Aisha A.

Hi! I’m Aisha, a motion & graphics designer with experience working with brands such as @HPE, @EvilGeniuses, & @loadedgg. My strength? Empathy - understanding a brand’s heart & crafting visuals that resonate. Just updated my portfolio with 4 new projects: behance.net/MooniVation

안녕하세요 from Seoul !

@Spudoof happy late birthday!!!

It’s my birthday today! Made this piece for this months print club dedicated to the work I’ve done this year

@ryolu_ are you offering?

which one?

@ryolu_ A (art-making) = B(world-making) = C (truth-telling)

making things true: design is the practice of seeing through the surface of things to understand their underlying structure, then rearranging those elements into new forms that didn't exist before. most people think design is about aesthetics – making things look good, choosing colors, polishing interfaces. but underneath, design is a way of thinking about the world. it's about decomposition and recomposition. you take something complex, break it down into its fundamental components, understand the relationships between those parts, and then rebuild it in a way that's simpler, more powerful, or reveals something previously hidden. this is why i've always been drawn to tools and systems rather than just products. a product solves one problem. a system gives you the building blocks to solve infinite problems. when i was working on Notion, we weren't trying to build another task manager or note-taking app. we were asking: what are the atoms of software? what are the irreducible elements that, when combined, can create any tool you need? we landed on blocks, databases, views, relations. everything else is just different arrangements of these primitives. once you see this, you realize that all those single-purpose apps – Asana, Linear, Evernote, Airtable – are just rigid, pre-configured assemblies of the same underlying concepts. they've solved for one specific arrangement and called it a product. but why lock people into one configuration? give them the components and let them build exactly what they need. Notion is lego blocks for thought and work. Cursor is doing something similar but at a different layer. for decades, the barrier between human intention and working software has been enormous. you need to know syntax, frameworks, design patterns, debugging. most people with ideas never cross that chasm because the cost is too high. Cursor changes this. when you can describe what you want and the system understands not just the words but the underlying structure – the patterns, the logic, the architecture – then you're no longer translating between human thought and machine language. you're working directly with concepts, and the AI handles the decomposition into code. this philosophy extends beyond software. language is a finite set of sounds or symbols infinitely recombined to express any thought. music is twelve notes in endless patterns. DNA is four base pairs that encode all of life's complexity. the universe is fundamentally modular. simple rules, endlessly recombining, creating emergent complexity. design is the human practice of participating in that process consciously. we look at the world, identify the patterns, extract the rules, and use them to build new realities. when i look at the history of computing, the most important moments weren't new features. they were new primitives. the command line gave us composable programs. the GUI gave us direct manipulation. the web gave us hyperlinks. the smartphone gave us sensors and connectivity. each unlocked entire ecosystems because they provided new atoms that could be infinitely recombined. AI isn't just a feature. it's a new primitive. it's a new way of decomposing and recomposing reality. design is philosophy because it forces you to ask: what is this thing really? what are its essential properties? what can i remove before it stops being itself? and once i understand that, what new things can i build? this is the work. not making things pretty. making things true.

@arthextic thanks

try not to air, sit back, put on headphones, notice the flow, background sounds, the cuts, watch again, get bored, baseline your dopamine, break the pattern, feel good. thank you. welcome.

@AstroJoeB mew opportunities 😼~ my fav recent discovery is that Erwin Schrödinger was also a published poet! "Think like a physicist, feel like a poet." is now my life quote

Minor spelling mistake

I’m an aerospace engineer. My senior year humanities course was one of my favorite courses, and it landed me a NASA internship.

It really is not a reach !

@mauricekleine after effects !

@MooniMotions where would you use the exports?

@xuelinda7 @fdotinc This is so cool ! A problem for self teaching fitness is incorrect form or such, it'd be cool to have a form correcting AI trainer millions of possibilities with AI spatial awareness, I wish you luck !!!

@lucas__crespo I loveeee this challenge and the idea of 'social design' I unfortunately have 0 coding experience but i've been trying to learn to make my own discord bots prompted by a 'supervisor' bot to be more proactive.

ChatGPT knows a lot about your work, remembers your preferences, and could easily check in on things you care about. But it just sort of sits there, waiting, like a super polite guest who won't speak until spoken to. This is probably one of the most interesting design challenges right now. We have the most incredibly capable AI that could proactively help us, but it's not designed to be that way. We always have to make the first move. Imagine if ChatGPT could say "hey, remember that research project? Here's new data that changes everything" or "how are you feeling today? you mentioned you had a headache yesterday" This wouldn’t be a simple notification, it would be a moment of shared awareness, the AI noticing something, remembering the context, and choosing when to say something that feels timely and personal. The challenge doesn't seem technical, it's social. There's this whole emotional intelligence layer to it. When does helpful become annoying? How do you build something that can "read the room"? This goes way beyond traditional UX into something more like social design. Tools won't just need better interfaces, they'll need better instincts.

@shiasa__ the grain is really nice

有料プラグインのShadowStudioのプリセットなんだけど、もう面白い。 使い慣れるまで時間かかりそうだけどゆっくり学んでいこう。 ShadowStudioを使った制作物をツリーに貼っておくので見てみて下さいー！

@raphaelsalaja would a middle ground not be best? eye catching whilst still communicating the necessary information I'd love to get your thoughts & feedback on a fan edit I made recently x.com/VationEditing/…

this might be a wild take, but i’m honestly just tired of how new apps gets marketed these days. launches now feel more like perfume ads than actual product releases. all this manufactured hype and dramatic trailers that have nothing to do with the actual product, it feels like people are forcing a story to fit their product, instead of letting a real story emerge from actually building something worthwhile. if you care about what you’re making, let the work speak for itself, real communities form around real value, not just noise.

@laurolteanucom What can designers do instead? How can I make it easier for clients to find me or for me to find them?

Been seeing a lot of founders struggling to find good designers. We've experienced it too at Windify. The problem? Too many people chasing X engagement. The hustle wave made it worse. Solopreneurs claiming they work with 20 clients at once. Full websites in 2 days. 1-day brand sprints. Complete app designs in 2 days. And so on. Shiny posts don't replace real work. Following trends isn't the same as understanding fundamentals. Everyone's rushing to make quick money. Nobody's taking time to actually get good at design. The basics matter. UX principles matter. Understanding business matters. But that doesn't get likes, so here we are. Clients see high engagement and think that equals skill. Agency owners have to dig deeper to find real talent. We've optimized for the wrong metrics.

@itsannpierce I learnt that what I value in others (care, honesty, whatever else), to find it, I must act that way towards myself.

Over-functioning empathy attracts under-functioning empathy (rescuer and victim). Getting to a balanced give-and-take empathy level is how you attract stable people into your life. The first step is tending to your own emotions instead of distracting yourself with others’.

tutorial: x.com/MooniMotions/s…

キューブ ! cube ! @shiasa__

please leave feedback on the tutorial! Was it too fast? was there anything I missed? and if it helped you and you'd like more feel free to follow and repost :))

3. How to track matte the gradient to the faces

Tutorial for how I made this Faux 3D gradient cube in After Effects! 🧵Beginner-friendly. -- #AETutorial #animation #3danimations #AE #AfterEffects #Adobe