Natasha

product design @polymarket

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

PolyMap, from concept to production

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

“taste” discourse reduces design to one (subjective) trait so anyone can convince themselves they can “have” it

beauty/function come from a million compounding, interconnected, micro-decisions. good design is not subjective. a dribbble screenshot /= a beloved product

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

+ Bruno Munari, ‘Design As Art’

[Sam Spike @samspike_]

Can’t be bothered to get meaningfully involved in the taste/new aesthetics/loss of beauty discourse so thought I’d put together a reading list that you can give to your agent to summarise:

• David Hume - ‘Of the Standard of Taste’ (1757)
• Edmund Burke - ‘On Taste’ (1759)
• Immanuel Kant - ‘Critique of Judgement’ (1790)
• GWF Hegel - ‘Lectures on Aesthetics’ (1835)
• John Ruskin - ‘The Lamp of Memory’ (1849)
• John Ruskin - ‘The Nature of Gothic’ (1853)
• Charles Baudelaire - ‘The Painter of Modern Life’ (1863)
• Friedrich Nietzsche - ‘On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life’ (1874)
• William Morris - ‘The Prospects of Architecture in Civilisation’ (1881)
• Filippo Marinetti - ‘The Futurist Manifesto’ (1909)
• Adolf Loos - ‘Ornament and Crime’ (1913)
• Le Corbusier - ‘Toward an Architecture’ (1923) *especially the chapters ‘The Engineer’s Aesthetic and Architecture’ & ‘Eyes Which Do Not See’*
• Walter Gropius - ‘The Theory and Organization of the Bauhaus’ (1923)
• Lewis Mumford - ‘Assimilation of the Machine’ in ‘Technics and Civilisation’ (1934)
• Walter Benjamin - ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ (1936) *particularly the final third*
• Clement Greenberg - ‘Avant-Garde and Kitsch’ (1939)
• Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer - ‘The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception’ (1944)
• Meyer Schapiro - ‘Style’ (1953)
• Martin Heidegger - ‘The Question Concerning Technology’ (1954)
• Reyner Banham - ‘The Machine Aesthetic’ (1955) *also the book ‘Theory and Design in the First Machine Age’ (1960) for broader history of early modernist architecture*
• Reyner Banham - ‘The New Brutalism’ (1955)
• Jane Jacobs - ‘The Death and Life of Great American Cities’ (1961) *haven’t personally read this but canon*
• George Kubler - ‘The Shape of Time’ (1962) *one of my favourites*
• Robert Venturi - ‘Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture’ (1966)
• E. H. Gombrich - ‘Style’ (1968)
• Manfredo Tafuri - ‘Architecture and Utopia’ (1973)
• Susan Sontag - ‘Fascinating Fascism’ (1975)
• Pierre Bourdieu - ‘Distinction’ (1979)
• Fredric Jameson - ‘Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’ (1984) *the essay not the book, especially parts on pastiche and nostalgia*
• Marc Auge - ‘Non-Places’ (1992)
• Umberto Eco - ‘Ur-Fascism’ (1995)
• Rem Koolhaas - ‘The Generic City’ (1995)
• Elaine Scarry - ‘On Beauty and Being Just’ (1999)
• Arthur Danto - ‘The Abuse of Beauty’ (2002)
• Rem Koolhaas - ‘Junkspace’ (2001)
• Svetlana Boym - ‘Nostalgia and Its Discontents’ (2007) *also her book ‘The Future of Nostalgia’ (2001)*
• Mark Fisher - ‘The Slow Cancellation of the Future’ (2014)
• Byung-Chul Han - ‘The Saving of Beauty’ (2015)

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

@aswincode 🔥

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

product designers are architects not decorators

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

@felixleezd @johnbai @bot @grok @ADPList 📢

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

@Polymarket polls could never do what PolyMap does

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

our 2026 Midterms Hub is here 🗳️ watch the odds on chamber control, seat counts, and every single race shift in real time with PolyMap

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

We're excited to announce our 2026 Midterms Hub.

Watch the odds shift before the polls on America's #1 most accurate election forecast.

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

behind the scenes making these halftone stickers for @polymarket midterms hub

designed a fun 5% left/right (🫏/🐘) tilt on hover. boop boop 🖱️

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

systems designers post-Duo ready to win the "systems slow us down" argument once and for all

[Alex Aperios @AlexAperios]

Does this mean we have a new breakpoint to bloody design and build for 🤣

[slopject @slopject]

iPhone Duo Performative Mode

[Juliette @shedsgns]

we don’t just design things anymore. we make them.

https://t.co/qw39zxkfei v1.0 is live.

me & @PhilHedayatnia have been collecting some of the coolest things designers actually shipped: tools, experiments, side projects, weird little ideas, real products.

all in one place now ~ go find something good and send us what we missed.

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

@samhayek_ @alex_barashkov 💯

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

@shedsgns 🎯 a good company will always have design at the top. design = vision, story, brand, e2e customer experience, basically anything and everything a user touches

too many companies see and hire designers (and often engineers too) as toolkits instead of drivers. completely backwards

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

@adrianinmotion Thanks Adrian! Those were a lot of fun to make

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

today, Fizz rebrands to Mine.

as the head of design, it's been an amazing journey to ideate, lead, and finally release to the world what we see as the future of finance.

here's how we did it 🧵

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

@LucaDaCorte @framer could not have asked for a more talented partner on this website @LucaDaCorte. Amazing amazing work.

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

Extremely proud of the team who brought this to life:

Mythology: Bridie, Sophie, Anthony, Kian, Bryson, Ruffin, Jess, Sid, Audrey
Outlanders: Tameem, Anja
Chris Ocana [launch video]
@LucaDaCorte [framer]

+ Mine (Srishti @srishtiespn Scott @imscottsmith Carlo @CarloWillem & co.)

[Natasha @natasha8pt]

& finally... the Mine Website:

Visual and written storytelling married in an interactive and intricate display of a brand we are so proud of.

Built in @framer

https://t.co/oXN2hzqwx6