jamesdeangelis

OnRamp is @tryramp yearly conference for finance leaders and its biggest brand moment. In 2026, it welcomed more than 1,200 people to San Francisco and 2,500 more online, and it’s where Ramp showed its product roadmap, including the first public look at Glass. Special shoutout to Emily Pratt and Kevin Tomas for leading this work. Here is the full case study: ramp.design/blog/designing-o…

Inspect, now for everyone 🔍 I spent 58 days & 118 PRs designing it for launch, almost entirely in Inspect. Ramp’s unfair advantage, now yours too → inspect.com

Mission S. Authentic. Consistent. Timeless. A glimpse into the future - shaped by our heritage. Mid-engine architecture. A focus on the driver and the driving experience. Call it a love letter.

pretty interesting that the category is converging on the same visual grammar almost comically fast too. you’ve got a blob, a face, some “eyes”, you gotta give it some soft geometry, add in some emotions via animations, & of course a very friendly affect.

Introducing Wabi 2.0: a new kind of messenger that makes apps and gets things done for you and your friends. We’re building the OS for the agentic era - software that adapts to your life, gets things done, and makes more room for the people and things that matter. Invite-only to start. Download Wabi to get on the waitlist. First come, first served.

Introducing Elyx. A better source of truth for design engineers and agents. A place where design means more. elyx.design/

DESIGN: THE FIRST AI CASUALTY I'm increasingly sure that 2026 signals the end of product design as a full-fledged stand-alone function within companies. If so, it will be the first role / function to be eliminated by AI on a go-forward basis. Instead of hiring FT designers, startups are hiring / will hire design consultants to create a design system that the founder likes (this takes a few weeks max). Once the design system is finalized, PM/Eng feed it into their AI tool of choice to generate prototypes. The design system is refreshed annually by the same consultant. Larger companies will likely not backfill design roles and will do some targeted attrition to reduce the design department to 20% the size it is today. If you're a designer, I think you have two choices: 1. Become an entrepreneur: Start a design agency and become the go-to resource for design systems for startups and even larger companies. This can be a good recurring revenue business. 2. Become a builder: Add PM/Eng responsibilities to become a product builder. Would suggest you embrace this proactively vs waiting for the other shoe to drop. I'm really sorry about this - some of my best friends and the people I admire most and have learnt the most from are designers - but it seems inevitable.

and then there was jimothy

AI is extremely good at spending your money very quietly. our own token spend went from a rounding error to more than 10% of payroll in a year. one week in May we burned through $1.5 m. our CFO didn't love telling me that number, and he really didn't love telling the internet. but every finance leader we talk to is living the same story. the bill keeps going up and teams can't answer basic questions about it. which team is driving it? which models they're using? what changed this month? whether a cheaper model would do the same job? so finance gets two bad options: keep paying and hope, or cut broadly and slow down the work that's actually compounding. we built a third one. Ramp now connects to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Cursor and pulls it all into one place. see it, understand it, control it - down to a single API key. built with 1,000+ companies managing 100T+ tokens a month, and now spending less than they expected too! try it today at ramp.com/ai-cost-monitoring

You can't go wrong with Geist Pixel and Dieter graphs when talking about tokens. Introducing Token Spend Explorer by @tryramp. 🧵 🧵