Sajal Kumar

Interaction Designer @medianetads • UX, systems & flows • IIT Patna ’23

[Sajal Kumar @deanimatedmonk]

Made this plant persona (I call him Tiny) using @rive_app 's data binding, GPT and some hardware (ESP32 and a few sensors like touch, mositure, hum, light, temp).

Most of the logic is on my client side rn. But will try and see how far I can take the logic part with scripting (They keep on building so fast!)

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Remix: https://t.co/Z93j3jKvZT

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Had created this community loved fluid battery component in @rive_app a while ago.

Would be interesting to see what I can spin up with Rive's new GPU support for shaders.

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Added audio feedback to ZIP downloads.

Sweating the details as a designer and pushing them to prod hits different.

No PM, Engineer salad bowl 😝

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Try it out here: https://t.co/OSQLkdhRcb

Github: https://t.co/LVqd46EPog

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SVGs were never meant to carry this much emotional baggage.

Built Slim over the weekend. A tool that automatically optimizes SVGs, detects vector crimes (looking at you, 10,000-point paths 👀), and recommends WebP when an asset simply refuses to slim down.

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A smoll fun little interaction I made for my 2 y/o niece 🐈🔦
Just a curious cat, a torch, and fingers trying to find it in the dark.

Made using @rive_app

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@vareshmukhekar @rive_app The subtle blur is always the iceing.

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A small skeuomorphic metallic dial exploration 🔉

Missed tactile interfaces a little, so built this volume interaction experiment with a gyroscope mode for added physicality.

Made with @rive_app btw.

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@AshleyBest @rive_app Any playground repo for this?
Because I was trying this with rive but constantly hitting a wall because my rive canvas only resizes in x n y...which looks like big box in between the text blocks.

Or is it that the whole things is a rive canvas, even the text? Curious.

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Built a sci-fi Mjolnir suit helmet HMI for @rive_app's HMI challenge inspired by playing Halo as a kid.

Iconic in-helmet HUD feel powered by data binding + scripting.

#vehiclehmiwithrive

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Just clone it and you're good to go.
https://t.co/jTyTM5g1H9

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Built an IDE layer on top of @svorklab 's figma-cli and called it Mahoraga.

Basically you just chat with Cursor about your Figma file and it does the boring stuff for you, creating components, managing variables, saving frames to memory and dropping them back whenever you want.

Read, write, automate, whatever.

No MCP setup. It's CDP-based so way less context window and tokens burned than the MCP approaches floating around.

Added Cursor support because terminal still scares many of us lol. The CLI underneath is @svorklab's beast. I just made it friendlier and threw in some extras.

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Ask it to create anything and dump into your canvas

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@pkmfaris Hey Faris, this is wonderful 🌸
Is the project open source? I’d love to contribute.

If not, I put together this small interactive tabebuia tree component you might be able to reuse:
https://t.co/TwiMbEjMk9

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Hey designers…

Hope you’re not detaching instances in @figma lately.

Because now every time you do…
you’ll hear FAAAHHH.

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Proof of concept made using @rive_app

The idea actually came from a post I saw on X earlier, but I can’t seem to find it again in the feed to credit the original author.

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I saw someone on X say the bland letter avatars we see everywhere are boring.
Contact apps, mail apps… generated with regex + hashing. Makes sense though. Profile pictures aren’t part of IMAP/POP, so apps fall back to these.

Feels like there’s room to make them more fun.

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@AshleyBest @rive_app Good idea Ash.

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New to @rive_app's Android runtime.

There’s something timeless about skeuomorphic interactions.

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Remix here: https://t.co/IQKnV3THxE