I designed a furniture e-commerce site as a practice project. The brand idea: furniture that ages with you, not with trends. 🧵
1/ The palette - cream and warm neutrals, not white. White feels sterile. This brand needed to feel like Sunday morning.
Dear child,
You don't owe the world anything.
Not to your parents, not to society, nor yourself
You don't owe anything to your old self
To the old posters on your teenage walls. Or the dreams you confided in your diary
You don't have to prove anything to anyone, including yourself.
Don't live under the burden of talent, potential, dreams, promises.
Don't live under the burden of making someone proud.
The only thing you owe to yourself and others is to play your chosen game with complete honesty and dedication.
Play it tirelessly.
Play it to the best of your ability.
Play it honestly.
Ditch the burdens.
Be free and play your game honestly.
Nothing less.
Nothing more.
@charmiekapoor This honestly would’ve helped someone like me a lot while starting out.
Many talented designers don’t lack skill, they lack access good mentors, AI tools, portfolio feedback, decent tech, guidance for finding good design jobs, and learning real industry-level design skills.
Wanna know the best way to get hired in 2026? Here's how I'd go about things if I was looking.
1 - HAVE AN ONLINE PRESENCE
To the complete surprise of absolutely nobody — an online presence is the single greatest thing that you can have under your own belt. Resumes are usually a page or two long, and not nearly good enough to encapsulate your ability.
You wanna know what doesn't have a page limit tho? Your internet presence.
Write as much as you can, make videos as much as you can, talk about you and your work as much as you can, show people what you are about instead of simply putting it all on a single sheet of paper.
2 - HAVE A PERSONALITY ABOUT YOURSELF
The world is increasingly moving towards hiring those with taste, IN ADDITION to their technical competence. Being good enough is not the move anymore, you have to stylistically justify your moves.
Although I could be wrong with my reasoning, one thing is clear to me - people with good taste have a leg-up on all others in the race.
3 - GET YOUR RESUMES IN FRONT OF HUMANS. BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.
The career page on that company's website is probably going to reject your resume before any human takes a look at the work of art you spent 20 hours putting together.
So, a better shot is cold DMs, e-mailing the HR, or better yet, a team lead at the company that you wish to work for. Convince the team lead that you are the man for the job, and that's half the damn battle won.
4 - MEETUPS ARE UNIRONICALLY THE BEST WAY
I can say this from my own experience — a well thought out question at a panel meetup can get you hired faster than anything else that you can do.
Meetups will get your foot through the door of the interview room quicker than anything else.
The occasion is semi-formal, people have their guards half-down in the first place, so a well directed shot has the highest chances of hitting.
5 - UNDENIABLE PROOF OF YOUR COMPETENCE + MARKETING YOUR OWN ABILITY IS WHAT GETS YOU THE WIN.
A video demo of your project, a git repo of your work, a blog post of your efforts, a research paper that's been published in a highly regarded journal, and things of that nature, coupled with you marketing the hell out of your own skillset of solving problems that make people and corporations a whole lot of money, is the only sureshot way of getting hired in big 2026.
REGARDLESS of what field you belong to, these 5 should hold true regardless.
Comment your thoughts down below.