Lauren LoPrete

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.

See ya there Donnie!!

Life being married to an artist

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

Ngl tempted to get into nicotine

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.

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

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

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

Blue angels can fuck off

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

Me:

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.

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.
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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!!!

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

thought i looked cute, might delete later

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

Genuinely curious who’s adopting Liquid Glass for their products

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

It’s shy

😂😂😂

The urge to send memes to my therapist and say “it me”

People who work on non-Apple iOS apps, how are you thinking about inheriting Liquid Glass qualities?

When I say I want that island life I mean the holy island from 28 years later.

I just bought my ticket to Converge!! Who’s going?