Sanketh

Senior Product Designer @SigFigInsider. Who loves colors, fonts, fitness, and chocolates. Basically, I'm a walking contradiction.

[Sanketh @sankethhh]

Had developed a reading habit in 2020. Sharing my top highlights from the ones that I've read. So far, it's mostly Non-Fiction/Design/Productivity books.

Here's the first one..
https://t.co/jJ2kHzVBcG

[Sanketh @sankethhh]

📖 Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

This book has changed how I look at situations in my life. A must read for everyone looking to grow in any aspect of life.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - 5/5

A thread with my top highlights 🧵

[Emil Kowalski @emilkowalski]

The people getting great UI results with AI aren’t using a secret model or a magic prompt. They know what a great interface looks like, and they know how to steer AI towards it.

Work that used to take a week takes a day, and the quality bar doesn’t drop, it goes up, because you spend your time on the things that matter.

At the end of the day, people that use AI best are the ones that were excellent before LLMs as well. The ones that got the fundamentals right, went that extra mile, and cared about the thing they were working on.

[Min Choi @minchoi]

This is wild.

Vibe coding with AI just completely changed the game.

People can't stop creating games with Grok, Windsurf, Cursor & Claude 3.7 Sonnet.

10 wild examples:

1. Fortnite meets Minecraft on Three.js 🤯

[DANN© @DannPetty]

There’s a designer out there right now refusing to learn AI—don’t let that be you.

[Josh Miller @joshm]

I hope Apple inspires us today. That's all. Make us dream!

Apple is best in the World at human interfaces. If anybody can surprise us with a fresh take on AI it's them.

If not, today will mark the start of one of the most exciting periods of change in our industry. Big day!

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Who’s building cool AI applications in India.

Comment below with some brief description. (Serious replies only)

[Aleks @aleksliving]

My designs in figma vs my designs in production

[Sanketh @sankethhh]

🤯🤯

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

David Beckham claims this viral video from 2007 was real

[Min Choi @minchoi]

Apple Vision Pro day has arrived Today! Minds will be blown. 🤯

Whooping 600 apps are already available specifically for Vision Pro!

And people have already come up with some insane apps, concepts and use cases.

10 incredible examples:

[DANN© @DannPetty]

The shortcut to a successful design career does not exist.

"I can't put in years of work to get better at design. How can I do it now?"

You can't. This shortcut doesn't exist.

Putting in the time is how you get better which leads to better work. There are no shortcut to it. It's repetition. It's practicing over and over again for a long period of time.

It's designing even when you don't have clients. It's trying to design something without someone asking you to. It's designing even when you're not getting paid.

You need all that plus some luck.

I often tell the story about how my first client out of design school, literally as soon as I graduated, was redesigning The North Face's website with an agency called Fluid.

On paper, it looked like I got lucky.

An overnight success. A shortcut taker.

Day 1 out of school you land a huge project? Impossible. You had to know someone? You cheated. You just got lucky.

You're right, I did get lucky.

But I put in years of work prior to that to increase my odds of becoming lucky.

You see, what people don't understand or even try to consider is that on top of all that luck, I spent over 5 years prior to that already designing things everyday, pushing myself to get better.

I spent 4 of those years in college designing everyday for class. I also looked for freelance opportunities locally or with my teachers that I could help with for free or for a couple hundred bucks.

When teachers gave us design assignments, I did multiple concepts not just the 1 required. I was always pushing myself as far as I could. I paid attention to what my classmates were doing and always tried to one up them. (I'm very competitive which works to my advantage as well).

On top of that, I worked multiple jobs. When I wasn't in class, I worked at the mall till closing almost everyday. On days I was off work, I had side business detailing cars any chance I could.

I also lived an hour away from school. So, I drove 2 hours everyday. All that plus the everyday life of a college student—there were plenty of ways to make excuses and hunt for shortcuts.

I didn't know it at the time, but I was living the "secret." I was living this non-existent "shortcut."

The secret was always that there wasn't one.

There wasn't some magical course I could take.

The shortcut was more of a long journey of hard work.

You've got to make a strong effort. You've got to put in the time. You've got to increase your odds at luck. You've got to do these things to find your "shortcut."

My "shortcut" was landing big clients right out of school, but it took 5 years to do it (and some luck).

If you're just starting today in design or are only a few years in, please remember how long it took me to get going—5 years. I guarantee you most others have a similar story.

That shouldn't be discouraging. That should be exciting. Exciting because anything is possible if you put in the time and stop chasing shortcuts.

More excitingly, if you're already a few years in then it sounds like your time might be getting close!

And if you're just getting started remember the shortcut you're after doesn't exist.

What does exist is time—take advantage of it.

[Sanketh @sankethhh]

Lots of good ones in here

[Rahul Chakraborty @hckmstrrahul]

As per NomadList,
"Men who do 'UI/UX' are the most attractive"
😂

[Artiom Dashinsky @hvost]

Four ways to get more insightful design advice:

1. Early in your career, prioritise working with people you can learn from over salary, if possible.

2. Participate in design communities where people share personal experiences (and not just links to resources).

[Rahul Chakraborty @hckmstrrahul]

2024 will be all about Spatial apps

[Sanketh @sankethhh]

I'm on Sonoma and it just runs so much faster! That's all we want yeah?

[Sanketh @sankethhh]

Very recently, it took me 3 hrs 15 mins to reach the airport in this city. My flight duration was 1 hr. BUT the weather is good!! 😊

[Shantanu Goel @shantanugoel]

Bengaluru folks had to travel for 4-5 hours to get to Trevor Noah's show. But then couldn't hear anything because organisers dropped the ball big time, and Trevor finally canceled the show.
BUT the weather is good.

[Sanketh @sankethhh]

The point is this, though: people do things you wouldn’t expect for all kinds of reasons. It’s not just about “accessibility” and “people with disabilities”.
It’s high quality craftsmanship if your stuff just works™️. 🙌

- Hajime Yamasaki Vukelic

[Sanketh @sankethhh]

This is soo amaze! Can't wait to use it.

[Andreas Storm @avstorm]

Goodnotes 6 Introduction

[Charles Patterson @CharlesPattson]

"After looking over all 10 revisions, we're going to go with the first design"

[Sanketh @sankethhh]

🙌

[Ben Hammond | Webflow Certified Partner 👨‍🍳 @bybenhammond]

Value.

You can use an hourly/daily rate when building your scope to show the minimum you can deliver a project for, but ultimately you don't want to be selling time.

The ideal is to sell the value.

For example:

A client wants a new website. Their website is going to make them $75,000 of their revenue a year. Cool, you could charge 15% of that... $11,250.

Check that against your estimated time to complete, make sure it's profitable and boom, there's your quote 💸

Calculating an investment based on a return is better business; the goal should be creating a valuable and quantifiable return for your clients.