This is the cabin of XUV700. What Mahindra has achieved with the cabin of this car is mind blowing!
One product can completely change how people perceive you!
I lost over 10 bottles at school.
My parents stopped buying me water bottles.
Over the years, I tried to be more careful of my possessions and gave my best shot at adulting.
Today I lost my daughter's water bottle at school.
I officially give up.
I work for a startup,
I drop my daughter to school,
I don't work before 10am,
I don't work after 7pm,
I don't work on weekends,
I work as a leader & IC sometimes,
I could have done more but the company allowed me to do things at my own pace,
Every startup isn't a chaotic mess
Road-trip in our XUV700 to the picturesque Landour and we can’t get enough of the lovely Himalayan Deodars. Thanks to the beautiful sky-roof we can see them all the time.
The car feels like a room on wheels!
Tanjore Tiffin Room in Anjuna, Goa, lets you sample their entire menu. I repeat, they let you sample the entire menu. Then you can decide which vegetables or meat that works with the curry.
It helps people narrow down what they’d like to eat. Unfortunately I liked everything😅
This is the navigation view for Mahindra XUV700. The illustration on the right, is a great visual aid for specifying the turn. I have taken wrong turns while looking at top view of Android Auto.
Challenging google maps for directions is hard but not impossible 🗺
My family just avoided an accident in our
@MahindraXUV700
. Reckless bikers overtook from the wrong side behind the A pillar & the radar based automatic emergency brake triggered before I could see them.
- Safety tech isn’t a gimmick
- Accident prevention > Accident protection
This is XUV700’s ADAS. Autonomous driving is not a gimmick. I use it to drive to work and back. Mahindra has again blown my mind with the quality of execution. Let the car drive and Enjoy the sunset 🌅
Giving XUV700 the steering gives me some anxiety but a lot of excitement 😅
1 BILLION ARR 🤯I have always had immense respect for
@canva
. Brilliant product-market fit. I strongly believe they are going to be the Figma-like alternative to illustrator soon. Kill it!
This feels like a park-plus ripoff. Such good craft wasted on an a low value clone of an existing product.
I really hope CRED is able to build a meaningful product soon. They have everything else.
Procreate has probably sold more iPads than the official iPad commercials. What people build with your technology is as important as the technology itself
The design team
@urbancompany_UC
have brewed a collection of 50 design cheat codes.
Launching coming Monday. A select few will get physical copies as well 🔥
Stay tuned!
1/2
A real-life example of anchoring bias 🧠
One of our partners at
@urbancompany_UC
posted a request from a customer that appeared to discriminate on the basis of religion. We don't tolerate religious discrimination, so our safety team reached out to the partner. But...
Hiring junior designers is like investing in small cap companies. It's high risk and they take more than they can give at the moment
But, some will become Multibaggers and grow exponentially. This growth is rare in mid and high cap / senior & lead designers
Calculated risk :)
If you are staying in your current job because your leaders invested in your growth, remember they were just doing their jobs. You should be grateful but you don’t owe anyone.
Stay for the future, not for the past
It pains me to say that there are people who would refuse to pay ₹100-200 to gig workers after the service. Blocking you from the platform is not enough. I wish all the startups join hands to come up with a customer trust score and ensure such people are banned from all startups
No amount of coffee or cigarettes can wake up an uninspired person. If you have a mission to look forward to, body hits you with dopamine for free!
Inspiration > Drugs
POV: Trying to find that one toothbrush I once saw on
@CRED_club
app without search button!
Seriously! Please put the search feature. I assure you on behalf of all users that we will still waste our time browsing deals.
You don't have to be actively looking for a job to think about your future. Introducing open-ended sessions for talking about a design career at Urban Company
Few of our designers and leaders would be at the stall to talk to you 💬
Tue, Thu • 6-6:30 pm
How to get noticed by a company for a design role?
Take their problem, solve it using their open source design system in 48hours and make a video walkthrough
Brilliant 👏🏽
How to accelerate your design career?
The journey of a designer is unpredictable and the leap from IC to a design leader is a difficult one.
If you feel dazed & confused, you are not alone. I felt the same a while ago and sharing some tips in this.
A thread 🧵 👇
2/2
The customer was a little sceptical if our partner, a Muslim, would be comfortable entering her pooja room and hanging pictures of the god Krishna. Our partner had no issues doing it as well💜
Things can be really different than it seems from the first piece of evidence.
3️⃣ key projects for a design portfolio
1. Execution focussed: Design for a real world problem that users got their hands on
2. Skill focussed: Project that allowed you to drive the direction and flex your design skills
3. Outside the artboard: Passion project that excites you
Everything good in life needs a sacrifice. I have made the biggest one of my life. I am moving on from Urban Company to build my own project.
My mission needs a new leader. Will you empower service professionals across the globe to deliver more value?
Why are people so obsessed with keeping followers > people they follow. I press the follow button like a madmen anytime I see something remotely related to my headspace. Tweet & Chill
For every designer doing an assignment for their next job: Remember that It's fictional, there is no correct answer. The recruiter only cares about how you approach the assignment.
Care more about the direction and alignment to the expectations than picking the right solution
Recently quit drinking. When I am offered a drink and I say no, I am always asked why you don’t drink.
30 years of drinking and no one asked why you drink?
Why does this happen?
You can't be a good leader without being a good follower. I work with my wife who is starting a small business. It's important to trust her gut and focus on execution rather than debate. Being a good follower is as hard as being a good leader as well!
Decathlon is the best thing that happened to outdoor enthusiasts
It has helped me introduce my daughter to the joys of sports and outdoors in a safe and exciting way!
I have stopped comparing their prices to any other brand. Their commitment to the purpose made me a fan!
This is Mahindra XUV’s 3D camera view. Thanks to the brilliant 3D view you can park effortlessly and leave enough room for your door to open!
XUV700 feels like a hatchback when it comes to ease of driving!
P.S. Designers should show the area that the doors need in the overlay
TIL: You can remove the background of an image on a mac by just right clicking and selecting that quick action
Every designer needs to know this. What a time saving hidden gem.
F*** you and your 1 free credit
Just offered someone a salary based on what they deserve rather than what we can get them to agree on. Working in a non toxic culture is good for the soul.
Gap in CV is not bad if you are doing something and learning. You can be totally useless while you have a job and really productive in the gap between the jobs.
We are humans. Sometimes we need to slow down things. We can always pick up the pace.
Join a team for what they are about to do, not what they have already done.
We tend to judge an organisation by their achievements before joining them. We should focus on their roadmap.
You will be part of their future not their past.
📢 We're hiring a Motion Graphics Designer at
@urbancompany_UC
.
Are you interested in creating sleek animations, stunning graphics, and engaging videos for a seamless and delightful user journey?
🙋🏽Apply or Retweet to help it reach the right person!
If you ever got rejected in an interview, don’t punch yourself. 90% of the process is intuition. The person they hired instead of you might not even be there after 6 months.
It’s just humans doing the best they can and sometimes they don’t.
Letting a team member go is one of the hardest things you have to do as a leader.
But avoiding the hard conversation and keeping people in a growth limbo is even worse. They deserve better.
If you will not be able to help someone grow, it's better they grow with someone else.
📢 50 Design Cheat Codes ebook is out 🎉
We are thrilled to share our learnings at
@urbancompany_UC
to help you design better and improve your product.
The book is illustrated with our user interface and made using Align Design System.
Get your book👇🏼
This is the immersive Map view in the driver screen on XUV700. My eyes light up every-time it happens. This design feels so good that makes you wonder why no one else did this.
Thats the beauty of good design!
Dear contact book designers at Google and apple. We need one field upfront for context to remember. Currently all my contacts have last names like "second floor noisy guy" 🎸, "midnight delivery"🚚 and "herb guy" 🌿
To ship a great product, version 1.1 should be part of the design process.
You learn 10x more when the design comes to life. Monitoring it day and night shows you it's true nature
The 1.1 release is based on facts, while the 1.0 was based on assumptions
For buying Android you have to think about so many things, the processor, the camera, screen etc. 🤔
For buying an iPhone the only question is which FD to break 💔
You can only buy the one you can afford! 😂
After countless to and fro between between the translation agencies and product people to explain the context, we gave up and started writing our own content with help of our employees in different parts of the country. They already understand our business and the right language
we at
@urbancompany_UC
are looking for an Industrial designer to help us revamp the kit bags that our partners use for home services in India 🧰
Please reach out to MridulGupta1
@urbancompany
.com with your profile 📨
Repost / Share to help a fellow designer find work 🙏🏽
Panoramic sunroof really changes the game when you are being driven. It really expands the sense of space. Paired with the cushiony ride from the FSD suspension, Mahindra has made the rear cabin of XUV700 feel like a room.
You can read a book with all the natural light!
I left Urban Company this year and joined back 3 months later. I wanted to build a future driven by a community in Web3. I realised there's already a community of 50,000 partners that I can build for at UC itself. Join me in the mission!
Digital product designers should dabble with print and physical product design from time to time. Working with an unforgiving medium hones your craft. It rekindles your love for the craft as well.
I learnt a lot while making this packaging for my wife’s granola brand
1 TV, Two headphones. One of the greatest features of appleTV. Wonder why nobody ever thought of that before.
In a household with a sleeping baby, this feature is a blessing 🙏
This isn’t Miami its Goa 😅
Burger factory is the ultimate shack. Silver sands, Freshly brewed IPA on tap, and juicy AF Burgers. Wish there were more shacks like this in Goa 🍔❤️
Design research shouldn't stop at finding the problems. A lot of problems are already known in the organisation. Researchers should put their money on few solutions that are worthy of fighting for, and go all the way!
Resumes are worthless for designers. You don't need a resume when you can articulate the impact you have in your organization. Focus on your portfolio.
Maybe they are useless for other careers too. What do you think?
Day 1: Don’t leave me here alone.
Day 720: Leave me, I’ll go alone.
Today’s nursery schools have become second homes for our kids. These rich experiences will have a lasting impact on them as adults.
If you're a designer chasing a seat at the table in business & product decisions, you are wasting your time & energy. Titles like lead, principal, director etc.. are gimmicks🙈
Only care about the value you create for the company, your team and yourself📈
The only true north 🧭
90% of what you’ll learn, you’ll learn from your team. My girls and bois at
@urbancompany_UC
have been slaying day and night! This is the team thats about to change service industry for the entire world!
Come for the purpose and stay for the people!
No portfolio, but ready for something bigger? Just do the challenge and show your skills! It's time we have Leetcode for design!
P.S. Something interesting to come tomorrow! 🙊
Challenge link:
The UX team is the entire company.
Everyone is working towards a great UX.
Business executives, engineers, designers or even helpline executives.
Focus on the part of the user experience only a designer can improve.
Craft 🖼️❤️🎨
One of the most challenging but joyful things we get to do at
@urbancompany_UC
is product design in Indic languages. We try to visualise each language to ensure it looks good! After all, such beautiful scripts deserve attention to detail.
The final boss battle in any design career is to build a product that’s
1. Beautiful and inspiring
2. Intuitive and usable
3. Makes money
4. Impacts lives positively
5. Makes you happy
All 5 together. Let’s do this!
So happy to see
@Google
building
#GoogleForIndia
apps in hinglish. At
@urbancompany_UC
we started with Hinglish language option an year ago and now its currently most used option after English in our partner app.
This is the three quarter view of XUV700. This colour, midnight black, is another example of Mahindra going above and beyond. Duotone blue and black done as well as any international paint job.
Indian cars have arrived 🇮🇳💯
At
@urbancompany_UC
Design, we love to create solutions and not just interfaces. For our new ROs, the team designed everything from the ground.
We all share the joy of designing software and hardware. If you share the passion, join our mission!
A dream come true! We have open sourced
@urbancompany_UC
’s entire design system for everyone to use! We will soon be sharing videos on how to use it yourself
We can only win together!
Check out Align DS v1.0 by UC Design — a free resource on
@figma
:
Today my
@urbancompany_UC
men's grooming pro literally woke me up and I got my hair and head massage in my pyjamas while "when chai met toast" played in the background. This is as good as it can be. At this point going back to a salon is a major downgrade
❌ Humans are destroying the earth
✅ Humans are destroying their habitat on earth
Earth 🌍 has been there for 4.5 billion years. Earth 🌎 literally won't give a damn about our extinction and just keep rolling
Let's hope we don't join the dino 🦖 club
First night in Germany, got drunk AF🇩🇪
Couldn't find the toilet because it's called🚾
Water Closet isn't even a german!🤔
Then I see two doors labelled H and D🤦🏽♂️
Waited till a human emerged from one of these🦸🏼♀️
(H)Herren- Men, (D)amen- Women
Every minute felt like an hour⏳