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🤿 love it to pieces

🤿 love it to pieces

+ designing like a surgeon

Ridd
October 31, 2025

Board has taken over social social media (and for good reason)…

It’s one of the most obvious yet innovative products I’ve ever seen.

So as soon as Kevin Twohy shared a preview with me I knew we had to do an interview to get the behind-the-scenes (spoiler: I did buy it lol).

So this episode is a deep dive into his design process for the first ever tabletop game console:

What he learned about prototyping hardware products
How they figured out the “brand moves” for Board
How Kevin makes the most of AI tools
+ a lot more

🤝 WITH JITTER

By now you know that Jitter has been my go to tool for animation for years now.

But they are still shipping like crazy…

Just this summer they’ve released comments, pen tool, morphing, text gradients, google fonts, and a bunch more 😎

If you haven’t used it yet… I promise you will be shocked at how easy it is to bring your designs to life with Motion.

So click the link and give it a try today👇

🔑 KEY TAKEAWAYS

Coding Working like a surgeon

This is random but I can’t stop thinking about this tweet from Geoffrey Litt where he talks about “coding like a surgeon”.

It’s kind of his way of pushing back against the future where we’ll all be managers wielding agents:

“A surgeon isn't a manager, they do the actual work! But their skills and time are highly leveraged with a support team that handles prep, secondary tasks, admin. The surgeon focuses on the important stuff they are uniquely good at.”

Geoffrey Litt

So I tried to put this idea into practice this morning while preparing for my interview with Geoffrey 😅

I could’ve easily ran a Deep Research report on his writing with the output being a polished list of questions that I should ask. They probably would’ve been pretty good tbh.

But that would be outsourcing both:

the grunt work (research)
the creative act (coming up with questions)

So last night I ran a Deep Research report on all his most popular ideas which is the equivalent of prepping my station for surgery. But I didn’t read it right away.

Instead, this morning I chatted with the report in GPT voice mode while running errands.

I probably looked pretty goofy talking about malleable software in the grocery store but being able to explore his ideas in conversational form really did feel like the future. And then once I found a rabbit hole worth pursuing I asked GPT to commit it to memory and that became my list of questions.

What does it look like to “work like a surgeon” as a designer? I’m going to be asking myself that question a lot moving forward.