Lounge S3: Designers

Lounge S3: Designers

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Cameron Armstrong

We have reached the LAST question of /lounge Season 3: Designers 😯 Huge thanks to all the extremely talented and thoughtful Loungers in this cohort (go hire them rn) What other question could I ask but… Given unlimited authority, what would you redesign about Warpcast today? 🫡

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Liang @ degencast.wtf 🎩

when new season?🥹

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i would design more and increase project risk tolerance

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Interesting question @cameron, but no money in the world would stop me from doing what I love. Having that type of a safety net would allow me to deepen my practice in art, design, photography. I would be able to travel much more, connect with more cultures, get more inspired overall, which in return would result in great work!

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I’m not passionate or informed enough about Warpcast to advocate for any design change to its product. However, I’d love to develop Dan’s vision for Warpcast into a brand strategy and identity that gives it a platform to scale to a larger audience and carve out a proper cozy corner as the web3 social landscape evolves over time.

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yeah uhhh yeah i still need (want?) to work with that amount unless i leave nyc and live … somewhere else lol 🙃 and tbh uhhhh this sorta happened to me during NFT 2021-22 boom and not only did i keep designing - i designed _harder_ bc 1) i kinda felt nothing 2) those bags went to near zero 🤣 during that time i learned that ya money is cool but grinding with your Life Energy (@july) toward an inspiring, optimistic Vision & Mission is the real goal and the real gift, and since i know how to design, that’s what i’m doin it feels good to build difficult things. higher

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@baseddesigner.eth

Thanks @cameron for hosting the lounge! Now warpcast, not sure if there’s anything big enough I’d redesign, given the priorities and limitations of the team. It’s not always about designing but about actually shipping it to many many people to use again and again I’d take a look if we have enough of features already but not doubling down on basics, things help farcaster scale, and I’m sure team has enough of ideas but has to prioritize appropriately.

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- Brand sprint to get a real logo and visual identity that communicates the spirit of Warpcast in a way that resonates with non-technical audiences - Better handling of channels on mobile. The stories carousel is the wrong paradigm. - Ability to associate web2 oauth accounts (Twitter, Insta, Spotify, Goodreads) with my FID - Experiments solely focused on increasing diversity of DAUs (gender identity, race, age, nationality, interests, content creation, etc.)

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Give recasts the respect they deserve: skip the algorithm heuristics and surface them as if I casted them myself while the original caster captures all the incoming engagement. Bangers can't bang if they don't have a chance to spread organically. Otherwise we're just stuck talking about crypto and founders 24/7

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It's funny, my instinct was to say no But then I looked back at my actual journey so far and life kicked into gear when I made my peace with the fact that I'm a designer. Why would I not do it before? Don't know. Guess I didn't want to pigeonhole myself. But there's beauty in focus, as in making things Going back to the question, design is my career and I do have goals - 2 mil is not enough to get out of the game. It is enough, though, to buy a house and get ready to hire people so I can scale my design practice early But would *I* be ready to do that? My gut tells me no - I need the experience I'll get on my way to earning those 2 mil by myself. Then I'll know how to use them

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It would try to reflect the values and personality of the social network sufficiently decentralized through a process /brand3 … A work of constant evolution of the brand together with the communities to adapt it to all the changes of the ecosystem. Give the brand a system adaptable to all kinds of formats and turn it into a headless lovebrand CC0… I would love to do a process like the one we designed for /fos /fcc by @floc

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For fun? Yes. For money? No! Put $300k+ in my hand and you'll never see me work again. I love design, but there's something I love even more: enjoying life. There is no work I would do in this world if I wasn't required to. If I could, I'd open a sports-related design agency. But I wouldn't be my main worker, would remain with art direction.

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I don't. I let anyone know I'm unavailable for the day for reasons like depressive episodes or highly unbearable anxiety crisis. It never happened because I was hangover though. I'm very responsible with my work and it's even hard for me when work demand isn't high. I know it happens, but not with me.

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@baseddesigner.eth

Definitely would. First thing, I’d move to a better place as my home base, where basic necessities are solved like water quality, sound and air pollution, indoor humidity/mold etc. Second I'd slow down and focus on one idea at a time, right now I feel like I can't afford working on one idea/product, focused, for the whole day. I’d do more of the founder work than hands on design, most of the times I know exactly what to try next but lack the time needed to get that out. I'd do based studio but would, for example, work for a stake in the products we contribute to, and likely even invest in those products that I feel really great about using/potential for others to use. But primarily I'd focus on bootstrapping internal products. Service work is rarely done for other reasons than cash. Would invest time into finding the best designers to join us and devs to make it happen.

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