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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Oct 1

Listen, I love Claude as much as the next girl but god damn people need to stfu about ai for just like one minute please, it’s so noisy.

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Sep 30

See ya there Donnie!!

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Sep 26

Life being married to an artist

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Sep 23

I love working from home because it means I can present to our C-suite in my snoopy slippers.

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Sep 9

Ngl tempted to get into nicotine

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Aug 27

As a leader you can just say "what if you vibecoded a plugin?" and then cross off your "I use AI in my work" requirement for the day.

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Aug 27

leave those spelling errors in. its the only hting that differentiates us from the clankers.

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Aug 12

I just felt sorry for chatgpt because I closed the tab after it answered my request, we're cooked.

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Aug 7

I want a new email provider that just automatically deletes all of my emails.

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Aug 3

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Aug 1

Them: “where do you see yourself in 5 years?”

Me:

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Jul 30

Some of my most successful design systems work came from my worst people-pleasing tendencies. Seeking others' approval made systems flexible and widely adopted.

It left me emotionally spent and cost me my own opinion about what the system should be.
substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The biggest threat to your design system is your need to be liked

A system designed for everyone is a system that works for no one. On people-pleasing, performance punishment, and learning that I'm not for everyone.

substack.com

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Jul 29

I watched a great horned owl and a cooper hawk share a tree this morning and I just gotta say being a bird person really creeps up on you!!!

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Jul 28

thought i looked cute, might delete later

A homemade cake it the shape of a weird white dog, smiling, with blueberries as its eyes. on a pink plate in the refrigerator.

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Jul 27

Reject tradition embrace slop. Brainrot as an act of radical resistance.

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Jul 24

Genuinely curious who’s adopting Liquid Glass for their products

Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · Jul 24

“Just like car manufacturers are now discovering as they bring back physical controls. Sometimes the old knob worked better than the shiny new touchscreen.”

www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl/liquid-glass

Apple's Liquid Glass: When Aesthetics Beat Function - Max van IJsselmuiden

Apple's new Liquid Glass design system prioritizes aesthetics over usability, creating beautiful but hard-to-read interfaces that repeat the same mistakes as touchscreen car dashboards.

www.maxvanijsselmuiden.nl

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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · Jul 23

I'm realizing just how important it is for design systems to be in the same meetings with product leadership. Our goals need to align with company goals. Otherwise, we may be fighting against each other unintentionally.

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Jul 23

The way parents talk about “enjoy it while it lasts, it all happens so quickly” is how I talk about stone fruit season

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Jul 22

She would make a great product designer, we call them squircles.

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Jul 21

This also related to my theory around why people in SF work so hard: they don’t have great summers or cozy winters. Every day kinda feels the same, so they work non-stop.

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Jul 21

Everyone I talk to is like “it’s too nice out to work, it’s summer!” And in December it’s like “it’s too dark out to work, it’s cozy season”

And so my pitch is we only work in months in between the beginning and end of spring and fall. April, May, October, November.

Call it 4 month work year.

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Jul 20

Late night eBay browsing means I’m now the proud owner of this

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Jul 19

It’s shy

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · Jul 17

😂😂😂

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