Anupam

UX Design Leader • Building Cohesive Identity Platform

[Anupam @AcePrek]

I am building something which might look like a very small step but could be a very big leap if done right. A link to you, your whole, in your control. The only link that you would need to share when someone asks “Who are you?” Stay tuned, as i will keep sharing updates 🙏

[Anupam @AcePrek]

Where does my identity which is everything can grow together ? Or anchor or link? This thought led me to work on it, with my skills, thoughts and an desire of building experiences, i started working and although it’s not finished yet, i wanted to start sharing.

[Anupam @AcePrek]

If they get this right, it will be a game changer 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Figma @figma]

Figma Make, now on your local code

In limited beta starting today, you can visually edit and ship changes by connecting Make to your codebase

At Figma, we use our products to design in every way: design layers, prototypes, and now, production code

[Anupam @AcePrek]

We’re entering an era where people will start building digital tools for themselves. The early creators will chase hype, but once the buzz dies, only the ones who genuinely care will keep building.

[Anupam @AcePrek]

What a game @ChelseaFC

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

That was special.

#CFC | #UCL

[Anupam @AcePrek]

@samgrosss YES I WILL
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[Anupam @AcePrek]

@brian_armstrong Are the systems even encouraging or least accepting enough for letting people do “anything”? In most orgs there are playbooks and if you don’t fit in you’re out.

[Anupam @AcePrek]

Most apps today look the same because everyone waits for someone else to take the first risk and then copies whatever works. Safe, sure, but sameness always collapses on itself. When the entire market becomes identical, there’s opportunity for the innovators to help stand out 🙌🏻

[Ryo Lu @ryolu_]

making things true:

design is the practice of seeing through the surface of things to understand their underlying structure, then rearranging those elements into new forms that didn't exist before.

most people think design is about aesthetics – making things look good, choosing colors, polishing interfaces. but underneath, design is a way of thinking about the world. it's about decomposition and recomposition. you take something complex, break it down into its fundamental components, understand the relationships between those parts, and then rebuild it in a way that's simpler, more powerful, or reveals something previously hidden.

this is why i've always been drawn to tools and systems rather than just products. a product solves one problem. a system gives you the building blocks to solve infinite problems. when i was working on Notion, we weren't trying to build another task manager or note-taking app. we were asking: what are the atoms of software? what are the irreducible elements that, when combined, can create any tool you need?

we landed on blocks, databases, views, relations. everything else is just different arrangements of these primitives. once you see this, you realize that all those single-purpose apps – Asana, Linear, Evernote, Airtable – are just rigid, pre-configured assemblies of the same underlying concepts. they've solved for one specific arrangement and called it a product.

but why lock people into one configuration? give them the components and let them build exactly what they need. Notion is lego blocks for thought and work.

Cursor is doing something similar but at a different layer. for decades, the barrier between human intention and working software has been enormous. you need to know syntax, frameworks, design patterns, debugging. most people with ideas never cross that chasm because the cost is too high.

Cursor changes this. when you can describe what you want and the system understands not just the words but the underlying structure – the patterns, the logic, the architecture – then you're no longer translating between human thought and machine language. you're working directly with concepts, and the AI handles the decomposition into code.

this philosophy extends beyond software. language is a finite set of sounds or symbols infinitely recombined to express any thought. music is twelve notes in endless patterns. DNA is four base pairs that encode all of life's complexity.

the universe is fundamentally modular. simple rules, endlessly recombining, creating emergent complexity. design is the human practice of participating in that process consciously. we look at the world, identify the patterns, extract the rules, and use them to build new realities.

when i look at the history of computing, the most important moments weren't new features. they were new primitives. the command line gave us composable programs. the GUI gave us direct manipulation. the web gave us hyperlinks. the smartphone gave us sensors and connectivity. each unlocked entire ecosystems because they provided new atoms that could be infinitely recombined.

AI isn't just a feature. it's a new primitive. it's a new way of decomposing and recomposing reality.

design is philosophy because it forces you to ask: what is this thing really? what are its essential properties? what can i remove before it stops being itself? and once i understand that, what new things can i build?

this is the work. not making things pretty. making things true.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

"Designers will realize—all this back and forth, screenshots, redlines, 50 pixels off—they could just send it to Cursor and it's fixed."

As the head of design at Cursor, @ryolu_ is at the cutting edge of designers who ship code instead of mocks. In our new episode, he showed me:

✅ His retro OS (the best vibe app I've seen)
✅ Demo: How he designs & builds with Cursor
✅ How the @cursor_ai team ships products

Some quotes from Ryo:

"We prototype in Cursor after initial exploration. It lets us interact with real states. It feels a lot more real than static mocks."

"Start with one simple app, then keep building. I asked the agent 'what if we make it more retro?' and just kept going from there."

"At Cursor, roles between designers, PMs, engineers are muddy. We use our unique strengths and let AI agents tie everything together."

Watch now: https://t.co/yw36TTy0Gk

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[Dylan Field @zoink]

India is an incredible hub of design, with 35 million Figma files created in the country just in the last year alone. So excited to announce that we’re opening up our first office in Bengaluru.

Figma in India!

[Anupam @AcePrek]

@freepik Freepik is doing all the right moves! ❤️

[Anupam @AcePrek]

@josesaezmerino Good stuff 😄

[Anupam @AcePrek]

@SonyLIV I’m a paid Premium user and still getting 5–6 ads every 15 mins during Champions League + endless buffering.
What exactly am I paying for? Ads even freeze mid-match.
This is not premium — it’s punishment.

[Anupam @AcePrek]

Just used Composer 1 in @cursor_ai and WOW 🤯
The speed and accuracy together are next-level — it’s like coding with rocket fuel. Great job!