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Meetup was partnering with WeWork a few years ago on spaces.

I have used this ability to pick up defunct meetups as a business opportunity. We used it to expand the footprint of our group to a much larger user base in some parallel communities. We now cross post our events across multiple groups.

Or the pitch. Using an analog synth on stage without a consistent power supply could be a nightmare.

I think this completely leaves out how user research and interface design influence the prioritization, process, and delivery of work done by the development team.

I switched my team from Sketch to Figma. I was able to replace 4 software tools with one (Sketch, Zeplin, InVision, Box). It doesn't do everything as well as the others, but it does them well enough. I have been managing co-located design teams since before Covid. The mix of visibility into my design teams work, the capabilities of sharing components and libraries, and the ability to easily share work across product and engineering has made a huge impact. My team's work is more transparent, up to date, and we can iterate together more easily.

User Experience, Design, Product Management. The key roles and skill sets most engineers are collaborating with on a day to day basis.

The only issue with this article is that they are leaving out microphones.

I work for a company that makes performance management and recognition and rewards software. As such, it is deeply embedded in our culture. We have a mix of tools that enable goals/OKRs, 1:1s, feedback, structured performance reviews, and 9-box evaluations. I lead product design for the company, and part of the reason I took the job was being able to deep dive into the user experience of how this works, and ultimately improve my own management skills. The process of rebuilding, testing, and developing the tools has exposed me to some top brass HR folks at large companies. It has been awesome being able to get the perspective on what works for individuals, and what outcomes people are expecting at the company level. I really feel like I have grown significantly as a manager in my time here.

At our company Goals/OKRs are set at the individual, department, and company level. You can align your goals up, or set individual (personal growth) goals. These can/should be reviewed in your weekly 1:1s with your manager. We allow anyone to send recognition, or send or request feedback at any point. We have several templates that facilitate different feedback types. We do quarterly Check-Ins which is more of a top down performance review where you can reflect on goal progress, feedback, and next steps with your manager. The 9-box talent assessment is calibrated for each employee twice a year. We also facilitate surveys at the company level to help do things like eNPS scores. If you want to learn more, ask away or check us out at https://www.kazoohr.com/

I think many teams are using a mini-waterfall approach in the guise of agile. If that is how your team approaches things, why not embrace it?

Their Princess Bride home movie is fantastic.

In addition to what others have mentioned, it is also the step up from their free and cross platform Garage Band application. It is an easy way to build lock-in on those stepping up from novice/hobby users into a professional daw without losing control of the soft-synth voice control from one platform to the next.

That is true for IP rights of many pieces of fine artwork. If you look for Cloudgate in particular on getty images or similar you will only see editorial rights for sale because the artist kept licensing rights to their creation, even though it is in a public place.

I think 'Her' is a very great sci-fi view of future tech, especially how they use voice as the primary interface

Not one Sennheiser post here? I have the Momentum 2.0 and have found them to be very comparable to Bose in noise cancelation, and better for music.

As someone who organizes several Meetup groups, I really hate this. I am going to continue to promote on meetup, but move the registration to our wordpress site to get around this.

Meetup.com, flatiron, any of the other companies they own.

I think that design tools are slowly but surely zeroing in on this. The updated versions of Sketch, Figma, and InVision can support responsive layouts, and all of them are moving from being able to create static designs, to interactive prototypes. There are several plugins and workflows out there that will convert your designs to useable code, and it is only a matter of time before this software is doing that natively and representing the full stack.

Sketch files also open in Figma which is free, browser based, and OS agnostic.

I love the picture of polar bears at the bottom of the page.

I have a 64 note piano and love it. It is has one or two strings per note instead of the standard 3. I bought mine at a garage sale for $240 bucks about 20 years ago, and it is my favorite instrument. I love the idea of this but not at that price point.

Did anyone get an account opened or make a deposit before this got shut down?

LeBron James has a similar ability to recall plays, http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/11067098/lebron-james-gre...

I prefer the hybrid approach, having a mix constantly repeated utility styles for things like padding, margin, floats, and colors, and then having custom SCSS/CSS for the rest.