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Jon Malkemus 🥛 reposted thisJon Malkemus 🥛 reposted thisSesame is available in preview on iOS starting today. We spent the last year dialing in the details - conversation flow, response time, personality, new tools like web search, and an app experience that beautifully weaves it all together. We're on a mission to bring out more curiosity and creativity in us all. This preview is only the beginning. You can read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/g7mNc6gs Congratulations to the entire Sesame team on this milestone. Excited for what's next.
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Jon Malkemus 🥛 posted thisAI and Product Design At Whatnot, a few designers started experimenting with tools like Cursor, Claude, and Figma. We asked them to share their workflows with the rest of the product design team—and within weeks, it completely changed how we work. In less than three weeks, we've turned every designer into a world class prototyper. They're building advanced, high-quality prototypes that previously required specialized tools like ProtoPie or Framer—or even production-level code. Now, they can create them in just a few hours instead of weeks. This has been one of the most significant and disruptive workflow shifts I’ve seen in over 20 years in design. It’s an exciting time to be building products.
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Jon Malkemus 🥛 shared thisTom Verrilli, Daniel Bear and myself are hosting an event in NYC on Tuesday, May 12. Tom and DB will be giving a great talk on how we build products, the challenges we’re facing as we scale, and some of the tougher problems we’re working through. If you’re a designer, engineer, or product manager and would like to attend, you can request a spot on our event page. It should be a fun time! https://luma.com/ea1ah6t6
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Jon Malkemus 🥛 reposted thisJon Malkemus 🥛 reposted thisWe're hiring a product designer at Sesame. Come design a new kind of computer with us. We're building a human-like personal agent with a personality and interface that people love. That includes both an app and our own hardware. Starting with lightweight, beautifully designed glasses meant to be worn all day. Yes, we're making eyewear. Yes, it needs to look incredible. You’ll work with me and the team from our San Francisco studio—but working from our New York office, Bellevue office, or U.S. remote is a possibility for the right candidate. You'll start on our new app, then quickly move into shaping core experiences across the glasses (alongside Basheer Tome). You'll collaborate with our industrial and eyewear designers as they iterate on the physical product. You'll help define our brand across every surface: web, apps, eyewear, packaging… all of it. You'll also get close to something rare. Our creative teams are building emotionally intelligent personalities from scratch. The craft happening there will change how you think about design. Our culture is simple. We need to feel it. Low overhead. High bar. If you can prototype it, build it, and make the room go quiet, you'll thrive here. Our interface is intentionally minimal, which means every design decision carries real weight. You'll define the product language end-to-end: voice calls, text conversations, agent capabilities and canvas, how trust is built, how tone is maintained, how speed is felt, how presence is created. This is the kind of work where one screen can take weeks and it's worth it. We launched our Research Preview last year and millions of people have now tried Sesame. We've been heads down improving conversation quality, planning new capabilities, building toward ambient experiences that adapt to your life instead of interrupting it. For decades, we've been building on the graphical interface. Now the frontier is expanding to intelligent agents and hardware that unlocks a new way to interact. We believe eyewear is one of the most natural form factors for this, and we're designing it from the ground up. You'll join a small team of passionate builders, including the founders of Oculus and proven leaders from Apple, Google, Meta and beyond. Read more from Sequoia, who led our last round. https://lnkd.in/gAShpjWS About you You have exceptional visual design skills and love a blank canvas. You've spent years designing and shipping consumer products with real craft. Most importantly, you have strong product instincts. You care about the why as much as the pixels. We're not building another assistant. We need someone attuned to what people actually need and what our technology makes possible. You're a builder. Some might call you a design engineer, but you love owning the full design process. You've built the details of what you've designed—on mobile, on web, in the margins where craft lives. Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gEcSa2bt
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Jon Malkemus 🥛 reposted thisJon Malkemus 🥛 reposted thisWe're growing the creative team here at Whatnot and looking for hands-on creative leads: 🟡 Associate Creative Director, Design 🟡 Lead Illustrator, 3D + 2D Apply at jobs.whatnot.com and come see why Whatnot was named the #1 startup employer by Forbes and the #1 brand to watch by Inc. Magazine.
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Jon Malkemus 🥛 reposted thisJon Malkemus 🥛 reposted this👋🏻 We're looking for contract brand designers to join our creative team here at Whatnot to help translate the energy of our diverse categories into digitally native on-app events and show-stopping in-person activations. If you or someone you know specializes in crafting best-in-class creative across physical and digital experiences, please reach out with a portfolio!
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Jon Malkemus 🥛 reposted thisJon Malkemus 🥛 reposted thisThis Sunday, MrBeast is going live on Whatnot to give away over $1 million in prizes during a 60-minute broadcast. Prizes include a Lamborghini Spyder, a 1kg custom gold bar, a 49ers Super Bowl ring, a Tom Brady rookie card, a sealed Pokémon Base Set booster box, a Birkin bag, a Bob Ross original painting, and Super Bowl tickets. It's one of the largest single-day giveaways in live shopping history. It's also the centerpiece of our "Big Game. Big Deals." weekend, with three days of sales, reduced seller fees, and giveaways starting Friday at 12 PM ET. The MrBeast stream kicks off Sunday, February 8 at 10 AM PT. Download Whatnot and tune in: whatnot.com/mrbeast https://lnkd.in/gnAns3Xd #LiveShopping #SuperBowl #SocialCommerceMrBeast Giving Away $1 Million in Prizes, Including Autographed Tom Brady Card, During Super Bowl Livestream (Exclusive)MrBeast Giving Away $1 Million in Prizes, Including Autographed Tom Brady Card, During Super Bowl Livestream (Exclusive)
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Jon Malkemus 🥛 reposted thisJon Malkemus 🥛 reposted this👋🏻 We're looking for contract brand designers to join our creative team here at Whatnot to help translate the energy of our diverse categories into digitally native on-app events and show-stopping in-person activations. If you or someone you know specializes in crafting best-in-class creative across physical and digital experiences, please reach out with a portfolio!
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Not even a hot take; this is dead in the water, sales will be abysmal. Will go down as a massive flop.
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Jon Malkemus 🥛 liked thisJon Malkemus 🥛 liked thisAfter 6.5 years, my time at Meta has come to a close. Following layoffs and a significant reorganization, the scope of my role shifted in ways that made this a natural inflection point. After careful consideration, I decided it was time to move on. The world feels incredibly unsteady right now, and holding onto any certainty is the right call for many. My gut, however, said that holding onto certainty in a way that wasn’t right for me would be disingenuous — and that’s not how I show up. I don’t take for granted that I had a choice in my decision while a lot of incredibly talented people did not. The people I worked alongside at Meta — designers, researchers, engineers, product managers, data scientists, data engineers, design programming, recruiters — were some of the sharpest and most generous I’ve encountered in my career. Many have become near and dear friends. If we worked together… Thank you, immensely. 🙏 What’s next? For the first time in a long time, I’m going to take a breath. I don’t know what next looks like, but I want it to be deliberate. I’ve spent my career at the intersection of design, systems, brand, new technologies and user experience — working on problems that were complex, ambiguous and genuinely meaningful. I plan to keep that streak going. In the meantime, my DMs are open. Coffee chats, design conversations, or just catching up — I’m here for all of it. Chin up, fangs out! 🤘🐍🤘
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Jon Malkemus 🥛 reacted on thisJon Malkemus 🥛 reacted on thisSesame is available in preview on iOS starting today. We spent the last year dialing in the details - conversation flow, response time, personality, new tools like web search, and an app experience that beautifully weaves it all together. We're on a mission to bring out more curiosity and creativity in us all. This preview is only the beginning. You can read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/g7mNc6gs Congratulations to the entire Sesame team on this milestone. Excited for what's next.
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Jon Malkemus 🥛 reacted on thisJon Malkemus 🥛 reacted on thisWe are hiring internal tools engineers at Sesame - come work with me! https://lnkd.in/eAq2h34S The role is an interesting one (i think!) for two reasons: 1. It lives at this intersection of cloud development, ML development, and internal tools & infrastructure. i spend a lot of time learning and building mental models of these spaces and how they fit together. 2. Sesame is a ~100-person startup - so stuff already exists, but there's still interesting foundational new stuff to build. The role is listed under ML because our mandate is to be a bridge between ML and the folks building the content that get fed into the ML systems. And in that way, i've found it surprisingly similar to building pipelines for videogames - input content goes into a big chunk of tech and an interactive experience comes out the other side. So i'm posting here because i know a lot of you have been involved in entertainment industries like games and film, building pipelines and tooling for those, and i think this is a quite modern variant of the same sort of thing. If you have a strong design sense, if you like building things that help others do creative work, and if you are a good programmer, i'd love to hear from you!
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