Ian Bach ☯︎ (@Ian8ach) / X

Ian Bach ☯︎

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Ian Bach ☯︎

@Ian8ach

design @openai ───────── hi 👋

New York, USA

Joined January 2009

Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
Apr 28, 2024
One thing I’ve noticed in the best teams in tech right now is that there’s no desire to hire and mentor juniors anymore (across every discipline). This is in part due to cutbacks etc but it’s also that a new philosophy won out - instead of large, bottoms up teams, everyone wants
lachlan
@hyprturing
Apr 28, 2024
the CS students do not seem to be okay
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
Jul 10, 2024
hot take: productivity tools are emotional support software for undiagnosed anxiety disorders raw dogging Apple notes is enlightened behavior
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
Apr 24, 2024
lol as someone who has designed many fake ui’s in his life… this ui is so fake
Tesla
@Tesla
Apr 23, 2024
Preview of autonomous ride-hailing via Tesla app
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
Jan 10, 2024
I love how everyone seems to have learnt the worst lessons from Apple product launches. Your startup doesn’t need a 20min video of your founder in a black t shirt. Show how the thing is useful in 30 secs.
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
May 28, 2024
I just generally love the idea of this product, but I was trying to work out what was so refreshing about this and I think it’s that finally someone in tech isn’t cosplaying Steve Jobs from 2007. Instead he’s cosplaying Steve from 1980. This is, counterintuitively, progress.
Jason Carman
@jasonjoyride
May 25, 2024
The world's first 60+ FPS e-ink display by @daylightco on Episode 45 of S³ See how it works, the 6-year development journey, and Daylight's vision for the future of personal computing.
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
Nov 27, 2024
Honestly something in the space between Figma, origami, framer and Cursor / v0 is gonna happen in the next few years and it’s gonna be wild. And what’s more, it’s in a blind spot. It won’t be an engineering led IDE and it won’t be a cool design tool for cool designers. It’s
Alex Kehr
@alexkehr
Nov 26, 2024
Tools like Cursor and v0 feel like an extinction-level—or at least userbase-collapsing—threat to Figma if they don’t react fast. Beyond collaboration features, designing in Figma is starting to feel like it makes no sense when functional prototypes can be generated so quickly.
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
Apr 5, 2024
Replying to @sahejjm
spoiler: your whole life will be about loss
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
Aug 3, 2024
It’s hard to explain how the most exciting thing in design is removing stuff, but this image does a good job.
Paul Graham
@paulg
Aug 3, 2024
You can tell just by looking at this progression that this was a labor of love for a lot of very smart people.
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
Jun 27, 2024
Not to be mean, but designers who fear auto generated UI will take their job are kinda telling on themselves. That ain’t the valuable bit of the job. I’ve seen nothing from AI in design yet that says it’s not simply another tool to boost exploration and efficiency.
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
Aug 19, 2024
Anybody want to come work on ai?
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
Jun 4, 2024
Some exciting news... :) I'm joining a dream team of talented folks at Gen AI @Meta @AIatMeta to work on designing the next era of creative tools.
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
Sep 30, 2024
I joined Spotify just as Apple Music was launching They were late to music streaming mostly because it required them to canabalize iTunes, and admit they had been out innovated by a European startup. We knew, internally, that key leaders were furious that Spotify had forced
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
May 14, 2024
Slowly but surely people are understanding that 100% remote work is poison to the soul
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Ian Bach ☯︎
@Ian8ach
Jan 10, 2024
Replying to @Ian8ach
not to be negative but these presentations don’t give me ‘new era’ energy, they are pastiches of the last era. Gen Z would never give a 20 min keynote dressed in black. Bunch of tech boomers.
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