Meher

In Dubai, someone will drive you to the airport at 3AM without hesitation. In New York, we schedule connections between meetings. After 13 years straddling these worlds, I wrote about the cost of convenience and why community requires inconvenience: open.substack.com/pub/meherwrite…

Life update: In my 5th wk of funemployment/creative sabbatical, I've discovered pattern hunting in BCN, building at the intersection of whimsy + niche use-cases, @claudeai co-work & I are well acquainted, & I'm painting again! Got suggestions on what else I can try? drop em below

@joshpuckett Just spent a soldi 10m playing around the drawing tool, love the whimsy and inspo. Reminds me a little of Happy Medium NYCs draw tool on their website and how they save all the sketches hehe

It was fun to put some care into this lil page. The illustrations are hand-drawn by Juli (🙇‍♂️), and I originally animated them to draw on screen. But I realized Gaudi's architecture provided a better direction, so I came up with the gaudiMelt() effect you see on the page.

I'm hosting a breakfast/co-work/hangout in Barcelona on May 14th, along with the wonderful @juligroshaus. We've got a lovely cafe booked for half the day, coffee and food provided. Request an invite here: joshpuckett.me/cafe-bcn Hope to see you there!

@joshpuckett @juligroshaus Love seeing this happen in Barcelona, been missing this energy ever since moving from here 6m ago from New York! See you there :)

Anthropic just took a big swipe at OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic is airing ads mocking ChatGPT ads during the Super Bowl, and they're hilarious 😅 Anthropic is also committing to no ads in Claude theverge.com/ai-artificial-…

@tatsvc Do ya’ll ever miss 😮‍💨

When we asked the team to obsess over the details, they really delivered. Here are a few of my favorites—starting with the icons animating in the daytime picker. That last transition into night mode is just chef’s kiss 👌💯

When you toggle the lights, the entire page dims to create a more immersive sense of the lighting Such a great design detail 💡

Feeling uninspired and wanna see cool stuff the girlies are working on: products (digital and IRL), textiles, furniture, zines, whatever—drop it in the comments below 👀

Life update: After 13+ years in New York, I moved to Barcelona. “Starting over” in your 30s can feel so daunting but here I am, excited (a little nervous!) and mostly grateful. If you or someone you know lives here, say hi 👋🏽

Design Twitter 🗣️ we launched @MyRileyApp brand refresh, as a founding designer—SO MUCH thought and heart goes into a brand refresh and launch. It would mean a lot to me you could upvote us on Product Hunt (and peep the new brand 😉) producthunt.com/products/riley…

Honestly this is my biggest problem with the one-size-fits-all approach to parenting advice: it's too generic, and ignores where YOUR child actually is developmentally. Not just their age, but their context, temperament, and family dynamics. 🧵

Worst customer service experience of 2025 is easily @DoorDash 😩 my dashpass hasn’t been applied to my last 15 orders with no meaningful response to fix the issue from @DoorDash_Help it seems like anyone I speak to doesn’t know what to do and hand it off to someone else who is equally unable to fix the issue. Is it time to delete my account? 🫠

Your gentle reminder that there is a very inspiring, beautiful, tangible world outside your 4 walls and AI-side quest. TL;DR: go touch some grass 💚

Inspired by these hand painted signage and murals in lake Atitlan, Guatemala 📌

Some of my favorites ❤️

These new @Airbnb icons have been such a wave of design-joy this week, almost feels like a manifesto for design in the AI-design era. In a world where we've been committed to flat design post-skeuomorphism (thanks for leading the way, @Apple!) What's emerging out of this Airbnb summer release looks a lot like the expressive and bold design of all the Memphis Group work that came after Modernism. In a world where you can prompt an LLM to design something pretty-decent-sometimes-even-beautiful-but-definitely-not-UX-approved-(yet), these new icons raise the bar and remind us that a designer's intuition still matters. Functional is not enough, following a UX pattern and calling it innovative is not enough, a heavy dose of spirited-alive (because I'm tired of using "delightful") to make you FEEL something (my favorite "F" word along with form and function 😉) At @MyRileyApp we're closing out on a really fun, alive, expressive brand-update and part of our philosophy has been "thoughtful details aren't frivolous add-ons—they're the heartbeat that makes everyday experiences sing" so of course, I had to play around with our icons in @ChatGPTapp to see what they would look like with different kind of details inspired by Airbnb. I fear this might be addictive! ✨

@davorfyi @Airbnb @Apple I don’t think the style is gonna fade out! A lot of new beautiful web-work is made better with hyper-realistic-detailed design. I’m excited to see how it keeps evolving!

@mehermakes @Airbnb @Apple I'm loving it, but afraid it's gonna wear out by September 😄

@dipalua_ Did you mean get really good at your craft (with AI)

this tweet is soOo 2023 tech twitter dipa of me

Today is a great day to be an early career designer ☀️ h/t @davidhoang

Currently reading faerie romantasy just to diversify the literature mix on this flight 🫡

Gonna try my hands at using Figma Grids on a calendar habit tracker with a "weekly" view—wish me luck #Config2025