sockwell’s excellent book “Thinking in Icons”)

What if music producers collaborated on the fly?

when I try to send my boss a sneaky slack 4 hours outside of our usual working window and he responds

I'm hiring a senior product designer on our design systems team at @dialpad! You'll get to make stuff all day, have a lot of ownership, move quickly, and help us evolve our design system.

Remote (in americas) full time. Happy to answer any questions!

https://grnh.se/4992012a2us

I decided to open source all my SwiftUI explorations that you can find here, https://github.com/mikelikesdesign/SwiftUI-experiments I will continue to update this! I hope this is helpful

I was looking forward to getting some work done around the house, but my cat just sat on my lap so I guess I'll stay put

quick break in the weirdness to say two keyboards arrived today and new keyboard day really never gets old

my optimism with the industry most of us find ourselves working in has been trending downwards for a while and I may be hitting a critical moment in that trend

Hey you, product designers in the US, Uber seems to have a lot of open positions!

https://www.uber.com/us/en/careers/list/?department=Design

for someone that doesn’t listen to kpop I sure do contribute to a lot of kpop keyboards (wait actually this is the first one lol)

I'm a simple person

I see new read.cv product, I buy new read.cv product

i made a website that tells the story of how people found the website

🔗 howdidyoufind.me

Hatch was a blast, would do again - thank you Berlin!

smol experiment 

https://mgx.me/kirby-vs-this-blog-post

spooky!

https://events.figma.com/release-notes-oct-2024/SOCIAL

hey @ssbittle if you just got 10000 notifications from me liking your post... sorry!

my cat was sitting on my keyboard

I’ll be on a plane in a couple days, what have y’all been reading & / or playing?

Ever since I saw LoveFrom’s Astra Carta seal for The Sustainable Markets Initiative, I knew it would make a beautiful Apple Watch face. Here’s my attempt at adapting its celestial design to the small screen. 💫

thanks for the perfect set for the perfect keyboard @maxvoltar 🎾

whoa, dream job alert! https://read.cv/teams/pentagram_jl/lead-digital-designer-qKiq3Pt9R72UEFSOi86m 

also hello @jody_hudsonpowell

After finishing a bunch of projects, I’m now seeking work: freelance projects, or even PT/FT in Toronto or remote. If any of you need a design-savvy writer/editor for an existing project or one you're bidding on, here’s some of what I've done this year: https://www.sholis.com/now

so glad to finally see something like this from the big fig, and hosted by two amazing figmates! 

https://events.figma.com/release-notes-sept24/SOCIAL

thanks AI, guess I’ll do something else this quarter

ah yes, a compact and very portable work keyboard

my latest @cv ɪɴꜱɪᴅᴇ ᴅᴇꜱɪɢɴ feature is live. this time i had the pleasure of chatting with AJOTO about their approach to craft and their new project: the Pocket Pen ※ https://read.cv/jdsimcoe/inside-design-at-ajoto

would any senior product designers be open to chatting about their experience as the only designer at a startup? specifically looking for advice on establishing design systems, prototyping, working with PM's, etc

spent the last couple days + this morning trying to coordinate design review through slack and I'm now convinced that slack is an awful awful awful awful terrible omega super bad awful horrible awful the worst horrible bad terrible sucky fucky system of record holy shit AHHHHHHHH

banning douchebags and assholes from Friends of Figma is so fun

fuck around and find out (we have a code of conduct)

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