Amit Das
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SVP, Native & Design @urbancompany_UC. Software & hardware designer. Prev @Housing @cruxofdata @FusionCharts @gozoop
Bengaluru. Second life →
Joined July 2009
I'm hiring a Designer @urbancompany_UC for the Native hardware team. Should be great at Photoshop/ Illustrator with portfolio showcasing core graphic design work (not, branding case studies). This is a role for 6-months during which you'll create:.✳︎ Killer infographics .✳︎.
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🎉Office office -- Urban Company Bengaluru . We started looking for UC's Bengaluru head office in 2021 & it took us 1.5yrs to find one that we loved. Over these 18 months, I spent weeks scouting through properties with our admin team — to an extent that most landlords thought I
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47 tips for young product designers on:. • Job Interviews.• Becoming better at work.• Design career.• Staying creative. A MEGA-THREAD 🧵 👇.
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88 tips for young product designers on:. • Portfolio & interviews.• Becoming better at work.• Design your career.• Staying creative. A MEGA-THREAD 🧵 👇.
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When you join a new team as a designer, your growth and development often become fuzzy over time. It becomes a sum value of projects and titles. @urbancompany_UC we're trying to change that. Here's how we look at the growth of designers. A thread 🧵 👇.
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We're hiring @urbancompany_UC across multiple roles (Product Design, Content, Motion, Industrial Design). Check out openings below 👇.
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Blogtober 2024 — Day 30:. Looking for a therapist? Try this first ↓.
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The design team @urbancompany_UC have brewed a collection of 50 design cheat codes. Launching coming Monday. A select few will get physical copies as well 🔥. Stay tuned!
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We're hiring Content Writers, Motion Graphics Designers & Industrial Designer in Bengaluru!. Apply here:
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I'm hiring a stellar infographics designer. Read about who are we looking for with what kind of skills, what kind of work can you expect over this 6-months of internship (with examples), and also answers to commonly asked questions. Continue reading here:
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Sketching some fun stuff we're working on at UC Design. Revealing soon!
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Forgot the source but this simple graphic comes handy every once in a while.
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Don't pay for design courses, just. don't. There's enough free material if you're curious enough.
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Over the last two years, I have become fond of home-grown brands. Daily Objects, Ather, Sleepy Owl, Blue Tokai, Mokobara, Bathla. and many more are building world-class products. I feel super proud! 🇮🇳.
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We have refreshed our design space @urbancompany_UC 🔥. • Open positions.• How we work, hire, be.• Get to know the design team.• A mini-book (coming soon).• Lots of exciting stuff coming next week. Check it out here:.
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We have @suhaniashok - Head of Design @LyearnHQ talk about a journey full of twists & turns; musician, dancer, designer, creator, leader, yet humble & curious. Read all about it here:.
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Our office entry has a wall full of prompt cards to prioritise work, ideas generation, leaving a note, and more. Here are some.
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I absolutely love what we've done here @urbancompany_UC BLR HQ. Will share a short thread soon on little big things that make this office space an absolute delight!
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We're dropping 3 ️🔥 candid interviews with designers from the industry - from childhood to their current stint. Align magazine by @urbancompany_UC design.
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We're hiring Sr. Product Designers @urbancompany_UC . No bikes. No frills. Pure impact and career growth. Apply here:
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We're hiring designers across levels for all our verticals. See what it's like to work with us 👇.
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A small video we made during a design hackathon last December for Urban Company.
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Send me a topic you want to learn as a designer & I'll try to recommend a read.
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Heads up: A thread explaining the basics of analytics coming this Sunday. I will give examples of charts you would typically use for simple data analysis (with types).
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7+ years and still as young & aggressive as the day I got her from the showroom.
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🔥 We're hiring 🔥 @urbancompany_UC .• Head of Catalog Merchandising (Global).• Graphic designers.• Content writers.• Principle Product Designers.• Senior Product Designers. If you're interested, DM me with your portfolio.
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Pro tip:. Learn design from 100s of brilliant makers sharing their work, 1000s of YouTube videos, and countless websites/apps instead of folks who write ‘Mentor’ in their bio.
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1/ Most designers are not capable of analysing quantitative data. And it's not entirely their fault. A thread 🧵👇.
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Started working on a detailed Content Design course for the team with learnings from creating the team, budget, scope, metrics, automation, etc. Lmk if anyone's interested, will package it for sharing publicly.
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🍎 Ever since Native, I went in a rabbit hole to learn almost everything about Apple. How they structure their org, how they think about building new products. Build by Tony Fadell (creator of iPod, Nest) is a book packed tight with decades of learning building some of the most
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Instead of going ahead with OEM service (which is about 3K), went ahead with @urbancompany_UC to install the EV home charger (at less than 1K). If you're planning get a 2-wheeler EV, try us. :)
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🧵.Attention, world! We just launched the smartest door lock you’ve ever seen. If your door could tweet, it’d be doing a happy dance right now!. 1/.Introducing Native Lock Pro (by @urbancompany_UC)
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Instead of looking for mentors, seek peers and accountability partners.
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My attempt of making the upcoming new floor of UC Blr as close to Blr Terminal 2. 😂
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⚡ 88 tips for young product designers.(Twitter essay version). Portfolio & interviews (1–25). 1. Ditch the case study and show your core skill.Most case studies take 99% of the content to finally present a disappointing solution. Most of the interviewers don’t care about case
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Most designers are working too hard to look like one than being one.
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UC Design's industry spotlight is back! We have the multi-talented @nushkatee talking candidly about her journey. Must read!.
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😡Bad design managers. It's going to become harder for mediocre design managers to stay relevant in the years to come. With generative-ai tools improving every month, influx of talented & hungry young talent, if a manager doesn't show enough value to the team or the company,.
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Did some concept sketching for one of our upcoming products. It's always refreshing to switch to physical products design❤️
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🧵 on office design. 1/.We started looking for UC's Bengaluru head office in 2021 and it took us 1.5 years to find one that we loved. Over these 18 months, I spent weeks scouting through properties with our admin team — to an extent that most landlords thought I was a broker.
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With growing a team remotely, comes the growing need for structured documentation (with a hint of unstructured).
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The most consistent morning routine I've had for the last few months:.1. Wake up at 6:30 AM.2. Workout.3. Tea.4. Get ready & leave for office.5. Get a cup of coffee & open laptop.6. Look for a Content/UX writer.
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Starting with @ShashankSahayy from @WhatsApp where he takes us behind the scenes of his viral blog posts, his journey from a studio to now designing one of the most influential apps of our times.
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I don't understand standing with phones up high constantly to record something that you came to see with your eyes 🤯
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This is the most beautiful Copper colour I've come across & the pattern detailing is dope!
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⚡ A simple, underrated method to iterate design better, faster. This method is popularly known as quick-and-dirty usability testing. Use this to get rapid feedback on designs, without user recruiting, setting up the stage, etc. A short 🧵 on how to use this (with 3 examples):.
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Refreshing my personal website over the next few weeks. Here's the progress.
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Super-massive list of 165 visual explainer books from my library!. Categories:.❖ General coffee table (24 books).❖ Gaming (15 books).❖ Pop-culture/ inspired (11 books).❖ Graphic novels/ comics (32 books).❖ Technical drawing/ reference (21 books).❖ Work books (33 books).❖
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#blogtober2024 . Day 5:. In 2022, The Ken published an article suggesting Product Management is the natural progression for designers. I disagree. Designers, becoming the generic PM isn’t the goal. #inktober2024 #Inktober
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Next, we have @nandinigangal from @CRED_club talking about her journey from being an engineer to a lead product designer at the boldest Indian startup today.
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We redesigned the trophies for recognising achievements and milestones of our team members at Urban Company. Here are the samples -- in their full glory.
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50 design cheat codes from/for Urban Company Design team (2022 edition). Revealing the re-printed version next week! It's super cool!.
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Super swag to stun your squad - Unusual swag to appreciate your team. A thread 🧵 👇.
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I worked on windows for 3 days. I have found an elevated sense of love for Mac os again.
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While designing onboarding for new features, we found it to be more successful when:. Instead of talking about the feature, you remind users about the PROBLEM and how you've introduced a way to solve it.
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I doodled more when @nandinigangal was doing calligraphy. I read more when @alkagpta would recommend a book every time I visited her. I wrote more whenever I had a productive chat with @asxna and many more such. Be around people who are doing what you want to be doing.
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A while ago I read an article about the next growth stage of designers. It suggested product management and similar if I recall correctly. I say f*ck it & become better designers, better creators, move from hands-off management to hands-on. Creators have less competition.
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A presentation I prepared for my team last year to do effective 1:1s. Here it goes 🧵.
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🚀 Beyond just a manager. If you're a design manager (lead, director, VP or equivalent), the job role should not be just reviewing designs & attending meetings. Hiring great people makes sure they require least amount of managing. Amongst other things, you may start with these
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Working on your portfolio? Ditch the cookie-cutter case study. Seriously.
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