Nikhil Varghese

Product Design @PhonePe | Prev @Obvious_in

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

Shopify nailed it with the Winter Edition page

[Sindhu Shivaprasad @sindhusprasad]

just launched something I’ve been leading for the past few months at PhonePe: The design team’s official website!

Quite proud of how this turned out—made me realise how much I love narrative design and working with a scrappy team ❤️

[Rahul Gonsalves @gonsalves_r]

I believe the phrase is: "In some personal news..."

tl;dr: Earlier this year, Obvious joined the @PhonePe group. We are very excited to join their design team and contribute to India's biggest payments company and it's 500M+ customers.

https://t.co/pyjM9BDmyU

[Obvious @obvious_in]

Simple ideas to fix Bangalore ✅
Learning from experts ✅
A weekend full of conversations ✅

Let's Hack Bangalore is done and dusted! Here's what went down at the hackathon:

[Obvious @obvious_in]

Everyone seeks inspiration. And founders, especially, want bucket loads. The Residency is for them. And it launches tomorrow.

[Dave Williames @DavidWilliames]

I think I've pushed @figma's new Variables and Advanced prototyping to its limit...

I present a fully working version of Flappy Bird!! 🔥

Featuring:
- Scoring + highscores
- Pseudo-randomised pipe placement
- Physics based movement
- Uses 46 variables

#Config2023

[Pause @Get_Pause]

1/ We conducted a burnout test from Oct 2021 to 2022. And guess what? Out of 306 participants, a whopping 2/3 of them were either burnt out or at risk of it 😮 Burnout is a serious issue that affects so many working professionals today. It's is more common than you think. 🧵

[Obvious @obvious_in]

Back in 2014, @SlackHQ's biggest challenge was explaining to potential users how it worked. And they found a solution in just two weeks. 🔥🔥🔥

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

One of those 'How come no one thought of this idea earlier?' moments! Take a bow, Cadbury 5-Star, and Ogilvy India - this is brilliant :)

As the famous dialog from Inception goes, "What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. 1/8

[Obvious @obvious_in]

Lorem ipsum doesn’t work right? Let’s try again. Here goes:

Words matter. The story you tell about your product, the words you use on your mobile app and what you say to your employees are important. 💬

[Obvious @obvious_in]

Imagine this. You’re a designer. You’re looking for a job and are considering a few organisations. You want to know more about the work they do, about the team you’ll be joining and what life will be like. Where do you go? 🤨🧵

[Obvious @obvious_in]

Applying for jobs and joining a new organisation can be nerve-wracking. There are many unknowns: What’s the organisation looking for? What’s the hiring process? And if I join, what will life be like? Here's what we did about it 🧵

[Nick Finck @nickf]

@uxperiencegal @tobi_amodu_ It actually changes for every single project. Every project is different and requires a different approach. You can learn general models like The Double Diamond, but all that does is teach you basically: understand, think, create, refine. 🤷‍♂️

[Nikhil Varghese @nikhilvarg]

@dipikajaikishan Well, then someone hates me🥲

[Mayank Dhawan⚡ @mayankd_]

How I explain(ed) Design Systems to people

A Thread 🧵👇

[rima kallingal @rimarajan]

Launched my first NFT project 'The Insurgent Bloom' and the bid is on.! 🎊🎊

This becomes the first NFT project by a Malayalam actor 🤍

My team : @the_bohomonk @francis_kurien and @LAMI_MUSIC

https://t.co/pfxouJVCoT

Kudos to @ThambiMelvin @ANadamel & team @NFTMalayali

[Nikhil Varghese @nikhilvarg]

@Godgeez @urbancompany_UC @inside_UC Amazing! ❤️

[Ridd 🤿 @ridd_design]

"Slot" components are one of the best ways to save time as a product designer

They can be tricky at first, but once you wrap your head around the right way to use them...

They become one of the most powerful tactics in @figmadesign👇

[Nikhil Varghese @nikhilvarg]

Great 👏 It's the little things that makes an impact.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

On the @zomato app, customers could always skip cutlery with their orders. We are now changing this from an ‘opt-out’ to an ‘opt-in’. Customers will now have to explicitly request for cutlery, tissues, and straws, if they need it.

[Ashish @Ash_uxi]

This Friday I noticed that @CRED_club design team hasn't documented their design system for designers. I took this as a challenge and read all the available code on Github and built this system.

I tried my best but this is v1, I'll keep updating this project as I learn more.

🔃