Aditya Gujaran

Product designer with an active imagination. Currently at @Unbabel Previously MHCI @CarnegieMellon, UER @Google

[Aditya Gujaran @agujaran]

“Baby, let me command + Z and do you over again and again.” Awwww yeeyah. #DesignerDirtyTalk http://t.co/M9cAaXOAbC

[@levelsio @levelsio]

The point is that it catches attention (and makes money) and it's controversial as you can see from the 100+ replies in the post below (which catches even more attention)

You have to become a master of getting attention in this time

Now that building anything has become quite trivial, catching attention is now the most important skill I think

He's creative, the opposite of boring, thinks out of the box, isn't scared of controversy and ships fast and so he has the perfect skillset right now

All the attention for these projects also funnel back to him (as followers) and his projects (like TrustMRR) which help to increase revenue later

10/10

[Jordan Singer @jsngr]

today, on this full moon, we're launching @fullmoonapp on the App Store 🌕 it's the simplest way to use local LLMs like Llama

after a few months of testing, we've adapted it natively to all platforms including iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision

it's completely free and fully open source

[Aditya Gujaran @agujaran]

@levelsio Not a fan of buying overpriced inflated housing either but do value the peace of mind it provides in a competitive rental market with crazy prices and fickle landlords ( speaking of PT / LIS )

[Jordan Singer @jsngr]

there are dreamers and there are doers

AI will turn dreamers into doers

[Charles Patterson @CharlesPattson]

Designers when you ask them where all the design documentation is

[Aditya Gujaran @agujaran]

@sohiljx @framer Framer

[Aditya Gujaran @agujaran]

@itspatmorgan Great thread! So many of these hit home

[Aditya Gujaran @agujaran]

Credit to Figma where its due but Invision lost its way. Was never a mega fan but they did a lot of the community and its sad to see them go.

TLDR - Listen to your customers, sustainable profitability above all else and keep an eye on the horizon for the paradigm shifts.

[Jess Meher @Jessicameher]

I worked at InVision during its heyday, from $15m-$100m in revenue. If nothing but to share an important takeaway for other founders, Figma is not why InVision failed.

Simply, InVision failed because they stopped listening to customers.

Figma built tools InVision customers had been asking for for years. IN had become so obsessed with winning against Adobe and Sketch, and trying to own the end-to-end design system on a much too aggressive timeline that it lost sight of solving for the customer on what they needed at that moment in time, not years from now.

Understandably, in a category where Designers are fickle and switch tools easily, IN had every right to be paranoid about the incumbents. Their vision was incredibly ambitious, but that ambition caused a lack of focus on their core product.

To be clear, IN had an immense love for their customers and the design community. They championed a movement that gave designers a voice and seat at the table. They didn’t just sell software but a purpose. They created a category!

But while IN focused on Adobe, Figma focused on quietly building a better product, slowly. Figma had only raised $15m until 2018, and it took them 8 years to hit their first $1M in rev.

I have incredible respect and love for InVision’s founders, team, and know first hand just how HARD building a company is for the long haul. I can only imagine the decisions they needed to make on a daily basis. I feel such great sadness for everyone involved.

But while it’s really easy to point fingers at innovators dilemma (totally a fair point), my POV (which may reflect differently from others whom I respect)…figma’s entrance just exposed an internal weakness at InVision, that at which point when you’re already a $100m business, is really hard to course correct.

[Aditya Gujaran @agujaran]

@Mike_Scully_ Doc

[Aditya Gujaran @agujaran]

@itspatmorgan Feels like a trick question! I think a ‘design leader’ is what I would look for…

[Aditya Gujaran @agujaran]

@zee7 @framer I am enjoying these colour fade transitions. Great stuff!

Fav emoji - 🐲

[Brian Lovin @brian_lovin]

Tons to announce today, but first: Campsite is live on @ProductHunt 🏕️🏅

We'd really appreciate a comment + support → https://t.co/7eBDKjOYFz

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

I have a bunch of sketchy interface ideas for using language models as epistemic rubber ducks, aka. reflective thinking partners🐥

They've been sitting in Figma for 8 months gathering dust! They all felt too obvious to me to be worth sharing...

https://t.co/p5PNO8gXBc

[kate @whoiskatrin]

24h update after launching https://t.co/Ug7cwiXDKT yesterday:

◆ 5000 translations were generated
◆ 150 GitHub stars

Just added a feature to translate from SQL to human language. No more confusing and complex queries!

My best-performing side project so far!

[Aditya Gujaran @agujaran]

@joshuabrowder @donotpay Fascinating how in the first section, there was a bot speaking to another bot 🤽

[Aditya Gujaran @agujaran]

This is HUGE

[Niko @nikolasklein]

A small gift from the @figma prototyping team this holiday season! 🎁💝

You can now create interactions from multiple selected objects at once. Works for editing existing interactions, too!

[Zahid Khawaja @chillzaza_]

Introducing ToolBot 🤖 — an app that generates custom GPT-3 tools using plain English.

This is a ridiculously easy way to prototype different GPT-3 tools. It's especially useful for end users who want to explore the potential of LLMs.

If this sounds interesting, let me know.

[Andy Allen @asallen]

Dynamic Island may be the best design work from Apple in years.

[Aditya Gujaran @agujaran]

@neversitdull I am using the Vaude Wizard and never have I encountered a more comfortable pack. Looks sober enough for day to day https://t.co/totKSAfAp5

[Aditya Gujaran @agujaran]

So cool!

[Matthew Siu @MatthewWSiu]

imagining what a color picker for words could look like