@aarav_p
Senior Product Designer at Linear
Product designer working on tools for writers. Big serif energy. I think most software needs less, not more.
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The default state of design in 2026 is restless. Cards stack tight, hover states throb, autoplay video colonizes every dead corner of the viewport. None of it serves a person trying to read.Five things I will fight for …
Walk into any modern product office and you will see designers reaching for the elevation property the way previous generations reached for stock photography. The hierarchy of an interface is communicated through layere…
The most common failure mode for design systems I have audited is the same one: a color palette that looks rigorous on Friday and falls apart by Wednesday. Three months later, the team is using fifteen shades of grey be…
For about a decade, the consensus in product design was that sans-serif was the only acceptable choice for body text on screens. Pixel grids were too coarse for serif details, the argument went. Antialiasing was inconsi…
Before I open Figma for any new feature, I run through these five questions. They take twenty minutes and they save me from the version of the design I would have shipped if I had started with the canvas.What does this …
The default state of design in 2026 is restless. Cards stack tight, hover states throb, autoplay video colonizes every dead corner of the viewport. None of it serves a person trying to read.Five things I will fight for …
