Arjun

Designer, Founder – @huegrid. I help funded startups make their best moves through Product Design, Branding, Marketing via Insights, Design, Engineering & Art.

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

Three weeks ago, deep in mango season, @iruhdam24 and I were sitting around on a regular Thursday in Bangalore, talking about all the mango varieties showing up across the city, and figured we'd build a small site over a weekend with Claude to show off the Indian ones we grew up with.

Then we started remembering every other mango we'd eaten on our travels, the Nam Dok Mai in Bangkok, the soft sweet ones across South East Asia, each with its own season and its own name back home.

Indian mangoes are some of the best in the world, they're just not the whole story. So the weekend idea grew into Mangoes of the World, an interactive atlas with 29 most popular varieties to start with, across 10 countries, with their origins, seasons, flavours and the culture around each one. More varieties, real mango images and mango-tree images, and a few sponsored spots are on the way.

We're both designers, so there's craft tucked into every corner, and I'll be sharing a few details I enjoyed baking in, over the coming days.

This fun build over the last few weeks was possible using a suite of wonderful tools — @linear, @claudeai, @midjourney, @figmaweave, @sketch, react-globegl (Three.js globe), Vite, React & Typescript, @framermotion, @radix_ui and shipped on @Cloudflare.

Made with my fellow designer and collaborator Madhuri @iruhdam24, under our studio @huegrid. Go explore and discover a mango you've never met ›› https://t.co/RRI5tmTml0 🥭

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

Loved designing and engineering the shuffle/slot machine interaction that can help you discover a mango. 🎰

It works even you flick and scroll on the bottom mango selector list. The shuffle button is for easier discovery.

Many other details on the site.
Go check and share your fav mango. 🥭

[Madhuri ✳︎ @Iruhdam24]

@figmaweave @cursor_ai @midjourney @claudeai A fun detail @arjunphlox and I worked on is to introduce a shuffle feature for the atlas. you can click on the shuffle icon in the list in the bottom and discover a new mango around the world 🗺️

go find a mango to try today 🥭
https://t.co/ElCQRrroFJ

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

Stress testing! 👀

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

@khera_aman @Iruhdam24 Fixed! 🙂

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

Three weeks ago, deep in mango season, @iruhdam24 and I were sitting around on a regular Thursday in Bangalore, talking about all the mango varieties showing up across the city, and figured we'd build a small site over a weekend with Claude to show off the Indian ones we grew up with.

Then we started remembering every other mango we'd eaten on our travels, the Nam Dok Mai in Bangkok, the soft sweet ones across South East Asia, each with its own season and its own name back home.

Indian mangoes are some of the best in the world, they're just not the whole story. So the weekend idea grew into Mangoes of the World, an interactive atlas with 29 most popular varieties to start with, across 10 countries, with their origins, seasons, flavours and the culture around each one. More varieties, real mango images and mango-tree images, and a few sponsored spots are on the way.

We're both designers, so there's craft tucked into every corner, and I'll be sharing a few details I enjoyed baking in, over the coming days.

This fun build over the last few weeks was possible using a suite of wonderful tools — @linear, @claudeai, @midjourney, @figmaweave, @sketch, react-globegl (Three.js globe), Vite, React & Typescript, @framermotion, @radix_ui and shipped on @Cloudflare.

Made with my fellow designer and collaborator Madhuri @iruhdam24, under our studio @huegrid. Go explore and discover a mango you've never met ›› https://t.co/RRI5tmTml0 🥭

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

@cursor_ai with Composer 2.5 is wonderful as a de-facto executor for many things. 🚀

The speed, accuracy and cost triangle is truly un-matched and especially helps in Design workflows. Highly recommend for anyone to give it a shot to experience the dramatic shift it brings.

Kudos to the team for making it happen. 🎉🥳

[major tom @tailwiinder]

I can’t believe that Cursor’s composer-2.5 is real. It’s beautiful.

I have enough time now to thoroughly go through the code it writes, and that doesn’t even affect my shipping speed because it’s SO MUCH faster than most other models out there.

So fast that the IDE sometimes ends up lagging because it can’t keep up with the model.

The disconnect between me and my codebases is reducing, I’m working faster than ever, and I’m saving so much money.

Couldn’t have asked for more wins. Composer-2.5 is a work of art.

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

@benln Welcome to Hyd! 🤩

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

Excited for some of the June events/shows line-up🤩

Jun 6 ›› Build for India AI Hackathon @SarvamAI @Paytm
Jun 8 – 12 ›› WWDC @Apple
Jun 11 – Jul 19 ›› 23rd @FIFAWorldCup
Jun 16 ›› @framer live, Compile by @cursor_ai
Jun 23 – 25 ›› @figma Config
Jun 25 ›› Avatar: The Last Airbender S2 (@netflix)

Any others to look forward to?👀

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

@StructBioinfo @abandopa @mnwsth Thank you for sharing, Sir! 🙌🏼🥭😊

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

@99sachins @Iruhdam24 Hey, thank you for sharing, Sachin! 😊
Alphonso is a real tempter! 😀

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

@varunlore @Iruhdam24 Thank you, Varun! Took a decent 2.5 weeks, a sprint you can say, but done in phases.

The Claude specific work is around 7 days I think, spread mostly on Opus 4.7 and a bit of Sonnet 4.6.

A few parts done as experiments using Composer 2.5 and GPT 5.5 via Cursor, but negligible.

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

@vatsal_sanghvi Thank you for the mention, Yash! 🙌🏼
Happy to chat, Vatsal.🙂

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

The more we need control, the more specific we can be about the tools. 🙂

@claudeai design or an equivalent is good for non-designers.

Use @paper for quick temp AI-assisted visual generation and iteration (AI friendly with html, but there’s vendor lock-in).

Use @sketch for manual-design, control, source-of-truth (JSON package) and import Sketch file in @figma for larger team collab and authoring if needed.

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

@itsjessyin curious! spill the beans please 😊

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

💯

[Amir Salihefendić @amix3k]

Creating great products is like creating great art. To make something extraordinary, you have to put your soul into it.

It’s hard to measure things that are done without soul, but you can feel it.

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

👏🏼

[Ojasvika Sahu (Oz) @Ozacle23]

Dropping our side project Minimi today.

Minimi is your ambient memory layer that you can connect to Claude.

Claude can now answer your most insane questions -

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

@Ozacle23 Lovely approach, Ojasvika! Will try soon. 👏🏼

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

Hey Ridd! It really depends on the approach of the designer and how they integrate it.

Most approaches are typical and not thought through, but AI can help a lot (e.g. fast search, retrieval, classification, progressive discovery, summarising on demand, vision processing, data analysis, etc.)

Will be publishing my own site very soon with some of this integrated. It’s not easy but it’s powerful if thought through. 😊

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

This was so fun to watch @Iruhdam24 build, as the first thing after @claudeai design launched. Well deserved feature! 🎉🥳

[Claude @claudeai]

https://t.co/GDVeHTujS4

[Arjun @arjunphlox]

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FTE is one of those things that never appealed to me, especially after years of working with companies big and small and the way most operate.

Life is too dynamic and opportunities too broad, to be stuck doing one thing (or even few things) in one place.

I just have a list of teams I’d love to jam with anytime, on short and long term projects. Rest is upto the referrals, needs and affordability of companies.

[charlota @0xCharlota]

the idea of switching to a full-time job right now is genuinely wild to me. you want me to give up diversified portfolio of clients, flexible hours, working from anywhere — to put all my eggs in one basket that can fire me via email?

for what.

full-time job = stability is the most outdated take of the decade. one employer is single point of failure.