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Felix Jamestin

About

Hi, I'm a Product Director at Revolut where I help build useful, easy to use products for people.

I believe in starting with the customer experience and working backwards to create something magical through great design, engineering and a passionate team

Writing

The secret behind all great copywriting

All great copywriting share a few underlying patterns. Here's a way to make your copy more persuasive and memorable.

Creating intuitive products that users just get

Building intuitive products is hard. This is the process I use to understand user needs and translate them into products.

The lessons of history across 5,000 years

Notes from 'the lessons of history', an incredible book summarizing learnings from over 5000 years of human civilization.

The red balloon challenge and the power of incentives

DARPA's red balloon challenge has several lessons on the power of crowds. But most interestingly, it also reveals the power of incentives.

On lessons learnt from creating products

360 pixels is a new show by product designers, Sanya & Palak. Here's a video of my conversation with them on designing products.

Introducing Mono: A themeset for Roam

Mono is a new Themeset for Roam Research. This post shows how you can start using it

Other Posts

What great work feels like

There's a curious thing you notice as you get better at your craft: great work always feels a certain way even if you're unable to articulate why.

Goeffrey Bawa on architecture

Sri Lanka's most famous architect, Goeffrey Bawa, is known for buildings that are deeply true to their context. Here's an excerpt of him talking about his design principles.

A mental model of motivation

Motivation lies at the heart of human progress. Given its importance, I've been curious about identifying an actionable model of motivation.

The secret behind all great copywriting

All great copywriting share a few underlying patterns. Here's a way to make your copy more persuasive and memorable.

Creating intuitive products that users just get

Building intuitive products is hard. This is the process I use to understand user needs and translate them into products.

The lessons of history across 5,000 years

Notes from 'the lessons of history', an incredible book summarizing learnings from over 5000 years of human civilization.

The red balloon challenge and the power of incentives

DARPA's red balloon challenge has several lessons on the power of crowds. But most interestingly, it also reveals the power of incentives.

On lessons learnt from creating products

360 pixels is a new show by product designers, Sanya & Palak. Here's a video of my conversation with them on designing products.

Introducing Mono: A themeset for Roam

Mono is a new Themeset for Roam Research. This post shows how you can start using it

Other Posts

What great work feels like

There's a curious thing you notice as you get better at your craft: great work always feels a certain way even if you're unable to articulate why.

Goeffrey Bawa on architecture

Sri Lanka's most famous architect, Goeffrey Bawa, is known for buildings that are deeply true to their context. Here's an excerpt of him talking about his design principles.

A mental model of motivation

Motivation lies at the heart of human progress. Given its importance, I've been curious about identifying an actionable model of motivation.

Tweets by felixjamestin

37 Signals' latest book, Shape Up is fantastic. Standout ideas: 1. Deciding on product scope based on your appetite for it 2. Balancing big & small bets 3. Reducing risk by shaping features

37 Signals' latest book, Shape Up is fantastic. Standout ideas: 1. Deciding on product scope based on your appetite for it 2. Balancing big & small bets 3. Reducing risk by shaping features

I've been wanting to learn about MUJI's most famous designer, Naoto Fukasawa, and finally got my hands on this. Designed by Kenya Hara, the book looks as beautiful as it reads

I've been wanting to learn about MUJI's most famous designer, Naoto Fukasawa, and finally got my hands on this. Designed by Kenya Hara, the book looks as beautiful as it reads

How to think about moats in businesses. Especially insightful is how network effects & economies of scale are essentially special cases of moats derived from scale.

How to think about moats in businesses. Especially insightful is how network effects & economies of scale are essentially special cases of moats derived from scale.

Ink & Switch's Muse app is filled with novel interaction ideas. The zoom navigation gesture is especially well done.

Ink & Switch's Muse app is filled with novel interaction ideas. The zoom navigation gesture is especially well done.

Duolingo's new branding is a great example of refining a brand while still keeping its character alive.

Duolingo's new branding is a great example of refining a brand while still keeping its character alive.

All the great things are done for their own sake – Robert Frost

All the great things are done for their own sake – Robert Frost

Stumbled across the work of bulgarian stamp designer, Stefan Kirov Kanchev — love how timeless his work is.

Stumbled across the work of bulgarian stamp designer, Stefan Kirov Kanchev — love how timeless his work is.

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Products

These are products I've helped shape, scale and drive alongside amazing teams. Smaller personal projects & experiments are here

Helps kids earn, spend and learn about money better →

Revolut Gifting

Send gorgeous, animated digital gifts in seconds

Revolut Premium & metal

Unlock the best of Revolut including a host of Daily & Travel benefits →

A first-of-its-kind payments product for employees →

Myoki

Book Villas and Boutique Hotels for Groups across India, Sri Lanka & Bali. (Wound down)