It’s become about you, the Designer There is a time in every industry that a topic of technical nature stops being one and instead it becomes about the narrator. It’s about You ID If you want designers to interact with your content all you have to do is post a Tool “X” vs. Tool…

Clocks everywhere You can’t escape it. Time is everywhere and I don’t mean timestamps or expiry dates. I mean “the” time. Clocks! It’s on your wrist, on your wall, on that slab of glass that you carry like a lifeline, in your car, even road signs have times at places. Everything with…

Do they affect the way you design your interfaces? Or at least influence the way you think about shapes and spacing? Or even typography? I was at a movie theatre — a theatre I’ve been to tens of times — and the screening rounded corner caught my attention, wait, why…

Moving from Tweets & Replies to Post & Comments, and Threads. Or is Twitter a mini Tumblr now? We don’t know. But we know that the Tweet/Reply model has evolved and we could easily sub them with Post/Comments. Before #280 and way before Threads, a Tweet would get a bunch…

When designing Interfaces. Now I’m not hating on the job, it actually was my first part-time job first year of college. It’s awesome to be one. But don’t be one when you design Interfaces. Have you had one of those experiences where you download an app that looks so symmetric…

Pinned & Located — Location tagging is one of those features in Twitter that is often used low-key, not very loud and when used, Twitter doesn’t give it its share of importance, i.e not shown on Timeline. For Carbon, this has been one of those features that was ignored by most of the users…

This was originally posted on Oct 25, 2017 on Carbon’s Blog. So we finally started the process of getting Carbon back on track with what Twitter offers in its core experience. On top of our list was our very old Tweet Composition screen. Here’s what we’ve done to start the…

This was originally posted on Sep 29th 2017 on Carbon’s blog. Following our recent updates v.2.4.7 and 2.4.8 in July/Aug this version comes in with an array of changes and Timeline enhancements. …

My gripe with activity trackers, those fancy bands. — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_band Every week or so a friend or a family member would hit me with this question “Should I buy Nike Fuel or Fitbit? Up or Loops? Sony?”. Being “that” guy who’s into tech and likes his fitness and minds his diet, it is usually assumed that I’m going to…