Hi my name is Furquan, I'm a senior product designer at Meta in London, where I also grew up! Previously, I was solving mobility problems at Ford. During my time at Ford i set up a YouTube channel, where I teach others about design and share my journey, with the intention to help out and inspire as many designers across the world. The channel has 100,000s of views. I also like to write a design newsletter, which is read by 1000s of designers across the world.
Microsoft CoPilot Is Insane And Discounted Mentoring During Ramadan 😊
90% Off Design Mentoring During Ramadan!Hi Reader,Ramadan Mubarak! During Ramadan, I'm offering a 90% discount on all my mentoring services, and will donate proceeds to charity. This is to help as many people as possible during this important month. Use the discount code "Ramadan90" to sign up. Sign up soon as slots are filling up quickly. I will also be doing some livestreams on my YouTube channel conducting portfolio reviews and doing a LIVE Q&A, be sure to turn your notification bells on and keep your eyes peeled for further livestreams throughout Ramadan. I'm thinking of building a new portfolio presentation in Figma leveraging video for richer engagement and doing this LIVE through Ramadan. Thank you for continuing to support me as a creator! Thanks - Furquan!
The future of work is changing forever with Generative AI - A must-watchMicrosoft has added some magic to all of their office productivity tools, and the future looks exciting with what they call "Co-pilot". With AI, you can now have presentation decks produced for you, summarise meetings automatically, and have Co-pilot bring you up to speed with a quick summary if you join a meeting late. These are features that I dream about, especially with remote work and meeting overload.This is going to change productivity and the way people work. Even in the early stages, it looks very exciting. Once the AI becomes more accurate, it's going to be amazing.
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Hi! I'm Furquan
Hi my name is Furquan, I'm a senior product designer at Meta in London, where I also grew up! Previously, I was solving mobility problems at Ford. During my time at Ford i set up a YouTube channel, where I teach others about design and share my journey, with the intention to help out and inspire as many designers across the world. The channel has 100,000s of views. I also like to write a design newsletter, which is read by 1000s of designers across the world.
Live Portfolio Reviews And Q&A Steam! Hey Reader, I wanted to personally invite you to join me for a live stream next week where I will be reviewing portfolios and answering questions on anything from design to career-related topics. The livestream is scheduled for this Monday April 10th at 4pm (UK time). This is a great opportunity to get some personalized feedback during Ramadan. Whether you're just starting out in your design career or you're a seasoned pro looking to take your skills to...
A Few Things You Need To Know About Generative AI Hey Reader, Generative AI is an unsupervised learning method that enables an AI model to create new content from vast amounts of training data. Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google have introduced powerful viral tools that have opened the floodgates to a new way of working and a whole new set of tools. These are being integrated into workflows today with great success. Here's an overview of a few significant AI events: In December 2022, OpenAI...
It’s common to think our strengths as a person are things that we’re naturally excellent at and weaknesses are things that you are not great at. However, it’s time to reframe this thinking. Strengths are activities that you enjoy and make you feel strong. You might not be a good at an activity right now, but love doing it. This doesn’t make it your weakness. Strengths are things that we really enjoy doing, we do them as we find them fun, we get fulfilment at this activity, we might find it...