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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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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