Swapnil
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Swapnil
@swaaaapnilaaa
Head of Design Glance TV @glancescreen @InMobi. Love, empathy, happiness, laughter. I like to enhance experiences in products and in life.
Bangalore, KA, India Katılım Eylül 2010
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@hckmstrrahul Ya this works well since the logo already is a circle! Nice :)
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I really dislike how much the Internet design community dog piles on almost any change to branding or UX in any consumer app.
I understand that part of being a designer is being critical, but it’s just exhausting to see everybody jump on the chance to shit on the target of the week (Spotify in this case).
If you think you have something constructive to add, that’s one thing.
But if you’re just showing up to dunk on someone for Internet points, that’s weak shit.
(And yes, I’ve done it many times in the past, and every single time I felt shitty about it and I regret it)
Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷@farzyness
Whoever designed this needs to be fired immediately:
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@ilyamiskov I know man! Idk what wrong with people hating on the icon so much! It’s a fun little thing! Just let it be.
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It's a disco ball for an anniversary, not a brand system overhaul. Spotify has earned the right to play with their own icon. Nobody's failing to find it. Head of design here, and letting your team ship something fun is the job. Treating every surface like it has to defend a thesis is how brands get boring. But you do you.
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Nope, give them a raise instead!
Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷@farzyness
Whoever designed this needs to be fired immediately:
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It's a disco ball for an anniversary, not a brand system overhaul.
Spotify has earned the right to play with their own icon. Nobody's failing to find it.
Head of design here, and letting your team ship something fun is the job. Treating every surface like it has to defend a thesis is how brands get boring.
But you do you.
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@swaaaapnilaaa If you’re a head of design and this is how you honestly think about marketing… Godspeed.
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Oh god. What happened to doing things because they are fun?
Let the design team have fun! And do whatever they want to do with THEIR OWN APP.
Jack Appleby@jappleby
This is one of those design / marketing moments where I just scratch my head. There are huge readability & brand issues. - Different color green - The green is too dark against the black - disco ball texture looks pixelated on a tiny phone screen A kinda dumb mistake.
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@CarryG28453 @avstorm Come on. But anyway. Goat product design and experience wise.
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@swaaaapnilaaa @avstorm They have never been the goat, they steal from artists.
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I genuinely don’t understand the outrage over Spotify’s temporary app icon. A 20-year anniversary is exactly when a company should be allowed to do something playful and different. The default will be back soon.
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@hckmstrrahul lol.. this is what happened with those Airbnb 3D icons. Everyone was just asking GPT to “make it in this style”
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when i first saw spotify's new app icon, my immediate gut reaction was: wow that's pretty cool
then some dude with a few thousand followers and said it sucked
and in a blink of an eye everyone started hating on it
i still think it's pretty cool
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Just experienced streamable 4D Gaussian Splatting content on Apple Vision Pro… and it's insane 🤯
Seeing life sized volumetric people performing right in my room is kind of mind blowing. It really feels like real humans are standing in front of you.
And it streams online just like regular video. No massive downloads. No waiting.
Awesome work by @gracia_vr 👏 Apple Vision Pro + Gaussian Splatting is one of the most futuristic things I’ve seen in a long time.
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@align_all I liked it.
It is temp, it’s for their 20th anniversary.
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Question to my fellow designers:
This is an app icon I made using AI. The process was actually very similar to how I normally design. I collected multiple references, explored directions, and built the visual.
The only difference?
Instead of using Blender, I used a node-based AI tool.
Now here’s my question:
Do you think this is good or bad?
Personally, I like the result, but it didn’t feel satisfying. I’ve spent hours in Photoshop extending backgrounds or tweaking tiny details. This one, I could’ve also made in Blender in maybe 2–3 hours.
So now I’m wondering:
Is this still design?
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@ilyamiskov This is a real question.. and needs some real answers.
The other day I was using Air m4, and it worked all great and good!
Wondering if I really need a Pro even.
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Let’s discuss.
How much actual performance does a product designer need from a computer?
I doubt most designers would benefit from say, 128GB of RAM or an Ultra grade chip.
Where is the sweet spot?
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