Swetank Gawde

Head of Design at winjit

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

AI isn’t just changing how we design. It’s changing what we design, from screens people operate to systems they steer, supervise and verify.

In my H1 report, UX + AI in 2026, I explore what this shift means for design leaders.
https://t.co/rAp7vFkQ2J

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

@thsottiaux 1. Canvas/Claude Design alternative with complete product design capabilities, from ideation to prototyping.
2. Native motion design like Claude Motion, beyond Rive/Lottie MCPs.
3. Spaces as interactive whiteboards, allowing multiple threads to run directly within them.

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

We’re getting together again on 5 December!

A look back at OTG Service Design and the people who made it special. Join us for OTG Design Workshop in Nashik.

https://t.co/dm0m9McPAB

#OTGNashik #ServiceDesign #DesignWorkshop

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

@WillowVoiceAI voicemaxxing

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

Happy Diwali! ✨ May this festival of lights brighten your year ahead with endless joy.

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

@thsottiaux Yes

[DANN© @DannPetty]

Every product is starting to look the same again.

Same font, same rounded corners, same colors, same prompt box, same side bar.

Good design taste and branding critical.

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

A design decision can feel pretty solid until someone asks you to explain it.

Talking it through often brings out the assumptions you didn’t realise you were making.

That’s one of the things we’re looking forward to at our next OTG workshop.

We want to make room to try ideas, discuss the trade-offs and reconsider a decision when someone offers a useful perspective.

Bring your thinking to OTG Design Workshop on 5 December.

Join us: https://t.co/GqQBXOOQIN

#OTGNashik #UXDesign #ProductDesign #DesignWorkshop #DesignCommunity #CollaborativeDesign #Nashik

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

@OpenAI This is really cooked well !

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Let’s get together and work through a messy design problem.

OTG Design Workshop
5 December 2026 · Nashik

A hands-on gathering for UX & product designers to explore complex workflows and share perspectives.

Join us: https://t.co/dm0m9McPAB

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

@rom1trs OS

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

@gavinelliott Token naming is no longer just documentation, it’s part of the interface between human intent and agent execution.

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

UX is becoming agentic.

The next UX shift is about coordinating people, agents, tools, and permissions. https://t.co/derh5ZG3xS

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

@jilyannori That’s exactly the challenge, orchestration only works when all that complexity feels simple to the person using it.

[Muzli @usemuzli]

Nokia believed the future was smaller hardware.
Apple knew the future was a better experience.

We all know how that ended.

Right now, a similar paradigm shift is happening in UI design.

Look at the history of our tools:
• Sketch beat Adobe by stripping away the bloat and making interface design simple.
• @figma beat Sketch by making it collaborative, accessible, and cloud-based.

For a decade, every major shift lowered the barrier to entry.

But lately, something changed.

To serve advanced workflows, Figma had to grow. Today, it’s more powerful than ever, but that power came with a cost. The interface is crowded, the learning curve is steep, and the barrier to entry is rising.

Meanwhile, AI is running in the exact opposite direction.
It takes a single prompt to go from an idea to a fully functioning component.

Which begs the question:
Will the next generation of builders choose the most powerful tool, or the one that gets them results with the least amount of friction?

Figma clearly sees the writing on the wall. Their latest AI features aren't just "add-ons", they are an attempt to hide enterprise-level complexity behind natural language.

Maybe the future of software isn't about making tools simpler.
Maybe it's about making the interface invisible.

What’s your take?

[Stitch by Google @stitchbygoogle]

Here is a quick walkthrough of everything new in Stitch:

🌊 Streaming: Stitch now streams its work straight to the canvas. You can see Stitch working and start steering before the final product is done!

📄 Existing Designs: Stitch can help you start with your design by creating a DESIGN.md from your codebase, .fig files, or a live website

⏩ In-place AI Edits: Stitch can quickly edit specific parts of your screens just by asking or pointing and clicking

🎥 Motion & HTML canvas: Javascript, shaders and more now render natively on an HTML canvas so you can immediately see animation, hover states and effects

🚀 Portability and Integrations: We've added a big list of import and export additions to fit right into your workflow, including import your .fig files and one-click export to Netlify, Loveable and Bolt

🌟 Bonus: New skills to IMPORT your screens directly into Stitch via MCP and sync changes back to your codebase

Walkthrough video👇 Details for each improvement in 🧵

[Swetank Gawde @theswetank]

I just published The art of storytelling in product management https://t.co/9lOw3NcbMG

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“Data-driven vs. Intuition-driven decisions: finding the right balance” by Swetank Gawde 🇮🇳 https://t.co/N7JRvcrphw

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“Strategy isn’t the enemy of creativity. It’s the framework that ensures your ideas don’t just look good but actually work.” — @theswetank https://t.co/RymyJT2sqN

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Empathetic insights: the power of comics in CJM by Alexandra Basova https://t.co/Nx2PHfRtpr