Just hit publish on my portfolio after many late nights and coffee ☕🎉
So excited to finally share it with you guys🚀
I'm looking for a UX/UI Design opportunity, so if you’re hiring or have feedback, I’d love to hear from you.
Check it out:
https://t.co/b7haw2OYzY
After advising 50+ consumer companies over the last year, the one thing that separates those who can execute and those who can't:
Having a full-time designer in the room at all times
I've met with countless companies that have raised millions—and even one that has raised billions—that do not even have a designer on payroll.
This makes product development broken:
1/ You simply cannot have constructive conversations about ideas without visualizing them in real-time
2/ Your experiments will frequently have inconclusive results because users cannot discover features or they misunderstand how they work
3/ There is no one who can galvanize the team with a vision of what the product could look and feel like
And to be abundantly clear: I'm not referring to visual UI or graphics. I'm talking about someone who can think through the fundamental building blocks of product comprehension—like navigation, interaction and copywriting—and is technically savvy enough to visualize those components in high resolution.
There can certainly be exceptions to not having a designer, like where the CEO is an exceptional visual thinker, but that does not scale beyond a small team.
At the end of day, products live and die in the pixels: it's what the users see and tap. And without someone shepherding that process, you are effectively wandering the desert blind.
So cool and beautiful🔥
H - Khorinsky District, Russia
I - Canandaigua Lake, New York
M - Potomac River
A - Lake Guakhmaz, Azerbaijan
N - Yapacani, Bolivia
S - Rio Chapare, Bolivia
H - Southwestern Kyrgyzstan
U - Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Things like this are why AI won't replace designers.
Every letter in the new Amazonia logo is a real bend of the Amazon river, traced from satellite imagery across different Brazilian states. The river literally spelled its own name and someone was paying enough attention to notice.
Think about what had to happen for this to exist.
Somebody spent hours staring at satellite maps of the Amazon, not looking for a logo, just looking. And at some point a curve of water stopped being a curve of water and became a letter. Then another one. Then the whole alphabet was hiding in plain sight inside the geography of a country.
No brief leads there. No prompt leads there. "Logo for the Amazon rainforest" gets you a leaf, a toucan, maybe a stylized tree. It does not get you "the river spells its own name, go trace it."
That's the part no prompt gets you to. AI optimizes inside a solution space. Designers decide what the solution space is in the first place.
Nintendo solved interaction design four decades ago with two buttons.
Most of the apps you use every day still haven't caught up.
That gap is not an accident.
AI is creating slop because the designs it learned from are slop to begin with.
Interaction design is still using primitive grammar. If you want your digital products to ascend to a higher level, improve the grammar.
Wrote an article on it. Let me know your thoughts. (Link at the end)
Introducing our biggest upgrade to @googlemaps since the original launch, featuring Ask Gemini (with personalization), Immersive Navigation, and much more!! 🗺️
Today’s idea came from a real habit:
I order the same few items from the same restaurant… and somehow I still juggle Swiggy and Zomato to order..😅
So the question was: can I order in seconds? & can I do it without sending users through multiple screens?
Not sure it covers every real-world edge case, but it’s a solid experiment.
I studied Dynamic Island motion from Pinterest + Apple inspiration, mapped it in Figma, prepped the assets… and this is the result.
Woah! What a start to the year 😍
Google’s Gemini team reposted a micro interaction
I built.
It's a good reminder that consistently sharing your work and staying curious does add up over time.
Grateful for the support. More experiments and ideas coming soon.🔥
@cerpow So cool and clean. No words to describe what I am feeling right now just by looking at this pill🔥
You should make a tutorial or show in a video how you achieve all these animations.
Such cool interactions and sparkling transitions genuinely took my ❤️
Kudos to @Shopify Design and Dev Team🔥
So inspiring✨
Try it yourself
https://t.co/Eu392SkVRP