S7 | E2: Nate Parrott - Going from engineer to founding designer of Arc
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The Arc browser is one of the best products I’ve downloaded in the last few years which is why I’m so excited about this interview with their founding designer, Nate Parrott.
This conversation, we get an inside look at what makes design at the Browser Company so unique. We discuss:
- How Nate went from engineer at Snap to the Browser Co.
- Why design at Arc prioritizes fingerprints > consistency
- How Nate collaborates with engineers on Arc
- The story behind Arc Search’s hook feature
- The Browser Co’s culture of prototyping
- How Nate balances intuition and data
- a lot more…
- Nate’s gamified personal website
- A24 film studio
- Nate references the Co-Star astrology app and the old Zenly app
- Patrick Moberg (the designer on Boosts)
- Karla Cole (the designer who pulls inspiration outside of tech)
- Nate’s feeeed RSS app
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