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This week, we talk about Open AI's GPTs-as-apps strategy, FigJam's AI tools, and our dreams for a future Jarvis-like experience.

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• Eugene Kim
• Bjarki Steinn Birgisson
• Jin Kim
• Sheny
• Amy Shih
• Cory Slaught
• Evie
• Torye Cooke
• Hilary Hampton
• Toby Brown
• Zach Albright
• Carl Thompson
• LFC
• Yanal Tayyem
• Ryan Sims
• Sam Bazalo
• Sarrah Vesselov
• Wenhui Yao

This week, we talk about Open AI's GPTs-as-apps strategy, FigJam's AI tools, and our dreams for a future Jarvis-like experience.

• FigJam AI
• OpenAI DevDay
• Raycast
• GitHub Copilot

• Brian shared Lost Explained on YouTube.
• Marshall shared Spider-Man 2 and Dungeon Crawler Carl.

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This week, we talk about the delicate art of using animation in interface design, how to use button sizes, and managing margins in type styles.

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• Ethelia Lung
• Lio
• Uhl Albert
• Mark Guill
• Brighten
• Rich Beckett
• Tibor
• David Mills
• Ava Liao
• Shannon Ma

This week, we talk about the delicate art of using animation in interface design, how to use button sizes, and managing margins in type styles.

• Brian rants about overusing animation.
  • Not Boring apps
• Joey Pearlman asks about the purpose of button sizes.
• Joey also asks about managing margins in Figma type styles.
  • Typography is impossible
  • Crafting link underlines

• Brian shared Foundation on Apple TV+ — deep sci-fi that takes a little while to ramp up, but worth sticking out.
• Marshall shared the Monos Kiyo UVC water bottle — purified drinking water, wherever you go.

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This week, Marshall breaks down his process, tips, and tricks to redesign a design system in Figma.

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• Adam Noffsinger
• Raffi Chilingaryan
• Joel Laughlin
• Evie
• Lam Pham
• Caleb Meyer
• Jacques Moussafir
• Sean Simmons
• Juan Morales-Rocha
• Joseph Cooper
• Gareth Jones
• Mohammad Alnajjar
• Julian Duffe
• Wenhui Yao
• Phil Sayer
• Drakynn
• Ankur Roy
• Tracey McAllister

This week, Marshall breaks down his process, tips, and tricks to redesign a design system in Figma.

• Brian shared How We Made MuseScore 4 — certainly one of the best videos about software design on the web. Watch it!
• Marshall shared Sequel, a beautiful save-for-later app for movies, shows, games, and books.
• Marshall also shared Callsheet, the perfect way to find actors in shows and movies.

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This week, we supply some cold (but thoughtful!) takes on everything released during last month's WWDC and Config 2023.

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• Cynthia X
• Bob Ruediger
• Muse Chen
• Dominic Camozzi
• Dương Lê
• Scott Yuan
• Paolo Imbag
• Miguel Malfavon
• Jonas Maaløe
• Tim Johnsen
• Dineth Pramodya
• Jason Csizmadi
• Rama Krushna Behera
• Jen Dunnam
• Justin Salsburey
• Pier Ricossa
• Mark Davis
• Ludens Tran
• Atakan Bacaksız
• Miggi

This week, we supply some cold (but thoughtful!) takes on everything released during last month's WWDC and Config 2023.

• Config 2023
• WWDC23
• Lateralus analysis

• Brian shared Hijack, the latest thriller from Apple TV+. Should it have been a movie? Probably. Is it still a good slow burn? Yes.
• Marshall shared his discovery about how to make movie theater grade popcorn from the comfort of your own home.
  • Butter-flavored coconut oil
  • Flavocol
  • Michael J Sullivan

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This week, we dissect the recently-launched Arc Boosts to try and understand what they're for and where they're going.

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This week, we dissect the recently-launched Arc Boosts to try and understand what they're for and where they're going.

• @gabrielvaldivia
• Unkempt
• Arc
• The Browser Company
• Arc Boosts

• Brian shared True Lies: A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used-car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.
• Marshall shared House of Leaves, a wild and inventive experience packaged into a book.
• Gabe shared Naked Attraction (IMDB), his favorite television show.

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This week, we talk about Humane's latest product demo and what we think it means for the future of AI-powered personal devices.

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• Tiffany C Yu
• Minami
• Evan
• Sherri Moss
• Cindy Wong
• Kathy Hatch
• Joshua
• Jason Andrews
• Elias Chantiri
• Shannon Ma
• Trash Panda

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This week, we talk about Humane's latest product demo and what we think it means for the future of AI-powered personal devices.

• Humane
• The Disappearing Computer: An Exclusive Preview of Humane’s Screenless Tech
• The Daring Fireball rebuttal
• Rewind
• Her

• Brian shared Silo on Apple TV+ — In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.
  • Be sure to join the Campsite Community to share work-in-progress and get feedback from other like-minded designers around the world.
• Marshall shared the Unbiased feedback feature that shipped on Campsite last week.
  • Also: our friends Bryn and Sarah are crushing it at CultFlav — follow them on TikTok!

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This week, we share non-obvious tips and tricks for simplifying a UI.

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• Anmol Kumar
• ANDREI REPIN
• Conor Boylan
• Ruslan A
• Andrew Ambrosino
• Eric Stanley
• DGlaze
• Shojol Islam
• Luigi Chelli
• Jillian Switts
• Chen Li
• Stevie Rodger
• Alex Nicolai
• Emily Keeler
• Ryan Belisle

This week, we share non-obvious tips and tricks for simplifying a UI.

• Yzma Box in a Box
• Still Alive
• Mandelbrot Set
• I'm Your Moon
• Mandelbrot Set Wikipedia

• Brian shared the Campsite Community — come hang out, share work-in-progress, and get feedback on your design!
• Marshall shared Play for macOS — watch the overview of how it works on YouTube.

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This week, we talk about finding focus when there are infinite things to learn to become a better designer.

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• Jack Slocum
• Omar
• Jonas Maaløe
• Thomas O'Brien
• Mark Haley
• Daniel Palmer
• Neil Mac
• Kim Slawson
• Rachael
• Shannon Gallagher
• Nacho Allendesalazar
• Felipe Espinoza
• ZHUORUI CHEN
• Gulyuz Abdukholiqova
• Julie Less
• Rafa Dahis

This week, Blucose asks on GitHub: how do you decide what to focus on? How do you make sure you become a master, rather than a jack of all trades?

• Dowsing

• Brian shared Posts by read.cv — a new app for designers to hang out and talk shop; it's like Twitter, but for designers, and it looks fantastic.
• Marshall shared bockwild.com — a wonderful site built by listener Dakshi that highlights some of the buck-wild things Marshall has said on the show.

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This week, we fight about whether designers should name their layers (without saying "it depends").

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• Martina Nikolova
• Marcin Wichary
• Cathy Ma
• Not my full name
• Justin Frank
• Ádám Simon
• Jason Reynolds
• Daniel Magill
• Tongtong Lu
• Keiron Boswell

This week, we fight whether designers should name their layers (without saying "it depends").

• Diagram
• Magician

• Brian shared Deadwood: A show set in the late 1800s, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota; a town of deep corruption and crime.
• Marshall shared Hit the Island and Hit the Island Pinball.

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This week, we talked with Marcin Wichary about Shift Happens, a book about keyboards. We dive into the details of the book, its publication, website, and more.

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Catch:

Why did you become a freelancer? Was it for freedom? Flexibility? It probably wasn't because you wanted to manage your own health insurance, taxes, and retirement.

Did you know Catch can do all of that for you? Catch offers benefits and personal payroll for the self-employed.

Make sure you're covered for 2023 and go to catch.co to renew your coverage or find a better plan.

• Ash K
• Andrew Wandiga
• Albert
• Sasha Ward
• Kelly Kim

This week, we talked with Marcin Wichary about Shift Happens, a book about keyboards. We dive into the details of the book, its publication, website, and more.

• Marcin on Twitter
• Shift Happens
• Shift Happens Kickstarter
• Crafting link underlines on Medium
• Craig Mod

• Brian shared Minimal Twitter, a browser extension to refine the Twitter experience on the web.
• Marshall shared Ezona Sleep Headphones, so you can get a comfy audio experience as you drift into sweet sleep.
• Marcin shared Kevin Can F**K Himself: A look at the secret life of a sitcom wife.

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