Corey Lee
@factorzero
Fractional Design & Strategy. Previous @figma
独立デザイナーのビジネス実践プログラム
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back in my day if you wanted to make an app you had to write code by hand in obj-C, actually read the docs and learn the APIs, manually reference count while avoiding dangling pointers and memory leaks, and then spend two days fighting Xcode to code sign it.
I feel old.
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for anyone that needs to hear this (me)
Ship that side project, even if you think no one nowadays cares. You care.
Story of my life.
People who moved abroad alone in their 20s, handled all docs, bank account, visa, tax, jobs, accomadation, and culture difference
These people fear nothing anymore
Ironically that came full circle when I eventually got to help localize Figma into Japanese and Korean.
I think leanring Japanese has helped me become a better designer by reducing some of my design biases and gaining an understanding of problems monolinguals might miss.
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A lot of people take for granted how easy it is to use software in Latin script languages.
CJK is still causes a lot of challenges. When I first started using Figma you couldn't even type japanese characters so I sent a request to fox that.
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A lot of people take for granted how easy it is to use software in Latin script languages.
CJK is still causes a lot of challenges. When I first started using Figma you couldn't even type japanese characters so I sent a request to fox that.
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What is the definition of good design? Is it what aligns to your expectations of what you think is good design? Or is it design that is effective at what it does?
I can say from experience effective design is often different from what most English speakers think it is.
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WeChat is stuck in like…2018, from a UI and UX point of view. No competitive pressure to make it good, and everyone just deals with it.
While everyone else is excited out on all the cool agentic stuff we can do in design and code, I'm geeking out on how to use it to run a business solo.
"set the corner radius to 4px"
Software design now is like ahhh yeah you’re gonna need an LLM for that no wait it’s a sub agent actually open a worktree no you need skills to get that done no no no it’s now a loop you need a loop to do it actually install a connector first I changed my mind you need a plugin
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Big fan of this. I used to write a mini thesis for every design review to sanity check my reasoning and polish my communication.
My kind of design process
Planning an event for design founders late June .... 👀
It’s kind of crazy that we used to write code for free. You just opened an text editor and typed in some words completely at no cost
Same with designs. Every rectangle and shape was free
Operation → Orchestration
いろんな人と話して考えてみて、デジタルなプロダクトデザイナーは、本質的には「オペレーション」だったのだと改めて思う。少なくとも自分は「設計」している自負はもちろんあるが、同時にそういう、上方から言われて作業していた部分もあった。
やっていたのはツールの操作。ただ習熟に時間がかかるから、それ自体に価値があるように見えていた。そこにユーザビリティ、UXなどの語彙が重なって「デザイナーだけが持てる特別な力」という神話ができあがった。それら概念自体は正しいし、今もリスペクトしてる。ただ、オペレーションしてるだけという、自覚を遠ざける方向にも働いた気もする。
AIがそれを突きつけてきた感覚がある。成果物がコードそのものだから、AIの得意領域と完全に重なっている。UIの正解パターンを選んで組み合わせる作業。それはAIの独壇場だ。
designの語源は「designare」。何を作るべきかを決める行為。ビジュアルを整えることでも、もっともらしい概念を語ることでもなかった。
自分はオペレーターだったのか、設計者だったのかが問われる。この時代に、みんなはどう思ってるんだろうか🤔
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