Jawad Sarwar

Principal Product Designer | SaaS, Fintech & Government | 10M+ Users

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

New year. New portfolio.

Rebuilt it from scratch—not because it was broken, but because I was showing work, not thinking.

Now it shows:
- How I diagnose problems
- How I think in systems
- How I drive outcomes

Check it: https://t.co/mOuBznCxtm

What are you rebuilding?

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

As a decade-long user of @awwwards, watching search relevance degrade is tough.

Searching "boxing" yields 1 match and a wall of unrelated results. Discovery is core to Awwwards. Don't go down the Dribbble path.

Open to sharing structural ideas with the team if useful.

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

@galshirart You’re not alone mate.

[Your Designer @Daviowhite]

BIG NEWS FOR DESIGNERS: The UK now has a dedicated Global Talent Visa pathway for designers (effective 1 July 2026).

This means qualified designers can move to the UK without employer sponsorship or a job offer.

Here’s everything you need to know

1/ What is it?

The UK Global Talent Visa is a visa for highly skilled professionals with exceptional achievements or high potential in their field.

As of 1 July 2026, designers now have a dedicated pathway under the UK’s Arts & Culture Global Talent route.

2/ Who is eligible?

This pathway covers designers working in areas such as:

• Product Design
• UX Design
• UI Design
• Graphic Design
• Brand Design
• Industrial Design
• Service Design
• Digital Design

3/ Do I need a company to sponsor me?

No.

Unlike a Skilled Worker Visa, you do NOT need:
❌ Employer sponsorship
❌ A UK job offer
❌ A minimum salary threshold

4/ Can I freelance?

Yes.

You can:
✅ Work full-time
✅ Freelance
✅ Run your own business
✅ Consult independently
✅ Combine multiple income sources

5/ Can I bring my family?

Yes.

Your spouse/partner and children can apply as dependants.

6/ Is this a permanent visa?

No, but it provides a pathway to permanent residency.

• Exceptional Talent pathway → settlement after 3 years
• Exceptional Promise pathway → settlement after 5 years

7/ What’s the difference between Exceptional Talent and Exceptional Promise?

Exceptional Talent:
→ For established leaders with significant achievements and recognition.

Exceptional Promise:
→ For emerging leaders who show strong potential and growing recognition.

8/ What evidence do designers need?

Typically, applicants provide:

• A strong portfolio
• Recommendation letters
• Evidence of leadership
• Published work
• Awards or nominations
• Speaking engagements
• Educational contributions
• Industry recognition
• Case studies showing measurable impact

9/ Do I need to be famous?

No.

The goal isn’t celebrity status. The goal is demonstrating that your work has had meaningful impact and that you’re recognized by others in your industry.

10/ Who should consider this?

If you’re a designer who:
• Leads projects
• Builds products
• Creates design systems
• Teaches others
• Publishes content
• Speaks publicly
• Contributes to the design community

…this route may be worth exploring.

11/ Why is this important?

For many designers worldwide, this is one of the few immigration routes that offers:

✓ Freedom from employer sponsorship
✓ Flexibility to work independently
✓ A path to permanent residency
✓ Recognition based on professional achievement rather than salary

12/ Where can I learn more and apply?

Official eligibility guide:
UK Global Talent – Design Industry Guide⁠

https://t.co/zZOFdFDYrr

Official Global Talent overview:
UK Global Talent Visa Overview⁠

https://t.co/Gz5kr9w5cM

Official application portal:
Apply for the UK Global Talent Visa⁠

https://t.co/csD4E4C7qh

[CrowdReply @Crowdreply_io]

Today we're introducing the CrowdReply MCP.

The first ever MCP that analyzes and ranks your website in AI search.

Simply talk to it and it'll find where you're missing, then goes in and handles the implementation.

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

@charlieissland Great opportunity to work with Charlie!

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

Framer shipped agents 🥹

[Framer @framer]

Introducing Framer 3.0 with Agents, Branching, Community, and an all-new design. See everything that’s new below.

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

@charlieissland Haha I guess I know the name.

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

@benjaminnathan @cedric_design Make sure you guys develop a better MCP server current one is buggy.

[Sam Iglesias @siglesias]

My WWDC design session this year is about prototyping with agents. Hope you find it helpful!

https://t.co/5cezye70Z1

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

Already received the certificate of appreciation

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

@kuipermarc @framer Let’s team up 😎

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

@designbyroka 👋 https://t.co/kneui43DJu

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Building apps has never been easier.

With Sites, Codex can turn your work, ideas, and plans into an interactive website or app your team can explore, use, and share with a URL.

Rolling out to Business and Enterprise plans, before expanding more broadly.

[Figma @figma]

What’s your favorite scary movie?

[Andrew Prifer @AndrewPrifer]

Dear frontend devs and UI designers. I bring you Liquid DOM, a complete and faithful implementation of Liquid Glass on the Web.

- Shape morphing
- All properties animatable
- Dynamic refraction and reflection
- Adaptive tint
- Adaptive specular highlight
- Dispersion
- Full html integration
- Super fast layout engine that works across Canvas and html
- Pointer event handling
- Framework and renderer-agnostic low level API
- High level React API
- Ootb @threejs and r3f integration

And lots more.

Read on for implementation details and demos.

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

@DannPetty Everyone is a designer now 🤞

[Google @Google]

We’re introducing Universal Cart — a new hub for shopping on Google.

🛍️ It will work across merchants and across services.

🛒 You’ll be able to add things to your cart whether you're shopping on Search, the @GeminiApp, @YouTube or @Gmail.

🛠️ The moment you add a product to your cart, it goes to work for you in the background. It finds deals and price drops, gives you insights on price history and alerts you when something comes back in stock.

🧠 It runs on our Gemini models, so your cart gets even smarter as the models improve.

💡 It also applies intelligent reasoning to your cart to help anticipate your needs. For example, if you add something to your cart that’s incompatible with something you already have in there, your cart catches it and suggests an alternative.

💲 It can find you hidden savings. Since it's built on Google Wallet, your cart understands your payment method perks, loyalty information and merchant offers so you don’t miss out on deals or points.

#GoogleIO

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

@googledevs Reply with your best design made with Stitch 👇

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

@Google @Android @GoogleAIStudio Google is cooking again 🔥

[Jawad Sarwar @DesignWithJawad]

You shipped fast.
Clean UI.
Great demo.

But users drop off, support gets the same questions, and you keep patching flows.

The product looks finished.
The structure is not.
Logic was skipped to ship.

Did you build a product, or just screens that look consistent?