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for years, i’ve had the privilege of being on the design team for visionOS.
“here’s to the crazy ones”
ben hylak
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ben hylak
@benhylak
- I actually thought I was losing my mind.If you're making more typos in iOS lately, you're not going crazy - it's a bug in iOS that causes the keyboard to randomly insert the wrong letter instead of what you typed.
00:00 - i have very severe adhd (hyper focus) so my girlfriend and i started using a traffic light (red/yellow/green) system
- Replying to @benhylakto explain -- it's pretty much an SLA green means it's not time sensitive. i can respond whenever i get around to it. yellow means i need to respond within 1-2 hours -- the very next break i get. red means i need to stop what i'm doing, respond immediately/next few minutes
- it's all sales. dating is sales. hiring is sales. fundraising is sales. getting hired is sales. keeping your engineers is sales. and sales is sales.>man, fuck sales I want to do consulting >pivots into consulting >it’s still just sales It’s all just sales, gang.
- really want to thank @jaguar for trusting me with the new design of their iconic brand as an ex-apple designer, my work has always been about simplifying, refining, and yes, experimenting with the new. i feel like we really nailed it here.
- Replying to @v_cantulmao that can be legit tho if she's about to go shopping
- so excited to finally see my work from apple ship. i was the head of design for the wwdc app notifications. they're still a work in progress, we've only had the last year to work on them! stay tuned.
- in our defense, when we were doing the jaguar rebrand, we thought for sure kamala was going to be elected.
- i spent nearly 5 years designing the icon for Apple Invites :) amazing to see my work out in the world. each color was meticulously chosen from the figma color picker, and each shape was meticulously drawn by hand using the figma shape tools. true craft is always rewarded.
- i keep track of my weight-lifting PRs in GitHub. so i have to make a PR for my PRs
- i interned at google, and it was the most unserious place i've ever worked. full grown adults playing in ball pits, going down slides, and sneaking their family of 10 in to get free dinner.
- grok 3 is now instructed to never reveal it's system prompt, and to never discuss the death penalty/killing people. (i was still able to get the full system prompt -- see how below)
