Meher

Fractional Head of design ~ helping companies find their brand, product, & design through line ✦ Barcelona / NYC / Dubai ✦ Prev. @myrileyapp @etsy @healthcare

[Meher @mehermakes]

In Dubai, someone will drive you to the airport at 3AM without hesitation. In New York, we schedule connections between meetings. After 13 years straddling these worlds, I wrote about the cost of convenience and why community requires inconvenience: https://t.co/elHwUD9G1p

[Meher @mehermakes]

Life update: In my 5th wk of funemployment/creative sabbatical, I've discovered pattern hunting in BCN, building at the intersection of whimsy + niche use-cases, @claudeai co-work & I are well acquainted, & I'm painting again! Got suggestions on what else I can try? drop em below

[Meher @mehermakes]

@joshpuckett Just spent a soldi 10m playing around the drawing tool, love the whimsy and inspo. Reminds me a little of Happy Medium NYCs draw tool on their website and how they save all the sketches hehe

[Meher @mehermakes]

@joshpuckett @juligroshaus Love seeing this happen in Barcelona, been missing this energy ever since moving from here 6m ago from New York! See you there :)

[Tom Warren @tomwarren]

Anthropic just took a big swipe at OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT. Anthropic is airing ads mocking ChatGPT ads during the Super Bowl, and they're hilarious 😅 Anthropic is also committing to no ads in Claude https://t.co/LR1v4xz9ds

[Meher @mehermakes]

@tatsvc Do ya’ll ever miss 😮‍💨

[James McDonald @jamesm]

When you toggle the lights, the entire page dims to create a more immersive sense of the lighting

Such a great design detail 💡

[Meher @mehermakes]

Life update:

After 13+ years in New York, I moved to Barcelona. “Starting over” in your 30s can feel so daunting but here I am, excited (a little nervous!) and mostly grateful. If you or someone you know lives here, say hi 👋🏽

[Meher @mehermakes]

Design Twitter 🗣️ we launched @MyRileyApp brand refresh, as a founding designer—SO MUCH thought and heart goes into a brand refresh and launch. It would mean a lot to me you could upvote us on Product Hunt (and peep the new brand 😉)

https://t.co/1oMgAx2qfP

[Amanda Dillon DeLuca @amandacdillon]

Honestly this is my biggest problem with the one-size-fits-all approach to parenting advice: it's too generic, and ignores where YOUR child actually is developmentally. Not just their age, but their context, temperament, and family dynamics. 🧵

[Meher @mehermakes]

Worst customer service experience of 2025 is easily @DoorDash 😩 my dashpass hasn’t been applied to my last 15 orders with no meaningful response to fix the issue from @DoorDash_Help it seems like anyone I speak to doesn’t know what to do and hand it off to someone else who is equally unable to fix the issue. Is it time to delete my account? 🫠

[Meher @mehermakes]

Your gentle reminder that there is a very inspiring, beautiful, tangible world outside your 4 walls and AI-side quest. TL;DR: go touch some grass 💚

[Meher @mehermakes]

Inspired by these hand painted signage and murals in lake Atitlan, Guatemala 📌

[Meher @mehermakes]

Some of my favorites ❤️

[Meher @mehermakes]

These new @Airbnb icons have been such a wave of design-joy this week, almost feels like a manifesto for design in the AI-design era. In a world where we've been committed to flat design post-skeuomorphism (thanks for leading the way, @Apple!)

What's emerging out of this Airbnb summer release looks a lot like the expressive and bold design of all the Memphis Group work that came after Modernism.

In a world where you can prompt an LLM to design something pretty-decent-sometimes-even-beautiful-but-definitely-not-UX-approved-(yet), these new icons raise the bar and remind us that a designer's intuition still matters.

Functional is not enough, following a UX pattern and calling it innovative is not enough, a heavy dose of spirited-alive (because I'm tired of using "delightful") to make you FEEL something (my favorite "F" word along with form and function 😉)

At @MyRileyApp we're closing out on a really fun, alive, expressive brand-update and part of our philosophy has been "thoughtful details aren't frivolous add-ons—they're the heartbeat that makes everyday experiences sing" so of course, I had to play around with our icons in @ChatGPTapp to see what they would look like with different kind of details inspired by Airbnb. I fear this might be addictive! ✨

[Meher @mehermakes]

@davorfyi @Airbnb @Apple I don’t think the style is gonna fade out! A lot of new beautiful web-work is made better with hyper-realistic-detailed design. I’m excited to see how it keeps evolving!

[Meher @mehermakes]

@dipalua_ Did you mean get really good at your craft (with AI)

[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

Today is a great day to be an early career designer ☀️

h/t @davidhoang

[Meher @mehermakes]

Currently reading faerie romantasy just to diversify the literature mix on this flight 🫡

[Meher @mehermakes]

@miggi legit never get tired of hearing you present, such a presence. #config2025