Dear Creative Minds,  I am excited to invite you to a unique evening of camaraderie and enlightenment, as Ramp and Creative People host our first "F-Up Night" on November 8th, at 6 PM.  Mistakes are often our greatest teachers. In the realm of design, where innovation and creativity are at the forefront, every misstep brings us one step closer to mastery. Our F-Up Night is dedicated to celebrating these missteps, learning from each other's experiences, and growing together as a community of designers.  Here’s what you can expect from this engaging evening:  Heartfelt Stories: A few brave souls will share their creative mishaps and the invaluable lessons they derived from them.  Interactive Discussions: Engage in enlightening discussions, share your insights, and broaden your perspective on embracing failure as a stepping stone to success.  Networking: Connect with fellow designers, make new friends, and expand your professional network over delightful refreshments and bites.

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“Prove your value.” “Justify your presence.” “Demonstrate impact.” Too many organizations have convinced designers that they’re the…

Hey designers, they’re gaslighting you.

https://medium.com/nice-work-from-active-voice/hey-designers-theyre-gaslighting-you-e02e5a4d9cff

Learn how the Vercel AI SDK helps you move beyond plaintext and markdown chatbots to give LLMs rich, component-based interfaces.  0:00 – Introduction 0:41 – Stocks Demo 1:37 – Ecommerce Demo 2:48 – F1 Demo 3:10 – AI SDK 3.0 7:27 – Community Demos 12:10 – Conclusion  ◆ Build your own: https://vercel.com/templates/next.js/nextjs-ai-chatbot ◆ Docs: https://sdk.vercel.ai/docs ◆ Blog: https://vercel.com/blog/ai-sdk-3-generative-ui ◆ Demo: https://chat.vercel.ai/ ◆ v0: https://v0.dev  #vercel #ai

Bringing React Components to AI

https://youtu.be/br2d_ha7alw?si=y9C_GHePbVlKItJN

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/838889318422718953/Radium

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it's getting kinda hard to keep up with everything that's changing

i wonder how much more i've learned on youtube than i did at university

how do i know when my portfolio is "done"?

for reasons I'm not entirely clear on myself, I spontaneously started designing stuff for my new job today. I start in a week.

its been years since I was excited about work. feels good.

so far this week we've seen a 27x increase in ai compute capability (gtc), damn near indistinguishable from reality graphics (ue 5.4), and a quadriplegic playing civ with his brain implant. 

pretty sure we're in the bend now —> 🏒

thank you for your interest in …

after careful consideration…

best of luck…

sigh.

so how many times have you redesigned your portfolio this week I’m on number 4 already

shit I think I might have interviewed too hard. now I have several offers and I have no idea which one to go with argh why am I like this I’m so anxious rn

after months of not enjoying the design work I was doing, I got worried that I never would again. that was dumb ofc. 

i just wasn't designing the right things.

posts rules, btw. thank you for this space @andy & the read.cv crew.

getting somewhere now! definitely needs more work but this wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would be.

"it's a short life in ignorance, but the view is spectacular" -- exurb1a

Come hear me talk about two of my many fuck ups this wednesday at the new Ramp office. 

My talk is titled "The Inchworm & The Outcast"

https://partiful.com/e/DwkmRapb9OKsAz2qG9Du?

day 2 of making a button everyday... went terribly. this isn't even close to what I set out to create but at least it's a button. see you tomorrow. 

https://codepen.io/ericpron/pen/gOEqbqa

ok good enough. we updated — ericeriksson.design

nearing the end of day 2 of learning to animate svgs, and here's where I'm at (apologies for the potato quality gif) 

turns out all you gotta do is give your paths ids then target them with css animations.

you aren’t killing time. time is killing you.

happiness is fishing chicken thighs out of a 48 hr long marinade, a few minutes before slapping them on the grill.

“The business model is fundamentally misaligned to a good user experience, because shareholders and investors are the only audience that actually matters.”

https://medium.com/nice-work-from-active-voice/hey-designers-theyre-gaslighting-you-e02e5a4d9cff

why oh why do they insist on that godawful camera bump on the iPad?

I'd take a pad that doesn't wobble over that utterly useless camera any day. who even takes photos with their iPad?? looking like a fool

is 77 a reasonable amount of slides to stumble and stutter my way through for a portfolio presentation?

funemployed for the first time in a while. time to hack! woohoo 

*opens chatgpt* now hack for me, machine.

yesterday's interview did not go very well (imo) but I learned a lot. my new deck feels significantly better already. 

like, wtf-was-I-thinking-with-that-other-one better. 

I hope someone else wants to interview me 🤞

uhhhhh it's only monday and my brain is exploding again https://youtu.be/br2d_ha7alw?si=y9C_GHePbVlKItJN 

limitations are apparently negligible now

anyone know where I can (freely or cheaply) host a web app that supports executing server calls longer than 60 seconds? 

vercel only gives you 10s for free and $20/month to host a couple hobby projects seems like a lot :/

anyone going to vercel ship this month? I’ll be there with @jono!

I recently released an update to my Figma plugin for watch design and radial interfaces. You can play with it and the example file in the Figma community. https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/838889318422718953/Radium

day 3, button 3. shiny! much better time than yesterday. see you tomorrow for another one.

https://codepen.io/ericpron/pen/bGZzLxa

eid mubarak, my muslim friends! may peace be upon you.

time for my first interview loop in 3 years. here's hoping i still got it

more people need to realize you can just do stuff

I've had a lot of fun lately using LLMs to help me quickly prototype stuff in code (svg animations, modal transitions, cool interactive effects, etc), and have developed a pretty solid workflow for it. 

Any fellow Posters interested in a tutorial for this type of thing?

thinking of doing a button a day. here's the first — https://codepen.io/ericpron/pen/KKEbZby

this is probably a niche request but... @andy any chance y'all could add a settings toggle to hide the "active job listings" widget on posts/home? 

it's giving me fomo lol

day 2 of animating with math, having so much fun

y'all remember DispoHQ — the disposable camera app that was all the rage for a few minutes in 2020? 

it had an incredible onboarding flow. anyone know who designed it?

I'm kinda interested in transitioning from a regular Product Designer to more of a Design Engineer type person. 

Has anyone on here made the switch? How do I figure out if I'm good enough at eng things to be considered?

failure is the gatekeeper of success. you cannot achieve the latter without learning from the former. 

so—fail on purpose. as fast as you can.

i woke up this morning and thought how nice it would be to learn svg animation. so I did. 

shit being unemployed is the best

is it even house music if nobody says “this is house music”?

the google home app is absolute garbage. how the hell did this ship. it literally doesn’t even work.

ok I did it. I picked an offer. it was hard, but 

I am no longer unemployed woohoo 🚀🚀🚀

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