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Avantika Pidiha reposted thisAvantika Pidiha reposted this🎉 Featuring Avantika Pidiha on Wall of Portfolios! Check out her inspiring work and journey in design here: https://lnkd.in/dbJ2CdVG #WallOfPortfolios #portfoliodesignidea #portfolioinspiration #portfolioofthemonth #bestportfolio #darkthemeportfolio #lightthemeportfolio #topdigitaltitans #designjob #designhiring
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Avantika Pidiha shared thisI shipped my very first app! It started with a simple question every Indian knows too well — "Khana kya banaun?" (What should I cook?) I wanted a simple app: • Suggest balanced meals • Give recipes • Let me save links from YouTube & Instagram One place for all "my food." So I built it. I didn't learn to code in 2 weeks.. I learned to orchestrate. AI tools are instruments. But to create a symphony, you need an orchestrator. ChatGPT gave me the roadmap- "Connect GitHub, deploy on Vercel, set up Capacitor, build in Android Studio." Great for direction. Not so great when things broke. Lovable helped me prototype fast- a rough working model in 2 hours. But as the codebase grew, it overwrote changes, burned credits, and struggled with debugging. Claude Code changed the game- it could actually read my entire codebase and explain why things were breaking. My meal planner was recommending eggs 3x a day for everyone. Technically correct (optimizing for B12 in a veg-heavy diet), completely useless as a product. No single tool could build this app. But together, with me orchestrating? Claude plans → Lovable implements → Vercel deploys → Claude reviews & plans again. The glue? An .md file. A simple planning doc that became the contract between tools that don't talk to each other. The real skill wasn't prompting. It wasn't debugging. It was knowing when to override all of them with a product decision. Right now, the app is live on the Play Store for testing. And the question that started it all? "Khana kya banaun?" App toh ban gayi. Now I just send the links to my cook. #BuildingWithAI #ProductDesign #VibeCoding #AITools #claudecode PS: I'd been sitting on this post for a while. Attended the Razorpay session yesterday and it was the nudge I needed. Thank you Ankit Punia, Saurabh Soni, Aakash Kikani, Sudarshan N Srinivas, aditya nawal & Akanksha Khanna for walking through your process so openly. Mine looks a little different. But core was same, the curiosity to learn & build!
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Avantika Pidiha shared thisI wish I had something this simple when I started design. I built this yesterday using Figma Make, a swipeable deck that helps younger designers learn the basics of design psychology in a fun, lightweight way. It’s designed to make principles easy to remember and even easier to apply. No long articles, no heavy theory, just quick, intuitive learning. If you're just starting out or want a fast refresher, this might help you level up your fundamentals without the fluff. Link in the comments!
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Avantika Pidiha shared thisI’ve been exploring ways to make design thinking more accessible, practical, and less theoretical; the way product teams actually use it. So, I built a Custom GPT that guides you through design thinking and innovation with real-world clarity. It helps you: 🔹 Break down problem statements 🔹 Strengthen PRDs and assumptions 🔹 Think deeper instead of jumping to solutions 🔹 Apply frameworks like "How Might We", "Alternate Worlds" , "AEIOU", etc. 🔹 Get constructive, direct feedback on ideas 🔹 Move through design thinking stages with structure and confidence I built this using my own notes, Harvard coursework, and hands-on product/UX experience; packaged into something anyone can use to think faster & better. If you’re building something, exploring a new feature, or want to sharpen your product thinking, try it out- 🔗 Link in the comments! And if you’re hiring someone who’s strong in problem-solving and structured thinking, consider this GPT a small window into how I approach ambiguity and break down complex problems. I’ve fed it real examples and frameworks I use daily; so I’m confident you’ll find the questions it asks (and the answers it gives) genuinely useful. Would love to hear what you think. #designthinking #productthinking #userexperience #designstrategy #customGPT #ChatGPT
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Avantika Pidiha shared thisLast week, I had the opportunity to mentor final year students at NIFT Mumbai (NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY, MUMBAI) on Secondary Research & UX Audits. It was less of a lecture and more of a conversation. I discussed the projects students were already working on, how they could structure their research better, and how the kind of thinking we use in the industry can be applied in their own work. We also touched on using AI as a creative shortcut, to research faster, visualize ideas, or even just get unstuck. It was a pretty hands-on class, and I hope it helped them see design and research a little differently. Teaching, reminded me how much clarity comes from explaining what you do every day. Would love to do more of this, bridging design practice, research, and education.
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Avantika Pidiha reposted thisAvantika Pidiha reposted thisOpenAI just launched ChatGPT Atlas — a brand new AI-powered web browser that can literally browse the internet for you. Atlas has ChatGPT built right in, with a sidebar that understands the page you’re on, inline writing help, natural language controls, and even Agent Mode, which can plan, research, and complete tasks automatically. It’s like a self-driving browser — perfect for research, productivity, shopping, and learning. Atlas also introduces browser memory, which syncs with your ChatGPT memory to make your experience more personal over time. #chatgpt #ai #aitools #learnontiktok #artificialintelligence #llm #tech #technology #techtok
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Avantika Pidiha reposted thisAvantika Pidiha reposted thisWe’re bringing FigJam to ChatGPT! Starting today, you can use the Figma App in ChatGPT to generate FigJam diagrams from your ChatGPT conversations, then open in Figma to continue collaborating with your team Excited to keep working with OpenAI to expand the use cases for our app in ChatGPT. This one was a blast to work on, with folks from teams all across Figma stepping in to bring this to life and working hand in hand with the great folks over in OpenAI. Lets keep it going!
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Avantika Pidiha shared thisGood UX used to mean giving users control. Now, with AI and automation, it’s about designing for the 𝗺𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝗴𝗼. Here’s what I learned from reading "Designing Agentive Technology" a book by Christopher Noessel. 👇 https://lnkd.in/d5pAZRJf
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Avantika Pidiha shared thisExcited to share that I’ve completed the Design Thinking and Innovation program from Harvard Business School Online! This program sharpened my ability to solve problems creatively, design with empathy, and think strategically across products, teams, and systems. Can’t wait to channel these insights into building experiences that truly make a difference. #DesignThinking #Innovation #HarvardBusinessSchool
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Avantika Pidiha reacted on thisAvantika Pidiha reacted on thisBangalore Genzzs are operating on a different level man…🥹 I just got this sweet Box - delivered at our Rethink Systems Bangalore villa/office ❤️ Ps: Whoever this person is, they checked my today's LinkedIn post and figured out this Idea, so cool! Cake looks AI-generated right? Yes, the cake legit has pixel-perfect writing, coz that person has made it print, not icing lol. Maybe proving the point that he/she knows about AI😂
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Avantika Pidiha liked thisAvantika Pidiha liked thisSooo…For the last week I was quietly losing my mind trying to find a video editor in Vietnam. The product design team at Zero, me and four absurdly talented humans, is shifting from designing the product to figuring out growth marketing. Meta ads, Foreplay, competitor UGC, every rabbit hole the internet has on the topic. And in the middle of all of it, I kept thinking, Damn it! we need a real editor. Where am I going to find one of those in Hoi An, urgently. Turns out four out of four people on the team can already edit. At a level I had no idea about. Akshai Shyju learnt to make movies at NID before he learnt design. Cut, colour, art direction, all of it. Hamsa Rasheem has been doing motion graphics for fifteen years, starting as a kid on real film sets. Vengada Sabareesan's superpower is figuring out anything beyond 3D, and he just goes and does it. Sanjay Chauhan is, annoyingly, just good at everything. The gap I'd convinced myself existed didn't exist. The team I'd been working with for months had this whole other skill stack I never knew. Then a viral pigeon video showed up on Twitter. And I thought, why do we keep making sad ass performance ads? Why can't we just make fun ones, find things we actually find hilarious, and bend them toward what we want to say about Zero? What's up there is the first attempt. Akshay and Rashi pulled it off in two days. It's funnier than anything I would have written sober. A small thing you should know. Zero is opening for beta soon. My job for the next month is to get a specific number of you onto that list. Which means I'm going to be in your face. Daily. We have a lot more bangers lined up after this one, and this team is, in actual fact, insane. Save yourself the pain. Join the list now. Hats off, Akshay & Rashi. You two are absurd. • • • #BuildInPublic #FoundersJourney #ProductDesign #GrowthMarketing #StartupLife first-time founder design to growth small team marketing AI ads for startups founder journey beta launch
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Avantika Pidiha liked thisAvantika Pidiha liked thisgave a design talk at the UW today #godawgs and something hit me halfway through the Q&A: students no longer see design and engineering as separate things almost every question was: “what AI tools are you using?” “are you coding your prototypes?” 4 years ago, most designers stopped at Figma now they’re using tools like Claude Code, v0, and Replit to build actual products themselves which honestly changes the role of design completely... AI isn’t replacing designers, it’s amplifying the ones who can think beyond the visuals. The real differentiator is taste, storytelling, and knowing what's actually worth building. I'm wondering what are some ways you've seen AI help you in your creative process? huge thank you to Pitch Sinlapanuntakul and University of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering for for having me!! #design #ai
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Avantika Pidiha reacted on thisAvantika Pidiha reacted on thisAfter 9 years of building AI that lived on screens, I'm joining Meta to help build the AI that lives in the real world. Starting as a Machine Learning Engineer on the Wearables Voice AI team, I'll be working on the speech and language systems behind Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses. What excites me most is building Voice AI and LLM systems that understand accents and languages at global scale, running efficiently on-device with low latency and strong privacy. Beyond simply responding to commands, pushing toward agentic AI that can perceive context, reason, and assist in real time. Grateful for an incredible 4 years at Dream11. The scale, the people, and the problems we solved together shaped me deeply as an engineer. Looking forward to this next chapter. #Meta #VoiceAI #EmbodiedAI #AgenticAI
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Avantika Pidiha liked thisAvantika Pidiha liked thisWe've spent 50 years personalising every industry on earth. Except the one our kids spend the most time inside. I've been thinking about why education didn't follow. It isn't laziness. It isn't regulation. It isn't even bureaucracy. It's a business model decision, against human evolution The moment colleges personalise, the asset that prints them money, becomes irrelevant. Gathered some thoughts on this while building Zero here • • • #FutureOfWork #HigherEd #EdTech #SkillsOverDegrees #CareerTransformation
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