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Benji Taylor

6 months

Some news! Family is joining Avara ( @avara ), the team behind @aave , @lensprotocol , and more. Full announcement:

Family Acquired by Avara (Aave Companies)

I'm thrilled to announce that Los Feliz Engineering (LFE)—the company behind Family and previously, Honk—has been acquired by Avara, formerly known as Aave Companies.

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2 years

Now that Figma has $20b can they add sections within files so we can all stop using ------------ as makeshift dividers

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1 year

Increasingly convinced you have to be a little bit cringe to succeed

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4 months

One of my favourite flows––after creating your wallet, the card itself turns into an interactive, fully animated SwiftUI tutorial that hints at the exact steps you're about to take. (Notice how the last tutorial step and final screen essentially match visually.)

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3 years

This HBO marketing campaign is genius

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4 months

Another onboarding tutorial → functional feature flow. We made this one a while ago for an unreleased little social app we developed. The tutorial explains the key feature of the app (posting statuses), then takes you straight into creating one.

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3 years

Got Pfizer because they have the best logo

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3 years

At a certain point, it probably becomes cheaper to buy all of your users iPhones instead of creating an Android version of your app

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2 years

Apple could easily have the best password manager in the market if they spent a week redesigning Keychain

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Benji Taylor

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1 year

Super into this tray pattern we’ve developed for @family . It’s a really elegant way to display additional context to the user right before they continue, without making the underlying screen busy.

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Benji Taylor

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1 month

A little obsessed with our new hero animation. Every element was animated independently in code. You can see it live on:

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Benji Taylor

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2 years

Linear going crazy

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Benji Taylor

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4 months

This flow in @family emphasises depth with each advancing step. Key components are brought into focus with each tap, using persistent colours to clarify the path you're on. Some of my fav transitions.

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Benji Taylor

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4 months

So many delightful details in Family’s number input screen. Each comma visibly moves as the number grows/shrinks.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

Freaking out over a $100k+ Delaware franchise tax bill and then realizing you don't have to pay it is a right of passage for founders

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 year

Always enjoy how smoothly Family handles different edge cases. $AMKT is less than a year old—still has a beautiful animation when tapping on the ‘1Y’ time period.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

4 years

Does anyone want to try my new messaging app

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Benji Taylor

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3 years

App idea: share one thing every day or your account gets deleted

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Benji Taylor

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1 month

Some of the best designers I know unironically have no visible design work on their websites

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Benji Taylor

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2 years

When you work on a mobile app your camera roll effectively becomes a graveyard for screenshots

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

6 months

Here's a fun site we helped create for the @avara announcement. Lots of fun little details:

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Benji Taylor

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2 years

Our founder group chat is basically everyone just getting their builds rejected by Apple and trying to figure out why

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

Billion dollar idea: app

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 months

We do a lot of these action → tutorial → action flows in Family. There's something really nice about not taking a user out of the context they're in when you need to explain something. Keep the flow moving by doing things inline.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 months

Here's how fast it is to send USDC in @family on @base , for less than $0.01, all from within a conversation.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 month

Hiring people through Twitter is infinitely more effective than LinkedIn

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 year

The transitions... 🤌

Family

@family

1 year

Our goal is to create the wallet you'll enjoy using every day. That’s why we pour so much time and effort into making every last detail feel delightful. Here’s a quick look at something you'll likely do quite often: sending tokens. 🌎

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Benji Taylor

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3 months

Initial Vision Pro impressions after a few hours: - The pass through is the best of any VR headset by a mile. However, you can still tell you’re looking at a video imo. You can’t read text on your phone for example, and there is noticeable pixelation — but overall it’s still…

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Benji Taylor

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2 years

Craft, Raycast and Linear give me hope for beautiful software continuing to be created

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 months

Taste is maybe the biggest deciding factor in whether a product ends up *feeling* good or not, regardless of how much skill is involved

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

9 months

Fun fact: the voiceover in this video was 100% AI generated.

Family

@family

9 months

We're excited to share a major feature addition to Family: Previews. Enabled by our collaboration with @blowfishxyz , Previews offers an unprecedented level of control and transparency when navigating the world of Ethereum, with full transaction simulation and much more. ⚡️🐡

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

Some stats since the @usehonk launch on Tuesday: - 12+ million Honks sent - 75+ million characters typed - 100k+ friendships made - 19k TikTok followers, 350k+ likes with $0 ad spend - 900+ App Store reviews, averaging a 4.8 The best stat of all though: people are having fun.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

I have a lot of respect for anyone trying to make social apps that bring some delight into people's lives, vs simply trying to consume their attention at all costs.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

This tweet made our design team really happy. We put a ton of effort into the little details. Means a lot when they are noticed, even just for a moment.

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@round

3 years

what a lovely screen

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 month

Design debt doesn’t get talked about nearly enough in comparison to tech debt

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

4 months

Another little @family detail. When sending or swapping, the spinner after submission morphs into the nav bar activity icon, where the transaction can then be viewed as pending.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 years

So... we're making a wallet

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 year

Maybe just me but I actually have started to notice Twitter breaking. Like, actual bugs. Duplicate notifications, incorrect metrics, icons changing randomly, etc.

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Benji Taylor

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7 months

Honk had its issues, but 'bad design' wasn't one of them. Social apps can fail for various reasons—timing, marketing, competition, etc. To chalk up an app's shortcomings solely to 'bad design' is an oversimplification and intellectually lazy.

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7 months

Product design is the pursuit of configuring complex parts to produce a desired outcome I love visual craft, but you’re naive if you think it answers the problem above I wish more designers started companies or marketed things they created. It’s the only way to face the truth

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

11 months

WWDC is essentially a public holiday for iOS teams

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 years

We've barely scratched the surface of what a wallet can/should be

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

One detail I really love from the latest @usehonk update is using the tray background colour to indicate what action a user is taking

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

6 months

This is cool. I’ve seen a lot of people try to recreate our tray system and get fairly close. At this point though, maybe we should just consider open sourcing ours.

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6 months

React Native Bottom Card with Gesture Handler and Reanimated 🚀 Inspired by: Available now on Patreon 🪄

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Benji Taylor

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1 month

This is 100% right. Only some companies will manage to actually hire and retain great design engineering talent, and it’ll be the ones that allow people to spend time on craft and make it a part of their culture.

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1 month

Design Engineering is the embodiment of Steve's "Design is how it works." principle. I believe it's going to be one of the most important roles and differentiators in the next generation of software companies.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

6 months

Visual changelogs like this are the way. You trade smaller incremental feature releases over time for a more structured approach that doubles as a marketing opportunity and feels higher impact.

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6 months

Airbnb 2023 Winter Release (sound on🔈)

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Benji Taylor

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3 years

Honk is currently #11 in Social Networking and #83 overall. Cool!

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 year

Yearly reminder that Apple is one step away from building a decent password manager/replacement to 1Password and just... won't

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

Getting a cease & desist is a right of passage for founders

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 year

More founders need to openly discuss mental health

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

Something you quickly realise after shipping a consumer app is that more needs to be removed instead of added

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

It's amazing you can start a company from your bedroom

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 months

Some fun little details for a project we're working on at @avara .

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

9 months

Excited to roll out Wallet Wrapped to @family users soon. Your last 30 days onchain summarised in a beautiful unique video, every month. (And yes, you can choose light and dark mode.) Here's my latest:

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 months

More interfaces like this

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 months

First Ethereum transaction in Vision Pro? Done entirely in @family with the eye tracking and simple gesture. Worked like a charm. So fun.

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@benjitaylor

11 months

@ChristianSelig Really sorry Christian. You built something fantastic that was loved by many. Can't wait to see what you create next.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 months

We built an entire messaging app right into your wallet, allowing you to communicate with anyone, send instant payments globally, and much more. Great work by the team on this!

Family

@family

2 months

Messaging has arrived in Family! Engage in end-to-end encrypted chats with any wallet address, powered by @xmtp_ . Send text, voice, images, and video messages. Save media, customize your chats, and easily send transactions directly within conversations. 💬

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

I just turned 22 and I’d like time to please slow down

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 year

When Teenage Engineering makes a typewriter it’s game over

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

Hope you're all having a nice user experience today

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 months

We’re making big improvements to every surface at @avara , starting with @LensProtocol . Today we're launching a completely redesigned site to help register and manage your Lens profile(s). Great work by the team!

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 years

Today I found out my EB-1 green card petition was approved! 🇺🇸 It's a life changing moment and something I've wanted for as long as I can remember. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 years

Big corporate software seems to be getting buggier each year, while indie software seem to be getting smoother and more reliable

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

11 months

Love our new website. The team did an amazing job in ~2 weeks. All of the in-phone mockups are real screen recordings, which sped up development considerably and is a testament to how smooth the app actually is!

Family

@family

11 months

Fun update! Our shiny new website is now live at . Take a look and discover what Family is all about. And if you haven't already, join our waitlist to stay in the loop. 💌✨

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 years

Honk really is such a beautiful app. I still check it all the time just to admire all the little details and amount of love that was put into it.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

If you don't build things, don't give advice to people who build things!

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

10 months

This was one of the coolest things we did at Honk. We sent the coordinates of the tap, showed a little circle, and played a haptic in the exact place where the tap occurred. You could actually react to a specific part of a message in real-time and feel it on the other side.

Honk

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3 years

👍 You've always been able to double tap a message on Honk to heart it - but we've now added the option for you to customize which emoji appears when you do! Navigate to your profile, tap the settings gear in the top left, and tap Change Quick Reaction.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 years

Designing products is a lot of fun no one talks about this

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 month

‘Design engineering’ is certainly more art than science

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

10 days

Working on something to address this...

Garry Tan

@garrytan

11 days

Great UX and design seems like a bit of a lost art in 2024 for new builders and founders. What can we do to fix this?

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

8 months

Apple is probably 5-10 keynotes away from destroying every AI companion app

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

10 months

Our new in-app browser is by far the smoothest I’ve tried. So many lovely micro interactions paired with powerful functionality. Impressed by how quickly the team built this as always.

Family

@family

10 months

We're thrilled to introduce the first version of our new in-app browser, now available in Family via TestFlight. This feature provides a convenient way to engage with your favorite web3 dApps, and includes full support for bookmarks, unlimited tabs, and more. 🧭

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

6 months

I respect Humane for trying to do something new. It can sometimes feel as though big co’s have an insurmountable lead—especially when it comes to hardware—so it’s nice to see that being challenged, especially for a V1.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 months

We're hiring for multiple roles at @avara and just published our new careers page. Some really lovely details sprinkled throughout. Come join us!

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

4 years

I'll tell you one thing they don't teach you in high school: 83(b) elections

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

12 days

Training AI designers to have taste is going to be a tough one

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 months

We crafted a dynamic tray system for @family that enables on-the-fly presentation of any UI element as it becomes pertinent to the user. It's a surprisingly helpful pattern, as it keeps the majority of screens very focused and minimal until more context needs to be shown.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 year

Hours of endless fun

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 year

Excited to announce I am now the proud owner of

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1 year

Today, Google Registry is launching eight new top-level domains: .dad, .phd, .prof, .esq, .foo, .zip, .mov and .nexus. Learn more ↓

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

3 months

Most companies do too much, say too much, and have too many people

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 years

Love all the little details in the @family developer docs.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

7 months

Messaging in @family is going to feel on par (hopefully better!) than other everyday messaging apps. Little preview of rich link previews working nicely.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

8 months

The best way to easily make smooth videos of your app for marketing purposes is to first make a smooth app

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

6 months

Day two of not being a founder: I have phantom-founder syndrome and feel the need to do everything including HR

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

27 days

Some interactive diagrams we're working on for the new @LensProtocol developer docs.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

2 months

Caring about great design ≠ not caring about growth or PMF. Is this really that hard to understand?

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

10 months

Fun little detail when navigating between the start page and tabs page in the new @family browser

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 year

Those who can't achieve high levels of craft will settle on criticising it instead

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 year

Close friends *early access* beta of @family next week!

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 year

We’ve been working *extremely* hard on crafting not just a great wallet by web3 standards, but a great product–– period. That means every detail being accounted for. Excited to share this tiny first preview of Family.

Family

@family

1 year

💫 Starting today, we'll begin sharing small previews of Family, our new self-custody wallet arriving in 2023. Let's kick things off with something simple: tokens. Browsing your tokens in Family is beautiful and easy, with seamless transitions and delightful interactions.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

25 days

Treat your developer docs like you treat the product itself

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

9 months

We revamped the submit feedback flow in Family, so now you can have a nice experience even if you’re reporting a bug.

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

10 months

Excited to soon be rolling out these educational trays in @family . No matter where you are in the app, you’ll be able to learn more about exactly what you’re looking at in a bite-sized guide. (The animations are fun as well.)

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

4 months

We use the wallet card UI in @family to transform into different components, which is particularly effective for stepped flows like this one, where the card visibly morphs into the stepper (and back again if needed)

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

1 year

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Benji Taylor

@benjitaylor

24 days

I wish there was a way to automatically have gestures show on iOS screen recordings. Achieving videos like this means requires *manually* adding gestures in After Effects.