Inspiration
Designers and thinkers whose work I follow and admire.
Product Designers
- Brian Lovin - Staff Product Designer at GitHub, co-host of Design Details podcast
- Maggie Appleton - Designer, anthropologist, and visual explainer, currently at Github Next
- Rauno Freiberg - Designer & engineer, design systems and interaction design
- Tanvi Gupta - Senior Product Designer at Stripe
- Olivia Truong - Product Designer, writes about design systems and craft
- Juliette - Designer in crypto
- Grace Walker - Creative Director and Brand Designer
- Jordan Hughes - Creator of Untitled UI
- Abheyraj Singh - Head of Product at Bosque
- Swathi Singh - Designer at Revisual Labs
- Anthony Hobday - Interface Obsessed Product Designer
- Pavel Samsonov - Product Designer
- Shreshta Jaisingh - Product Designer
- Gabriel Valdivia - Product Designer
- Tobias van Schneider - Multi-disciplinary designer, Spotify alum
- Sho Kuwamoto - Design leader, wrote extensively about Figma/design tools
- Paco Coursey - Design engineer, great interaction work
- Adam Morse - Designer/developer, minimal design advocate
Design Thinkers & Writers
- Julian Shapiro - Writing on product, growth, and design
- Chris Butler - Design leader and writer
- Ryan Singer - Shape Up methodology and product thinking
- Andy Matuschak - Interface designer and researcher
- Frank Chimero - Designer and Author
- Scott Jenson - Design god
- Josh W. Comeau - CSS/animation wizard, great educational content
- Dan Mall - Design systems and design leadership
- Ethan Marcotte - Responsive design pioneer
India Design Community
- Gyan Lakhwani - Product Designer, HCI researcher at Microsoft
- Pratik Yadav - Designer and builder of useful things
- Adhithya Kumar - Design Engineer
- Sindhu Shivaprasad - Content Design Lead at PhonePe
- Ranganath Krishnamani - Design leader at Swiggy
- Milan Maheshwari - Product Designer at Zepto
- Saptarshi Prakash - Product design at PhonePe
Resources
- Mobbin - Design reference library with thousands of app screens and flows
- Laws of UX - Design principles and patterns
- Refactoring UI - Practical UI design tips
- Component Gallery - Component/pattern reference
This is a living list - it grows as I discover more inspiring work.