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dustin senos

1 year

walks a lot. based in vancouver 🇨🇦 head of design @browsercompany formerly design @medium & engineering @disney he / him. 1.7K Followers.

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

A little while ago, @adamstern_ and I set out to build a way for folks to pick a color theme at @browsercompany . We aimed to encourage exploration and playfulness, questioning how conventional color pickers work. 🧵 here’s our path to what you see below

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

remember that extra white stroke under dividers so they’d feel a pressed into the surface?

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

a few years back, I was helping a client with product work. they added me to their slack. i was being active, thumbing up posts, and adding what i thought was a large smile to posts: 😬

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@dustin

3 years

why do we shop like the first image in games and the second image in real life?

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dustin senos

@dustin

11 months

Feedback appreciated 🙏 Created a quick exploration inspired by your feedback on extensions in Arc. The goal is to enable quick sidebar access to extensions, while gracefully supporting any number you’d like to pin. This is building off ideas from @daraoke and @adamstern_ !

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dustin senos

@dustin

9 months

We’re hiring a Product Designer at @arcinternet . Want to help sculpt Arc’s future? Reach out and let’s chat —

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

i was pulled aside by a lead at the company. they let me know that I was upsetting people. folks would share their work and I would liberally add grimace faces to everything 🙃🙃🙃

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

earlier @ArcInternet shared a video where i asked for feedback on a work-in-progress design. 100+ folks replied, sharing mocks, prototypes, and critical feedback. i could not be more thankful for so many ppl caring enough about what we’re building to take that time. thank you 🙏

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

We just shipped Library v2 in @ArcInternet ! If you’re curious to see a glimpse into how Library 2.0 came to life @browsercompany , here’s some of our thinking behind the work and a live crit where @joshm and I discussed Library v2 a few weeks before launch —

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

how do you use arc spaces? (view → manage spaces) I’ve found work/personal to be a nice split, as well as giving side projects their own space.

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dustin senos

@dustin

11 months

In today’s @arcinternet update, we’re enabling shared Spaces, Folders, and Split Views! This is just a first step in our explorations to make Arc more collaborative and shareable — to bring people to your browser✨

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

helpful in figma: you can apply math to 'mixed' values. adjusting many items at once that have different heights? just add a + value to the input.

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dustin senos

@dustin

5 months

Design friends, thanks for the feedback on the Arc update banner. Hear ya loud and clear; this ain’t it! Soon, you won’t have to see this banner, but in the meantime, we’re working on it and will have something ~ more delightful ~ soon 🩷

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

what if Leonardo da Vinci was the name of a coworking space in 1504 and we’re just giving credit to one person

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

peter helped shape an early internet we love and dearly miss. absolutely over the moon for the chance to jam with @pter at @browsercompany 💙💙 —

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

a month ago, danielle and i welcomed little nora into the world. she’s such a gem 🥰🥰

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

when @adamstern_ mentions he animated the shortcut hint in Arc’s tooltips, as you press the key on the keyboard <3<3<3

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 months

the @browsercompany is looking for a Contract Android Designer! is that you? someone you know? we’d love to work with you! —

Contract Android Designer: Arc Search

The Browser Company of New York, is excited to work with a talented Contract Android Designer.

browserco.typeform.com

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dustin senos

@dustin

4 years

join my clubhouse room of former and current owners of this shelf —

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

I was digging through old prototypes and I found a fun one. This prototype shows various approaches to handling spaces in @ArcInternet with different sidebar widths. ��

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

huge shoutout to my coworkers at @browsercompany 💙. a lot of hard work went into making our latest iteration ~ fast and obvious ~. more work to do, but it’s fun work when you’re surrounded by great people.

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

endlessly thankful to work with such a fun and talented group of people @browsercompany .

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dustin senos

@dustin

1 year

it was incredible to watch the crew at @browsercompany collaborate to ship boosts 2.0. from tweaking the depths of chromium, to the lovely UI details, to the storytelling team putting out videos like the one below. thankful every day to work with such a talented group 🙏

The Browser Company

@browsercompany

1 year

What if the internet... was actually 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 internet? 🎨 Introducing Boosts 2.0 — only in Arc

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dustin senos

@dustin

4 months

thrilled to be in the running and so happy the team’s work is being recognized. what an absolute honour <3

Josh Miller

@joshm

4 months

this one hits different, so so proud of the team

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

1972 BMW 2002 —

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

an afternoon of sunshine, the late mac miller, and swift

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

back from a wonderful design offsite with the @browsercompany design crew (sans @karlamickens who wasn’t able to attend) thankful to work with folks who are so dedicated to their craft and such collaborative and positive teammates 💙 very excited for what is to come :)

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

very proud of the UI and color work we just launched to @browsercompany members. such a fun mix of color theory, math, and engineering+design. had a blast jamming on it with @adamstern_ 💙

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

8/ We also hid complexity when picking a multi-color theme. You choose two or three colors, and we hide the complimentary and split-complimentary color theory powering the colors. 🎨 You adjust the primary color, and we guarantee the other colors are a gorgeous match.

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

seems like a dece time — are you a designer and on mastodon? reply with your handle. would love to connect with you somewhere other than twitter.

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

the crew at @browsercompany put so much heart into building Arc, it’s lovely seeing the tweets saying you enjoy it. thank you for being open to trying our work in progress and giving feedback on things we can improve 🙏🙏

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

@dustanner will add that right after i download this set of grunge brushes

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

i feel no gravitational pull towards the new pepsi logo

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

the wonderful @keeyeny visiting from NYC and working out of the office today 👋

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

figma friends, could we have this snap at 60%?

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

lately i’ve found it more useful to add interesting people to lists based on affinity than to follow them. pinning those lists on iOS makes the lists easy to access 🤌

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

over a year later, i finally had the chance to meet @browsercompany coworkers in person. they are some of the smartest, most-innovative, and welcoming groups i’ve had the chance to collab with 🙏 keep your eyes out, we’re cooking up some incredible work 💪

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

3/ We took inspiration from music apps. Why? You don’t always know what you’re looking for when making music. So you need to experiment and tinker. Music apps use exploration as a means to an end. GarageBand’s virtual drummer and Figure by Reason are great models of this.

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dustin senos

@dustin

10 months

thank you for the feedback on the pinned extensions prototype below! it’s now live in @arcinternet . please kick the tires for a week or so and let us know how it’s feeling / how it could be improved 🙏

dustin senos

@dustin

11 months

Feedback appreciated 🙏 Created a quick exploration inspired by your feedback on extensions in Arc. The goal is to enable quick sidebar access to extensions, while gracefully supporting any number you’d like to pin. This is building off ideas from @daraoke and @adamstern_ !

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

a while back, @adamstern_ and I explored alternative ways to open ephemeral tabs when you 'cmd-click' links. these little floating cards were one of the approaches that showed a lot of promise — they felt snappy to view+triage without creating a ton of tab exhaust

Adam Stern

@adamstern_

2 years

@joshm @smixsam @a2 @ArcInternet We prototyped this a while back! The idea was you could collect a little stack "mini tabs" to preview, without leaving the original site

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

🎶 on rotation —

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

- as a child, what did you want to do when you grew up? - what did you take in school? - what are you doing now?

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

new books arrived 😍

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

peak performance is about to get dropped @browsercompany —

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@dustin

2 years

we have an internal culture of share early and often and a very “let’s prototype to find out…” It was pretty magical to have ya’ll join in, too.

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

so… i can’t log into instagram and it’s because my account is labeled “remembering” how does this happen? who can i talk to?

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

just felt a wave of nostalgia of walking from market street to yerba buena gardens. enjoying the sunshine while passing by the jewish contemporary gallery and tropisueño.

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

tomorrow’s art boards are not rdy for this knowledge —

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

6/ We aspired to make our color picker playful by applying what we observed in music apps: 🎛 Promote discovery 👍 Hide complexity ⚡️ Respond instantly. Making ‘mistakes’ immediately correctable

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

Dara only joined the @browsercompany design team a few weeks ago, but it’s clear how much skill and curiosity she brings to her work. Such a privilege to work with you, @daraoke !

Dara

@daraoke

2 years

some shots today from the beautiful @browsercompany office in brooklyn, andddd it’s also my first month on the team. here’s to this new adventure 💫

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

2/ For our use case, we don’t need you to find a precise color. Instead, we want you to discover a color you like while enjoying the process. So we set off to make something that nudged playfulness over precision.

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

the amount of thought and craft @codeblue87 put into @browsercompany ’s new PiP was incredible to watch. a reminder of the many, many nuanced decisions it takes to make something feel like it ‘just works’ —

Ben Cunningham

@codeblue87

2 years

Really proud of the interaction work we're scratching at in today's @browsercompany update. The new video player uses a super-charged windowing system we built on top of macOS.

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

Before Library v2, surfaces like the Space Manager, Tab Archive, and Library v1 were functionally and visually inconsistent and spread out across different parts of Arc — v2 aimed to bring everything together on one cohesive surface. Live figma here —

Library 2.0

Created with Figma

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

9/ How did we validate that the UI was playful? You often need to “feel” UI to see if it is delightful. I built the initial prototype in Swift, collected feedback from coworkers, and iterated on it with @adamstern_ . At the same time, he made it performant and production-ready.

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

was lovely chatting about design @browsercompany with @mattdwille . @karlamickens , @kristinatastic , and I are quoted, but what you see in Arc would not be possible without the excellent design work from @elfanek , @nateparrott , and @raunofreiberg too 💙 —

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

4/ These apps are, in part, playful because they hide complexity. So, for example, you don’t need to know how GarageBand’s virtual drummer decides which drums to strike or how often. 🥁 You pick simple or complex, and GarageBand does the rest.

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

fall is fav because we can layer

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@dustin

3 years

7/ We encourage discovery in a few ways: • No color on the pad. Only names like “greenish” • No indication that the color darkens near the center of the pad and lightens near the edge • Picking a suggested color animates the knob’s position. Connecting color to knob position

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

Nobel Prize for whoever designed the laundry detergent cap that routes the soap back into the container

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

canceled spotify. byebye 👋

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@dustin

3 years

is it still a carton if it holds one egg

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@dustin

3 years

5/ Music apps also foster exploration through a near-zero cost to correct ‘mistakes.’ Every change responds with instant and easily correctable feedback. ⚡️ 🎛 You adjust knobs until you’re happy.

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

@rsms there’s gotta be another metric we can add down there. maybe the weather at the time+location the tweet was sent? maybe the amount of free RAM the senders computer had? maybe a meter to show how badly el*n is trying to prove to everyone how “more active than ever” twitter is?

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

want to see a real-world design+engineering project go from idea to implementation? check out this fantastic video from @_tamijo and @katherineroseyy , who just shipped “dev tab” for @browsercompany —

videofile_: you built our newest feature!

We usually follow our instincts when designing new products. But what happens when our instincts fail?Rosey and Tami are here to share more on how we brought...

www.youtube.com

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

so. excited. can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on!

Josh Miller

@joshm

3 years

One year later, to the day, and we’ve just finished the @browsercompany unboxing experience 😇 This means invites are going to start flying off the shelves !! Our team loves to learn and iterate so bear with us, but *next week* we will start ramping out those invites 🏄🏄‍♂️🏄‍♀️

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

few photos from the last few weeks

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

this is an endlessly fascinating read. thanks for the rec ⁦ @kristinatastic ⁩

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dustin senos

@dustin

1 year

Silo is excellent 📺👌

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

so, so excited for the chance to work with you, @jmtrivedi ! can’t wait to see the love and delight you bring to Arc 💙💙

Janum Trivedi

@jmtrivedi

2 years

Got some big news: I’m joining the design team at @browsercompany ! The web deserves some love, and I’m super excited to help make Arc, the fun, fresh, browser of tomorrow ✨

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

1/ Traditional color pickers urge precision, allowing you to enter numerical values to set an exact color. Accurate color is required for some applications such as print and film and is a +$150m industry lead by @pantone .

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 months

if you’re at #Config2024 , you don’t want to miss this presentation—a chance to watch two of the best chat about their craft

arc-eology

@arc_eology

3 months

Karla Cole ( @karlamickens ), Product Designer & Brand Lead at BCNY; & Nashilu Mouen ( @lafillemouen ), Head of Storytelling at BCNY; Will be speaking at ConFig 24" on June 26th - 27th in San Francisco.

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@dustin

3 years

10/ [bonus] For those who have early access to our browser, try pressing the option key while choosing a color 😉 For people who want access, join our waitlist ! We're ramping up invites —

Josh Miller

@joshm

3 years

One year later, to the day, and we’ve just finished the @browsercompany unboxing experience 😇 This means invites are going to start flying off the shelves !! Our team loves to learn and iterate so bear with us, but *next week* we will start ramping out those invites 🏄🏄‍♂️🏄‍♀️

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

let’s talk about two inputs

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

watch four user testing videos at 2× and real life becomes v slow

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

what’s your fav, can-make-at-home, cocktail?

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

12/ Sources+Shoutouts: • Valuation of Pantone: • Figure by Reason (shout-out to @codeblue87 for sharing this app with me): • @kristinatastic for early theme explorations! • Coworkers at @browsercompany for feedback💙

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dustin senos

@dustin

5 months

@aarondignan we have an inbound product change that the old banner's layout didn't support. We move quick and wanted to decouple the design changes from the engineering changes, so I pushed for us to ship this ahead of time.

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

From start-to-finish this was a team effort — @elfanek to @jasdev , @jmtrivedi to @sherryshao_ , @merowing_ to @jedimody & ofc @alexandracoding all have their fingerprints here! Catch the full final review here —

Startup CEO records entire meeting with design lead (live footage)

What you’re about to watch is unedited footage from a meeting between The Browser Company's Head of Design & CEO as they review final designs for a new featu...

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

and just to name it… if you are looking for a new gig and are interested in joining some wonderful folks rethinking what a browser is, we have a number of open roles —

Careers | The Browser Company

the Browser Company of New York

thebrowser.company

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dustin senos

@dustin

5 months

@aarondignan we went through a gazillion revs on this, some that were more 'designed' but they all felt like they were drawing too much attention to themselves, hence the plainer style we shipped. really, no one should have to look at this banner, and that’s what we're working towards now…

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

anyone actively switch between a pc/mac? are kvm switches still the way to go or is there some new tech i’m not wise to?

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@dustin

3 years

because handling time zones correctly in software isn’t difficult enough, in Club Penguin we had our own in-game timezone: PST (penguin standard time). PST tracked Pacific Standard Time and we’d calculate the offset for players who joined from different areas of the world.

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@dustin

3 years

11/ If working on problems like this is interesting to you, we have a range of open roles — please reach out!

Careers | The Browser Company

the Browser Company of New York

thebrowser.company

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

if you don’t have access to Arc yet (we are inviting many, many people off the waitlist every week!) please drop your email over at

The Browser Company | Building Arc

We’re building a better way to use the internet, starting with your browser. Let go of the clicks, clutter, and distraction with Arc.

thebrowser.company

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@dustin

3 years

7.5/ (I’m not saying fewer labels promote discovery. You have to make sure you’re not removing UI to the point of confusion or harming accessibility. Also! take a look at `accessibilityRepresentation` in SwiftUI for an approach to make custom controls accessible.)

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@daraoke @adamstern_ The url can get pretttty narrow in the prototype above. We’ll have to make sure to truncate extensions / switch layouts earlier.

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@dustin

2 years

i’m looking to connect with more independent designers / engineers / artists in the #Vancouver area. where ya’ll at? RTs for reach appreciated 🙏🙏

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@dustin

2 years

i dig the shoutouts in the @anydistanceclub app —

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@dustin

2 years

last night I watched someone attempt to generate an image of a clown eating at @kfc with midjourney. the person really wanted the image to be 'child friendly' — a happy, light, joyous image of a clown. this is what midjourney was generating 😂

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dustin senos

@dustin

3 years

what happens when we run out of five letter words

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dustin senos

@dustin

2 years

love solving hard problems? collaborating with a fun folks? focusing on craft and polish? reach out :)

Josh Miller

@joshm

2 years

woooo okay we're opening product eng roles at @browsercompany our last five product eng hires were @sherryshao_ @darinwf @tfeener @steven_brix @_tamijo + you?! love iOS/Swift, sweat the craft details, and happiest prototyping with very little info? DM me please!!

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2 years

very much enjoying this book. picked it up at @MassyBooks

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5 months

@aarondignan I realize not letting people dismiss the banner could be read as hostile to members, but that was never the intent! we're a small team and focus our efforts in places we believe will be best for the folks using Arc. putting the work into auto updating is what we prioritized.

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dustin senos

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1 year

min gsearch —

min google

Minimalism meets Google with Min Google, an Arc browser boost that simplifies the Google interface for a clean and efficient search experience.

arc.net

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dustin senos

@dustin

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anyone else code in a comically large typeface? I typically use 18–24pt 🔎👀

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2 years

request for @ArcInternet boost — hide the “promote button”

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the fine folks at @Post_Projects are letting me rent a desk from them. I was solo in an office for a minute, nice to be surrounded by creative folks —

Post Projects

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