Bring your designs to life with Move. Easy-to-use animation tools for both beginners and pros. Design and animate on your Apple devices. Get started now!

Move: Intuitive Motion Design App for iPad and macOS | Linearity | Linearity

Design Engineer, Product

https://vercel.com/careers/design-engineer-product-uk-us-5056771004

What is design engineering, really? Join Uber Design, Profound and South Park Commons for a speaker lineup (TBA), Q&A, and networking event connecting NYC's…

The Rise of Design Engineering with Uber Design, Profound, & SPC · Luma

https://testflight.apple.com/join/SgAUctMC

‎"App You Didn't Know You Needed" — App Store

Hand Mirror is a super simple app that lives in your Menu Bar (little cozy top right corner of your Mac) and gives you a one-click access camera check!

‣ Need to jump on a video call? Quick camera check.
‣ Need to quickly check your surroundings? Quick…

‎Hand Mirror

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hand-mirror/id1502839586

Siddharth's Top Five Books of 2024

Show, don’t just tell. Dive into 2 simple frameworks to capture your field research with impact. Keep your storytelling real with rich…

Capturing field research for impactful retelling

https://medium.com/notes-from-the-fields/capturing-field-research-for-impactful-retelling-3e418a26036d

"You do not belong." Those are the most heartbreaking cluster of words a person – especially any young creative person – can hear.

You Do Not Belong

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-do-belong-brian-collins-rk01e

Jobs – Founding Engineer at Tramline | Tramline Documentation

The direct/manager relationship is vitally important to career and product success, so what can you do to safeguard it's health? This 2024 Game Career Semina...

Game Career Seminar: Co-Managing: Building an Effective Manager/Direct Relationship

From books to bangers and binge-worthy shows, here’s Jiva Design Team top picks for 2024!

That’s a Wrap for 2024: Jiva Design’s Picks of the Year!

https://medium.com/notes-from-the-fields/thats-a-wrap-for-2024-jiva-design-s-picks-of-the-year-7d02598c48fd

Evaluating that Solo Designer job

What is a product designer?

John Oliver discusses food delivery apps, how they are both helping and harming restaurants and workers, and why starting an orphanage definitely should not ...

Food Delivery Apps: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

https://youtu.be/aFsfJYWpqII?si=RB3uW5zHL2e3NNyn

Indian web design is cheap - low cost, yet high reward. With 1.44 billion people in India, website designs gotta work for people of different backgrounds, cu...

Indian web design: cheap, but it works. Here's why

https://youtu.be/IUgBWYnkK4c?si=3zNN8Kp42IFeEp02

How far we've come: The last decade of design tools

https://read.cv/kend/lookback-design-tools

Quick and easy way to build interactive animations and patterns inside Framer. Arrow Dynamics is a code component library created using p5.js for seamless and precise pointer interactions and effects to bring your Framer websites alive.

Arrow Dynamics – Framer Library to build Interactive Animations

Design systems seem like all-or-nothing projects. We built ours lean, empowering the team to deliver great experiences during hypergrowth.

Taming the Chaos of Hypergrowth: Our Lean Approach to Building a Design System, Part — 1

medium.com/notes-from-the-fields/taming-the-chaos-of-hypergrowth-our-lean-approach-to-building-a-design-system-part-1-2adbb24ddef0

Elevate Your Leadership Skills at Leadership By Design 2024 Expanding Perspectives: Leading Through Inclusivity and Resilience Leadership By Design 2024's theme sets the stage for focusing on how leadership can embrace and champion inclusivity and resilience within the design community. Leadership Perspectives offers a deep dive into the ways diverse viewpoints and robust strategies can

Leadership By Design 2024 - Chicago Camps

https://www.chicagocamps.org/event/leadership-by-design-2024/

https://www.dandad.org/annual/2024/entry/professional/238082

Figma raises prices for its seats across the paid tiers. Full seats include Figjam and Slides.

An Insider's perspective on Design in Tech 2024

https://read.cv/kend/4IiQQOEdmqPcCsjTqlta

If you are looking for a Motion Design app, https://www.linearity.io/move/ is pretty cool and simple to use

Vercel seems to be hiring Design Engineers https://vercel.com/careers/design-engineer-product-uk-us-5056771004

https://lu.ma/rise-of-design-engineering for those in NYC

It's never been easier to lie about your taste in music with... Spotify ReWrapped! https://spotify-rewrapped.pages.dev/

Yoo, my expense tracker app just got approved for external TestFlight testing! I’d really appreciate it if you could test it out and share your thoughts. Let me know what you think, guys! https://testflight.apple.com/join/SgAUctMC

Coincidentally got the .cv domain today ✨

@rafaelconde's Hand Mirror+ is on sale this week. I’ve been using the free version for a quick video check up before jumping on a call. Decided to buy the plus $2.99 lifetime since it’s a great deal. 
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hand-mirror/id1502839586

A friend made this site to talk about his 5 fave books of the year https://5books.vercel.app/

Here's our latest post about frameworks you can use while doing field research https://medium.com/notes-from-the-fields/capturing-field-research-for-impactful-retelling-3e418a26036d

So designers have role models? If yes, who are they?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-do-belong-brian-collins-rk01e found this again today.

A local approach to familiarise migrants with the language

So @jsiggy @eryc the dark mode drama unfolded with John Collision asking who was patient zero of the Dark Mode contagion. Honestly though I want to know too as to why something like this became an OS level feature.

Got off a call with a friend who was getting a job offer with a lower level title, but a better salary.. and I was like take it! Wdyt Posts fam?

Friends are hiring a founding engineer in the -/+ 4 hour timezone from India time https://docs.tramline.app/jobs

Yesterday out of the blue, my sim card stopped working and it was such an anxious experience to have in a world where your phone number is tightly connected to your identity. Got a new sim today. So all good now.

Highly recommend young designers and folks new to management to watch this talk from GDC https://youtu.be/QpwgBc1PcVQ

We do monthly meetings with the entire design team and this time, we choose to reflect on what we indulged over the last year across books, movies, music and games. https://medium.com/notes-from-the-fields/thats-a-wrap-for-2024-jiva-design-s-picks-of-the-year-7d02598c48fd

Saw @tahreem asking for advice and wrote this post https://read.cv/kend/solo-designer-jobs

There was a lot of noise this week on X about what makes you a better designer, so I thought I would finally push out my take on what makes you a product designer
https://read.cv/kend/product-designer

SF folks, is there a zine shop or indie book store you recommend in the area? Asking for a friend.

https://youtu.be/aFsfJYWpqII?si=RB3uW5zHL2e3NNyn pretty spot on

In late 2021, while travelling through the north, I heard ads for Crypto and today I saw these hoardings on gates.

https://youtu.be/IUgBWYnkK4c?si=3zNN8Kp42IFeEp02 totally feeling outraged by this romanticising of bad bureaucratic interfaces as “Indian web design”

Reflected on the last decade of design tooling 

https://read.cv/kend/lookback-design-tools

Ran my first pod kickoff. Facilitation doesnt come naturally to me but with every such activity I become more confident.

Both my airport cab rides in Bangalore this time have been electric vehicles.

Gen AI images seem to be gaining popularity in religious festival posters

I’m curious, what are the things you hate about the design industry. It could be anything

I'm finally moving to sf soon, and am on the lookout for meetups and events! Anyone know anything cool? I'm interested in indie projects, hackathons, etc and generally ... just making stuff together :)

Put together an impromptu small talk today for these students getting ready for placements the coming week.

Still getting used to the Action button on the 16. I’ve been tapping it thinking it’s the volume up button.

India twitter losing it over Coldplay ticket war is hilarious to watch as an observer.

Someone had a collection of camera apps here. What’s the url?

https://arrowdynamics.dev/ is on blackfriday sale if anyone interested

Wrote a thing about how we built our internal design systemhttps://medium.com/notes-from-the-fields/taming-the-chaos-of-hypergrowth-our-lean-approach-to-building-a-design-system-part-1-2adbb24ddef0

Using ChatGPT to re-write a blog post due this week. Quite liking it so far.

Almost missed out that this is happening next week https://www.chicagocamps.org/event/leadership-by-design-2024/ Loved last year's edition.

I’m on the bsky too but honestly at this point, it’s quite tiring to maintain all these various networks. I’m also still on Twitter. Thankfully don’t have Linkedin.

This project from Dentsu for Japan railway's 150 anniversary is just so beautiful. Wish I could get my hands on these promotional materials. https://www.dandad.org/annual/2024/entry/professional/238082

Killing time as my flight has been delayed

Designing a low code bot and wow it gets complicated really fast!

Was wondering if Figma would join the increased pricing in 2025 bandwagon and they did! I do like that they merged Figjam and Figma seats.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this rant I wrote today on the state of design in tech https://read.cv/kend/4IiQQOEdmqPcCsjTqlta