Lauren LoPrete

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

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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?

Hypothermia episode rocked me

This is brilliant if they were responsible

Turns out the only temporary cure for existential dread is sunlight straight to the retinas and italo disco turned up to max volume.

None of them could get a prom date and now we all have to suffer.

Fireworks, where America’s graphic design talent truly shines.

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

In the last five years, we've gone from "employees will never have to go into an office" to "employees need to be in the office because creative and innovative work can only be done face-to-face between humans" to "lol we don't need humans"

A bit too upright for me

its called manifesting, look it up.

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