Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn

The fickle mirth of sanity, versus the colourful gravity of madness 🌴🦑☀️🤙🏼
Quinnera🃏in Play
Harleen 👾 in Design/Tech
ZeQuinn ✨in Drag

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

Wrote about how I’ve been integrating AI into daily workflows here at @CanvsClub

While it’s just the start of a much longer journey, would love your feedback and ideas to make my setup better.

https://t.co/j5WbeK7ejA

[Canvs @CanvsClub]

In high-speed trading, having to open drawers or switch tabs to check trade status introduces friction that can cost money.

When building an FXTP platform, we solved this by designing an always-in-view Blotter that remains permanently docked at the bottom of the viewport. This ensures that completed trades, pending activity, and execution details are always accessible. It lets users verify execution details without obstructing the live price feeds.

We enhanced this persistent view with a filterable colour-coded visual system that segments trades by type.

Full case study: https://t.co/U4mCQRCdu7

[Canvs @CanvsClub]

Ours is a story of contrasting choices and unexpected backgrounds.

As we have developed our studio's identity, one of the tensions we have kept returning to is how we could marry our love for grounded, natural, tactile experiences with the intangibility and virtuality of digital products, which is our bread and butter at Canvs

While we have explored materiality and physical textures, we couldn’t lose sight of the fact that we are, fundamentally, a digital practice, and the work still needed to feel native to that world.

So we made it a point to tastefully juxtapose our work with natural objects that inspired us, like flora and foliage, rock textures, marine life, etc.
At the same time, digital treatments like dithering, tracing lines, and rivets were layered onto objects and surfaces, sitting alongside their physicality rather than overpowering it. Glows were used to bring out form and depth without flattening what made the materials feel grounded in the first place.

The idea is to juxtapose and unify rather than establish and highlight contrast, and to let both aspects co-exist.

What’s interesting is that none of this came from a system or a predefined rationale. It came from a series of choices; things that we kept returning to, and recognising as our own.

And that’s how, somewhere along the way, what we saw on the screen started to feel like us.

[Canvs @CanvsClub]

For a studio that works in the digital, a surprising amount of what shapes our visual sensibilities at Canvs comes from the objects and experiences around us.

From surfaces, materials, textures and the kind of objects you can almost feel, even when you’re looking at them on a screen. We found ourselves drawn to natural forms like rocks and flowers, and textures that felt tactile and real.

There’s a kind of simplicity to them, a solidity and dependability that sits well with how we see ourselves. They are what they are.

And that way of being feels close to how we think about our work and how we communicate. They are also less metaphors, and more simply, things we instinctively relate to, and want to work with. It is only natural that these elements found their way into how we were building the brand.

[Canvs @CanvsClub]

Over the past decade, we've worked on dozens of projects, from early-stage concepts to mature products. Through this work, we developed a practice called approach notes: writing your way into a problem before you design a solution.

In this piece, @debprotimroy talks about this approach to designing products through writing. It becomes the bridge between strategy and execution. And the products that feel most coherent are built on this thinking that comes before the first mockup because writing forces clarity.

Read it here: https://t.co/FtPwv371PC

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

@jack_9947 Artifacts

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

@budapp Credits?

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

@budapp Let’s go

[Canvs @CanvsClub]

ICICI Direct is one of India's most established investment platforms. It has grown to meet a wide range of investor needs. But as the ecosystem evolved, so did its complexity: more features, more asset classes, more user types, all sitting inside the same experience.

The question was no longer what to build, but where should it go from here.

Canvs was brought in to answer that. We approached it as a full case study. It included primary research with 20+ investors, a complete product audit, and benchmarking against the broader ecosystem.

We presented our research, insights, and high fidelity prototypes to ICICI Direct’s leadership across multiple sessions, framing them as a business case that set the direction for the app’s future.

Read the full case study here: https://t.co/qWtEsOJXk7

[Emo Kylo Ren @KyloR3n]

let the past die. kill it if you have to. it’s the only way to become who you were meant to be

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

@keepcup we’re absolutely in love with these! Thank you @bluetokaicoffee for bringing this to Mumbai! @ Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters https://t.co/j5TQG0sZQX

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

My main bitch since 1993 #weneedmorebeachdays #foreverperson #mifamilia #notsurehowiwouldsurvivewithoutyou #onlyhumanilike https://t.co/Dw3Vvs7Lth

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

Gotta love the look of brackish water #saltwateroveranything #coastalthroughandthrough https://t.co/uqxF7DPNak

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

Stunning view from earlier today #planephoto #icouldntresist https://t.co/SiAmGXWgal

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

Yarn ball - 1, Flym - 0 #hescomingforyouyarnball #flymtheflooff #flymthefuzzball #cats_of_instagram #whoballedyouupagain https://t.co/UrHCryk3Fv

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

Sudden change from Marvel to DC in the house #spidercat #batcat #flymtheflooff #flymthefuzzball #tabbycat #cats_of_instagram https://t.co/ulbfMOz85f

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

The artist is present #flymtheflooff #flymthefuzzball #yarnballdiaries #thingstowakeupto #thisiswhatourmorninglookslike https://t.co/fRydN3xcnd

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

Freedom celebrations #finallyhappened #cantevencope #no377 #lovelovelove https://t.co/iaTJYOsmA4

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

Happy 5th birthday my little baby boy. You my main man ❤️ #stopgrowingupsofastplease #flymthefuzzball #flymtheflooff #myhappyplace https://t.co/qmjsHTtbxs

[Harleen Chatha / ZeQuinn @ze_quinn]

My little baby boy is gonna be 5 in a couple days ☀️ #stopgrowingupsofastplease #flymtheflooff #flymthefuzzball #fiveisthirtyfiveinhumanyears #icanteven https://t.co/ndoZ9BcEEw