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My most controversial opinion is that iPhones should be used without cases.
iPhones are made to be resilient. We’re falling for propaganda by buying cases for a device that is made to survive without one!
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Starting to think a house with pretty tiles and high ceilings is my version of a house with a picket fence
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Finally got my O1 Visa! I cannot put into words how happy I am to call SF home for the next few years :)
So so grateful to
@Loganullyott
, Lorraine and
@robbyvisanueva
from Compass for being the best lawyers 🫶🫶
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the bangalorean in me (left) cannot understand how right angled all american roads are (right)
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Architecture is so rich but we limited ourselves to glass buildings and white paint
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I’ve been bouncing between Bangalore and America, trying to answer this question for myself. After lots of overthinking (and probably too much coffee), I decided America’s going to be my new home. Here's why:
1/ Culture: There are 2 things about culture here that I love.
Folks who've decided where they will be living for the bulk of their lives — what made you chose to stay in India or leave? What helped you make that decision?
Would love to hear both sides :)
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who could have known that running 5k a day and quitting smoking would be the biggest boost to my happiness? so surprising really
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Still cannot understand why we choose boring glass skyscrapers when we can have this instead 👇
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uber should let you bid on autos/cabs and offer them more money
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The kind of people who say "I don’t know enough to have an opinion about that" are slowly becoming my favourite kind of people
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Folks who've decided where they will be living for the bulk of their lives — what made you chose to stay in India or leave? What helped you make that decision?
Would love to hear both sides :)
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TIL somebody bought this domain just to mess with us and I really respect that 👀👀
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played around with shaders this week. still needs some visual work but realizing how much i missed this!
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I love creating unique icons for projects but hate making 140 icons in 1 style.
So
@vatsal_manot
& I made a tool to create AI models with ~15 sample icons so we can use prompts to grow icon sets instead of rote, uncreative work.
Here are some samples! Link to sign up below 👇
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My friend, a front end engineer, is looking for a full time role in a close-knit team. They have about 3 years of work experience, care about a balanced work culture and are passionate about design systems and css!
Please reply to this thread/DM me if you're hiring :)
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TIL Notion was meant to be a computing/programming language tool to help people make things with very no code.
But because people resonated more with productivity tools than computing,
@simonlast
and
@ivanhzhao
decided to hide the computing power behind a productivity tool
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Obvious was my first job and it taught me everything I know about work, taste and people!
Reading this made me incredibly happy, so here are some of my favorite pictures from there :)
Since the 🐱 is out of the💼here’s a quick professional update.
tl;dr: earlier this year, we exited Obvious, the agency that
@dhruvraisaxena
and I built over the last 12+ years. Later this year, I’ll be able to share in more detail what we’re up to next, but until then...
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A couple of my friends were laid off this month from really good design teams and are looking for full time roles. They have a few years of experience, are great designers and excellent team players!
Please reply to this thread/DM me if you're hiring?
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My favorite Config talk was Jesper, CEO of Teenage Engineering. He's so contrarian but so funny!
I can't stop thinking about his take on hiring (vibes > everything), middle management at "a Swedish furniture company" and his Head of Dev who's not super good at it 🤔
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Love how all of
@figma
’s best ideas started from hackathons — Slides from
@mihikapoor
, jambots from
@jsngr
.
Shows that the best ideas come when we make *everyone* ideate 🫶
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Today is my last day
@gojekdesign
. I've loved the work I did there but more than that, I loved the culture, the team I worked with and the people I was building for 💚
Here are some of my favourite things 👇
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For World Interaction Design Day
#IxDD
@Adobe
@ixda
put together a list of UX Designers to Watch. My earliest design idols -
@_fionayeung
and
@charliprangley
are on it. And so am I?
Wtaf. This is surreal. I am definitely not freaking out right now.
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Made the mistake of working from the office today. I forgot the world is full of psychopaths who like rooms at 18 degrees.
It's so cold here, I'm never doing this again.
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engineers who push you to make great user experience are my favourite kind of engineers
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A little while ago,
@ReyanshSolis
& I made a tool for designers to create beautiful spatial apps, moved to SF, raised money & got a few customers. We made a product teaser & here's a link to our waitlist:
Here's to building for a new gen of builders 🥂
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not saying that nice bookshelves and a comfy couch will fix me, but it can't hurt 👀
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Today, my very bhakt father said "Modi messed up."
Is this it? Is this the beginning of The Enlightenment?
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It's been a month now, but I now work at Gojek ✨
I finally got to meet this amazing team and I'm excited to learn more from everyone :)
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I find myself thinking about
@joulee
's differentiation between junior and senior designers a lot
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i tend to like minimal, brutalist, green interiors the most. but lately, im ngl playful creative spaces, look quite amazing
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Going to be teaching XR Design at
@Stanford
next month. I could focus on XR and the software itself. But I think that is secondary to user needs.
So maybe I should just talk about usefulness tests and discovering use cases for novel tech instead? Thoughts?
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Update:
It was. Today he said, "I am never voting for that man again."
Today, my very bhakt father said "Modi messed up."
Is this it? Is this the beginning of The Enlightenment?
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I've spent a lot of time learning about XR lately and collected my favourite designs.
I realised other folks might benefit from a library of Spatial Design patterns too. So here is a library I made (inspired by
@MobbinDesign
&
@uisources
💚)
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Many product designers don’t understand their own role and why companies hire them. And so they spend a lot of their time complaining about how their work isn't impactful.
It's me, I'm many product designers. Pls send help.
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One of my favourite things about San Francisco is the murals on buildings. It sent me on a bit of a pinterest rabbit hole 👇
Really hope this becomes more common in other cities
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Love this exercise by branded in memory 🫶
Such a creative way to see how people remember you
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Found this pretty great spatial Design Handbook that includes pretty great breakdowns of how
@CubismVR
,
@ultraleap
and
@stormlandvr
think about designing spatial apps!
Link here 👉
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Google Maps really nailed delight with this car icon! It makes me just a little happier when I'm stuck in traffic.
What are other easter eggs I may have missed?
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the way some artists paint light will always make me lose my mind
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Bangalore - where you spend more time trying to book a cab than on social media.
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My time at
@gojekdesign
has introduced me to new people, new languages and new problems all at a *whole* new scale.
I've only ever processed newness and change by writing — so here are notes on why this might be my favourite job yet ✨
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everyday im more certain that designing a desktop app is much harder than a mobile app
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Is anyone on my TL interested in a product design contract focussed on XR/Spatial Design? No prior XR experience is needed but its a great way to explore a new domain.
Remote friendly. HMU, tag someone interesting or RT to save a life
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What is the best explanation for why design is important that you've seen? One of is my favourites is this 👇 who else explains it well?
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the number of iterations the instagram team had to go through to get to their latest logo will never not blow my mind
and i think its a great reminder that creativity is often a numbers game?
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My favourite thing about the costume design in MadMen is how the women's clothes faded into the background. Because its a show about the 60s and women were forced to fade into the background 🤯
Here is an example with Trudy 👇
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I started my career at a design consultancy. The more I reflect on what I learnt there, the more certain I am that great work can't be sold to managers or eng & prod counterparts without deliberately storytelling, facilitating and getting everyone to contribute to brainstorming.
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A friend of mine living in the US changed his name from Ayushman to Aaron on Tinder as a small experiment. In a single day, his matches soared from 7 to 32 with no other changes to his profile.
I can't remember the last time I was this amused.
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the most frustrating thing about good design is that it feels so natural that people think its obvious.
but nothing that feels obvious was ever easy to make. someone spent days, weeks or months perfecting every thing and that can be so easily overlooked.
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I'm calling it — this is my new favourite tweet.
Also where can I find more interesting graphic/information design?
The periodic table of elements scaled to show the actual abundance of the elements on Earth by Prof. Wm. F. Sheehan in 1976. 😱 []
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made a show reel of things i've made on tools i've been making for myself
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My favourite is when people talk about how Jordan Peterson's idea of making your bed every morning changed their lives.
Last I checked, our mums have been saying that forever now.
People will l i t e r a l l y ignore stuff they learnt in kindergarten, and go online to find Twitter thought leaders say the same thing and act as if their minds are blown (y)
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Over the last few months, we built a Figma plug in and we're finally going live today!
Here's a link to our Product Hunt launch, please like + share + subscribe :)
🔗
I love creating unique icons for projects but hate making 140 icons in 1 style.
So
@vatsal_manot
& I made a tool to create AI models with ~15 sample icons so we can use prompts to grow icon sets instead of rote, uncreative work.
Here are some samples! Link to sign up below 👇
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It's amusing how writing long form is so much more rewarding personally but barely gets you likes, replies or rts. And writing short form is so unfulfilling but thats the best way to meet interesting people fast.
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My brother started his medical residency in the US. On day 1 he was given a ID card which includes steps to deal with an active shooter.
Isn't this what you'd expect from a war torn country and not the "leader of the free world"?
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Pretty insane that she got Instagram to do this! Can any other artist do this yet?
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I'm starting to believe that ppl who have strongly held opinions can be quite delusional about their own actions.
Ex: orgs that claim to value culture at all costs are often toxic workplaces. And people who value diversity at all costs often can’t stand diverse opinions.
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Pretty excited about this! Please lmk if you're going to be there :)
Woohoo, revealing our stellar mentor at wmn; 2023 hackathon 🫣
🎊
@VibaMohan_
, a designer at
@GojekTech
and the creative force behind .
Her strong passion for building and unwavering love for reading, will elevate the already phenomenal atmosphere 🎨❤️🔥
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Loving this handy checklist from
@snehasanks
workshop on Tip Top Type Tips at
@wmn_community
But her best advice was to pair contrasting fonts (ex: think with thin widths) for best results.
I’ve always struggled with font pairing and I hope this tip works 🤞🏼
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does anyone know a great video editor looking for a freelance project? looking for someone to make a product teaser video
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A hundred times this! My favourite teams to work with have always collapsed the talent stack. Designers who did great research and took ownership of product positioning, engineers with great design taste etc.
There's so much energy and more ideas with these teams 🙌
Collapse the talent stack every chance you get.
As I reflect on the teams I’ve led and hundreds of start-ups I’ve worked with, there is a consistent unfair competitive advantage i’ve witnessed when the talent stack was collapsed - when the lead designer was also the product
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This is the house aesthetic I want! Two things I love:
1/ Glass walls make the inside and outside sort of blend together. You can walk around and not notice when you go from the inside to the outside?
2/ Black accents make the greens stand out more than white would have
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everytime I stay up too late working, i think of risd_asleep an instagram page of kids from Rhode Island School of Design falling asleep...everywhere.
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I keep thinking about this — no one uses the iPhone because it is an iPhone. They use it because of Uber, Instagram and Gmail.
The Vision Pro is very cool, but there just aren't enough apps that make it a great tool yet
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We're looking for a full-time Product Designer to join us at
@obvious_in
. You'd be a great fit if you:
👩🎨 Have designed for web & mobile
🎨 Love visual design
🧗🏾♀️ Enjoy hard challenges
🚀 Want to join a fast-paced team
Apply here & DM with questions ✨
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a 5k a day keeps the depression away
who could have known that running 5k a day and quitting smoking would be the biggest boost to my happiness? so surprising really
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found this parked outside my house and ngl it messed with my head
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Some people have skill but poor taste. Some people have taste without any skill.
Some people can see the big picture but not the details. Others can see the details without the big picture.
Having all 4 would be a game changer but I can't think of anyone who does?
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my favorite kind of design is when i start making things with a vibe in mind and no final visual.
so i start designing, coding, animating and i can feel the vibe materialize bit by bit.
it feels a bit like sculpting?
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An old story with new characters.
It's a pity that I spent 6 months away from Twitter and this is the first tweet on my feed.
two unrelated cases of abuse of power and sexual harassment have transpired in my close circles in just the past week.
i’m in disbelief by how remorseless it has all been, especially post
#metoo
the first case concerns design mentorship.
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Software that is niche, powerful and beautiful aka ✨ luxury software ✨
-
@NotionCalendar
(also back when it was Cron)
-
@browsercompany
-
@notboring
by
@asallen
-
@linear
Side note: Maybe Luxury is a strong word because a lot of this is not expensive or is often free?
There's a class of niche/fancy software that I'm happy to pay a lot for because how beautifully it solves a specific problem. Like
@Superhuman
!
It is perfectly made for my needs and makes me think that software is beautiful.
But what are other examples of luxury software?
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We talk often about how Bezos was ahead of his time by starting Amazon in the 90s.
But what blows my mind is that Autodesk and Adobe were founded in 1982. If I understand correctly, computers weren't common until the 90s or 2000s?
All great companies have outlier vision.
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Can you blame us though?
is overhauling good reads like every designers dream project?
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Over the last couple of days,
@vatsal_manot
and I started working on this tiny menu bar app to quickly take notes on Notion.
Almost forgot how fun it is to build nifty solutions on a tight timeline!
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