Paweł Ludwiczak

Paweł Ludwiczak

@plud.net

Product Designer helping early-stage startups with UI/UX • ex-Stack Overflow/Canva • 📭 Open to remote gigs & founding designer roles. ➡️ https://plud.net

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🚀 Beginning my next chapter – on the lookout for Product Design roles (lead/senior)… If you know a product or team that needs a designer with 15y+ of experience turning ideas into clean, ship‑ready UI, I’m all ears. #OpenToWork

It's such an early stage of MVP that it doesn't even have appropriate opengraph tags which I've only noticed now 🙈 So I'm tagging it with #buildinpublic just in case someone has higher expectations 🙃

Little @figma.com updates I love: ➡️ progressive blur for layer & background ➡️ text on path ➡️ texture & noise effects ➡️ grid improvements ➡️ radial repeat And most of these things used to require some hacky tricks (or plugins) or switching to another app... But not anymore! ❤️

..oh, as I'm still learning and playing with stuff I keep discovering new tiny things: ➡️ new lasso tools for drawing 😍 ➡️ tabbing for fast-switching between vertices ➡️ rotation origin! ➡️ multi vector editing ➡️ progressive blur being performant in Preview!

I've started reviewing people I follow on X, then clicked few times "Not interested in this post", then muted few words and turns out X feed doesn't have to be that bad after all 🤷‍♂️ I'm giving X another try 🙌

While ago I needed to build wireframes for engineering team who wanted to see more abstracted version of certain features or interfaces. Something more style- or platform-agnostic. But greyscale wireframes are boring. So I turned everything into blueprints.

People can now @grok on 𝕏... So here's current % breakdown of threads interactions: - 25% people pinging grok - 25% grok replying - 25% other AI generated replies posted by people to harvest likes - 15% emojis - 5% organic content meant to harvest likes - 5% actual replies worth reading...

Sometimes the best way to hand off a design to engineering is to code it yourself. And no, you don't have to build everything. Your code doesn't even need to be used. But build a prototype with static data, even with nasty hacks. Devs will be able to reverse engineer it - better than documentation!

I don't often design logos, but here's one I've done recently. It was meant to subtly show "MP" letters. But the brand is about fitness/health/nutrition/training, so besides letters I wanted to capture few things that at least I can see: - growth (steps/stairs going up) - muscle tendons - dynamism

Number of registered .ai domains over years: - '18: 50k - '22: 144k - '23: 354k - December '24: 572k - January '25: 600k In '23 (so BEFORE the boom) revenue from .ai domains for 🇦🇮 Anguilla was $32M which was over 20% of the gov’s total revenue for the year! Lucky country!

As a designer I sometimes feel like I don't wanna work anymore, I'm not doing progress, everything feels meaningless, just wanna quit... The lowest of the lows at work. What turns this upside down, at least sometimes, is someone saying "this is great, ship it!". And I'm back! Simple as that...

Must have for every fintech landing page: 3D globe illustration with lines connecting two different places... Bonus points if animated! Even more bonus points if you can spin the globe with drag/click gestures.

„Search posts” on user profiles is chefs_kiss.gif

Bluesky@bsky.app

📢 App Version 1.98 is rolling out now, including: (1/5) • a new option for who can reply to your posts • search posts by a user • lots of little improvements to make the app feel better!

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If you have zero education, but learn how to ask AI models the right questions , in many jobs you will be able to outperform someone with an advanced degree, but who is unwilling to use Large Language Models. Just takes a smartphone, curiosity to experiment and a mindset to learn.

bear with me: slack but for AI bots - for solo entrepreneurs, instead of inviting team members you’d create bots. each for specific „department” of your company. Sales Bot, Marketing Bot, CTO Bot… Each would have predefined instruction and access to specific documents, for example… 1/n

for example: PM Bot could proactively suggest you what to work on next based on its knowledg - access to some sort of „prodcut vision” docs, product roadmap in .xcl file and issues from zendesk. CTO Bot could look into your github codebase and product roadmap to suggest tech solutions.. And so on..

Visited twitter earlier today just to see how things are... And except bullshit threads, trump & musk, we now also have designers measuring who has bigger dick... Now back to 🦋!

Building a product with at least SOME engineering knowledge and letting Cursor (or any other AI coding tool) "do the rest" feels almost like cheating... Incredible times we live in!

It's been a while since I last shared some pixels here... Here's something I really liked, especially around iconography meaning: - 1 dot: single service - 4 dots: set of services - 1/3 dots: "Choose 1 out of 𝑛 services" Little design detail. #designsky

Loom is such a massive company. And yet they have that little UI bug in their reactions bar. Such a simple & basic CSS issue – almost embarrassing to ship it like that, especially with their resources and scale. Make UI Great Again!