Aakash Shrivastava

making pixels into systems | Get figma design system

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

I've posted the entire Cohezly Design System file on Figma community. All screens, components, variables are now available for free. Link below

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

@sahilk 1. The IDE works best to fix padding issues, updating style tokens, and tweaking animations, etc

2. Asking cursor to explain a piece of code to me, I use the Ask mode as a programming tutor.

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

@devulapellykush Dm’ed you
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[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

@2sraval Of course, even if you have a PDF portfolio, a website now is just a prompt away.
Even before AI, there were fewer excuses, but now there are none.

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

@iamsahilvhora I decided to give up my studio dream for all the reasons you mentioned.

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

@aleksliving I started something, for now it’s focused on everything else but UI/visual design

https://t.co/MQm1ODkJgS

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

new project: superskilled

AI has 10xed by productivity as a designer. A ton of this productivity came from sharp UX Writing, feedback triaging, and bouncing ideas like I'm talking to a peer.

Superskilled is a opensource set of ready-to-use skills for AI assistants.

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

just hit 10 likes and 40 users!🕺

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

they say the first 10 users are the hardest to get 🎉

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

https://t.co/3Lo68MSUyb

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

new project: superskilled

AI has 10xed by productivity as a designer. A ton of this productivity came from sharp UX Writing, feedback triaging, and bouncing ideas like I'm talking to a peer.

Superskilled is a opensource set of ready-to-use skills for AI assistants.

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

@JacobyBrandon dm’ed you.
https://t.co/rUdSLCGfeh

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

@monali_dambre Hello 👋

https://t.co/rUdSLCGfeh

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

@sid6mathur Thanks Sid. Dm’ing you.

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

I just rebuilt my personal site with Claude Code, link below

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

There is an anecdote in Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs about how the entire phone industry switched to the unibody design.

While traveling in France, Jobs and Ive went into a kitchen supply store. Ive picked up a knife he admired, but then put it down in disappointment. Jobs did the same.

"We both noticed a tiny bit of glue between the handle and the blade," Ive recalled. They talked about how the knife's good design had been ruined by the way it was manufactured. "We don't like to think of our knives as being glued together" Ive said.

The unibody approach evolved through the Mac line before reaching the iPhone. Instead of assembling a laptop from stamped sheet metal parts screwed together, the case was CNC-milled from a single block of aluminum. No joins. No seams. No glue between the handle and the blade, so to speak.

By 2012, the iPhone 5 brought a standard-setting aluminum unibody to the phone itself, along with diamond-cut chamfered edges. The sealed body without removable batteries was a design decision.

When consumers held a unibody iPhone alongside one with a removable battery, they consistently chose the unibody as more premium and refined. Competitors had no choice but to follow or lose sales to Apple.

The ripple effect across the entire industry was enormous. First, Samsung's flagship range lost removable batteries with the Galaxy S5 . Every other manufacturer followed.

So to answer OP's question: Yes, it was capitalism, but only because consumers kept picking the unibody as the more premium, finished product. Everyone else just had to catch up.

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

Genuine question - why did companies stop making phones with removable batteries? Is there an actual technological reason or is it just another capitalism thing?

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

It took 19 days to go from 0 users to 10. My goal is 100 users. What is the best way to promote my figma community project?

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

they say the first 10 users are the hardest to get 🎉

[yuwen lu @yuwen_lu_]

https://t.co/5nQwqqW4EC

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

they say the first 10 users are the hardest to get 🎉

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

@Debsourabh What is your prototype stack?

[Aakash Shrivastava @aakashwakeup]

@ransegall Do share what you find