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Working on some quality of life updates for designers in my team :)
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Aditya Thakur
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Aditya Thakur
@createdbytango
Applying art to problem solving
Bangalore Katılım Kasım 2014
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@SparklinGuy @asitkhanda @charmiekapoor @JeevanshuN @shivamdwn @N80rious @designerdada @ritikdange08 @LizaFatwani Absolutely loved it Himanshu
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@createdbytango @asitkhanda @charmiekapoor @JeevanshuN @shivamdwn @N80rious @designerdada @ritikdange08 @LizaFatwani Thanks man.
How was your experience?
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Looking for designers and design leaders to show you what we’ve been cooking.
Please RT 🙌
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@asitkhanda @SparklinGuy @charmiekapoor @JeevanshuN @shivamdwn @N80rious @designerdada Paying it forward @ritikdange08, @LizaFatwani please try this out!
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@jeetnirnejak @motiondotdev @xyflowdev Hey @jeetnirnejak this is pretty good work. Have reached out to you via email! Let’s talk.
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Agent workflow, tinkering with agent workflow visualisation, designed in Figma, animated with @motiondotdev
It was also a good opportunity to learn @xyflowdev
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“Pressure is a Privilege. And if you’re feeling any pressure or weight of expectation, you are breathing rare air, that very few of us get to live inside”.
Unbelievable piece of poetry .
Sky Sports News@SkySportsNews
"Pressure is a privilege" Golden Globe winning actor Tom Hiddleston gives his thoughts on the huge clash between Manchester City and Arsenal 🎬
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Designers, now it’s your time.
AI can generate interfaces. It still can’t figure out what feels right for humans.
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz
Prediction: The next 12-24 months, "UX-pilled" builders will be in massive demand. Who can create intuitive interfaces, web+mobile+desktop apps that "feel good," natural, fast, and far better than the competition. THIS will be the difference vs those building "just" with AI.
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when agents collapse execution time, every IC needs to turn into a business thinker. they need to develop the judgment that used to live two layers up. coz if you wait for those layers to weigh in, you kill the speed. so the judgment has to move down for the gains to materialize.
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“How do I get great projects?”
You don’t. You’re going to be handed a bunch of stinkers and each one is your chance to roll up your sleeves and take a big swing.
If you do this enough times and crack a few hits your phone will ring.
Johnnie Manzari@johnnie
A student asked me to help her with an interview question. She asked for a good reply to: “What do you do if you’re given a project you don’t like?” I said this isn’t even a hypothetical, it will for sure happen. My answer was that, counterintuitively, you need to do the best work of your life on those projects. If you do bad work you doomloop your career— they will become worried about giving a more important project, you get stuck, you do more bad work, repeat. If they ask you to design a “blow dryer for a fish”, you need to design the best damn fish blow dryer the world has ever seen. Yes it will fail commercially, but then when you ask to help the “blow dryer for barbers” team, you have leverage to move over, and that team will be pulling you in.
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Making something people love is mostly making something you love and hoping the overlap is real
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No this is a "manager brain" problem (saying this, yet as a current holder of the same job title).
Manager brain: "if me who doesn't code hands on can make Claude do it 90% right in 5 min, then the IC should be able to do it 100% right in 5 min"
Sidu Ponnappa@ponnappa
this is the shift I'm seeing in managers across the board getting used to a whole new level of iteration takes time and changing expectations
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2 months in Bangalore and I miss Mumbai. I miss the people.
Every small interaction here feels like a negotiation. Auto drivers, packers, old tenants. Everyone’s trying to squeeze something out of you.
In Mumbai a cab driver sees it’s hot and just turns on the AC. Here you have to ask for it like it’s a personal favour. That tells you everything.
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I remember Portrait mode was running behind, and it risked not being in the keynote for iPhone 7 Plus. The quality wasn’t there. So the story of the second lens would have just been about zoom quality, rather than unlocking something profoundly new. It was Joz who, upon hearing this, sent an email to a few of us: “If I can give you until December what can you do?” With that additional time we were able to bring in a
machine learning block, and that was the big unlock for the quality improvements. The feature made the keynote and was released in October as a Beta. He fought every day for the purity of the ideas.
Tony Fadell@tfadell
Most tech companies break out product management and product marketing into two separate roles: Product management defines the product and gets it built. Product marketing wires the messaging- the facts you want to communicate to customers- and gets the product sold. But from my experience that's a grievous mistake. Those are, and should aways be, one job. There should be no separation between what the product will be and how it will be explained- the story has to be utterly cohesive from the beginning. Your messaging is your product. The story you're telling shapes the thing you're making. I learned story telling from Steve Jobs. I learned product management from Greg Joswiak. Joz, a fellow Wolverine, Michigander, and overall great person, has been at Apple since he left Ann Arbor in 1986 and has run product marketing for decades. And his superpower- the superpower of every truly great product manager- is empathy. He doesn't just understand the customer. He becomes the customer. So when Joz stepped into the world with his next-gen iPod to test it out, he fiddled with it like a beginner. He set aside all the tech specs- except one: battery life. The numbers were empty without customers, the facts meaningless without context. And, that's why product management has to own the messaging. The spec shows the features, the details of how a product will work, but the messaging predicts people's concerns and finds way to mitigate them. - #BUILD Chapter 5.5 The Point of PMs
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we’re not really “designing” right now,
we’re just constantly switching contexts trying to not get left behind
every week there’s a new tool claiming to be the future → paper, pencil, magicpatterns, magicpath… now noon shows up with $44M and changes the narrative again
so instead of going deep, everyone’s just sampling everything
trying prompts here, generating screens there, tweaking in figma, jumping to code, back to AI again
half the industry is already inside code editors
the other half is still figuring out which tool is even worth committing to
fomo is doing more damage than we realise
because depth needs stability
and right now the stack itself is unstable
so no one is mastering anything
everyone is just trying to be early
eventually this will settle and a default will emerge
till then, we’re all just beta testers pretending to have a workflow 👀
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Basically every news story you read about will be forgotten within a human lifetime, if not sooner.
If they pull this off, it will be remembered forever. Nothing else from our time will matter:
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Breaking through the atmosphere, things are pretty good from here.
The most important lesson in this movie - humanity has to find a way to work together. That is why we evolved to be social creatures.
The end is near, we go to get away from here…
CineVow@cinevow
Project Hail Mary, 2026
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@dakshpixelup The only person to hire is @AjayPerke Let me connect the two of you
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most agencies hire for skill. we also hire for character.
we're building a team:
people who perform and actually like each other.
now we need someone who keeps that alive as we grow.
Hiring:
Talent & culture lead at PIXELUP LABS
- you understand the basics of AI, design and talent
- you've recruited exceptional talent before
- agency or startup background preferred
- 100% remote
drop a line at daksh@pixeluplabs(dot)com
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Companies are scrambling to get their design teams to move as fast as their now blazing fast engineering teams.
But lots of design doesn't lend itself to this type of compression.
It’s the insight you get on a walk.
The connection from another field.
The aha when using a product you love.
It could be that for some design work the answer isn't to speed up... but actually to slow it way down.
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SHAME ON EVERYONE HATING on the AI india summit. y'all are missing the bigger point.
yes, no wifi at an AI event.
yes, cash-only at a digital india venue.
yes, the PM's visit cleared the hall for 2 hours.
all embarrassing. all deserved the roasting.
but zoom out.
5 years ago, india wasn't even in the AI conversation.
the world's AI map had three pins: US, china, maybe UK.
india was filed under "cheap IT outsourcing."
now?
openai, google deepmind, meta, nvidia — all showed up. in delhi.
not to sell us products. to partner.
india told openai "your models will follow our rules on our soil."
the US hasn't even done that yet.
see, india doesn't enter races polished.
we enter messy, loud, and late — then quietly become the standard everyone else adopts.
UPI started as a joke. now brazil, singapore, and france are copying it.
ISRO was mocked. now NASA is partnering with them.
indian IT was "just outsourcing." now every fortune 500 CTO is indian.
the AI summit wasn't a failure of ambition.
it was the first draft.
and if you've been paying attention to how india operates —
the first draft is always chaos.
the final product is always "how did they do that?"
roast the wifi. but don't bet against the country.
Priyanshu Ratnakar@0xratnakar
the impact ai summit in delhi was a perfect demonstration of why india keeps losing in tech and i’m tired of pretending it wasn’t a disaster. let me paint the actual picture: > cash-only payments at a “digital india” upi ?? > pm visit → main hall cleared for hours, everyone else just stood around doing nothing > exhibitors locked out of their own stalls > 3-hour queue just to enter > a founder’s product got stolen during the summit > no wifi at an ai event. > can’t take your keys if you came via car/bike > no laptop/camera at tech event > people were asked to sit on the ground > speaker lineup with consultants/bureaucrats who’ve never shipped a real product > the registration system crashed multiple times. people who registered weeks in advance couldn’t get in. vips walked past massive queues while founders and builders stood outside in the heat. 🤡 and 27 countries witnessed all of this live networking areas? no space to stand. many demos didn’t work because there was no stable internet. 5g?? this is what happens when optics matter more than execution. when innovation becomes photo-op the sad part is india has insane talent. founders building world class products. engineers and researchers doing real work. leave India for a sec, im at network school and the youngest crowd is all Indians. but we keep shooting ourselves in the foot with performative nonsense. the west isn’t winning because they’re smarter. they’re winning because they care about details. because they respect builders. because their tech summits actually work. same story when @sama came to india last time. boomer uncles asked the dumbest questions. and when he said it’s hard for india to build foundational models, we took it on our ego. rn, every founder who attended left embarrassed. imagine international delegate left with stories about our “infrastructure.” many friends and young builder lost a little more faith. this wasn’t just bad planning. it was a signal of what we value. and clearly, it’s security theater and photo-ops over builders. we can do better. we have the talent. we have the market. we have the potential. what we don’t have is execution and respect for the people building the future. maybe one day we will do better. till then if you’re a founder, ignore the noise. keep building.
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