✨ Really pumped to share 3 big updates of my professional life!
1️⃣ Today I complete 4 yrs at
@swiggy_in
the longest I've worked anywhere. It's unbelievable that if anyone had joined an engg college the day I joined here, they would have graduated today… Time flies!
1/6
Applying for a tourist visa to one of the most developed countries of the world. This is amount of paper I m supposed to carry to prove that I have the money to stay there and come back 🙃
Buying Youtube Premium is one of the best investments that I made recently. The experience of watching uninterrupted videos without any ads before, after & during the video, is highly underrated! Youtube music is just a cherry on the top.
Today, I complete 3 yrs at
@swiggy_in
. This is the longest I have ever worked for anyone. Still cant believe that I spent half of my design career here! So, I m all wise now! Here is a thread with all my learnings 😂😂
No, seriously.. here is indeed a thread 😄 1/n
- Users aren't using Esc all that much
- Let's do an experiment & swap the positions of Esc & Space
<2 weeks later>
- Whoa... There is a 34.6% spike in Esc CTRs!
- Experiment succesful! 🙃
Here is my fan-made tribute to the creators & the entire team of
@netflix
Squid Game :) To all the designer out there... this is 100% vector & made completely in
@figmadesign
Feel free to download & dabble around with the file.
My parents are die-hard fans of
@SwiggyInstamart
. Interestingly, they call it 'Instagram' 😂 Every morning, my dad will be like.. "Need to order coconut from Instagram" 😂
Black is my favourite colour & I love to wear it most of the time. It's perfectly comfortable for a sedentary worker like me, who spends most of the time indoors, under the AC. But for our delivery partners at
@swiggy_in
the story could be very different 1/5
If you have never / rarely disagreed with your leader or manager, you are probably not doing it right. Remember, you are NOT hired to simply agree to whatever you are told. You are hired for your opinions.
Just finished conducting a 4-hr-long workshop with 900 attendees! This is the first time I had such a large audience. I m exhausted and my voice sounds different because of the continous talking 😅 But boy it was so satisfying! 😃
Today was, by far, the toughest day of my professional life! I’m gravely saddened to announce that we had to let-go 9 incredible members of the
@swiggydesign
team, as part of a restructuring exercise. (1/n)
@vinayjn7
It's not bank statement alone.
Bank statement
3 years of ITR
Payslips
And tons of other things.
Sure, it includes those Swiggy transactions as well 😅 I wonder when they will make it digital.
Back in office after long! Going to have a usual day with tons of video meetings, heavy Figma files & After Effects.
For a change, I didn't carry the charger for my laptop. Started with 100% battery at 10 am. Let's see how M1 Pro flares 😀
P.S.: Yes, I got a laptop upgrade!
There goes my first one for the Figma Community. Made completely inside Figma using gradients, drop and inner shadows in various combinations — a design resource on
@figmadesign
:
In the last 5 yrs, I've learnt a lot from the design community. So, here I m all set to create videos on the stuff that I do, discover & learn on a daily basis. Will need your support to pull this off. There goes the teaser :)
#youtube
#designtwitter
1.5 years & 26 videos later, I touched 25K subscribers on my YouTube channel, this weekend 😀 Thank you everyone who supported me in this journey 🙌🙏 Couldn't have asked for more.
Just discovered that my society installed a display in the lift lobby, that displays investment news... Crypto specially 😅 Is this a
@peakbengaluru
moment?
After all, the team wanted to to design something that our partners would love to own & wear & perhaps have their significant others say -- "Smart lag rahe ho" :) (You are looking good in this) Check this video to see the entire process. fin.
To all my recruiter friends out there, when you reach out to a candidate, please mention the role and and the company you are hiring for, instead of writing, "I have an exciting opportunity for you...". I think I should get to decide if the opportunity is exciting or not.
What is more important? The cashback that you have earned or your account balance itself?
It's the account balance for me. Can't remember the number of times I mistook the cashback as my balance 😶
I recently started using
@Razorpay
. Its an incredible job done by product & design! Even as a layman, I could set up my payment page in less than 5 mins. Now I have a new benchmark for enterprise products. Love to see such products made in India!
@ChettyArun
@saurabhsoni_ss
Just got a call from the centre where I got my car serviced.
"On a scale of 0-10 how would you rate our service, where 8 is poor, 9 is good and 10 is excellent?"
In which world is 8/10 poor?? Companies skew these surveys just to fulfil their NPS targets 😑
🍽️ Craving something delicious but can't decide what? We've got the solution! Introducing "What to eat" - a new feature to simplify your food choices. No more endless scrolling, we've got your back (or should we say, your taste buds?). 😉 1/5
Many of you here know me for the stuff I post on my YouTube channel, particularly the tutorials on Motion Design. But very few probably know that barely 6 yrs back, I had no clue about it. There were people who inspired me to learn it. 1/6
When you buy ice cream from
@swiggy_in
Instamart, it comes in insulated packaging with ice packs. This ensures that it remains like ice cream & doesn't become milkshake during the travel. Little things make magical experiences 😍👌
Fast forward to 2022 & today I feel very happy to announce that I have been promoted to Director of Design :) Well, I’m not sure how big & important work I’m going to do for my company, but its certainly going to be bigger & more important that what I did before.
4/6
Yesterday I was in office & was whitebording on a physical board after a long time. When I made an error while scribbling, my first instinct was to double tap on the marker in an attempt to activate the eraser 😛 Too much of Apple pencil usage! 🤣
Unpopular Opinion.
I actually like to come back to work on Monday mornings, specially after a weekend where I have successfully stayed away from work completely (Haven't even read a single message on Slack).
FigJam by
@figmadesign
is awesome but I really wish it was a page property instead of a file property. I would want to add a FigJam page to my design files. That way I wouldn't need to switch between design and jam files. Thoughts?
Yesterday was a holiday, Mahashivratri, & I had a surprisingly productive Tuesday! Recorded & edited 4 reels (2 for the wife), conducted an hr long live session, did a small pooja, had my meals on time and spoke to my parents over call.
Mahadev was really kind to me :D
We had to make it work for her 😅 We said, "Bring it on!" So Folks... here we present,
@swiggy_in
Gourmet! The finest restaurants of your city, delivering to you, regardless of distance. Right now, it's live only in Bangalore. Coming soon in other cities :)
Don't blindly follow anything or anyone. Ask questions, a lot of them! Understand the fundamentals before you accept anything as fact. Remember, first principles never fail. "Users are not liking it" — Ask, "Do you have any data or insights to back it up?" 2/n
Don't try to be a specialist too early in life. In the early years of career, everything you can know, you must know. Over time, you will naturally develop expertise in some. Anything <5 years is early. Remember, one cannot get a PhD before completing high school. 4/n
@Sahilxdesign
@swiggydesign
@zomato
Ha ha.. If I remember right, this was a dev initiated project. In my first week at Swiggy
@thejasvi
was showing this feature to me very excitedly! I said to myself.. "Yesss, this is the kind of engineering team I would love to work with!" :D
It's been a week with the iPad & the note-taking game is going strong 💪 The fact that it syncs seamlessly with my mac is incredible! Sharing becomes super easy. I even import them to Figma as a quick reference for the action items / tasks.
'You are designing for millions of people who you don't know in person. They may not be like you. They may have likes, dislikes, fears & aspirations which are very different from yours...'
This is what makes the job of a professional designer very challenging!
The other day I got a call from a recruiter -- "We used to deliver groceries in 10 mins. But then we improvised & now we deliver in 9.5 mins! Come, join our legendary startup! Btw, we are also a Ycomb startup & the founders are from IIT & IIM"
Sounds lucrative🤣😆
We take our team outings very seriously.. And when someone ditches, we Photoshop them in the pics 😂. Masks down only for photo. Double vaccinated 😎
Photoshop masterpiece by
@GowthamMagesh77
Early morning presentations are like teenage love. The anxiety doesn't let you sleep at night! ☕️😴
Damn.. I say the same for early morning flights as well. Its teenage all over is 30s.
6 years back, I landed into my dream job
@Housing
-- Yes, was tough! But what was even tougher was to survive amongst the rockstars designers there. In this video, I have spoken about what I did & how I survived there. I bet, you'll find it relatable!
Doing something just your own joy is highly underrated! Last few days, I have been making some faux 3D objects on Figma, after my work-day. Yes, there are better tools, but pushing my self for this, brings a rare kind of satisfaction and relaxation.
While hiring designers, at which stage of rejection do you think the candidate deserves a detailed feedback? I personally feel it should be done for rejections after any stage where the candidate had spend a considerable amount of time, e.g. Take-home case study.
#designtwitter
I used to be a night owl. I would stay awake till late at night and as a result get up late in the morning. I would barely manage to wake up right before my first meeting, that's usually at around 10:30 or 11. But a funny incident changed my habit 😅
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Let's talk retention
I'm no Nostradamus. But the writing on the wall is clear. If you're not adjusting your internal salary to market level be ready to lose talent big time.
Counteroffers won't work. See the above tweet about trust.
7/
Celebrated VDay with
@gupta_shivs
in the college-teenager style 😅
- Bunked classes (read, OOO)
- Went to a mall
- Had cheesecake & fastfood for lunch
- Shopped cheap fashion
- Came back home by evening
Should have also watched a movie while munching on cheese popcorn 😂
- Family reads your tweet about iPad
- Orders one for your upcoming birthday present (Surprise!)
- The pencil reaches before the iPad
- Surprise.... NOT! 😂
Either ways, I m soon going to be the proud owner of a 12.9" M1 iPad Pro 😎 Thanks everyone for the suggestions :)
All the iPad owners out there.. Can you please share 3 reasons why one should get an iPad and 3 reasons why one shouldn't? Thinking if I should get one..
To start with, be a jack of all trades and over time, try to be a master of at least a few trades & not just one. Don't wait to be a master of one before trying your hands on the next. Things can happen in parallel. 5/n
Life will mostly be unfair to you but it's not necessarily a bad thing. At times you lose & at times you even gain out of the unfairness. Overall, it just balances out. If you feel life had only been bad, just wait.. A lot of goodness is probably on the way 😅 8/n
Set date using a picker, select, tap another button to know if there are vaccination centres available around 😓 We don't have the liberty to get jabbed on the dates of our choice. Why start with date then? Show me a list of next available slots / centres maybe?
@Arogyasetu
It's easy to learn the rules, slightly tougher to apply them and much more tough to know when & how to break them. Following rules is not always right & breaking rules is not always wrong. Understanding what you are doing is the key. First principles again. 3/n
All the iPad owners out there.. Can you please share 3 reasons why one should get an iPad and 3 reasons why one shouldn't? Thinking if I should get one..
In a cashless world, what is the easiest way to tip someone in a situation that doesn't otherwise involve any transaction? E.g. Tipping a gatekeeper, valet etc.
Yesterday was the last holiday of the 4-day week that we had at
@swiggy_in
for the month of May. Really enjoyed the long weekends for the whole month! :D But a regular 5-day week with one day declared as 'no meetings' will be gold 😍 I hope that happens.
What is that 1 important thing in your work that you hate doing, but you do it regardless coz it's important?
I have 2. I m a Digital Product Designer and I hate:
- Typing documentations & long emails
- Designing banners & merchandising elements.