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Tom D - Growth Design Partner
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Tom D - Growth Design Partner
@thomasdunnuk
Transforming ideas into life changing products people love 🪄 Research/UX/UI/Growth 🛠️ Prev Founding Designer @audit_wizard + Senior Product Designer @Buffer
Katılım Ekim 2012
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@BrettFromDJ This is so accurate 🙌I remember those days. Remember Winamp skins?
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The real reason Dribbble died? Because design died.
The early 2010s were a golden age—the best era of design in human history. It was chaos, creativity, and pure, unfiltered exploration.
Remember the Daily UI challenge? We all got the same prompt—music player, login screen, whatever—and flooded Dribbble with our wildest ideas. I did that for 100 days straight. Then I did it again. And again. And I loved every second of it.
Back then, designers actually pushed boundaries. We explored ideas without worrying if they could be built. We experimented with wild, unconventional patterns and posted them without hesitation.
No rules. No restrictions. Just raw creativity. If we could dream it, we designed it—and we shared it.
Then minimalism took over. We stripped every bit of emotion out of design, followed it up with design systems, tokens, variables, and variables nested within variables.
Now? Most of us don’t even know what era we’re in. Do we even have one anymore?
Design has been sanitized. Systematized. The fun stripped away. Creativity is no longer the priority.
So yeah, maybe I have a little resentment toward design systems, tokens, variables, and all the things that turned design into a rigid machine.
Maybe it’s because some of us were lucky enough to experience design before it became a system. And maybe—just maybe—we carry a chip on our shoulder, hoping for even a spark of that magic to return.
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A figma prototype I designed last year for our @TenderlyApp integration. Was also experimenting with a new IDE UI (which I shelved for something slicker soon after). The animation didn't make the cut either but was fun to play with and am always looking for ways to infuse delight into devtools ⚙️🪄
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@thomasdunnuk Thanks pal , currently working on the final version of the bento. will update it soon here
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@AshikArtistry Thanks so much Ashiqur I'm glad you think so!
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@yohann_varillon Your paintings are beautiful!
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@yunusxparvez I like the illustration concepts too
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@AshikArtistry I think there is a case for both depending on the user goals but in this example I prefer left as it feels less overwhelming to digest the info
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First version: x.com/thomasdunnuk/s…
Tom D - Growth Design Partner@thomasdunnuk
Designing to induce fear can work wonders for positioning and growth when used correctly. I see too many web3 products jumping on the happy rainbow themed vitamin train instead of communicating the terrifying realities of this industry. I love designing to delight but sometimes want to see more hard hitting truths in design. Used Midjourney, Runway and Figma to mock this up in 15 mins
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4 years and I recon it's still quite fresh, wdyt?
Przemek Kowal@przemekkowalcom
Project designed for client back in 2021, does it still feel fresh? 🤔
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A couple of UI themes/directions I explored with Audit Wizard team. Using Ai assistant tool as an example he grey heavy one won out. Do you agree with this decision? I was torn. Always love purple gradients but so overplayed in web3 as a safe choice so explored something that still keeps the grey branding but in a more metallic, retro way.


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