Aravind Ravi

UX Designer, AI Enthusiast, recovering (vibe) coder. Back on X after a break.

[AWS Startups @AWSstartups]

Hi founders, this one's for you.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We’re launching Nano Banana 2, built on the latest Gemini Flash model. 🍌

It’s state-of-the-art for creating and editing images, combining Pro-level capabilities with lightning-fast speed. 🧵

[Aravind Ravi @_aravindravi]

Pencil is giving Figma a run for its money #ux #design #genai #ai #claude

[Tom Krcha @tomkrcha]

Pencil just crossed 100,000 users!
Today we are introducing SWARM mode.
A team of AI design agents working with you in parallel.

Your autonomous design agency.
Download now.

[Aravind Ravi @_aravindravi]

Replit just launched an update to make animations easier. #ux #genai #ai #uxdesign

[Replit ⠕ @Replit]

Introducing Replit Animation

Vibecode your next viral video in minutes, powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro.

(This video was 100% made in Replit Animation)

[Google Labs @GoogleLabs]

Today, we’re introducing Pomelli’s latest feature update, ‘Photoshoot’

With Photoshoot, you can start from a single image of your product and easily create high quality, customized product shots to elevate your marketing.

Available free of charge in the US, Canada, Australia & New Zealand! Get started with Pomelli today at https://t.co/SbeT00ToNx

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We just dropped Lyria 3: our latest generative music model. 🔊

It can turn photos and text into dynamic tracks - complete with vocals and lyrics. 🧵

[Stitch by Google @stitchbygoogle]

Introducing 🎨 Design Systems in Stitch!

Build a single source of truth to keep your screens visually consistent. Create your styles once, then instantly apply them to any new or existing designs.

We’ve got more for design systems coming over the next few weeks, stay tuned! 👀

[AshutoshShrivastava @ai_for_success]

Google Launches Universal Commerce Protocol for Agentic Shopping

TLDR :
Google new UCP is an open standard that lets AI agents handle the full shopping journey across discovery, checkout, and post purchase. It powers agentic checkout on Google, branded retailer agents, and new offer formats in AI driven shopping.

- UCP is an open standard for agentic commerce across discovery, buying, and support
- One protocol that works across agents, retailers, and payment providers
- Compatible with A2A, AP2, and MCP
- Co developed with Shopify, Walmart, Target, Etsy, Wayfair and backed by 20 plus partners
- Powers agentic checkout in Google Search AI Mode and the Gemini app
- Uses Google Pay with PayPal coming soon while retailers remain seller of record
- Business Agent enables brand voice conversations directly in Search
- New Merchant Center attributes boost conversational discovery
- Direct Offers deliver AI driven deals straight into AI Mode

Video credit : Google Blog

[Arena.ai @arena]

🚨BREAKING: New Leaderboard Updates!

Claude-Opus-4.5 and Opus-4.5 (thinking-32k) just landed on Code Arena (WebDev) and Text Arena leaderboards… and Opus-4.5 instantly took #1 in WebDev leaderboard, surpassing Gemini 3 Pro!

WebDev leaderboard (powered by Code Arena)
🥇#1 for Claude-Opus-4.5 (thinking-32k)
🥈#2 for Claude-Opus-4.5

Expert Leaderboard
🥇#1 for Claude-Opus-4.5

Text Leaderboard
- #3 for Claude-Opus-4.5
- #6 for Claude-Opus-4.5 (thinking-32k)

Huge congrats to the @AnthropicAI team for such incredible milestone! Learn more in the thread on how it performs in key categories and on the Occupational leaderboard. 🧵

[Google @Google]

Today we’re releasing Gemini 3 Pro and making it available across a suite of Google products, including:
-@GeminiApp and AI Mode in Search
-@GoogleAIStudio, Gemini CLI and Google @Antigravity
-@GoogleCloud Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise

[Figma @figma]

Something new is coming to the design canvas

[Aravind Ravi @_aravindravi]

@EricSimons You’re a bit late to the party, this has been around for months.

[Aravind Ravi @_aravindravi]

🍄 Mario visits India on @perplexity_ai video, ⚡ @boltdotnew Cloud takes "toy" to production grade platform
https://t.co/fvu4D5tBVX #ux #design #genai #ai

[Aravind Ravi @_aravindravi]

I made Mario visit India using @perplexity_ai's new Video Generation feature. Full newsletter to drop on the AIDrops, subscribe now to not miss it!
https://t.co/tsQyAP926h #ux #design #genai #ai #chennai #video #mario

[Aravind Ravi @_aravindravi]

G @perplexity_ai plays Wordle, @Google unveils Genie 3, GPT 5 and Opus 4.1 launch
#ai #genai #ux #design #vibecoding @OpenAI @AnthropicAI
https://t.co/JptX6tnd2n

[Aravind Ravi @_aravindravi]

@boltdotnew Can it not be done without a team account?

[Aravind Ravi @_aravindravi]

Big update from @boltdotnew today. #designsystem #ux

[bolt.new @boltdotnew]

Introducing support for Design Systems in Bolt

Now Bolt uses your actual design system components, not some mimic

Here’s how to stop building from scratch and start building on-brand: 👇

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Today we’re introducing Copilot Mode in Edge, our first step in reinventing the browser for the AI age.

My favorite feature is multi-tab RAG. You can use Copilot to analyze your open tabs, like I do here with papers our team has published in @Nature journals over the last year.

And there is a lot more to come, including built-in actions so you can delegate tasks as you browse.

[Aravind Ravi @_aravindravi]

Microsoft launched Github Spark this week.
https://t.co/xkfDyDPSkY

Meanwhile Google is testing a new vibe coding tool called Opal.
https://t.co/VYevBJzwr3 #vibecoding #ux #design

[Aravind Ravi @_aravindravi]

Qwen3-coder appears to be outperforming a number of models in agentic coding. Anyone tried it yet?

https://t.co/tkA8TcEcPO #ai #vibecode #genai