"Today I am excited to welcome back E Bufar, the head of design at YC to talk about some of the really cool projects she's been working on and the design process behind them. So E, thanks so much for j..."

"want to walk through today. Um, we're going to go through Paxel. We're going to go through Sodazine and Startup School. >> Yes. >> And so, maybe to start um let's let's walk through uh the Paxel proje..."

"motivation was. I really wanted to be upfront with the fact that this is an experiment that we're running. We're trying to understand how the world codes and that's why it feels maybe a little bit unu..."

"myself a little modal here where I could really really fine-tune the feel and all the parameters of the dithering effect to really get the feel that I wanted. Um, and I even made this model public. An..."

"website that is for humans and there's going to be the the version of the website that will be for machines and agents. And so we thought it would be fun to also have a version of this website that is..."

"by how Charlie introduced this feature in Conductor where we can submit a prompt to the conductor team and they're going to fire off an agent based on whether they like the prompt or not. And that pro..."

"it submitting this. You can imagine a world where anybody who's using a piece of software, they could just prompt it. You could give the ability to prompt it or customize it or redesign it or, you kno..."

"wanted to celebrate San Francisco. And so we wanted to work on this really fun project where we would work with different artists and writers in the city and celebrate San Francisco. >> Maybe first uh..."

"possible so that it can feed all the future decisions that we need to make regarding this project. It's interesting because there's probably a lot of people that are watching and their process is, you..."

"on this mood board >> really simply. And so I downloaded a bunch of these um images and I fed them into Claude and I asked Claude, "Okay, you know the vibe that I'm going for. You know the content tha..."

"barcode, >> uh assuming that it's like a physical one that you can purchase in different um in different uh currency was also really cool. One thing that I wanted to experiment with is what if we had ..."

"This is another exploration that I really loved. Again, displaying the title of all the articles. And there are really cool hover effects. >> Oh, wow. >> That it created as you're exploring the differ..."

"and introspective. Here we built this this fun little way to consume or like read through all these submissions. And it's again a way for us to go back to the core essence of this project which is how..."

"with the world. And when we were thinking more broadly about the design behind this event, we wanted to make it feel really Y, but more like a variation of YC. And so we experimented with of course or..."

"And it just automatically generated all of the all of these as we kept having more and more names of speakers confirmed. And I also built a way for myself to experiment with different ways to lay out ..."

"to start the recording and when I need to stop. And the reason I built this tool is because I really wanted it to feel like a loop, a perfect loop, so that when we post it on Twitter and on Instagram,..."

"when you show up to the event and see the amazing lineup there. >> Yes. Yes. And it's also it's going to be amazing to keep building more of the branding of Startup School with Claude and Codeex and l..."

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