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Jina Anne

Principal Product Designer, Microsoft / Design Systems Advocate / GDE / they/she / 🩷💜💙 / 🇰🇷🇮🇹hapa / neurodivergent / drag stan / cheerful goth jina.me Founder of @clarityconf.com

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Were you a vaguely weird preteen? Did you own multiple horse shirts? (You may be entitled to compensation.) Then, like us, you might remember longing for the coveted but elusive back-to-school glow-up. You make your triumphant return from summer break—your hair is longer, you’re wearing every flavor of Lip Smackers, your crush finally notices your horse shirt. “Who is that?” your peers whisper as you glide past. The lockers part. You ascend into the sky. Or something like that.

But did we ever successfully blossom into middle school royalty? You’ll have to consult our diaries (spoiler: no). Instead, we’ve projected all that energy onto Asana, which has recently had a glow-up of its own. We redesigned headers, sort options, filters, and more for a unified and efficient layout. now you can spend less time searching for stuff and navigate across your tasks, projects, and inbox with ease.

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Based on what I’m seeing from some gen alphas on the bus, wide-legged jeans are back in style.

Reminiscing now for my JNCO and chain wallet era.

I’m so excited to see my cousins this weekend. 💜

LOL! It’s funny when a sales exec from a company emails you an invitation to attend  a conference happening in SF this week…

…that you’ll already be attending because you’re a speaker. 😜

joys and pains of conference organizing: when the bulk of the registrations happen within the last week leading up to the event. 🫠

OMG it’s Clarity week! 😃💎🖤

#clarity2024

clarityconf.com

It’s funny how spoiled we (ie: me) have become. Years ago, before rideshare was a thing, a 20min wait by taxi was normal.

Now when I see Lyft quote 20mins or more, I’m DEVASTATED. LOL.

The old school Batman movie is on Delta flights and this makes my heart happy. I’ve seen this so many times but it never gets old.

Do I know any Dorian Electra fans in the SF Bay Area? And will be around next Friday the 22nd?

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

God bless the 4pm checkout.

I made a YouTube Music playlist of 100 of my fav songs from RuPaul & other queens from #DragRace.

I'll probably add/remove over time as new songs come about. But here it is!

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdrGhGW76F1hoNStVzlKpXoGBVCOsVwKw&si=ExrRW8GnB1gRfo_w

Did you know you can help support me while I am job searching, by buying some of my time? 😀

My Calendly has rate increments of 15/30/45/60mins.

We can chat design systems, a11y, Sass/CSS, visual design, &more.

Contact if you need more than 1hr.
https://calend.ly/designsystems

The Agatha All Along episodes are too short!

Since being self-conscious/bullied in grade school, particularly gym class, I taught myself skills that still hold up today.

Like: how to switch my shirt I have on now w/ another shirt… all in 1 swift move where no 1 sees your goodies.

Just did it in my seat on the plane. 😜

After Brad Frost’s #Frostapalooza last week and #XOXO this week, my heart is really full, and I am reminded how much I love the web (and web-adjacent) community and the decade(s)-long (and new) friends I have made from it along the way. 💜

Just wrapped day 1 of Clarity.

So grateful for this amazing community, and the folks who stepped up to present or help as well. Will share shoutouts after the event. But for right now, I am just immensely grateful. Excited for Day 2 tomorrow!

#clarity2024

I’ve only been here for a couple hours, but there are too many people in the UK coughing up a lung, not wearing a mask.

Please.

Stay home if you’re sick.

If you blogged or posted on social media about Clarity and didn't use #Clarity2023 (or it didn't expire already as an ephemeral story), can you send links my way? Trying to round everything up. :)

Playing video editor for a conference has me super grateful that iMovie is straightforward.

Updated Covid & flu shot procured. 💉💉

I know it’s not over yet, but I am devastated.

I’m happy to share that today, I’m starting a new position as Principal Product Designer at Microsoft.

I'll be working on the Fluent Design System team to integrate generative AI across Microsoft products and redefine how humans interact with software.

25 minutes left to register for clarity! Tickets cut off at 7:45am PT.

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While I didn't use it that much, I'm a little sad Cohost went away. I just learned about the "CSS Crimes" you were able to do on your profile (from a talk by the founders at XOXO). So, I had planned to tinker. But sadly, it's in read-only mode now.

We are not in a post-Covid world. It is foolish to think otherwise.

The people I followed here seemed to have all moved to Bluesky. So, I may stop posting here. Unsure. But if you're over there, follow me at @jina.social.

I’ve always suspected I have mild dyslexia due to the number of times I misread words. Now I’ve learned that mixing up number sequences is also a symptom.

Yesterday, I triggered an alarm because I kept putting the numbers in the wrong order.

I do this a LOT with numbers. 🫠

I finally got around to adding some drinkware, phone cases, hats, and tote bag options for my design systems / Clarity-related Cotton Bureau designs. Been meaning to do that since they launched those.

https://cottonbureau.com/people/jina-anne

You know how artists/musicians/actors have a rep/manager that handles the bookings & business stuff, and the artist just goes where they need to be and does what they need to do?

I want that as a designer.

#Clarity2024 will be an online event this year, held September 25&26, 2024.

Early Bird presale tickets are available now.

Stay tuned for more announcements including revealing the speakers!

clarityconf.com

When one of your favorite brands invites you to a summit at their HQ with flight, hotel, and most meals covered. I'm excited!

Our neighbor is renting their townhouse. Come be our neighbor.

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Happy Mother's Day to those who celebrate it.

And have a lovely Sunday to those who (like me) don't. And for whatever reason that may be, you are also loved and celebrated. 💜

PSA: If you use Dropbox, they just added a toggle in your desktop web settings, allowing OpenAI to access your file data… and turned the toggle *on* by default.

If you don’t want a third-party AI accessing all your files, turn that setting off.

I remember holding my little cousin in my arms when he was a little baby.

Now he’s in his 30s, and I’m gonna see him get married this weekend.

🥹

I think I might be the last of the cousins who haven’t gotten married. And I’m the second oldest. 😜

While I didn’t get to see the northern lights myself, I enjoyed everyone’s photos.

The pink, purples, and blues.

The Aurora Bisexualis.

This wind is intense. Almost pushed me over as I was walking to the bus!

I was very impressed with how XOXO handled Covid safety, in an inclusive, non-policey-type way and the community attendees that embraced it. I definitely took some mental notes for future events.

Y'all weren't gonna tell me Posts is available by web now?

This app update release note from Asana has to be the best one I’ve seen.

On my flight today I watched Talk to Me.

I’m a fan of A24 horror movies.

Admittedly I was distracted on my phone while watching, so I just caught key highlights.

But even with that, my goodness. Creepy movie that I’m still thinking about hours later. 

That ending was perfect!

I’m looking forward to Render next week to share where we can go next with design systems in the age of AI — beyond code and design generation.

I find it amusing when a hotel leaves me a plate of grapes, an orange, and/or an apple, and a silverware set.

Yes, let me use a knife and fork to eat these grapes. LOL.

Diss-ign: a Figma battle with two designers beefing

On board Virgin Atlantic to the UK for Patterns Day!

…

Why do I look 12 in this photo? LOL. (I’m 40).

I used to say the word “mindful” all the time. But now it is impossible for me to not immediately associate it with “demure”. 😆