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Location: Orlando, FL

Remote: Yes (open to travel)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Figma, Claude Code, Codex, Design Tokens, Design Systems

Résumé/CV: https://ryancarter.io / https://ryancarter.io/assets/65a5ade06a24bc4336e17d01_RyanCa...

Email: ryanmichael.carter@gmail.com

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I have 12+ YOE in design, including a 7 year stint as a founding designer at an acquired startup. The past couple of years I've done design at a very engineering-heavy company so I'm pretty well versed in development. Designed & shipped a new design system with Claude Code and can prototype and ship ideas.

It's decent compared to the severance I just got for getting laid off: 2 weeks of pay and healthcare through the end of the month (at a tech company too)

They're definitely Claude generated. People at my last company loved to generate pages & stat cards with Claude and they all had this exact same style.

For better or worse, most of the online pharmacies like Ro or Hims will prescribe it to anyone with a pulse. Some insurance companies don't cover it unless your BMI is over like 40.

I think they meant $100 million. The current market cap is ~$67 million

> For example, look at the frivolous spending of the US on it's superior military budget and its belief it is the strongest military in the world.

One can just look at the Ukraine vs. Russia war to see there is an immense technological gap between the US and Russia. Everyone thought Russia was the #2 military in the world before the war, but nowadays might be at best #3. Ukraine is holding Russia back and/or inflicting horrendous casualties on Russian forces using only a couple percent fraction of the US defense budget, and largely with old/leftover/unused equipment. Reminder too that Ukraine doesn't have the backing of the US Air Force or the US Navy, which the US would absolutely use in the event of conflict with Russia.

Granted, this war has exposed a lot of shortfalls with the US Military with respects to advanced weapons procurement, artillery shell production, and drone warfare, but it's also been an intelligence goldmine for western militaries that is already starting to produce changes in strategy.

> the expensive US technology would be quickly overwhelmed and defeated by cheaper technology that were not accounted for in the last few decades i.e. UAVs + AI.

Russia has failed to destroy a single Patriot battery or HIMARS system, despite those being in-conflict for a while now. If drones were such a wunderwaffe that made advanced tech useless, then all of that tech would have been destroyed by now.

China is likely #2 now with an impressive on-paper military, but they also have not been battle tested in decades with lots of unproven tech.

It's rumored Dylan Field (CEO of Figma) approached Microsoft [1] around the same time they were talking to Adobe but Microsoft declined to make a deal at the time (seemingly due to Microsoft's then in-process $69billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard).

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/11/microsoft-looked-at-figma-bu...

I think they saw 20 billion reasons to sell to Adobe. Their last valuation was $10billion in 2021 so a 2x on that a year later would be hard for anyone to pass up. They can pretend they went with Adobe for aspirational aims to make the product better, but at the end of the day it was about the very juicy multiple Adobe was offering.

I think the door is still open for Microsoft, Google, Apple or Salesforce to make a play. Figma was rumored to have approached Microsoft during their talks with Adobe but Microsoft declined to put in an offer as they were working through the Activision Blizzard acquisition at the time. Either one could probably get a "deal" at a $10-$15b valuation.

RIP to Fireworks, it's the first tool I ever used for design.

1. I was a designer at a real estate tech company that was laid off the end of last year (along with like 90% of the company). I joined in June of 2022 and was laid off November of 2022. There was one round of layoffs in July of around 30%, and then another round in November of close to 90%. The company went from somewhere around 60 employees in January of 2022 to close to 350 by June of 2022, then to under 30 in November of 2022. Being in real estate tech, as interest rates rose, platform demand dropped and kept on dropping.

2. I pretty much immediately started job hunting and interviewing, and went through a 9 round interview to land another job (with a 10% pay cut) that I started the end of January this year.

3. Not really. It was a bummer because I was in the process of moving to NYC, and obviously needed to secure a job as quick as possible to secure an apartment. It also sucked to be laid off a few days before my birthday and only a month before Christmas. But luckily I landed something new pretty quick.

I think there's a few things to note (as someone who used to live in Orlando):

1) The actual city of Orlando is about 9miles (as the crow flies) from the airport

2) The Brightline eventually plans to go to Tampa on the west coast of Florida, but is coming from South Florida

3) The existing Amtrak/Sunrail lines run south-ish to north-ish on the west side of downtown Orlando. To use the existing routes and knowing where Brightline plans to go, it'd likely have to go through the airport anyway, then curve north to downtown Orlando, then turn around and head back down southwest-ish to Tampa.

4) At some point they hope to connect the existing Sunrail commuter rail to the airport, so you could take that to downtown

5) There's not really a whole lot to do in downtown Orlando itself, not a ton of shopping, restaurants or entertainment. Most travelers to Orlando are there to go to the theme parks that are outside of downtown.

Has a method of long term stasis been found yet (like you see in Interstellar or other movies) where you can nap and be kept alive for that long? Otherwise I think you'd still need to overcome the mental limitations of being stuck in a metal tube for thousands of years with no way out and no way to pass the time. Or at the very least, some way of staying asleep for a few years--wake up for a few months--sleep for a few years--wake up for a few months and so on.

I've been searching for a new camera to buy. Rather than reading general reviews from blogs where I don't know if they're sponsored or not through a Google search, I was searching "Fujifilm x-h2s review reddit" or "best camera under $2000 reddit" on Google instead. I've found a lot of the time, it can be hard to tell if a blog post from a Google search has actually used the product, or is just keyword spamming and hoping for a referral fee. Especially if I'm looking to buy something in an area I'm not familiar with and don't know the trusted review sites yet. Granted this can still happen on Reddit but I assume it is rarer.

I've also found that if I search for something directly on Reddit, I get all sorts of results. Some related, some tangential. And a lot of the time there's porn or NSFW content mixed in.

I think over a long enough term they would. It's about ~$44 a customer (assuming 100% retention). Once they're in the Chase ecosystem, it's easier for Chase to get them to add Chase credit cards, use Chase for a mortgage, interchange fees, minimum balance fees and so on.

They've been trying for ~13months already and haven't done so, why do you think they could do it now? Especially after losing 150,000+ soldiers (dead and/or wounded), and thousands of tanks and other armored vehicles? They've lost tens of thousands of troops and dozens/hundreds of vehicles just trying to take one town since August (Bakhmut).

Senior Product Designer with 8 years of professional experience, 9 years of freelance experience. Got laid off Thanksgiving week and applied to about 35 jobs but did end up landing a new role that I started on the 30th of January. Took about a 10% base pay cut but there's also a 10% bonus that if eligible, will put me close to my previous role. 9 rounds total and took about a month but this included time off for the holidays. Funnily enough it was one of the first jobs I applied for.

  Location: NYC / Remote
  Remote: Yes (okay with hybrid)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Figma, Design Systems, Webflow, Prototyping, Accessibility
  Résumé/CV: https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5d4c831b7ec366c966c2a304/637cea165a548a009a986a71_RyanCarter_Resume_2022.pdf
  Email: ryanmichael.carter[at]gmail.com

Looking for freelance/contract Product Design & Design Systems work. ~9years of experience in Product Design & Design Systems. Expert at prototyping and working within Figma! Can start immediately.

Flying upper deck on a 747 is a dream of mine (even if business class on other planes is nicer nowadays)

I got officially laid off on Dec 1st, so far:

- 38 applications

- 8 rejections with no interview

- 1 rejection after 1st round

- 1 first round with no response

- 1 2nd round interview (no response yet)

- 1 3rd round interview scheduled for this week

- 1 1st round scheduled for this week

The others I've gotten no response.

Senior Product Designer with 8 years of experience, well versed in UI/UX Design, Design Systems, Accessibility, Prototyping, Documentation. Sole designer at my last startup on a brand new product that got acquired.