Quiet Stories 179: What’s in Your Pencil Case, Brute-Force #Ideation, Atypical Customer Stories, The Dream Behind the Complaint, and more!

https://mailchi.mp/bf51488e52a2/quiet-stories-179

Some great stuff in this issue around digging into the edge cases of people’s needs — both customers & co-workers. And some highlights from the #Config2024 conference for you busy folk to look at.

Including work from @ttorres, @PetraWille, @neil_vass, @carnage4life, & others.

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Config 2024: An infinite canvas (impressions)

Linda Dong and Mike Stern of Apple's Design Evangelism team gave a talk at Config 2024. The presentation's premise was already intriguing: how spatial computing unlocks new ways to experience and interact with user interfaces. The presentation video took some days after the event to be published, which I eagerly

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live footage of me watching @mwichary's #Config2024 talk, "in defense of an old pixel", from the couch
Figma Config 2024 updates. Figma is getting a redesign | by Ajay Singh | Jun, 2024 | Medium https://medium.com/@ajay.singh07/figma-config-2024-updates-755e01860ce7 #config2024 #figma #ui
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2. The redesign has a ton of new features, like auto-hiding the UI when spotlighting someone, a resizable side panel, etc. 3. Figma’s auto-layout is smarter now and can handle auto-layout-ing nested…

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Issue #170: The Ultimate #Config2024 Recap

• My Config Study Guide @ Community
• UI3: Redesigned Figma
• Figma AI ✨
• Figma Slides 🛝
• Auto Layout improvements
• Updates to Dev Mode

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#config2024 and #aiengineeringsummit2024 are over. Now to travel around the USA visiting family NOT talking about tech for a bit ☺️
For some reason, most #Config2024 sessions are unlisted on YouTube. Playlist with all of them: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXDU_eVOJTx402DljIPagaDKLibF-qfF0
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Figma Introduces AI Capabilities and New UI at Config 2024

Figma launches a new software package with AI capabilities and a revamped UI, enhancing design workflows and collaboration. Announced at Config 2024, the updates include AI-driven design tools, visual search, AI-powered prototypes, and more, aimed at professional designers and developers.

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A coworker may or may not shared a screenshot of Dare talking about bad Product Managers and proceded to tag our PM. But just so he watch this talk #config2024 https://youtu.be/SZ7AQ9dgPUk?si=q6entZJIQ6HNGdRP
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Config 2024: Product management: half art, half science, all passion (Dare Obasanjo, Meta)

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After two days of extreme socializing at #config2024, now feeling the need to sleep all day to recharge.