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michael

@mkwng

4 years

Sure sex is great but have you ever joined a new design team and found all the margins are on a 8 pt spacing system...

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michael

@mkwng

6 months

A friend was asking our group chat for any apps that can take a starting location and generate random running trails. No one had a good answer. So, I fired up , google colab, and and screen recorded myself whipping together a UI to

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

I'm sharing the portfolio presentation, with commentary, I put together from last year when I was hunting for a job. Hoping that maybe someone will see it and get some ideas from it!

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

The longer I spend designing, the worse I feel like I am at it. I've been designing professionally for 12 years now, and I've never felt more like a beginner.

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

Personal news! New job! 👀

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michael

@mkwng

1 month

Hey it’s me

Anthropic

@AnthropicAI

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Today, we're making Artifacts available for all Claude users. You can now also create and view Artifacts on the Claude iOS and Android apps. Since launching in preview in June, tens of millions of Artifacts have been created. But where did it all begin? Here's how we built it.

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

I'm in a zoom with 8 other github employees, and literally none of us know what this means.

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

Just published my first plugin for @figmadesign . It allows you to copy the static text from an image using OCR, all without ever needing to leave Figma.

Text From Image | Figma

Use OCR to copy text from an image fill. Ever wish you could quickly grab some text from a static image? This plugin makes it easy with the magic of optical character recognition. KNOWN PROBLEMS * If...

www.figma.com

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

Tons of compromise comes into play when you’re creating a generative artwork project, you find yourself either having to wildly cut corners to create a cohesive system, or realize you have to rewrite everything yourself. Here’s a story of me refusing to compromise.

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

Kicking off the week by opening a doc and starting with this line

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

So impressed with the whole @loom launch today, they launched a big brand and a product refresh across multiple platforms on the same day. Most companies big and small can’t claim that level of coordination across product and marketing.

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michael

@mkwng

6 years

If there is a higher power, grant me the confidence of someone who has designed for 7 months at Instagram

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

Laptop is broken, but still able to get some PRs in thanks to GitHub Codespaces

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

As a learning project, I'm building a Figma plugin to copy text from a static screenshot to your clipboard using OCR. Here's a quick video demonstrating a working prototype. (Thanks for the idea, @brian_lovin !)

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michael

@mkwng

8 years

I really enjoyed working with @tachyons_css but found myself constantly referring to the docs, so I made this:

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

Only a subset of you will understand this, but for those of you who do, you are my favorite people

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

I'm taking a break here! If people find this helpful, I'll continue onto my next case study where I dive into some of my work at @lyftdesignteam .

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

I got married a few weeks ago! A few photos from the best day of my life...

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

I think this makes sense

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

Really quick tweet: I'm wrapping up my first week at a *new job* doing design at ! So excited to work with this team to make personal finance accessible to all.

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

ok if github goes down in the next minute or so it was probably my fault!

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michael

@mkwng

6 months

(Oh, by the way, I joined @AnthropicAI a few months ago to help build reliable and transformative AI products. It's great here.)

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

Okay, here’s a thread on how I created a generative composition from my illustrations for @companioninabox . In putting them together, I ran into some surprising problems. 👀 Read on…

📦 Companion-In-A-Box 📦

@companioninabox

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1,700,000,000,000 possible permutations

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michael

@mkwng

6 months

Claude did everything. I didn't write a single line of python. Even for debugging, I just pasted the errors into the chat and Claude gave me updated code. This level of reliability and problem solving was impossible until a few months ago with the latest generation of frontier

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michael

@mkwng

2 years

👀 Just dropped... List, manage, and launch codespaces from Raycast with the GitHub Codespaces extension.

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michael

@mkwng

3 months

Really excited for this launch. The combination of Projects (e.g. 200k context cross-conversation context), Artifacts, and Sonnet 3.5 has shifted the goal posts for me for what you can accomplish with AI. One thing I wanted to call out specifically about this launch was how much

Anthropic

@AnthropicAI

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You can now organize chats with Claude into shareable Projects. Each project includes a 200K context window, so you can include relevant documents, code, and files.

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

Updated my website for the first time since... 2016? 😳 Give it a shake and see if you can’t break it:

Personal Site of Michael Wang

Trying to figure out who Michael is? Maybe this website will help. Maybe it won't.

michael.wang

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

@joshwilburne Just for fun I had to check it out on my iPhone SE and it’s a beaut

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michael

@mkwng

8 years

I threw together a quick landing page using @tachyons_css and it was such a pleasure to work with. Check it out:

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michael

@mkwng

6 years

I'm running through @3dfordesigners 's tutorials and messing around with refractions in #c4d . I can't believe that you can just imagine something like this and then just go and create it. #c4dfordesigners

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michael

@mkwng

7 years

Took a few months, but finally put up my @derekebradley print

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

Stay inside

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michael

@mkwng

2 years

@halidecamera ?

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

I'm following everyone with a hex @companioninabox pfp. Like or comment below! 👇

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

I don't know who needs to hear this but sometimes to get to the best outcome you need to go through anti-process, un-collaborative, messy and painful cycles. You can't always Design Process™️ your way out of every problem.

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

confession: i never bothered to learn the difference between pt and px and em and ex and no one's ever ever called me out on it

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michael

@mkwng

2 years

The new @figma update completely breaks my file names. I label my design files based on what stage they're in using emojis. I can't fathom why but Figma thinks the string that comes after the emoji is the name of the file, which makes the tab names completely useless.

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michael

@mkwng

2 years

Has anyone checked in on UX designers at car companies right now?

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

@wp : Can you put together a quick 404 page for the website? me: k

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

@brian_lovin my journey:

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michael

@mkwng

7 years

Notes from day 2 of @layersconf featuring @thatJaneNg @ashsmash @boda @amelielamont @lindadong

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

New backgrounds for my phone

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

#NewNFTProfilePic NFT by @companioninabox

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

Found a fun easter egg on @figmadesign 's new store: There's a screensaver! Video sped up 5x.

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

thank god someone working here knows what's up

Josh Gross

@joshmgross

3 years

@mkwng The first number in each pair is the starting line of the preview, the second is the number of lines shown. The first pair is the before, and the second is after the changes. It makes a bit more sense when the lines in the diff are different.

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michael

@mkwng

6 years

First: Last Saturday, I proposed to my girlfriend! She said yes, obviously, and I'm now engaged to my and best friend and favorite person in the world. 💍 (2/4)

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

I just logged in to get my W-2 and found out something new about my role...

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

This was the exact deck I walked a total of 6 companies through, that resulted in 4 offers. You'll notice right off the bat the crappy illustrations... they're not my proudest, but it felt right in a pinch to inject some of my own style and personality into the presentation.

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

me on social media: "..." me on group chats:

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

#inktober day 6 and 7

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

If you're not a coworker, move along this tweet is not for you. Still with me? Good. 🚨 NFT giveaway alert! 🚨 Just drop your ens and watch my loom walkthrough (please i'm begging you)

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michael

@mkwng

2 years

Being a parent is all like

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

It was a great way to get a laugh from the interviewers, and I felt it gave people an idea of my sense of humor.

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

Good news is I'm about to merge my second ever PR

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michael

@mkwng

6 years

Literally could not sleep tonight because I’m so excited by the opportunities that lie ahead.

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

Picked up a side project. Posting updates here, feel free to mute this thread.

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

I'm about to start back up at my full time job so progress will probably slow on this project, but I wanted to take a chance to document how far I've gotten so far.

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

Variants tip for @figmadesign : Create a private "master" component that you re-use for all your variants. That way, if you change your mind about something, you only have to change once it in your master component.

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

I didn't have the foresight to bring a glass of water to bed last night so @sang_zhang made me negotiate

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

About to accept a new job at a private startup and they are offering RSUs or stock options? Repeat after me: "What is that in terms of percentage of total outstanding shares?"

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

I'm really in deep

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michael

@mkwng

8 years

Masterclass in preserving one's ego: Step 1: Deny wrong doing 2: Trivialize criticism 3: Reaffirm self-worth 4: Seek positive affirmation

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

I just completed day 1 of #AdventOfCode using @_paulshen 's and I think I never want to code in any other way ever again.

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michael

@mkwng

2 years

“i like it in a weird way” is the best design feedback to get prove me wrong

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

Lots of work went into this one! Congrats to the entire @github and @code team.

GitHub

@github

3 years

GitHub Codespaces is now available for everyone on GitHub Teams and GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Get blazing fast, pay-as-you-go, hosted development environments for your team.

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michael

@mkwng

7 years

This is what you look like while you play with animojis (featuring @sherzodmx and @linafab )

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

🛩 STEALTH NFT DROP ALERT 🛩 It's my birthday today, and my gift to you is the Companion Boxcutter 2000. It's an ERC-1155, and on top of looking really cool, it grants you access to the @companioninabox presale. 🆓 Free to mint @

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michael

@mkwng

8 years

Good crew @lyftdesignteam

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

absolutely no shade, but... me explaining @figmadesign 4 years ago: "there's literally no learning curve. if you can use sketch you can use figma" me explaining figma now: "omg omg i know this is all very confusing but i promise once you get the hang of it it all makes sense"

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

I don't know who needs to hear this, but higher performance means higher engagement. I don't know if this kind of ineraction would have been possible if I didn't prioritize rendering speed... see follow up tweet 👇

pif ☁️☁️☁️

@pifafu

3 years

like most worlds that allow for customization, being able to have my general likeness represented in my char is one of my favorites things. i think i spent >3 hours in @companioninabox :D so excited to use this as my profile once my companion arrives 🥰

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

You'll notice I didn't go too deep into my background beyond my workplace history, I didn't tell my life story, and I definitely didn't talk about my childhood. I transitioned really quickly to what I thought my interviewers would care about: What I could do for them.

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michael

@mkwng

7 years

This underrated UI

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michael

@mkwng

7 years

Looking for coworkers. Product design is growing at @lyft , at all levels of experience. Ping me!

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michael

@mkwng

7 years

some personal news i'm back on my bullshit

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michael

@mkwng

3 months

Alex Albert

@alexalbert__

3 months

Claude can remake the claude dot ai UI from just a single screenshot.

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michael

@mkwng

6 years

re: Press around Lyft redesign. In my opinion, the lede is buried. Thread…

The Verge

@verge

6 years

Lyft is redesigning its app to emphasize carpooling and mass transit

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

I see a lot of folks liking this tweet that I would love to collaborate with. We’re hiring for the product design team here 👀 2022 is gonna be lit.

michael

@mkwng

3 years

Kicking off the week by opening a doc and starting with this line

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

Hello, I never do this but our nanny was a victim in a home invasion recently and we’re pitching in to help them get back on their feet. If you have the extra resources, you’ll be making a terrible experience less terrible for a wonderful person.

Help Amalia Recover from a Burglary, organized by Sang Zhang

Amalia is a wonderful nanny to our 10 month yr old baby boy, Rowan. She is a warm and e… Sang Zhang needs your support for Help Amalia Recover from a Burglary

www.gofundme.com

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michael

@mkwng

4 years

Oakland 2020 = Vegas 2049

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

I don't think a single interviewer knew what Tachyons was, or understood what the tool was that I built did, but I don't think it mattered: Again, it was about enabling them to imagine what I could do for their team. This slide accomplished one thing: it showed that I can code.

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michael

@mkwng

6 years

Also! Tomorrow's my last day at @lyftdesignteam and it's been such an honor! I'm going to miss working with such a talented and passionate crew, but I'm excited to see what great work will come. 🚉 (3/4)

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

As I'm going through this, I'm not reading off the slides, I'm narrating specific instances where I solely executed on the role I'm talking about, and specifically what value it brought to the project I was on.

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

Me learning a new skill: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me actually having to apply new skill: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

normalize floundering

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michael

@mkwng

6 years

Been rewatching a bit of GoT with the girlfriend and decided to draw my feelings.

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michael

@mkwng

2 years

It was me, I said this

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michael

@mkwng

6 years

Drew an autobiographical comic

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michael

@mkwng

6 years

Quick sketch from tonight

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

Autobiographical

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michael

@mkwng

2 years

@brian_lovin @adrianmg Twinsies

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michael

@mkwng

5 years

Traffic to our 404 page before and after we redesigned it

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

Had to mint one to match my @companioninabox

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michael

@mkwng

3 years

Brian's been working on making his personal site more app-like. I was skeptical at first but after clicking around, I'm kind of surprised at how "right" it feels.