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Alex Cornell

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Alex Cornell

@alexcornell

Design Director at Meta Superintelligence Lab. Prev: Linear / Substack / Cocoon / Facebook / Dialpad / ISO50

San Francisco

Joined July 2008

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Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
Mar 24, 2023
One of my first projects @linear was to make the launch video for Insights. It was a dream brief – everything @karrisaarinen asked for was exactly the kind of style that resonates with me. It was a challenge to try and live up to that. Here are some bits on the proces...
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Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
Jan 24, 2023
Surely the next iPhone will have this
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Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
Nov 18, 2022
I'm hearing that Twitter 2.0 is ready. Here's a demo.
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Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
Nov 25, 2019
1/ It's been a year since @SachinMonga and I left Facebook. Since then, we've been working on a new app, Cocoon, which is launching today: cocoon.com Cocoon is a private space for the most important people in your life. You can see an overview here:
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Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
Mar 5, 2019
Every morning, bleary-eyed me dreams of bigger tap targets for my iOS alarm.
Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
Feb 23, 2021
When my children ask me what I did for a living
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Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
May 15, 2023
Meet Andever: an interior design agency I created with Midjourney and GPT4. Everything in their portfolio was generated by AI. andever.com
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Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
Oct 25, 2023
Here is a behind-the-scenes process of the loop I made for the @linear launch today. I wish it were more complicated than pouring canola oil on my daughters iPad, but that was essentially it. The attached video shows the final footage alongside the original, unaffected capture.
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Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
Nov 21, 2022
Wow. Free speech controls in the wild: - Free speech can be toggled on or off. - You can adjust the “degree of freedom” for different categories of speech. - Suppressed speech is visible, but pixelated. If you turn free speech OFF entirely, ~90% of your timeline gets removed.
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Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
Apr 29, 2019
Growing up, we're told to look both way before crossing the street. These days, we only look one way: down (at our phones). I made a video about that:
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Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
Dec 15, 2021
"Connect Wallet" is probably the scariest way to frame signing up imaginable.
Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
May 2, 2022
We recently shipped an updated podcast player in the Substack app. It’s fully-featured – an app within an app – and it was a delight to combine all of my favorite audio design patterns into one experience. Here’s a behind the scenes 🧵at my favorite aspects:
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Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
Jan 6, 2023
When I started at Facebook, a chevron icon (v) was used to trigger the more menu on every post. I felt strongly that this should be a three-dot (...) icon instead. To generate support for the change, I would broadcast elaborate live videos with increasingly ridiculous premises.
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Alex Cornell
@alexcornell
Nov 11, 2022
I’m told the verified badge will soon require proof-of-life, a sincere recitation of the “I am a human” pledge, and continuous monitoring of your vital signs. This will be in addition to the $8 fee.
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