VJ

founding design partner + eng. I design 0 to 1.
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New portfolio is live.

I wanted to see if brutalist and sharp minimal could live on the same page.

Did it work, or should I pick a side?

https://t.co/daVtCmlmDO

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@arlanjewar my back and fingers were cooked lol

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Happy Diwali 🪔

it took me 10 hours to make this rangoli.

I might be a digital designer, but I do enjoy making handmade craft ;)

(scroll to see bts)

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@basit_designs https://t.co/bXAryoSjL8

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Every month tech Twitter discovers a new AI tool that will “replace designers forever.”

Last month it was Claude.
Then Cursor.
Then Opus 4.8.
Then Google Stitch

I’ve been “replaced” 14 times this year. And still have a demand in the market. Weird.

Here’s the part nobody posts about: every single one of these tools can generate a beautiful screen and still have no idea WHY it exists.

The AI made 40 gorgeous variations of a checkout flow. Cool. Which one reduces cart abandonment? crickets

Turns out the hard part was never drawing the rectangle. It was knowing where the rectangle goes, who’s looking at it, and why they’d care.

Meanwhile designers are out here panic-learning their 600th tool like it’s a Pokémon collection, fully convinced that falling a day behind on a button generator means career death.

Plot twist: the tool changes every Tuesday. Good design thinking is from like 1955 and somehow still undefeated.

AI is fast. Genuinely. But it’s a very confident intern who’s never met your user.

Stop racing the tools. Out-think them.

They’re not coming for the designers who understand people…

They’re coming for the ones who thought design was just decoration.

#UX #UIUX #DesignTwitter #ProductDesign #AI

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@RobLoCascio Congrats Rob. Inventing the chat window and now arguing against it is a great story. The hard design problem for an Individual AI is first session trust, proving it sounds like you before people hand over their voice. Nail that onboarding and the rest follows.

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@nimit @updating_priors Congrats Nimit and Rush. Families can track a pizza step by step but see almost nothing about the account holding their savings. Make trust activity as easy to follow as an order tracker and attorneys will send clients your way. Big launch.

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@daletlabs @omerbartal @lightspeedvp That's a smart way to keep it honest. Putting the real products right under the scene should make the first tap to buy feel safe. Curious to see how people use it this week.

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Congrats Hermine and team. Electra only approving or escalating, never denying, is a smart line to draw for something patients already feel anxious about. Getting prior auth answers in days instead of weeks is a result people actually feel. Curious how you show providers where a request stands in real time, since that status view is usually where trust is won or lost.

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Congrats Rami and team on the launch and the $5M. Putting the metric layer in a repo the data team owns is a clean answer to agents giving three different numbers. The launch video lands the idea fast. Curious how you plan to show business users which answers the data team has reviewed, since that trust signal is most of the value.

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Congrats Rohan, Carly and team. 100% renewals across 70+ customers says a lot in a space people usually just tolerate. Grounding answers in the actual plan docs instead of a generic model is the right call. Curious how Carly shows employees where an answer came from, since that's what makes them trust it over calling HR.

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@marcelkargul this is how apple makes its iPhones

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@The_OutlierPath <3

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New portfolio is live.

I wanted to see if brutalist and sharp minimal could live on the same page.

Did it work, or should I pick a side?

https://t.co/daVtCmlmDO

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@alvarostudio_ <3

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Congrats Taieb, Maxime and team. Most downloaded clinical app every month since June with a team of 12 is wild, and almost all word of mouth. The color coded evidence grades are the smartest part for me, the product admits when it isn't sure. Curious how you keep that clear on a phone in the middle of a busy shift as you add more.

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@webwideai It was part of the experiment to see if that’d fit the brutalist.

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Congrats Nikhil, Jesse and the Predicate team. Putting compliance inside the asset is the right layer. The part I'd watch is the policy screen, where a compliance lead sets rules and has to trust them without asking an engineer. If that view reads clearly, it sells the product on its own. Who are you designing it for first, compliance teams or developers?

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@farhadalionez good point I'll keep note of that.

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are we cooked chat?

AI is too powerful with the right prompts + inspiration stack. Goodbye graphic designers.

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Congrats on the round, Craig, Geehoon and Paul. Teaching a robot by demonstration only works if the operator on the floor can see what it learned and fix it in a minute, without calling anyone. That teach and verify screen is probably where you win or lose against integrators. Curious how you're designing it for the night shift crew.