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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Dear Startups, It doesn’t matter if your Figma is a mess. I’d be more worried if it wasn’t.

Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

As designers the aim shouldn't just be to make more money. The aim should be to deliver better results for your clients. When you do that, making more money comes much easier.

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

One of the most powerful things you can do as a founder to amplify the impact of your designers is to give them ownership of a RESULT rather than a PROJECT. This allows them to identify the best way to reach that result, and present ideas back to you that can often be better than your own.

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Just a friendly reminder for all the founders and designers out there: Success is not just your yearly revenue number. Don’t compare yourself to others, and take time to reflect on what success means to you 😌 Take care of yourselves ❤️

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Bryan Smith @bryansmith.io · 29/11/2024

Just got off a customer discovery call that was 🔥. You can do all the online research you want. But nothing beats talking to an exact ICP match. #buildinpublic

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If you want to make an impact as a designer one thing you can do is go from a project to a partner mindset. Approach work as a partner in its success rather than just as a project you need to finish. This not only enables you to do better work, but also opens up future work opportunities.

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Anyone got some good design newsletters they would recommend?

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

As AI tools evolve and mature, we need to see education focusing more on teaching: - developing taste in a field of expertise - deep knowledge in a field of expertise - application of critical and creative thinking Soon the days of learning specific software or how to apply skills will be gone

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

If both design and development (and countless other roles) are just different forms of creative work, and the tools being built with AI allow us to more fluidly move between them, then the rigid processes we have traditionally followed such as the double diamond, etc, probably don’t apply any more.

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I don’t think AI coding tools like bolt.new will ever replace tools like Figma Building/code is a naturally convergent activity To build well you need to know what to build Design is a naturally divergent activity A lot of design is exploration to find the right ideas. Then you can build.

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Steve Farrugia @fasterandworse.com · 11/11/2024

Beginnings of a Design Theory starter pack go.bsky.app/RtJKdde

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Huge influx of UX design people on here, which is awesome. I have a starter pack for active accounts if you want to follow them! go.bsky.app/2NKjZdu (let me know if you want to be added)

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Martin Maricak @handle.invalid · 22/11/2024

I've created a starter pack with people who design and build (digital) stuff. There are talented people like @joeyabanks.bsky.social, @sarahedo.bsky.social, @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com, @fonsmans.com, @una.im, @rsms.me, @gavin.social, and many more. Who else should I include?

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Whenever something like the Jaguar rebrand happens, part of me always hopes that the people on the inside know something we don’t, and that somehow it’s wildly successful. Jaguar is still ‘the old man’s car’ but I hope there’s something smarter than just repositioning to a younger demographic here…

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Design specialisms are dying. Design generalists are becoming more and more in demand. Design across a wide range of disciplines to solve business problems is becoming the new designer superpower 🦸

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Lars @builditn0w.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

What Chris said 👇🥳🎉

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Never knew there were AI trolling accounts. A great use of carbon emissions I’m sure 🤣💀

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Anyone got a good starter pack of designers? Asking for a friend 😉

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Starter packs have got to be Bluesky’s biggest design growth hack - new accounts following hundreds of people in minutes through user generated lists… 🤯

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Trying this Bluesky thing out 👀 Here goes nothing 🤷‍♂️ - I write a weekly newsletter breaking down design hacks from top startups so you can use design to grow in just 5 minutes a week over at telescope.design/newsletter

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

In my experience, using design to drive growth in a startup means focusing on design in only 5 areas: be different (brand) get customers (marketing, website, content) give value (short-term product experience) keep customers (long-term product experience) create advocates (loyalty, referrals)

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Designers should be learning how to develop their taste alongside their skills in order to best prepare for the future of design. At some point soon we will be more like pixel conductors or directors than pixel pushers, and telling AI to ‘make it pop’ won’t cut it 🫠

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"fart" @jonhendren.com · 23/11/2024

if you ever worked at a startup that had a lot of nerf guns around i think people should gather around and listen when you talk

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Hey @bsky.app people 👋 Let me introduce myself: I’m a designer who cares about growing startups. I run the design studio Telescope and have run a design subscription for 4 years. I have created a proven framework for using design to grow startups called The Designed Startup™ Ask me about design

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Chris Ashby @christelescope.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

If you want to be an entrepreneur or start a business or build a product - making money is not your purpose. A purpose is knowing who you want to help and helping them. Over and over. Endlessly until you have no option but to sell something. Growth is the compounding effect of helping people.

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