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Barton Smith

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Barton Smith

@bartonsmith

Building slow products for easy living @handheld_proj • @north_mail now in early release. @spotify, @meta, @fiftythree, @fuseproject

NYC via Melbourne

Joined July 2009

Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
May 18, 2021
Designing for Android 🤖📱 I've spent too many hours over the years cross-referencing websites, taking screenshots on different devices, looking at internal data, and searching for documentation in order to understand what screens to design for. Here's what I've learnt [1/12]
Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
Feb 14, 2022
I think this is the first time I’ve seen a trend sweep across multiple design disciplines at the same time.
Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
Mar 21, 2022
Anyone else tired from this game we’re playing? If I just do one more project, Update my website, Tweet another tweet, Learn to use Blender, Get promoted, Write an article, Learn to code, Speak at a conference, Work in web3… Then I’ll be safe. Then I can relax.
Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
May 31, 2021
So who's gonna create the Figma of After Effects? Cos this shit is whack.
Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
Aug 2, 2021
Being remote feels like you just deliver work *to* people, rather than working *with* people. And for me, that means I'm expelling all my energy without getting anything coming back the other way. Any tips?
Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
Mar 24, 2022
'Show layout bounds' is such a helpful debug tool on Android. I wish iOS would natively support the same. If you haven't used it before, Settings → Developer Options → Drawing.
Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
Jul 7, 2021
May be whack, but I want @figmadesign to have a “word document” page-type where I can scribe like I’m on Dropbox Paper and then augment the document with sketches and mocks inline or in the surrounding canvas. So much of designing is typing. And no, a text box isn’t the same 🙃
Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
Oct 2, 2024
Today is really exciting for me, as I've just shared a TestFlight of my new app with a few close friends! After leaving Spotify, I started to rethink personal email based on the role it plays in 2024. It's an opinionated take that challenges some of the fundamental ideas Gmail
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Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
Dec 15, 2023
After 7 fulfilling years at Spotify, I’ve decided to make a change and so today’s my last day. It was really cool to be able to work on such a range of fun projects… Canvas was probably the most rewarding. I’m going to be experimenting with a few of my own ideas for a while 🤙
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Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
Apr 11, 2022
The whole process of defining layouts and constraints in @figma, then writing specs, talking to eng, merging builds, taking screenshots, reviewing and then repeating is so cumbersome. We gotta get to a point where designers are *easily* connected directly to code.
Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
Mar 28, 2024
Raw and polished metal is on it's way back. Presumably as part of the 70s revival and as a change from natural-everything. Different from the 00's stainless steel sleek-ism, it seems to be more of an industrial minimalism.
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Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
Feb 22, 2022
🌶 opinion but I don't think it's good enough to have messy design files now that we work in collaborative tools. Someone should be able to come into your file, orient themselves and guide themselves through your thinking and process. Design, then take the time to tidy up.
Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
Mar 19, 2022
Apple Maps is full of incredible details. It even seems like they delay the rotation of objects to create a perspective/parallax effect (a little hard to tell in recordings).
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Barton Smith
@bartonsmith
Nov 1, 2021
Replying to @jtannady
Welcome to our world 😀 If you want to nerd out even more, this is officially known as curvature continuity. It comes from industrial design and is a big part of 3D modeling for high-quality products (like an iPhone or a car). aliasworkbench.com/theoryBuilders…