Totally elated to be starting at today as a Product Engineer. Excited to get back to making with an outrageously talented team of people, on a product I love... Arc. Lets go! 🕸️🎨👩🏼💻
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Tara Jane Feener
@tfeener
Product Engineering
Prev making creative collaborative tools at , , and . Mom to small humans.Brooklyn, NYJoined January 2009
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we're bringing back skeuomorphism
(...and building our first mobile app in public 👇)
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Just posted our Q1 2023 (it's coming whether we like it or not) Studio Dates!
Engineering Managers:
orbital.nyc/studios/15-eng
Engineering Directors:
orbital.nyc/studios/15-eng
BigCo Accessibility Leads:
orbital.nyc/studios/15-big
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When we decided to build Arc on Windows, Saleem Abdulrasool was one of our biggest inspirations.
Pioneer of the space, Core Team, & 11yr member, we wouldn't be here without his work...
...and today, we're so grateful to welcome to !
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Missing Dark Sky? Instead of the iOS default app, I’ve moved over fully to ’s Weather app by .
⏳ Hyperactive hourly slider
🎨 Beautiful, fun design
👆🏼 Interactive & haptic
👥 Interchangeable custom skins
🎮 Surprise & delight gamification
#ThisWeekinApps
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say hiiiii to the newest engineer...
!!! !!!
in her own words, Tara "spent 15+ yrs making creative collaboration tools" as an engineer at paper by fiftythree (a personal fav), adobe and vimeo.
tara + creative collaboration + arc = fun 2023 ahead
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Thinking about some special properties of creative tools:
(1) Huge expressive range from a small set of tools
(2) Making it hard to create something ugly — tools that produce beautiful results by default
(3) "Mixing" over customization
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I recently gave a talk at Push Conference '22 on why Designers should play video games.
A few highlights…
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We get it—work gets hard. But the way you work shouldn’t make it harder. Build an engaged and organized team when you #VimeoYourWorkplace 📌 🖥️ 📅
bit.ly/3E6lkgq
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It’s been my life long dream to start a company. With recent breakthroughs in generative AI, I finally decided to take the leap. I’m building a new kind of graphic design tool and looking for a technical partner. DMs are open or hello@colindunn.com.
But first, what led me here.
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Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software.
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A little while ago, and I set out to build a way for folks to pick a color theme at .
We aimed to encourage exploration and playfulness, questioning how conventional color pickers work.
🧵 here’s our path to what you see below
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Paper is where ideas begin – , , , and I launched Paper 10 years ago. Our ambitious plan was a suite for mobile creation, and with Paper we could not have asked for a better start. Thank you to all that worked on and created with Paper.
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10 years ago we released Paper and it forever changed how I see Design.
This is the untold story of how the app came to be…
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Typically, we prefer our work takes the spotlight, but today, it's us on the front page of the app store…
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If you work with me, you probably know that when I find a tool that I like, I talk about it ~ALL~THE~TIME~. Here are my top 6:
1. - obsessed with the simplicity of it and moved all my notes. They also have good mobile web support (which saved me many times).
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The Record plugin is here!
Use it to create video walk-throughs, give a tutorial, or summarize outcomes, directly in Figma or FigJam.
Download from the Figma Community: bit.ly/3pCH7Fg
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“There's a general layer of complacency amongst us. It's easier to be a critic than to produce work. The only way to get to your end means is to start your domino effect. Which is basically to put out bad work.
I am not a perfectionist and it's such a gratifying concept."
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Virgil Abloh will be remembered for many things, but I hope his desire to unlock creative people around the world and inspire them to bypass gatekeepers will live on through his work and legacy.
Creativity can come from anywhere.
Re-watching today:
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CRDTs are the holy grail of collaboration algorithms, but rich text semantics remain deceptively tricky to model. In our latest essay, and I take a stab at the problem:
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i am thrilled to be a part of 's final quarterly issue, and i'm especially proud to be contributing a piece on the impactful work i did to implement the RFC process as an engineering leader in my last role.
i hope you'll find it useful! 🙂
increment.com/planning/plann
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Coming soon to FigJam 🎥....
The Record plugin will allow you to record screen captures and leave your thoughts in a video directly in a FigJam file.
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Sixteen years and 200+ million users ago, we could not have imagined ourselves here. Today, Vimeo is a public company. Thank you to everyone who helped us reach this point. We can’t wait to take Vimeo into the future. #VMEO
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We just rang the bell and started our life as a public company. We’re raising a glass to our users, supporters, and team members around the world. #VMEO #LiveOnTheNasdaq ▶️
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🚀 T-minus one day! Tomorrow, Vimeo becomes a public company. We are grateful for the community who made us who we are — and more focused than ever on bringing the power of video to all. Tune in tomorrow at 9:20 am ET to watch us ring the bell: investors.vimeo.com #VMEO 💙
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Check out the new Video Library! One central place for all your company's video content, presented in a beautiful, secure and intuitive experience. This is how the future of work becomes video-first...
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Woooohoooo 🚀🎉🌟
All the video power to companies of any size !
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Our latest #VimeoEnterprise solution is designed to put the power of video in the hands of, well, everyone. Meet video library: a centralized, searchable hub for all of your company’s video comms.
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Join me and my team for Vimeo’s first-ever investor day this Weds👇🏽
We’ll have presentations, customer panels, Q&A and more. It’s gonna be 🔥
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A full year in the making…
I will not use any more boring apps.
I will not use any more boring apps.
I will not use any more boring apps.
I will not use any more boring apps.
andy.works
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We’ve been busy! New marketing tools + partnerships w . Get those customers using video 👊🏽
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Exciting launch today, unlocking a brand new set of tools for marketers across player, rich emails and with tight partnership integrations.
Congrats to all the teams who came together around the world to bring this release to life!!! 🎉🎉🎉 twitter.com/justbalbi/stat
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Music to every marketer’s ears: new and improved lead-generation tools! Start generating and converting high-quality leads with customizable contact forms, integrated marketing, and embeddable GIFs in email. Get the details → vim.io/36ksQ78
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has been using PHP in production for over 15 years. In this post, talks about how we keep a million lines of #PHP in check
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Be sure to join us tomorrow at 2pm ET / 11am PT with a ☕ (or a Red Bull or both!) for a discussion of remote planning in 2021 with Dave Hayes from from , from and from us!
Sign up here ➡️ clbh.se/2cJS50CfX28
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