Tweets about design and products • Design Director @withplum • DMs open!
Nuremberg, Germany
Joined February 2009
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I had two weeks of downtime where I could finally give my design portfolio some much-needed TLC.
The goals behind the update were to have an online space to showcase work highlights, curate content, and learn the basics of Framer—a new tool for me.
heybengeorge.com
Talk about personality on a portfolio.
@_darshi taking it up a whole ‘nother level! 🔥
Hi, it's Darshita. I am a designer.
And I'm pitching myself in public 'cause I'm done with a year full of anxiety.
Everyone says design is dead and AI killed it. But the real parasite was hiding in plain sight.
So here's my film, DESIGN IS DEAD. She's bold, fearless and very PINK 💖
Hiring? My DMs are open.
Beautiful!
Launching the 💎 Timeless Typeface Family
One super family of Grotesk, Sans, Serif and Text, all variable with matching italics. Free to use.
We’ve been working on this for a couple years now, hope you enjoy them
Everyone deserves beautiful typography. timeless.co/type
Hallelujah!
The revolt of the reader
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09…
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Terrific documentary on 22nd century Indians, by @shaurya_sinha7. Future is bright!
Love the attention to detail 😍
I wrote an in-depth article on how I made @cursor_ai’s icons. Read it if you want to know:
- How to keep 600+ icons consistent
- Why I made optical adjustments nobody can see
- Why the icon stroke weight is 1.25px (who does that, really?)
- Why I drew 156 almost identical versions of a hamburger icon
…and much, much more!
minoradventures.co/blog/the-…
I’m looking for a Senior Product Designer to join us at @withplum! London or Athens.
If you love prototyping, experimentation, and helping us democratise wealth, please apply!
apply.workable.com/withplum/…
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I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee.
It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency.
It says there are 5 levels of work:
Level 1: “There is a problem.”
Level 2: “There is a problem, and I’ve found some causes.”
Level 3: “Here’s the problem, here are some possible causes, and here are some possible solutions.”
Level 4: “Here’s the problem, here’s what I think caused it, here are some possible solutions, and here’s the one I think we should pick.”
Level 5: “I identified a problem, figured out what caused it, researched how to fix it, and I fixed it. Just wanted to keep you in the loop.”
Using this framework, here’s what I say to every new employee…
You will live at Level 4 from Day 1 and as we build trust you will rise to Level 5.
Being high agency doesn’t just mean tackling problems in this way. It means your entire way of working should be oriented to being a Level 4+ employee.
Plz feel free to steal it as well.
And ty @stephsmithio for the framework!
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an improving design loop
vercel.com/blog/teaching-age…
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The obvious path for designers in the AI age is to move closer to code.
But the more valuable path may be upstream: closer to the customer, the business, and the problem.
If everyone can prompt agents to code, the scarce skill becomes knowing why, what, and how to build.
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Laws of UX, taught through games and more.
userinterface.wiki/laws-of-u…
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Dot was deeply loved by the people who worked on it. We expressed that love through careful curation and editing, through spending months iterating on and developing an intuition for the material.
However, it was simultaneously was very much a product of the old “Apple” style paradigm where craft and perfection were king, because in the old world designers had years to play with materials and develop an intuition for them. Multi-touch, aluminum, glass…
Now the material (intelligence) changes too fast for that process. So products that live in symbiosis with the material, that embrace its rate of change and probabilistic nature as something to be loved vs optimized away are the ones that win.
It’s a new material. We learn to work with it in new ways that celebrate it for what it is vs try to mimic the materials that came before, to express our love for humanity in new forms.
so, tldr. Update your definition of design, of craft, or watch it die.
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People don't understand how valuable this is.
Took the time to open source all my Origami prototypes. I hope this helps you with your journey in craft and interactions!
origamiarchive.com/
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A new time is here, a new GT Era. 🟥🟧🟦
GT Era reimagines the warmth and idiosyncrasies of early grotesk typefaces for our own era.
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When you show stakeholders a design / prototype and their snap reaction is "I don't like this," there are only 3 reasons:
1. They disagree with the problem you're trying to solve
2. They disagree with your assumptions on how to best solve the problem
3. They disagree with your specific execution of how to best solve the problem
The first thing you need to do is figure out the root cause of the disagreement -- it is #1, #2, or #3?
The stakeholder usually can't articulate the reason for you b/c they don't know your intention. All they see is a design they don't like.
Make the root cause analysis easier by always stating:
1. What is the user problem?
2. What assumptions are you basing your design on?
Disagreement on #1 and #2 is like 60% of design disagreements in my experience.
