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

‎"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

What is a product designer?

the posts logo and bluesky logo separated by a right arrow

https://taurean.bryant.land/A+Post+Alumni+guide+to+bluesky

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

Common Grounds Coffee cup held while riding pillion on a Gojek electric motorcycle

AI-powered VAC signals adjust the length of the red/green lights based on traffic density in each area and can often catch commuters off guard. 



Bengaluru traffic police to introduce 5-second countdown timer to address unpredictability of AI-powered signals

https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/bengaluru-traffic-police-countdown-timer-ai-powered-signals-9765427/

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

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.

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/

Coincidentally got the .cv domain today ✨

Got a chance to see some of Kōhei Sugiura’s work at a curated exhibition. Unfortunately I made it on the last day when they had stopped the public from perusing the books due to damage incurred by a few.

@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

Pretty sad to see this space go but I guess that’s life. I’m on bsky @ken.cv if you wanna follow.

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.

If you're new to Bluesky or hesitant to join, here's a getting started guide, just for you Posts people.

https://taurean.bryant.land/A+Post+Alumni+guide+to+bluesky

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”

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 :)

A little sleep deprived but here in Jakarta. Going to be a full week of meetings 🫣

Today in AI enshittification https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/bangalore/bengaluru-traffic-police-countdown-timer-ai-powered-signals-9765427/

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.

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

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.