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Multidisciplinary Designer ❍ Staff @_groww ❍ Previously built stuff @google @swiggy @flipkart

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Rahul Chakraborty
1 year
AirBnb, once again ❤️
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IKEA x Raw Color → The TESAMMANS Collection
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Vision Pro Teardown is Art 🖤
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Designers making memes:
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Shazam first launched in 2002 (UK only) and was known as "2580", as the number was the short code that customers dialed from their mobile phone to get music recognized. After 30sec, the call auto hanged-up and a result was sent via SMS, including the song title and artist.
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Sketch's blog is filled with these Fringe Patterns cover images. Does anyone know how to create these?
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Finally, a convenient text to circle plugin 😭
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Designers making memes:
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9 months
Apple Vision Pro 🥽 is great and all, but 2 hours of battery life is not the future of spatial computing.
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4 years
Few weeks back SpaceX made history by launching Crew Dragon into outer space. The Dragon's flight control interface looked so sexy that I couldn't help myself from recreating it. Here's the Figma file: The model was rendered in C4D. #dragon #spacex #ui
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2 years
a bento grid of bento grids. gonna milk this for sure.
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Rahul Chakraborty
9 months
What a delight browsing this site – filled with those nostalgic ringtones and fun facts of the legendary Nokia 3310 ✨ The pixelated screen effect & storytelling is so beautifully executed... Website designed by Karina Makarova using Tilda (no-code platform) 🔗 :
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it's interesting to see that the entire tech world somehow collectively ended up choosing this particular symbol to represent AI ✦
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Skeuomorphism Pro
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UI Design 2024 Starter Pack
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Rahul Chakraborty
2 years
docomo – one of the best brandings from 2010 era / / was surprised to know this was a wolff olins project ✨
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Software Design is going to get interesting af...
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Rahul Chakraborty
3 years
We Gonna Make Dribbble Shots... #wgminterfaces
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Rahul Chakraborty
1 year
If you love retro UIs like I do, Carl Hauser has been creating these kickass Teenage Engineering UI figma files over the past year → Been a fan of his 3D work especially ✨🎛️🎚️
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Rahul Chakraborty
2 years
Launching my first Framer project - Groovy Stickers, a collection of animated & interactive stickers. Add some groove to your Framer sites 💃🪩 → @framer + @figma link available for purchase. 🥹
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2 years
Studio Koto x Whatsapp ✳︎ New branding →
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Rahul Chakraborty
4 months
could never imagine Apple using those old ass connected dots pattern 😂
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Rahul Chakraborty
10 months
Lots of Teenage Engineering and Game Boy wallpapers on my feed. So here's another one, fusing the both; Made in MidJourney → Merry 𝕏-Mas y'all! ✨🎄 RTs appreciated, Link below
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Glass Vinyl 📀 Concept and mockup, made using Midjourney.
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Rahul Chakraborty
1 year
Still my favorite branding project → Doconomy by ID-C
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Rahul Chakraborty
3 years
Last week, I came across a simple trick to emulate auto-tinting inside Figma based on any background color. Particularly useful when you are designing for dynamic themed UI (Material You for example). 🧵 Here's a mini thread on how to achieve this effect:
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Rahul Chakraborty
4 years
✨ Life update ✨ Today is my first day at @Google Assistant as an Interaction Designer. 🎙️ Grateful to each one of my ex-peers & mentors who shaped me as a person and a designer. Being a self-taught designer, this stage of my life is a dream come true. *super-pumped-up*
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The birth of user research...
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Rahul Chakraborty
6 months
Trying out new visual styles for some posters.
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11 months
When you have GenAI in your skillset...
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6 months
Love how Airbnb continue to focus on the tangible aspects of travel in their design 🧭🏝️🎟️ Passport, stamps, postcards, tickets...what else?
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3 years
Indian govt. took web ‘3.0’ seriously.
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Rahul Chakraborty
4 years
@Nithin0dha 2020: Nithin Kamath 2021: Thin Kamath
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Rahul Chakraborty
3 years
Was casually browsing through Sketch's blog today and stumbled upon these lovely set of app icons for their different phases of release. 🤌
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Rahul Chakraborty
1 year
bringing skeuomorphism back ✲ made in @figma
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Swiggy is on Mobbin! Go checkout the entirety of one of the most well designed convenience apps in the market ✨ So happy to see the all the work by talented frens and ex-colleagues laid out beautifully altogether. Also, a first for me, to spot some past work on Mobbin. 🔗↓
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I think UI/UX or UX/UI sort of thing is one of the worst thing that happened to Software Design – resulting in a biased and inflated idea of the field. - Led to death of Dribbble when one side of the / took priority and gave ego-strokes. (Dribbblization of Design) - Led to
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Maturity is when you realise UI & UX are not two different things.
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Rahul Chakraborty
1 year
love this animation on the @airbnb filters modal
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Rahul Chakraborty
2 years
these bg visuals would take me multiple hours to create in c4d; midjourney just took a few minutes... #10xDejiner
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love the new instacart brand refresh by wolff olins... 🥕
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Rahul Chakraborty
11 months
Crossed 2000$ in sales in the past few days with marketing on X only. Grateful ✨ Adding InDiE MaKeR to bio... You can create these interactive effects and animations inside @framer by using the ArrowDynamics Component. Infinite combinations exist to create unique effects.
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Rahul Chakraborty
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Homebox 📦 Rebranding by Bruno. Love the neat use of 3D assets for the product ✨
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1 year
How it started, How its going...
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Rahul Chakraborty
1 year
#AppleEvent Hashmojis are fun UI elements!
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Rahul Chakraborty
2 years
irctc login screen who, how and why? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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@hckmstrrahul
Rahul Chakraborty
4 years
Solo designers in startups handling all types of design requests:
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Rahul Chakraborty
1 year
Clear, Clean & Cute @foldmoney_ 💙💚
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👀👀
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Rahul Chakraborty
3 years
A project I had been working on here at Google, just went 100% live… 😭
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Pinterest alternative for creatives
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Zomato is now on Mobbin too! Love to see apps from India getting featured here..
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One of my recent favorite finds is the Behance profile of Rajesh Rajput. Lots of gorgeous display typefaces - all available for FREE! ✨ →
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4 years
Made a custom Figma Icon for my dock. Made in Figma 🖤 🔗 Feel free to use it in your dock:
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Made in @figma x @pissang1 's Vector-to-3D plugin. These were created in a few minutes just from plain SVG app icons ✨ Feel free to use them wherever. Plugin →
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10 months
Wake up babe, Stripe launched another dope site
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Rahul Chakraborty
11 months
For the Post-Purchase experience of Arrow Dynamics, I tried one of my absurd devices concept. 🔊 ON 🖨️ Based on your selected plan, you get a beautiful printout with all the file links →
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Most beautiful arrow ever...
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Done in 15-20 minutes in Figma. Link →
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@Betraydan
Dan
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Designers how would we achieve that light trail effect. Figma? Something else?
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Rahul Chakraborty
4 years
Designers: I have to admit I cannot fix everything in this world. Also Designers:
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Craft 🎫✨
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Craft
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I tried FramerGPT to create this eye-follow animation in just a few seconds. ✨🫡 Prompt: a custom code component of two eyeballs, that move wherever i move my mouse cursor. Result ↓
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Say hi to @framer GPT 🤖 Build custom components and overrides in seconds. Leave a comment if you wanna try it out and give some early feedback!
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Even sadhguru needs a design lead to solve his problems…
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Rahul Chakraborty
2 years
✣ Career update ✣ Search & Assistant → Android Wear OS So last month, I joined the Android family to work on Wear OS. I am super grateful to get this opportunity to design for one of the most beautifully designed smartwatch in the market today // Pixel Watch =●=
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Design Twitter is just designers trying to impress other designers.
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Rahul Chakraborty
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Creating the 'features' section for in Framer
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Rahul Chakraborty
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Mr. Nick reaches out to designers, offers them outsourced client work, wants 'daily syncups' → When I refuse this model of working, Blocks me, tweets a screenshot of half the conversation and frames up a new story around it to gain engagement. Be it job/freelance; doing a
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Bought a domain to compile all my Framer work under one name; presenting → Added alot of fun details on the page using Framer and some custom code ✜ Join the waitlist (link below) ✜ RTs appreciated :))
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Rahul Chakraborty
3 years
"Bhai kya kar rha hai" emoji 😂 You will see it here when it launches → 🫴 🫴 🫴
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9 months
Love these animated 3D visuals on the landing page. Inspires me to create similar working mechanisms of design tools ⚡️ Breakdown/source of the process below ↓
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crazy visual work here @
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Code freeze stories in startups…
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when you realise in the middle of crit session, that you have to change your entire design.
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Rahul Chakraborty
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Totally digging the Ostro Branding by Mucho. Inspired by Meccano connector strips to show the concept of connections and links - (O O O O) - Look at how the visual language is extended beautifully to the cap, typing indicator, key ring, folder binding, and even the icons
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Rahul Chakraborty
4 years
I have immense respect for Airbnb's Product & Design team for consistently maintaining the grit it takes to balance a product's creative assets alongside the interface. What a beautiful homepage! 👏
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Rahul Chakraborty
2 years
delhi traffic
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Rahul Chakraborty
1 year
No one bats an eye when a public product’s founder (dukaan) tells such thing, but everyone was busy bullying a small startup that didn’t even launch. We are living in a country where Snapchat’s founder says something and we Indians uninstall Snapdeal. And we ban Chinese apps to
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Rahul Chakraborty
9 months
The new website ✨✨
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Rahul Chakraborty
10 months
Youtube Subscribe Button animates whenever the word "subscribe" is mentioned in the video ✨ lil details 🥰
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Rahul Chakraborty
4 years
Designers: "The button needs to animate and expand when user taps on it." Developers:
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Rahul Chakraborty
4 years
3 yrs back when I was relatively new to product design, the High Resolution podcast by Bobby Ghoshal & Jared Erondu had a significant impact on me as a designer. 😌 I found my old notes from these interviews & I plan to share them here every week. 🧵 Here goes thread 1 of 25:
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Rahul Chakraborty
11 months
After spending a lot of time on this, soft-launched Arrow Dynamics to 500+ folks in the early access list. Had alot of fun using the component to build so many interactions on the homepage. I hope this will help you add some flair/delight to your @framer sites.
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Rahul Chakraborty
3 years
Spotted in Indiranagar.
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Rahul Chakraborty
1 year
Having worked on the first Pixel Watch, nothing makes me more happy to see this piece of wearable evolve. Pure beauty in hardware and software design ♥️🫡
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Rahul Chakraborty
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Created a GPT Agent called 'Weather Artist' to generate isometric split images showing the Max and Min Temperature of any City/Location. (Link ↓) Cons: It sometimes add unnecessary text elements here and there (but can be refined). ☀︎ ☽ ☁︎ →
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Rahul Chakraborty
3 years
@viditaatrey Some possible reasons behind this tweet: 1. You don’t know what creativity is. 2. Your understanding of WFH is zero. 3. You don’t know how creative people actually work. 4. This is a attention-seeking tweet/joke
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Rahul Chakraborty
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If HRs require payslips from candidates, they should also share some sort of internal payscale/salary level doc with the candidate. Seems fair to me. Isn't?
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9 months
Time to learn Swift
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Rahul Chakraborty
3 years
nice IIT degree bro; but i got the job even though I dropped out.
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3 years
Makes sense...
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Rahul Chakraborty
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Arrow Dynamics (by @FramerZip ) is a single code-component library that lets you create interactive 2D animations and patterns right inside @framer 🎛️ Tried to create something different for the landing page. (Link ↓) P.S: Flat design is over ✨
@hckmstrrahul
Rahul Chakraborty
11 months
After spending a lot of time on this, soft-launched Arrow Dynamics to 500+ folks in the early access list. Had alot of fun using the component to build so many interactions on the homepage. I hope this will help you add some flair/delight to your @framer sites.
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Rahul Chakraborty
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Vibes only
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Rahul Chakraborty
1 year
Wrote a full 3-page documentation of Arrow Dynamics and now I am calling it User Manual. 🤠
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Like this post to see that ugly looking X #BrandedFeatures
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