Rahul Saini

Happy blissful holy !!

.@elonmusk: “We are in the singularity.” “I think we’ll hit AGI in 2026.” “You’re at the top of the rollercoaster about to go down.” “Don’t worry about squirreling money away for retirement. It won’t matter.” “I don’t just have courtside seats— I’m on the court. It still blows my mind multiple times a week.” Via @PeterDiamandis

@architgupta Bade dino ke baad bade log aaye

We are at the India AI Impact Summit at Bharat Mandapam, Delhi today. Join us for a live demonstration of our Agentic AI tax filing platform, and meet the team building it. #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026

So many tools so little time :)

@rahulbhadoriya Me too

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How India Changed the Way I Think About Design | Rahul Saini | TEDxChit... youtu.be/HMp_uL9LGow?si… via @YouTube

Beautiful. Fast. Effortless. And potentially shallow. Now Figma has announced that you can send AI-generated UI straight into the design canvas as editable layers. On the surface, it’s smart. You build with AI, refine in Figma, move back to code. But step back for a second. Why now? For years, Figma was the center of product creation. Everything started there. Today, many builders are starting in a prompt box. Or in a terminal. Or inside AI coding tools. Design is no longer the starting point. Execution is. Is this integration innovation? Or is it Figma trying to pull builders back into its ecosystem? Because if AI can generate screens directly into code, why would anyone open a design tool at all? Unless design becomes something more than drawing screens. Here’s the uncomfortable part. When screens become easy to generate, we stop questioning them. The first output becomes the direction. Momentum becomes strategy. Polished becomes “good enough.” That is how design becomes shallow. Earlier, creating something required effort. Effort forced thinking. Now creation is instant. Thinking is optional. And that is dangerous. Because AI can give you a beautiful layout, But it cannot tell you If the feature should exist or If the journey makes sense. If the product is solving the right problem. It predicts patterns, It does not carry intent. So maybe this is the real shift. Design is no longer about making screens. It is about making choices. If AI can generate twenty versions in seconds, the real skill is deciding which one deserves to live — and which nineteen to kill. Maybe Figma understands this. Maybe this move is not about features. Maybe it’s about survival. Because if design becomes automated, the only moat left is judgment.

@Paytm UX & UI evolution need to be studied. Recently, I have shifted from @getsupermoney and it has been delighted experience! Earlier @Paytm had too much cluttered screens but now it has minimal & clean UI. Takes very less time to do payments & omg UX is really top notch.

I review portfolios often. One pattern that quietly signals inexperience: Skill meters. Design isn’t a percentage. It’s judgment under constraint. I’d rather see: • A messy problem made simple • A metric moved • A system scaled • A failed experiment dissected The strongest designers barely talk about tools. Because tools change. Thinking compounds. If you’re building a portfolio: Remove the bars. Add depth.

@rahulbhadoriya For?

Do we need figma anymore?

@jsngr Empathy loops matter. But what AI really lacks is lived friction. Design improves when you feel the pain of your own decisions. Models don’t.

if you’re building software meant to be consumed by humans, take the time to actually design it AI has a design smell because it’s “designing” via code. we can tell!

This was probably 2003–2004 when I created this website for Tarun Tahiliani. This was the second version of the site, completely coded in Flash ActionScript.

Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Fear patterns in design: • Over-explaining decisions • Excessive user quotes • Endless iterations • Pixel perfection as a shield Most “design rigor” is fear disguised as better typography.

Designers love talking about craft. But craft is the easy part. The hard part is saying: “This looks good—but it’s the wrong thing.”

Most designers don’t lack skill. They lack courage. So they hide behind process.

@dharmeshba Friction disguised as policy: digital first, customer last :)

Walked into a Subway today. Almost empty. Employees engrossed in reels. The billing person tells me to scan the QR code to order. I was puzzled as this was new. The QR code scan threw a flood of checkboxes at me to choose from: bread, veggies, protein, and sauces. I was a little annoyed. Me: Am I supposed to select all these options? Them: Yes, sir. Me: Why can't you take the order from me? I'm standing right here. Them: We can't do that. Policy has changed. Me: I don't want to be selecting all these options. Them: I can only take the order if you are paying in cash. Me: Okay, I will pay in cash. Them: Me: Them: We don't have change. You can pay Rs. 13 in UPI, and here is your Rs. 200 cash. Me: If you can take Rs. 13 in UPI, why can't you take the entire amount in UPI? Them: That's the company policy. I can't do anything about it. The easiest way to increase NPS in a restaurant is to put a person. The quickest way to lose a customer in a restaurant is by putting a QR code to order.