Dulanjali Madhushani

from ESL Teacher to Product Designer | Improve lives via #design and #UX | 🇱🇰 lived in 🇸🇬 | living in 🇺🇸| Follow me if you want UX/UI tips 👩‍💻

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

Have you ever taken a career transition? Here’s my story going from an ESL teacher to a UX/UI designer.
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Well, it starts from my childhood. Whenever someone asked what my ambition is, I literally had no idea to answer it. (1/10)

[DANN© @DannPetty]

Happy back to work day.

2026 is the year of the designer.

In the rise of AI, design (designers) are the difference they need to stand out.

And don’t you forget it! Go get ‘em!

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

Couldn’t help reposting after reading the replies of this post 😂 @duolingo always best at marketing

[Duolingo @duolingo]

UPDATE: Reward for whoever can identify the driver. Please post any leads on Twitter.

Thank you for your patience with us during these trying times. #Ripduo

[DANN© @DannPetty]

18 Portfolio Reviews in 45 Minutes—All While Walking at My Desk!

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

AI is everywhere from UX workflows, and generating UI components to automating usability testing. Where does it truly add value when comes to ux design? What AI tools or workflows have actually improved your process? How are you adapting to AI? #UXDesign #AI #DesignWorkflow

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

Running a UX discovery workshop? What’s your go-to activity to align teams and uncover insights fast? I love using ‘How Might We’ to reframe problems and spark creative solutions. What’s your favorite?
#UXDesign #DiscoveryWorkshops #DesignThinking

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

@DannPetty That’s gorgeous!! 😍

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

curious to know what's popular in the design community...

#UX #design

[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

If you're a designer... what tool are you most excited about right now?

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

Good UX isn’t just about making things look nice-it’s about reducing friction, guiding users seamlessly, and designing with real-world constraints in mind. A beautiful interface means nothing if it doesn’t work for the people using it.

#UXDesign #UIDesign #UserExperience

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

What’s one UX mistake you keep seeing that instantly makes you cringe? One that happened to me just now is, forms that clear all inputs when there’s an error.🤦‍♂️ What’s yours? #UXDesign #UIDesign #UserExperience

[Charles Patterson @CharlesPattson]

> get really good at design
> build an audience
> build a network
> message your favourite designers
> collaborate
> share
> share
> share
> succeed

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

Adding a bg color to the logo section? Would love to hear how others solve this while keeping branding intact!

#UXDesign #UIDesign #DarkMode

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

Designing a white-label app with dark mode comes with an interesting challenge—customer logos. With so many brands, some have black logos that disappear, others have colors that don’t adapt well. Inverting colors? Outlines? Drop shadows? Asking for two compatible logos? (1/2)

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

@FonsMans So what’s the process, what tools you use when you collaborate with engineers? Does that mean you share the built prototype with them? Just curious

[DANN© @DannPetty]

Designers today be like:
New dashboard for SAAS client. 🤝

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

In one word, empathy…

[Leaders 𝕏 Junction @LeadersJunction]

This advice will completely change the way you look at things‼️

[Nick Babich @101babich]

💎 UI Stack

Quick reminder about the UI states you need to consider when building a product.

Loading state (app is loading data)
Partial state (page is sparsely populated)
Error state (something went wrong)
Empty state (no data)
Ideal state (app provides max value)

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[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

Senior/mid level ux designers out there,
if your company sponsors, any good courses/workshops/ideas to take as a mid/senior ux ui designer for professional development?

#ux #design #uxdesign #designfam

[Dan Mall @danmall]

As I was interviewing candidates for my “designer who can ship” position, I asked a few how they picked typefaces. One person’s answer stood out above the rest. They shared their screen to show me a folder of inspiration on their hard drive. Dear reader: the folders structure was immaculate. In that moment, I immediately realized I was talking to a professional.

What is it about a clean workspace that signals expertise?

Let’s look to another industry that values cleanliness in a workspace: food service. Renowned chef Thomas Keller describes the value of mise en place:

“Being organized is a skill to develop… Good organization is all about setting yourself up to succeed. It means getting rid of anything that would interfere with the process of making a recipe or preparing an entire meal.”

Here’s the system I use to organize the files on my computer:

In general, the way I think about my work is that everything is a project. Every year, I do multiple projects. So, the organizing principle is that every year gets a folder, and every project is a folder inside that year.

Every project has this specific structure:

Assets: already-created files that I use in the course of the work. I start with fonts, logos, and photos. I might also have music for podcast projects, stock footage for video projects, brand guidelines, access documents, and more. If I’m working with clients, the initial goodie bag of files they send me is usually the stuff that goes in here.

Editable Files: Any layered files that might need editing, organized by file type/file extension. Basically any files that I’m actively working on and/or iterating over. This folder has gotten smaller over time for me as more source files move to the cloud and autosave. Even so, for some projects, I’ll save aliases to cloud files to their respective folder because I’m working in them so often.

Review & Delivery: Probably my favorite part of this structure. Editable files are great but they’re not always the best way to share something with someone. The best way is usually a rendered and/or export flat file, something like PNGs, PDFs, MP4s, etc. When designers export comps, they often send them to the Desktop or Documents in a way that tends to clutter those spaces. My first favorite thing about the Review folder is that it give you a place to put those exports. My second favorite things about the Review folder is that you can quickly browse the entire project in chronological order by navigating through the Review folder and using Quick Look. This is much easier than looking through source files to find something you might be looking for. Delivery is like the Review, except specific to more “final” things. When I’m working with clients, the Delivery folder is only the stuff I’ve delivered to them, whereas Review is for things I want to review internally with my team before the client sees it. It’s common for me to copy some things from Review to Delivery, and I like the redundancy of having it in both places.

The filename format goes {{ FILE CONCEPT }} {{ VERSION NUMBER }} {{ INITIALS OF LAST PERSON TO WORK ON IT }}. It’s a helpful version of a pseudo file check-in/check-out system, especially if you’re working simultaneously with multiple people using a shared drive.

Here’s the entire file and folder structure at a glance.

Could you see yourself using this? What kinds of file folder organization have you found useful?

[Dan Mall @danmall]

Now hiring:

A designer who can ship.

Wanna work for and with me?

The details:

[Dulanjali Madhushani @duladesign]

a great collection! Thanks @101babich for sharing this repository! <3

[Nick Babich @101babich]

💎 UX Strategy Kit for Figma

Repository with 50+ UX methods, templates, and activities for product ideation, mapping, and concept testing sessions.

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