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Designer, technologist and cross-functional leader based in London.
More on https://nad.is. Designing https://lovable.dev.
- Lovable | Multiple Roles | ONSITE | https://lovable.dev
At Lovable, we empower the 99% of people who can't code to build software as if they had a product team at a stellar tech company. We're one of the world's fastest growing startups in history.
You'd be joining a small, passionate team of serial entrepreneurs (ex-YC founders), competitive programmers, physicists, and people who care deeply about building exceptional products that unlock human creativity.
We have multiple open roles, with most positions based onsite. We cover relocation (most roles are in Stockholm) and in Engineering we're looking for:
- AI research engineers, including a Research Engineering Lead
- Full-stack, frontend, and backend product engineers
- Security engineers
- Data engineers
- Platform engineers
We're also hiring in Growth (Product Marketing Manager, Community Lead, Communications, PR), Operations (Technical Talent Lead, CEO Office), and Design (Product Designers who ship, Design Engineers).
Apply at https://lovable.dev/careers mentioning HN in your application.
- Lovable | Multiple Roles | ONSITE | https://lovable.dev
At Lovable, we empower the 99% of people who can't code to build software like they had a product team at a stellar tech company.
We built the world's first full stack AI software engineer, paired it with a visual editing environment, and become one of Europe's fastest-growing startups ever.
You'd be joining a small, passionate team of serial (ex-YC) founders, competitive programmers, physicists, and people who care deeply about building exceptional products that unlock human creativity.
We have multiple open roles, with most positions based onsite:
Engineering
- Research Engineering Lead | Stockholm
- Senior Data Engineer | Stockholm
- Staff Product Engineer | Stockholm
Growth
- B2B sales Lead | Stockholm
- Growth Engineer | Stockholm
- GTM Engineers | Stockholm, NY/New York, SF/San Francisco
Support
- Product Experience Engineer | Remote
- Product Experience Specialist | Remote
Apply at https://lovable.dev/careers mentioning HN in your application.
- Lovable (https://lovable.dev), creators of GPT Engineer (https://gptengineer.app) | ONSITE+HYBRID | London / Stockholm | Full-Time | Founding Engineers
We're a small team of serial (ex-YC) founders, CTOs, designers & IOI gold medalists set on being the first to make autonomous code generation work.
Our CLI tool has 50k GitHub stars (https://github.com/gpt-engineer-org/gpt-engineer) and our SaaS product is in closed beta with 25k on the waitlist. You'd be one of the first employees and have a big impact in shaping our product and company.
Building an AI Software Engineer is a hard problem. We believe that hiring the brightest and most ambitious minds in Europe is the way we make this work. We care deeply about building a great product. We want to work with people who are as ambitious and motivated about shipping fast as we are.
In particular, we're looking for:
- Product engineers: Product-minded full stack engineers to work on our core product.
- Generalists: Creative/algorithmic minds with a track record of solving difficult problems (in physics, computer science, mathematics).
- Technical ex-founders: To own large sets of problems, and push product engineering forward.
Our stack: FastAPI backend, Next.js (subscribed to edit events in application DB), Cloud Run, Fly.io, Supabase.
Read more & apply at: https://lovable.dev/careers
- Location: London
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Design, product, leadership
Resume/CV: On request, but my website has more on me @ https://nad.is
Email: First 3 characters of my username @ my domain
Design & product leader with 20 years experience. I've built, scaled and run design & product orgs, while remaining hands on in wide bodies of work. Often joining teams as the first designer/product head to scale from 0-1, and then 1-many.
Domain experience in E-commerce, SaaS, mobile apps, social networks, decentralisation, designer & developer tools, and have worked with YC companies in the past.
I have part time availability imminently, ready to work with founders and scaling teams. Read more on me at https://nad.is or get in touch via https://https://nad.is/contact
- SEEKING WORK | London | Remote
Design & product partner for your startup.
I'm a design & product leader with 20 years experience. As a fractional leader, I partner with founders & operators to build winning strategies, and execute against them.
Think of me like a Chief Product-Design Advisor on demand, hands on enough to deliver staff level deliverables too. I've often joined teams as the first designer/product head to scale from 0-1, and then 1-many.
I love figuring out what people want, and how to build it, helping with:
• Product management: Minimising risk, maximising value
• Product design: Research, UI, UX, Design systems
• Leadership: Shaping vision & strategy
• Management: Hiring, growing & retaining teams, coaching & advising
• Deliverables: Design deliverables, functional specs, PRD's ready to ship
I generally work with:
• Technical founders who need a product-design thought partner
• Existing functional teams looking to lean on experience, and boost bandwidth
• Scaling teams (pre-seed to series B) looking for their next major growth levers, in some cases helping get into YC
Domain experience in: E-commerce, SaaS, mobile apps, social networks, decentralisation, designer & developer tools.
Read more at https://nad.is/fractional or book a call via http://cal.com/nadonomy.
Even if you’re not sure of the fit— reach out anyway, I love speaking to founders and meeting smart people. :)
- SEEKING WORK | London | Remote
Design & product partner for your team.
Hi - I'm Nad. I build winning design & product management strategies, and help execute against them. I love figuring out what people want, and how to build it.
With over 20 years cross-functional experience, think of me like a "full stack" Chief Product-Design Officer, on demand, ready to help your team. I work with founders and operators to:
- Reduce risk & generate value: Figuring out what people want, and how to build it. Finding growth levers to take new products from zero-to-one, or find consistent product growth.
- Elevate simply usable to irresistibly desirable: Not only solving UI/UX challenges, but using beauty, craft and aesthetics to build brand equity, signal trust, and build competitive advantages.
- Scale organisationally: Grow high performing environments, helping with hiring, onboarding and retention. Ensuring processes, playbooks and systems can scale.
- While remaining hands on: Oscillating between altitudes as a "player-coach" leader to get things done, and deliver results.
I'm generally partnering with:
- Founders: You're solving design & product challenges, or hiring, scaling and integrating teams. Design or product aren't your wheelhouse and you need help from someone who's done it before.
- Operators: You're scaling design or product at an org, seeking thought partnership or to lean on a couple of decades of experience (inc playbooks). Perhaps you're a first hire, manager, or head of.
If you need help with a design or product management challenge, get in touch. Even if you're not sure - reach out! I love speaking to founders anyway.
Get in touch / book a call via: https://nad.is/fractional
- As far as I've read so far Apple is adding RCS support to the Messages app, aka alongside SMS & MMS: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/16/23964171/apple-iphone-rc...
It's not clear if iMessage will interoperate via RCS, which is what would make blue/green bubbles less relevant. My assumption would be no as they'd cede moat, and there isn't much of a network effect for them to gain from.
- (Blog post author here).
> Because you understand rooms at a different conceptual level than me. And that by itself is a good thing. But the rest of us still needs more explanations/analogies.
Yep, you hit the nail on the head.
On the Matrix/spec side, we ensured Spaces are generically useful and flexible enough to organise rooms. However, in testing and research we found users have specific goals in mind when organising conversations, which the Element UX speaks to.
It's not dissimilar to where Direct Messages are today. Early thinking behind DMs in Matrix was that they're just rooms with few participants. In practise, there's a bunch of other semantics (e.g. room name/avatar exclusively informed by the other users profile, continual re-discovery of existing conversations when creating new ones, etc) which need to be met for them to be intuitively usable by more people.
- 5 points
- Relatedly, it seems Apple is planning to make 'Sign in with Apple' mandatory for every iOS developer using any third party sign in: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/3/18651344/wwdc-2019-apple-f...
- I find Solid incredibly interesting academically, and watch it with interest, but I'm sadly skeptical that it'll find traction— it requires both substantial development resources (as apps need to be rewritten to its standards) and a change in consumer behaviour.
I'm reminded of this Steve Jobs response from WWDC 1997 [1]:
> One of the things I've always found is that you've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards for the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to try to sell it. And I made this mistake probably more than anybody else in this room. And I got the scar tissue to prove it.
The beauty of the implementation I described is that it could work with any existing (web) app with little-no development effort while leveraging affordance users already have from using Touch/Face ID to authenticate Keychain, Apple Pay etc.
Until a proposal like Solid is widespread, I'd love for a browser/password manager vendor I trust (for me, Mozilla or Apple) to integrate with a privacy-forward email vendor for unique email addresses to provide a less 'fingerprinted' approach to auth, useful today with all legacy (web) apps.
- From reading the developer documentation it looks like developers need to implement & maintain Sign In with Apple as a new SSO method: https://developer.apple.com/sign-in-with-apple/
When I read the keynote highlights I assumed Apple were extending the existing (iCloud) Keychain/Safari integration to include username generation, and obfuscated email generation resolving to your iCloud account. Since they implemented 2FA codes auto filling in the QuickType bar in iOS 12, they could've extended this UX further, or used 'Siri suggestions' to complete email verification.
I assume they didn't take this approach as it's harder to present a consistent call to action to initiate sign up, but it seems like a missed opportunity to me.
Does anyone know of a password manager that allows you to generate unique email addresses as a part of the core UX?
- Both GitLab and InVision are 100% remote unicorns, last valued at $1.1B [1] and $1.9B [2] respectively.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/19/gitlab-raises-100m/ [2] https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/11/invision-valued-at-1-9-bil...
- Location: London, with regular travel to California (LA/SF).
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: No.
Technologies: UI Design, UX Design, Front-End development (HTML/CSS/JS), Unity.
Résumé/CV: https://nad.is
Email: hello [at] nad.is
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Senior Designer (UI, UX, Front-End Development) and Team Lead with over a decade of experience.
I build value through design. I don’t just advocate the user, but also the team that has to build, support and scale the product. Learn more about my ethos & values at: https://nad.is/about
I’ve designed and developed for the web (desktop, mobile, responsive), native apps (desktop/mobile), games and VR/AR. View my portfolio at: https://nad.is/building
As a designer; as I’ve matured I’ve spent an increasing amount of time ‘measuring’ before ‘cutting’. Product-market fit is as important to me as pretty pixels.
I consider user research, clarifying technical requirements, benchmarking competitors, sketches, rapid prototyping, writing product specs etc. to be a part of the design process. Depending on the team and product I can also operate as a Product Manager/PM.
As a team lead I’ve hired, managed and mentored, often remotely.
Outside of core product design I also love product marketing; connecting the dots between users and business requirements. Some ways I’ve made that happen include:
* Designing for growth. Designed & implemented a viral mechanic for a pre-seed startup, increasing sign ups by a large factor. Shortly after the startup was accepted into YC.
* Data-driven design. Improving retention by measuring, tweaking and multivariate testing.
* Content marketing. Writing on-voice, on-product, on-market blog posts and newsletters that organically gain traction where they need to.
Above all, looking for great people to work with, but solving an interesting or fun problem doesn’t hurt either. ;)
Web: https://nad.is
Email: hello [at] nad.is
- SEEKING WORK - Remote
Location: London, with regular travel to California (LA/SF).
Senior Designer (UI, UX, Front-End Development) and Team Lead with over a decade of experience.
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I build value through design. I don’t just advocate the user, but also the team that has to build, support and scale the product. Learn more about my ethos & values at: https://nad.is/about
I’ve designed and developed for the web (desktop, mobile, responsive), native apps (desktop/mobile), games and VR/AR. View my portfolio at: https://nad.is/building
As a designer; as I’ve matured I’ve spent an increasing amount of time ‘measuring’ before ‘cutting’. Product-market fit is as important to me as pretty pixels.
I consider user research, clarifying technical requirements, benchmarking competitors, sketches, rapid prototyping, writing product specs etc. to be a part of the design process. Depending on the team and product I can also operate as a Product Manager/PM.
As a team lead I’ve hired, managed and mentored, often remotely.
Outside of core product design I also love product marketing; connecting the dots between users and business requirements. Some ways I’ve made that happen include:
* Designing for growth. Designed & implemented a viral mechanic for a pre-seed startup, increasing sign ups by a large factor. Shortly after the startup was accepted into YC.
* Data-driven design. Improving retention by measuring, tweaking and multivariate testing.
* Content marketing. Writing on-voice, on-product, on-market blog posts and newsletters that organically gain traction where they need to.
Have an interesting mobile, web or Unity project? Let's talk.
Web: https://nad.is
Email: hello [at] nad.is
- If you're like me and you find outdoor/active brands offerings look too tactical, and prefer a more casual design, I'd check out Everlane: https://www.everlane.com
Here's one of their smaller bags: https://www.everlane.com/products/mens-street-nylon-zip-back...
And you can also learn about where that particular bag is made: https://www.everlane.com/factories/nylon-bags
In my experience, with their transparent pricing, the quality is unparalleled for the money and it's great to support ethically sourced goods.
- Senior Designer (UI, UX, Front-End Development) and Team Lead with over a decade of experience.
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Location: Currently in San Francisco (UTC-8) but location can vary.
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: Yes.
Technologies: UI Design, UX Design, Front-End development (HTML/CSS/JS), Unity.
Résumé/CV: https://nad.is
Email: hello [at] nad.is
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I build value through design. I don’t just advocate the user, but also the team that has to build, support and scale the product. Learn more about my ethos & values at: https://nad.is/about
I’ve designed and developed for the web, mobile web, responsive web, native mobile apps, native desktop apps, games and more recently VR & AR. View my portfolio at: https://nad.is/building
Outside of product design, I also have experience in branding, creative direction and marketing.
Above all, looking for great people to work with, but solving an interesting or fun problem doesn’t hurt either. ;)
- SEEKING WORK - Remote
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Senior Designer (UI, UX, Front-End Development) and Team Lead with over a decade of experience.
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Location: Currently in San Francisco (UTC-8), but location can vary.
I build value through design. I don’t just advocate the user, but also the team that has to build, support and scale the product. Learn more about my ethos & values at: https://nad.is/about
I’ve designed and developed for the web, mobile web, responsive web, native mobile apps, native desktop apps, games and more recently VR & AR. View my portfolio at: https://nad.is/building
Outside of product design, I also do branding, creative direction and marketing.
Have an interesting mobile, web or Unity project? Let's talk.
Web: https://nad.is
Email: hello [at] nad.is
- SEEKING WORK - Remote
Location: Currently in California (UTC-8), but location can vary.
Senior Designer (UI, UX, Front-End Development) and Team Lead with over a decades experience.
I’ve designed and developed for the web, mobile web, responsive web, native mobile apps, native desktop apps, games and more recently VR & AR. View my portfolio at: https://nad.is/building
I build value through design. I don’t just advocate the user, but also the team that has to build, support and scale the product. Learn more about my ethos & values at: https://nad.is/about
Outside of product design, I also do branding, creative direction and marketing.
Have an interesting mobile, web or Unity project? Let's talk.
Web: https://nad.is
Email: hello [at] nad.is
- Location: Currently California (UTC-8) but location can vary.
Remote: Yes.
Willing to relocate: No, but flexible on travel.
Technologies: UI Design, UX Design, Front-End development (HTML/CSS/JS), Unity.
Résumé/CV: https://nad.is
Email: hello [at] nad.is
Senior Designer (UI, UX, Front-End Development) and Team Lead with over a decades experience.
I’ve designed and developed for the web, mobile web, responsive web, native mobile apps, native desktop apps, games and more recently VR & AR. View my portfolio at: https://nad.is/building
I build value through design. I don’t just advocate the user, but also the team that has to build, support and scale the product. Learn more about my ethos & values at: https://nad.is/about
Outside of product design, I also have experience in branding, creative direction and marketing.
Above all, looking for great people to work with, but solving an interesting or fun problem doesn’t hurt either. ;)
- I winced at the name from associating it with the skin disease Hives (Urticaria) [1].
For when you're exploring rebranding - I'd recommend looking at AppAnnie [2] and their previous branding [3] for some inspiration. I'd imagine a similar brand would work well exceedingly well for an employee facing office management platform.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hives
[3]: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/screen-...
- I think you've hit the nail on the head. They talk about how individuals with no colour theory can now pick out harmonious colours. [1]
This solves an internal Google problem though, not a user problem.
There's a thin line between consistency and monotony and at the minute Material Design seems to be on the wrong side of that line.
- Depends on the size and stage of the startup, so your mileage may vary. I've worked in startups where it isn't economical to have IT support staff when everyone is tech literate and can self serve when things break.
Anecdotally - I worked in a startup with 30 employees, half running Apple hardware and the other half Dell/Lenovo/Build your own. The latter employees always had a worse time dealing with manufacturers warranties and contractors to fix their stuff when it broke.
Worth clarifying with your (future?) employer if you're planning on running hardware distinct from the rest of the company.
At Lovable, we empower the 99% of people who can't code to build software as if they had a product team at a stellar tech company. We're one of the world's fastest growing startups in history.
You'd be joining a small, passionate team of serial entrepreneurs (ex-YC founders), competitive programmers, physicists, and people who care deeply about building exceptional products that unlock human creativity. We have multiple open roles, with most positions based onsite.
We cover relocation (most roles are in Stockholm, some in Boston, San Francisco or London) and in Engineering we're looking for:
- AI engineers - Full-stack, frontend, and backend product engineers - Design engineers, and product designers who ship - Forward deployed engineers - Security engineers - Data engineers - Platform engineers
We're also hiring across the board in Marketing, Growth, Sales, Support, Operations etc.
Apply at https://lovable.dev/careers mentioning HN in your application.