Lounge S3: Designers

icebreaker

/lounge Season 3 starts in TWO DAYS 🥲

We've got some sick Designers ready to share their earned secrets and all weekend they'll intro themselves by answering:

1. How did they discover Farcaster?
2. Top 3 Design Career Highlights
3. What are they working on?
4. What design work in the wild inspired them this month?

1. how did i join FC: 
my googler buddy nick referred me and said “everyone in silicon valley is on this app” then he churned and i stayed forever lol

2. three career highlights:
1. designing /icebreaker from the ground up 
2. receiving 3 patents for my work on the google shopping list in 2018
3. shipping the first merch purchase modules on the YouTube video player page (aka the thunderdome)

3. What am i working on
i’m co-founder and designer at /icebreaker where we are building the open professional network, which means your data is yours and we don’t charge you to make it useful unlike a certain blue app

4. inspiring work in the wild
i came across this app, Corner, that is inspiring in its playful brand attitude as well as its value prop: crowd-sourced recs overlaid on the map. seems so obvious once i used it, cool to use an old primitive (map) in what feels like a new, fresh, playful, modern way

1. how did i join FC: 
my googler buddy nick referred me and said “everyone in silicon valley is on this app” then he churned and i stayed forever lol

2. three career highlights:
1. designing /icebreaker from the ground up 
2. receiving 3 patents for my work on the google shopping list in 2018
3. shipping the first merch purchase modules on the YouTube video player page (aka the thunderdome)

3. What am i working on
i’m co-founder and designer at /icebreaker where we are building the open professional network, which means your data is yours and we don’t charge you to make it useful unlike a certain blue app

4. inspiring work in the wild
i came across this app, Corner, that is inspiring in its playful brand attitude as well as its value prop: crowd-sourced recs overlaid on the map. seems so obvious once i used it, cool to use an old primitive (map) in what feels like a new, fresh, playful, modern way 

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1668282277

CEO at Google • co-founder & rectangle mover at /icebreaker • icbk.me/j4ck.fc • /swagcaster • DJ sixsix

Impressive 🫡

Thanks for sharing. 
What was your first design tool?

Sapiens qui prospicit - Wannabe Polymath. Interested in art, music, history, philosophy and religion.

Ah yes, MS Paint on Win95.

First time creating on a PC. Good times!

photoshop CS5 in my first job as a studio production artist at an ad agency called VBP in SF

i had dabbled in CS in high school w ripped versions but couldn’t get through it til i took a college course 

as a kid MS paint and gimp heheh