Samyuktha Sam

design and other things @raincards | @brownuniversity & @risd.

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[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

Beautiful piece of literature on how stablecoin cards work.

[Charles Yoo-Naut (🌧️,🌧️) @cnaut]

Card payments feel instant.

But the money behind them still moves on bank time, through infrastructure built before the internet.

That means billions in idle capital, unnecessary costs, and entire markets that aren't economical to serve.

Stablecoin cards change that.

This is the clearest explanation we've written of how.

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

@jrmyphlmn @alana_aamodt @Momentix_Toys Sure does⚡️

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

Ep 1 of House of the Undisciplined is live: https://t.co/TB2i6WCavC

I sit down with play designer @alana_aamodt to talk about play as a way of living

From physics → Rube Goldberg machines → co-founding @Momentix_Toys → & why needlessly complicated systems teach us the most

[Alana Aamodt @alana_aamodt]

I made this! @Momentix_Toys 🙂

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

🎙️ Ep. 2 of House of the Undisciplined is live: https://t.co/AGNBvkt6bO

I talk to @mthwsam, co-founder of @sundaygrids about how "digital solar" is something you tap into, not something you have to own and why they wrote a story before a business plan

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

Launched a podcast: House of the Undisciplined⚡️ https://t.co/iMT1H5fhD8

Design isn’t one discipline, it’s a way of seeing, learning and shaping the world. I talk to designers, builders, artists, and anyone who blurs boundaries for a living.

Teaser live, check it out!

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

@Jack_Dille ❗️

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

🥹

[Michelle @michellehui]

robert moses killed noguchi’s vision for nyc.

everyone knows noguchi for paper lamps. no one knows he spent a decade reimagining childhood in the city.

“noguchi’s new york” is on until 9/13! it’s custom animation of the nyc we lost :

[Rain @raincards]

Western Union's Stablecard is live.

Remittances can now arrive as stablecoins and be spent instantly anywhere Visa is accepted.

Mobile app, embedded wallets, and cards powered by Rain.

$100B a year for 100M customers is moving onchain.

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

💛☔️ More to come.

[j4ck @Jack_Dille]

so proud of all the hard work that went into this!

special shoutout to @samyukthaxsam on driving the design & ux all the way through from the Rain side 🙌

epic to see a 175yo company get on stablecoins

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

my happy place is prototyping in the sandbox.

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

madison sq park on my post-lunch walk and heard the word ‘agents’ at least 4 times, from 4 different pairs of people i passed by.

the park isn’t an escape from the world, it’s a microcosm of it.

[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

more UIs should be fidget toys

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

@Jack_Dille Ahahah Jack no way you’re the coolest

[Chelsea Zou @boson2photon]

take me out of sf bro

[Lauren LoPrete @laurenloprete]

People always ask me “how do you develop taste?” And I say “go to the niche telephone museum and study the origin of buttons and don’t be a little bitch”

[Alliance @alliance]

The story of Alliance alumni @raincards (ALL7) from zero to $2B valuation.

0:09 Rain’s growth
0:23 Rain’s office tour
1:35 Rain’s company values
2:46 Alliance’s move to NY
3:40 Why NY after Stanford
4:23 Rain’s founder meeting
5:55 Office amenities
7:00 Rain’s agentic use cases
8:00 Rain’s customers
9:01 How Rain started
9:45 Why starting niche is better
10:35 Danny Meyer story
11:46 The talent arbitrage of NY
12:45 Alliance’s influence on Rain
13:53 The difficulties of scaling
15:13 The serendipity of NY
15:38 Finding partners in NY
17:00 The future of Rain
18:15 How startups win

The next cohort of 18 startups graduates next Tuesday on Alliance's Demo Day. Apply at https://t.co/v29WpAluLH

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

Boondoggling. Finagling. Transmutating.

So tickled by Claude codes theatrical load states.

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

Didn’t think we’d all get here but we now live in the terminal? >_

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

Looking closely at how maps are designed; noticed that at a certain zoom %, @Uber map shows you pins of parks. Most people use parks as landmarks and by surfacing these green pins, Uber dramatically boosts the signal-to-noise ratio. Pretty powerful design decision.
@DesigningUber

[Samyuktha Sam @samyukthaxsam]

Not going to gatekeep this ⚡
Falling hard for Satoshi by the @itfoundry (ITF), designed by Deni Anggara. Such a great substitute for Inter and Roboto if you’re looking for some quiet zhuzh in your next UI.

How did I let this gem slip my radar!?
https://t.co/ADkNEyb8PC