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Lauren LoPrete

@laurenloprete.bsky.social
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Designer at the intersection of optimism & nihilism

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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Can your Openclaw attend 7 different meetings with a rotating cast of stakeholders all disagreeing on the path forward for the product, understand what's not being said, read their private DMs, 1:1 summaries, and texts where they actually say what they mean and then build that?
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The snoopy fan to international tumblr pipeline
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Guy Segal @guysegal.com · 20/11/2025
I spoke to @laurenloprete.bsky.social (tumblr girl of the year 2013) about Snoopy.
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Lauren LoPrete Loves Snoopy | Podcast Episode on RSS.com
Happiness is a warm puppy, when Lauren LoPrete joins us to talk about her love of Snoopy. She describes creating "This Charming Charlie", a Tumblr mashup project combining Smiths lyrics with Peanuts c...
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
A brand new Cash App. A year in the making. A true team effort. We didn't just refresh the app. We rebuilt the visual language that makes it possible. Our design system gave the product team everything they needed to move fast while raising quality. That's the whole point, right?
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
how many times have you..
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I would love to meet the person who named the drug Skyrizi. I have no idea what it does but that name absolutely slaps.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Growth mindset (derogatory)
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
weoponized growth mindset
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Life being married to an artist
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I love working from home because it means I can present to our C-suite in my snoopy slippers.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Ngl tempted to get into nicotine
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
leave those spelling errors in. its the only hting that differentiates us from the clankers.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I just felt sorry for chatgpt because I closed the tab after it answered my request, we're cooked.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I want a new email provider that just automatically deletes all of my emails.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Blue angels can fuck off
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Them: “where do you see yourself in 5 years?” Me:
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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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.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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!!!
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
thought i looked cute, might delete later
A homemade cake it the shape of a weird white dog, smiling, with blueberries as its eyes. on a pink plate in the refrigerator.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Reject tradition embrace slop. Brainrot as an act of radical resistance.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Genuinely curious who’s adopting Liquid Glass for their products
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Caroline Horn @curiouschaos.com · 24/07/2025
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.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The way parents talk about “enjoy it while it lasts, it all happens so quickly” is how I talk about stone fruit season
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
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.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Late night eBay browsing means I’m now the proud owner of this
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The urge to send memes to my therapist and say “it me”
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
People who work on non-Apple iOS apps, how are you thinking about inheriting Liquid Glass qualities?
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
When I say I want that island life I mean the holy island from 28 years later.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I just bought my ticket to Converge!! Who’s going?
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Turns out the only temporary cure for existential dread is sunlight straight to the retinas and italo disco turned up to max volume.
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Sonny Drysdale @sonnydrysdale.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
None of them could get a prom date and now we all have to suffer.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Fireworks, where America’s graphic design talent truly shines.
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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.
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 26/06/2025
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"
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
its called manifesting, look it up.
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Mentally, I'm here.
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Katerina Marchán 🐈 @zkat.tech · 19/06/2025
Happy Juneteenth. 🖤 Because there’s few things worth celebrating in this world as much as freedom, and few things worth fighting as hard for. Love and solidarity to all the Black folks in my life. I hope you have a wonderful day of connection and celebration. The fight goes on ✊🏼
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
I find those zero gravity chairs to be the most comfortable and hideous seat imaginable, so I was beyond stoked when I found two in camo print by the side of the road. Posting live from zero g.
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Ben Callahan @bencallahan.com · 18/06/2025
**Managing your (Design) Systems Brain** If you missed The Question last week with @laurenloprete.bsky.social, here's a recap I made of the deep dive! bit.ly/3HTh89a I wasn't sure how you all would respond, but it was wildly engaging. Thanks, folks! #designsystems
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Recap: Managing your Systems Brain
A recap of The Question Episode 055 with co host Lauren LoPrete on how to manage your systems brain. Check out: • The Episode 055 FigJam (https://bit.ly/4e0i2wO) • The Episode 055 Raw Data (https://bit.ly/4kD0AAM) Join the next episode here: https://bencallahan.com/the-question Join Redwoods design system community here: http://joinredwoods.com
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Call me old and grumpy but liquid glass makes me want to quit my job and learn to farm.
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This is me vibe coding
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Embracing liquid glass is embracing a future where we watch the world burn through interfaces strapped to our face.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12/06/2025
Senator Padilla was violently assaulted for doing his job. If this is how federal agents treat a sitting U.S. Senator peacefully asking questions, how far will they go?
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Warren Condemns Assault of Senator Padilla: Trump is Making This Nation Look Like a Fascist State
YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
How’s it possible to feel fight, flight, and freeze concurrently?
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Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The urge to ask the pilot and co-pilot if they’ve watched the rehearsal is just too strong
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