SF Intern Mixer at Figma HQ
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[NYC] DESIGNERS WALK - Design Humans x Design Meetup (July 18): We’ll walk a set route, stop for photos, and mix up who you’re walking with throughout so you meet more than the one or two people you showed up with. A few conversational prompts and games along the way to get past the small talk! RSVP at luma.com/cdgflzte.
[SF] SCRAPPY HOURS - Notion x Design Meetup (July 23): Building and tinkering on personal projects? Everyone will be paired into small groups based on interests and share their personal projects and bounce ideas in a mini “studio” session. Then, we’ll invite a select a few demos to present in front of the whole group! RSVP at luma.com/obo6607q.
[SF] DEV NIGHT - Figma x Notion x Design Meetup (July 29): Speakers will walk through real projects and share how the things they make, collect, and care about outside of work shape how they design and build. Stick around after the talks for dinner, open mingling, and a chance to win exclusive Figma plushies! RSVP at luma.com/2929v81u.
[NYC] 🤫 - Spotify x Design Meetup (August 7): A curated panel and networking event to learn what it’s like to design for the global leader in music streaming. Luma TBA.
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By Anonymous, Product Designer, 22
There’s a version of starting over that everyone talks you through before it happens. The new city, the new badge, the apartment with boxes still along one wall. Someone hands you a laptop and a login and says welcome, and for a few weeks everything is text you’re reading for the first time, every hallway a decision. Then one Tuesday you notice you’re not reading anymore. You’re just walking to the same desk you walked to yesterday, and some part of you sits with that and wonders, quietly, if this was supposed to feel different by now.
I’ve been reading a lot of reflections on postgrad, and one by Halo Flip titled “We’re Always Arriving” really hit home. She wrote about her commencement speaker, a line from Noah Baumbach:
When I left college, I had a notion that there was a destination, a destination followed by an arrival, and there were proper paths to get there. And as I stand here, twenty-five years, which is really thirty-five years, since I was sitting where you are, representing somebody of accomplishment who has arrived, who is here to tell you what it’s like to get there, I realize that I’m still arriving just as you are today. We’re always arriving, which is another way of saying we never arrive.
I used to think my arrival was somewhere past my design job entirely, past any job. To build an agency or product of my own—get it to a scale where it stops feeling like a side project and starts feeling like the Real thing. And somehow that would finally be the moment I could stop asking whether I’d made it.
What I’m continuously learning is that the leveling up doesn’t stop once you get there either. Even as an in-house designer, after striving towards Staff Designer, Principal, and whatever comes after that, there’s always another rung once you’re standing on the one you wanted. My takeaway is that being principled about that, why you design, who it’s for, what you’re actually trying to build, is what lets you feel good about the direction—even without knowing the exact destination.
You, reading this right now, are somewhere between one job and the next thing you’re building toward. Doesn’t matter what rung you’re on. You’re asking some version of the same question I am. Be honest with yourself, every once in a while, about the answer of why you are becoming instead of focusing on the arrival.
Sam Gorman | Founder of Rivet | Based in SF
Favorite design tool right now?
Rivet :)
Where do you draw your inspiration from as a designer?
Both my parents are artists and I grew up in Los Angeles. They took me to art museums and shows whether I liked it or not. So their influence and the creative fabric of LA was a big part in developing my love for design. What I learned early was that the best art had an opinion. It provoked a reaction. It stood for something! When I got to college at Stanford, I learned about design from a graduate class I snuck into as a freshman at our design school. What great design shared with great art was that it also had an opinion on how the world might be a better place. It just recognized the real world constraints of the present in a way that art often sidestepped to bring something tangible into the world. So I loved it. And over time I started pulling more inspiration from the past. I got in the habit of learning about the greats of design - like Charles and Ray Eames, and then the greats from adjacent disciplines - like Issey Miyake in fashion, or Luis Barrigan in architecture. And I tried to find what inspired them and what I often found was that inspiration just led back to the natural world in some sense. Finding that inspiration and then curating and remixing references to them is such a big part of design. I think the next AI design tool should be built on top of this. And it's become a large part of what I spend my time thinking about with Rivet.
What advice to early career designers do you have?
I think authenticity to the medium is important in design. When you can understand and harness the medium you're working in, you can shape it. More creatively and more expressively. And I think for the longest time, designers were held at arms length of the true medium of the tools they built for - code. It's becoming a false tradeoff between design and code now. It's probably the best time to be designing early in your career. You don't need to unlearn old ways - you're already curious and earnest when it comes to exploring how to own the medium.Fill out
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