Tunde Kabir Mason

head of product design @joinkuda

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

and people saying it reads like “instagzam” umm. do schools not teach calligraphy/cursive writing anymore?

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

very good chance this component does not exist and this is content generated by an agent

[Google Design @GoogleDesign]

Celebrating small wins is hardwired into "Achieve," our goal-tracking sample app.

We wanted the simple act of checking off a task to feel like a celebration. Instead of the standard #Material ripple, we used Styles to drop in a custom, high-contrast completion animation—specifically, a brand-colored ring that expands and fades on tap, paired with a subtle pressed-state gradient.

It lets us focus entirely on polishing those custom, rewarding micro-interactions while Material handles the foundation.

#GoogleDesign #MaterialDesign #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev #UXDesign #InteractionDesign

[grumpy smurf @_Nosa_]

One of the engineers at Kuda built an MCP server for our new design system. https://t.co/9WSpGgNsvU

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

https://t.co/XH6L4ItA9s

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

tap in 🫡

[Kuda @joinkuda]

We've seen the comments. All of them.

The love, the questions, the “who approved this?”, everything!

So, let’s talk.

Join us tomorrow at 5:00 pm for an X Space: The Story Behind the Rebrand.

Bring your burning questions. We’ll do our best to answer them.

See you there. 💜

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

incredible work we’ve loved using across our products! 💜

[Rachel Seidu's Decade. @RachelSeidu]

More life. ❤️

So grateful to have been the sole photographer on Kuda’s rebrand. Grateful to Effiong, Victor, Loup Garou, Niyi Okeowo and everyone who made this possible.

Here’s to more life, in every sense of the word.

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

it’s been a long year but happy to finally be able to share this! 😅 💜

[Kuda @joinkuda]

More from your money, more for your life.

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

did admin post a scheduled tweet from 2017?

[Google Design @GoogleDesign]

The line between UX and UI design is often blurred. What does "UX/UI designer" mean to you?

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

these AI labs need to stop pushing out half baked features in the name of winning the arms race

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

tried it out. figma is very much alive. the screens it spits out are raster images. the only thing you can edit directly is the text. this is not a tool for actual designers

[Stitch by Google @stitchbygoogle]

Meet the new Stitch, your vibe design partner.

Here are 5 major upgrades to help you create, iterate and collaborate:
🎨 AI-Native Canvas
🧠 Smarter Design Agent
🎙️ Voice
⚡️ Instant Prototypes
📐 Design Systems and DESIGN.md

Rolling out now. Details and product walkthrough video in 🧵

[Brett @BrettFromDJ]

https://t.co/gmKLpdIbUJ

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

whoa

[Figma @figma]

Grab a box, then bend reality

Vector editing just got a lot easier (yay)

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

I just saw my 2025 money moves on Kuda! Check your @joinkuda app now to see yours or get the app at https://t.co/LPDBGRTWgm and sign up with my referral code: RWNC0ZqSjNkOjRsJgYURCxQRR to get up to ₦4,000 if you meet the terms within 30 days.

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

people hire designers based on follower count? what?

[Chris Halaska @chalaska]

I've been hiring designers for years and still struggle to find great ones.

If I'm having trouble, imagine what founders are going through.

Founders hire based on all the wrong signals.

- Designer has 50K followers? Must be good.
- Their posts get thousands of likes? Hired.
- Portfolio looks trendy? Perfect fit.

Three months later:

- Can't design a coherent flow
- Doesn't understand conversion
- Needs hand-holding on every decision

The disconnect is painful to watch, and expensive to correct.

A designer's follower count tells you nothing about their ability to:

- Understand product constraints
- Make hard tradeoffs
- Design for real user behavior
- Ship under pressure

I've worked with designers who have massive audiences and can't design a functional signup flow.

The algorithm rewards the wrong thing. And founders pay for it.
If you're hiring, ignore the noise. Look for:

- Clear thinking in their case studies
- Evidence of shipping real products
- Understanding of business outcomes
- Ability to articulate design decisions

Popularity ≠ capability.

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

Digital Frontier | Make product design distinctive again https://t.co/pFbBv4USrL

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

After advising 50+ consumer companies over the last year, the one thing that separates those who can execute and those who can't:

Having a full-time designer in the room at all times

I've met with countless companies that have raised millions—and even one that has raised billions—that do not even have a designer on payroll.

This makes product development broken:

1/ You simply cannot have constructive conversations about ideas without visualizing them in real-time
2/ Your experiments will frequently have inconclusive results because users cannot discover features or they misunderstand how they work
3/ There is no one who can galvanize the team with a vision of what the product could look and feel like

And to be abundantly clear: I'm not referring to visual UI or graphics. I'm talking about someone who can think through the fundamental building blocks of product comprehension—like navigation, interaction and copywriting—and is technically savvy enough to visualize those components in high resolution.

There can certainly be exceptions to not having a designer, like where the CEO is an exceptional visual thinker, but that does not scale beyond a small team.

At the end of day, products live and die in the pixels: it's what the users see and tap. And without someone shepherding that process, you are effectively wandering the desert blind.

[Adam @adamdotdev]

there is no market for way shittier versions of apps/games/software no matter how fast you and an LLM can "make" it

[grumpy smurf @_Nosa_]

Far too often, people share their passwords on random forms on the internet. Because fraud do happen as a result, we’re moving away from passwords to Passkeys at Kuda.

Been using it for the last month and half. We’ll gradually roll it out to all over the next couple weeks

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

hiring a UX researcher to work on some fun stuff with me at Kuda. apply here:

https://t.co/yM5v4GQn1g

[Tunde Kabir Mason @tundemason]

hiring a UX researcher to work on some fun stuff with me at Kuda. apply here:

https://t.co/yM5v4GQn1g