Mayank Barolia

Father. Learning life lessons from movies. Working on improving the next 30 years of my life with each day. Design Head @SparklinHQ

[Asit @asitkhanda]

Amazing Sunday with @SparklinGuy discussing the world and @WeAreMakior!

@ganeshshenoys @whizabz @muskiu20

[Rohit Rajan @r_rajan4ever]

Hey @rapidobikeapp, explain this:

1. Booked an auto, A to B. Driver wants to pack in other passengers because “you’re alone.” Refuse? He tells me to cancel.

2. The vehicle number in the app rarely matches the one that actually shows up.

So I can’t verify the vehicle AND I might be sharing with strangers I never agreed to. What exactly am I paying for, and where’s the safety?

[Himanshu who's building systems for creative work @SparklinGuy]

While others are cooking,

we're excitedly playing

with

@WeAreMakior

🤗

[Himanshu who's building systems for creative work @SparklinGuy]

Everyone feels design is dead.
And I have never seen as many people coming up to @SparklinHQ with a ready prototype of what they want "designed".

Some of my colleagues are too cheeky at Sparklin. Coz they end up asking why we are needed if you have it ready.

That's where the story begins.
On how this is not what they wanted to make.
Or what it actually needs to behave like.
And where this could improve 100x.

Is AI helping?
ABSOLUTELY.

It's making people think. And then realise their personal limitations. But overall, it's expanding the envelope 🔥

[Sparklin @SparklinHQ]

Not just user data.
Environmental data too.

[Himanshu who's building systems for creative work @SparklinGuy]

Early reactions are bangers.

Hard part is knowing if this is progress…
or just a really well-shaped local maxima.

5 users onboarded @WeAreMakior ✨

[Zain Shah @zan2434]

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.

@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

[Himanshu who's building systems for creative work @SparklinGuy]

started building this after years of losing references across tools

drag anything in and it organises itself. tags, descriptions, colours

saving should help you think, not just store

early version. more to come
p.s. no tokens were harmed in making this demo

[Sparklin @SparklinHQ]

From Apple to Coca-Cola, different brands use different logo types for a reason.

This makes it easier to understand why →

Link for the full breakdown in 🧵👇

[Sparklin @SparklinHQ]

Photography is shifting
from capturing what you see
to shaping what you remember.

[Sparklin @SparklinHQ]

Depression was supposed to be solved in 1987 with the launch of a revolutionary drug.

Prozac launched.
Newsweek ran a cover story.
Millions of prescriptions flooded pharmacies.

And yet, 37 years later, depression rates have more than doubled.

[Sparklin @SparklinHQ]

Awareness is a superpower.
Most people just don’t track it, by design.

[Sparklin @SparklinHQ]

This one’s a bit special ✨
We made it to the national TV

[Mayank Barolia @mayankbarolia]

I didn’t realize how much creative work I was losing every day.

Pinterest boards, saved posts, Twitter, Instagram, random links, everything lived somewhere different, and I was lost.
And when I actually needed something, I could never find it again.

Lately I’ve been trying something new.
Instead of just collecting references, I’ve been organizing them in a way that keeps the context intact, why I saved something, what stood out, how it connects to other ideas.

It changes everything.
For the first time, my references actually feel usable.

Curious how others manage this?

[Mohit Vainsh ✨ @vainsh]

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)

[Sparklin @SparklinHQ]

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.

[Paramount+ Australia @ParamountPlusAU]

MANISHA KALYAN WOW 🤯

A thunderous free kick clips the underside of the bar and bounces over the line. One of the goals of the tournament.

Watch every match from the #WAC2026 live and exclusive on Paramount+ 📺 #INDvTPE

[Astha @AsthaRattan]

"Even careful notes rarely capture where the work was heading, which options had already been ruled out, or why one direction felt more promising than another."

I think a lot of people feel frustrated by the rhythm of their productivity, unable to ever put a finger on it. Learning to just "live with it." But maybe we shouldn't? Maybe there's something to understanding the rhythms, of yourself and your work?

I've obsessed over this stuff for years now because it matters SO much, and when @SparklinGuy shared it, the examination had me floored. Great read, reminded me of the treatment that Shane Parish gives to his blogs.

https://t.co/dZV4yik646

[Sparklin @SparklinHQ]

Close your eyes and think of a lion roaring.

There’s a good chance you just heard Leo, MGM’s lion since 1957.

How did a 3-second roar, nearly 70 years old, become a sound we still recognise instantly?

[Mohit Vainsh ✨ @vainsh]

Work is the intentional
expenditure of energy
to produce change
that has value.