toronto is a cool place to be rn. a culture of breathing life into the ideas & projects you want in the world. thank you
@newdemos_
@tommytrxnh
@internetvin
and the whole team for a great event 🐀💕
BUILDSPACE S3 DEMO DAY ✅
room 37 had the best vibes - insane amount of creativity and knowledge around web3, and so much love on
@liftoff_quest
🔭💕
thanks
@_buildspace
@_nightsweekends
for giving us a platform to share, connect, and build, excited for tomorrow!
all the designers at my org huddled in a room during our lunch break to watch
@figma
little big updates 🥹
personal predictions/hopes:
⁃folders in pages in app
⁃min-max width?!?!
⁃relative sticky positioning
⁃anything with figma mirror
are there woodworking drop-in studios in toronto, like a pottery drop-ins?
i would pay an unreal amount of money for a space to browse wood, to build custom furniture for myself or others, and to learn from masters of the craft
or can someone start this pls??
trying to gauge interest from all my toronto peeps --would anyone want to attend a chill trash cleanup hosted by
@tommytrxnh
and me?
all litter collected would become data for
@OceanWise
to inform our municipal waste policies! 🌱🗑️
optimizing for silliness w/ the girlies <3
step 1: send out cute little dinner invites
step 2: gather the girlies, ask everyone what sanrio character they are
step 3: take 'candid' 0.5x of everyone
step 4: make silly little graphics
Today,
@tommytrxnh
and I hosted another walk and talk on the West end of Toronto. Vibes were off the charts; I really didn’t want it to end.
Thanks to everyone that showed up! Summer walks are going to be next level.
Next one in 2 weeks!
Introducing: toronto dot page
A simple directory that makes it easier to discover like-minded people and events in Toronto.
Its functionality will expand over time, if you want to be added to the directory, or if you have any ideas, lmk.
designed and developed by
@_kelindi
didn’t expect to be doing inner-child healing and tearing up at
@iamharaldur
’s closing keynote but
@figma
#Config2023
day 1 was full of surprises 🥹
DAY 2 LET’S GOOOOO
day 3/28: primitive shapes 🔵 had no clue where i was going with this one but ended up with some twilight sunrise vibe and i like it 🌙
#figbruary
#figbruary2023
by
@realvjy
already behind and it’s only day 3 😅 day 2: not a weird aspect ratio per se but wanted to try using component sets to make a drag carousel interaction 🌄
#figbruary
#Figbruary2023
meeting twitter designers irl. all lovely people except for
@mrbenjaminhoppe
, a midtowner who said unspeakable things all night, then flees for montreal.
i’m in costa rica! 3 days in and the weather is perfect, people are inconceivably welcoming, and the beans are rice are stellar - everyone should visit at some point in their lives if they can
i bestowed the blessing (or curse?) of learning design onto 15 lovely individuals last night at da101
#2
(toronto edition!!) <3
attendees learned frameworks for approaching visual projects, applied them, and got mentorship in a fun and cozy space
dm to join the next one :)
“Here, all we get are a few specks of time where any of this actually makes any sense.”
“Then I will cherish these few specks of time.”
i love this film so much. i love michelle yeoh. one of my many love letters to eeaao in the only way i know how 🎨
feb 7/28: make something with only 3 ellipses ⚪️ not exactly 3 but the essence of 3… i had 2 ideas and couldn’t choose which i like better so posting both 🔅
here’s idea 1: portals
#figbruary
#figbruary2023
by
@realvjy
@miggi
@o_lonks
feb 4/28: futuristic tv remote 📺 inspired by Gianni Chia () - playing around w stylized buttons and component sets more, need to work on smoother interactions :’)
#figbruary
#figbruary2023
by
@realvjy
and
@miggi
Calling all Miami-based designers, developers, builders, anyone interested in leveling up their design skills and building a portfolio project 👀
@uxdesignathon
is taking place next week at Miami Hack Week ☀️🕶 Register at
gm!
we’re so excited to introduce our
@ETHGlobal
🗽 winning project to our iris roadmap
built on top of
@LensProtocol
, powered by
@tatum_io
,
@0xPolygon
, and
@Livepeer
Revrb is your music and marketplace ecosystem onchain, built for small artists & to incentivize creativity 🎶
🚨design system psa🚨
design systems ≠ ui kit
design tokens ≠ variables
design systems/tokens = methodologies, governance, alignment, trust-building, collaboration, scalability
(sending this to designers everytime they detach an instance)
new fave thing is bringing twitter design tutorials as standup activities and getting to try them on the clock 🤪 from this morning, thanks
@uiuxadrian
✨
Introducing: New Demos 2
A showcase of what we make with our computers.
April 10, 2024
8pm, Revue Cinema
Roncesvalles, Toronto
Tickets now on sale. Link below.
Hey fam, I’m
@Rogie
, a Designer Advocate at Figma. I’m taking over Figma’s twitter account today to be your guide to all things Config.
We just launched the lineup for
#Config2023
and
@FonsMans
brought the heat on this rad speaker poster.
@hussamfyi
this resonates so much! felt the same way last year -- it's hard to unlearn the desire to control and instead learn how to build inner resilience & confidence that you can handle what life will throw at you. so cool to hear your reflections <3
gm frens ⛩ I’m so happy to announce that I’ll be joining
@utopialabs_
as their Product Marketer and Community Lead! I am so excited to begin this journey with one of the most ambitious, sincere, and value driven teams in this space. (1/5)
just applied to the ETHNYC Hackathon Scholarship! shoutout to
@blu3dao
for empowering so many female, non-binary and underrepresented communities in web3 💙🦋 💙
@ridd_design
@figma
Tokens, max/min-width, built-in integration with Jira (not just the widget), built in statuses on files (even better if this links to and changes the thumbnail)
Meet Novia, our lovely chemical-engineer turned UX Designer.
She loves bouldering & her favourite part of iris is the team's passion, innovation and strong community of supporters!
“it's so fun and addicting to build cool shit with cooler people - wagmi energy all around🤍”
may or may not be holding an Intro to Figma workshop at
@uxdesignathon
@MiamiHackWeek
tomorrow for aspiring designers ✨ almost 2 years since I attended my first intro to figma workshop, time flies when ur having fun 🥹
“What was so awe-inducing, so mesmerizing, wasn’t necessarily the image itself. It was the sheer amount of time and experience it took to make it… Just a few years later, that sense of wonder is gone.” ❗️❗️❗️
Yo! UX DESIGNERS & NOTION NERDS - join this UX and AI design challenge with
@GabrielleJudge_
and
@bullet_so
I've learned so many cool things from The Lazy Girl Job Bootcamp. Like you get to build something and learn a heck ton alot?
Do it.
questions for anyone in the web3 space for
@_buildspace
@_nightsweekends
:
- how did you get introduced to web3?
- what made you curious in web3?
- what's keeping you here?
building (iN PuBliC) a fun + interactive onboarding journey into web3 - check it out at
@liftoffxyz
☄️🧑🚀