Erin C

@folletto
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Musings on design, product, psychology, society and business. Often discussing good leadership, (remote) organizations and psychology. With a side of randomness.

Currently: Sr. Director, Product Design EMEA at Xero
Previously: VP Product & Design, Jetpack at Automattic

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Chrome: trust me, update is safe, I will reopen your windows correctly in your many virtual desktops

Also Chrome: opens all the windows in the same desktop.

FFS.

What does it mean to approach AI (or better, LLMs) as a material in our product and design work?

Here's an article to help building with LLMs, in whichever product area you work.

https://intenseminimalism.com/2024/a-quick-primer-on-designing-with-ai/

A quick primer on designing with AI

Where I need to say “AI” because it seems that almost the entire world has forgotten that AI is the field, while LLM is the technology, but really: this article is about LLMs. A short background I’…

Intense Minimalism
This is a damn good point.

@gruber on your note about “blog in a blog”: I don’t think/know if Microsoft uses Confluence internally, but one fascinating thing is how Confluence has an internal schism (possibly two different teams disagreeing?) where in some parts of the UI you “write a post” and in others you “write a blog” (referring to a single post).

It’s maddening they are bastardizing too the difference post and blog, but also hilarious there are clearly people in Atlassian fighting the good fight.

Some pointers extracted from the Future of Work 2023 report on artificial intelligence (AI).
https://intenseminimalism.com/2024/future-of-work-2023-all-about-ai/
Future of Work 2023: all about AI

In Dec 2023 Microsoft published a report in their Future of Work series, this time focused on artificial intelligence — no surprise there. Direct PDF access here. The document is an excellent summa…

Intense Minimalism
*Boy, Spain and Italy are dong great, cheerfully said the American. guy who spent a lot of time in Italy and Spain
A reminder that if you're being hit by in-person requirements in your central gov digital job, we have loads of things that are remote/rarely in the office. Have a look on our (awful) jobs site or drop me a message (ajb271 cam ac uk). https://jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?category=4

Opensignal: UK 5G download speeds averaged 118.2M Mbps between August 1 and October 29, down 13% YoY, the slowest of any G7 country; France averaged 221.1 Mbps (Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu/Financial Times)

https://t.co/75kxcHojf3
http://www.techmeme.com/231227/p14#a231227p14

UK mobile users had slowest 5G download speeds in G7 in 2023

Research by Opensignal comes despite government’s emphasis on benefits of technology to economic growth

Germany 😖️ (but also rest of Europe wtf)

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2023/demographics/#gender

Demographics - The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2023 Infographic

Explore trends in developer education, immigration, salary, and gender distribution by region.

JetBrains: Developer Tools for Professionals and Teams