aditi

😘design / @Salesforce @AliveCor, @Walmartlabs, @Mailchimp. Alum @BUArts & @beondeck fellow

[aditi @ditiatwork]

It took me a few years to realise this. We need stop idolising people especially in design and tech.

[Raghav Agrawal @impactology]

@round You know what tho? Diverse people kill their voices trying to emulate you guys, what they consider as "canon", what they assume to be "legitimate" in the industry. It's the reason why brown folks from india idolize ideo, frog and silicon valley type practices.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

I really think there’s a correlation between survival mode & not decorating your home.

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@johnbai congrats dude ! 🚀

[rishi @RishiAlwani]

hey india isn't just an outsourcing hub, we outsource too

case in point: our journalism to norway

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@manosaie ai slop 😭😭

[Lauren Sherman @lapresmidi]

SCOOP: Everlane sold to Shein for $100 million https://t.co/t20DvYqvcr @PuckNews

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@banglani reasonable.

[Kris Puckett @krispuckett]

I spent too much time on this:

CLARK: My contention is that with Claude’s new design tool, Figma has essentially been rendered obsolete, the canvas-based paradigm is most aptly characterized as a legacy artifact from the era before models could generate production-ready interfaces from inten—
WILL: [interrupting] Of course that’s your contention. You’ve never shipped anything and just watched the launch video twice. You just got finished reading some hot take, probably a Twitter thread or whoever’s got a Substack this week, and you’re gonna be convinced Figma’s dead until next month when you actually try to iterate on a flow and realize “regenerate” isn’t the same as “nudge this four pixels.” Then you’re gonna pivot to talking about how the canvas was always just a lossy interface for intent. That’s gonna last until next year when you’re in here regurgitating some take about how design tools are collapsing into a single agentic surface, you know, the post-craft utopia and the disintermediation of taste by foundation models.

CLARK: [taken aback] Well as a matter of fact I won’t, because generative design drastically reduces the need for a manual canvas in the first pla—

WILL: “Generative design drastically reduces the need for a manual canvas, especially as models get better at reasoning about layout and hierarchy…” You got that from that Figma-is-dead thread, right? The one that went viral last week. Yeah, I read it too. You gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us, or you have any thoughts — of your own — on this? Or is that your thing, you come into a bar, you skim some trending tweets over lunch and you pawn it off as your own idea to impress some founders, embarrass my friend?

[Clark is stunned]
WILL: See, the sad thing about a guy like you is in about fifty product cycles you’re gonna start doing some thinking on your own and you’re gonna come up with the fact that there are two certainties in building things. One: don’t pick a side in a tool war you’re not actually building in. And two: the people shipping right now are using Claude and Figma and Claude Code before you’ve finished writing your LinkedIn post about which one won.

CLARK: Yeah, well I’ll have Claude build my whole product stack, and you’ll still be pushing rectangles around in Figma.

WILL: [smiles] Yeah, maybe. But at least I’ll still know how to think when the model’s wrong.

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@phalgooon @arnkamath imo designers were never really needed in founding team. design is only a differentiator at scale. not at 0 to 1.

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@ruhinchatterjee lmaoo😅

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@nihalusmani not urdu specifically but i’ve learned french from your youtube videos 🙏🏼

[aditi @ditiatwork]

🤣🤣 imagine rooting for centuries of stealing resources and oppressing people, only to have the audacity to boast about tea and trains. the only thing british rule over india gave us was a masterclass in how not to run a country

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@thedesignobsess @adyasha @kamini_300 @jwbabwy @Jayanth1V beautiful work. congratulations to the team

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@shilpiagrawal55 i can help -- pls dm me!

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@iamharaldur @uenodotco Uenoland was the best conference ever!

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@AakashAtha which was the most walkable stretch ?

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@MohapatraHemant airtable lmao

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@Joylita i did this a lot while studying ! lots of different learnings experiences till i found something i loved

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@Joylita @urbancompany_UC try this ! i had a good experience https://t.co/hoovzf0JYT

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@JosephSprint @pacificleo + im not blaming british (on the country) for the problems. The monarchy is to be blamed -- which thrived by exploiting others, and its legacy is systemic inequality, poverty, and displacement. Defending that is not only ignorant—it’s callous to the suffering of millions

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@JosephSprint @pacificleo Ahh yes, bring up a practice, abolished long before British rule, while ignoring how the they caused the Bengal Famine, botched the Partition, and drained wealth from India and other Commonwealth countries, leaving systemic poverty and chaos in their wake. need history lessons?

[aditi @ditiatwork]

@pacificleo both ignorance and arrogance about colonialism in 2024 is astonishing. and frankly inexcusable