Aditya Garikapati

GUI design in Evangelion

it's time to build

Every UX designer walking into a cockpit: Clutter! Every pilot walking into a cockpit: Clarity! The word "clutter" is terribly overused in the UX/design field, commonly serving as a superficial critique of decoration while often ignoring the design's true context.

The secret to product quality is blood sweat and tears

it’s crazy but access to capital right now is way easier than access to people who match your wavelength.

I like that a core strategy of the AI industry is trying to convince everyone that they hate being alive and doing anything. That your only desire as a human being is to put out product and make money and get likes on social media. But you shouldn't enjoy any actual activity.

hammer-nail problem: when your only tool is visual design, every problem looks like it can be solved with an aesthetic face lift. we’ve reduced "problem-solving" to mean "make it pretty and usable" when real problems are far messier and more systemic.

nobody prepares you for how much "storytelling" you're going to have to do in your career

oooooooh god’s work

visualize time-based media with gestures ✋✨🎥

@abnux @10kdesigners Moi 👋

who’s hiring designers / design interns right now? pls DM or comment below, have something interesting for you 👀 @10kdesigners

When you accept every feature request 🤭

louder please

What's interesting here is that a computer did the fun, creative job of drawing Kermit in various scenarios, and then a human did the boring, labor-intensive job of creating shortcuts with custom thumbnails to open all of their favorite apps. twitter.com/dlberes/status…

"we want grandkids" best i can do is graphic design

Every time I diversify I lose money

yes

Please opt out of Figma training data if your designs are bad

"design tools continue to fall behind CSS" was a recurring theme at @CSSDayConf - typography features (so many!) - scroll animation - meaningful math tricks - layout capabilities - container queries / responsive capabilities - anchor positioning - :has() and presence awareness - quantity queries - scroll snap and so much more… it seems like design tools are competing against each other to be the best Photoshop variant. meanwhile, the web's features are pushing fast into a mega capable future and designers are blissfully unaware. (i'm aware this isn't all teams, but it's def the majority) web designers, sit with your web developers web developers, sit with your web designers also, someone (i wish i could work on this) make a tool that unlocks these features for designers. help them wield these capabilities, they're super fun and very meaningful. the delta is growing too fast between CSS and design tools, someone or something close this gap!!