Note to self: Never work on a milestone based contract.

Happy Halloween! Drew a new custom icon that matches the spooky vibes for today. (and, changes to bloodied fangs in Dark Mode) :P apps.apple.com/in/app/looku...

This summer I did something different for LookUp’s major update. I broke it down into making multiple fake apps i.e. small prototypes that did just one specific thing while scaffolding everything else through rudimentary screenshots. blog.viditb.com/fake-apps-ho...

Blending Apple's design philosophy with my own understanding of the software design. LookUp's design process was intense, but rewarding. blog.viditb.com/what-is-look...

So excited to see LookUp featured in so many places today!! :)

LookUp 12 is out now! It’s a massive update with three tentpole features. 1. A completely new design 2. Learning Modes that help people build vocabulary through examples & conversations 3. Origin Maps that help traverse a word’s history. App Store: apps.apple.com/in/app/looku...

Made some fun, interactive loading states in LookUp. They feel like they’re gliding atop of liquid glass. With AI sometimes the speed of output can be slower than traditional API calls and no one likes to keep waiting, but if one must, might as well have some fun with it! 🙃

Update Approved!! For 10th year in a row, LookUp is going to be ready for the new iOS release on day 1. 🙂

UI that you’ll want to lick. Been working on this redesign for LookUp for sometime now. Releasing soon.

A glimpse of one of the biggest redesigns that LookUp has gone through in the recent past. LookUp 12 is launching this September with iOS 26. Public beta here: testflight.apple.com/join/P8t1v62U

Search is so much more faster with LookUp 12. Redesigns aren’t just about visual veneer, they should make the product better in meaningful ways.

Pizzas from Last weekend.

LookUp 12 is the fourth major redesign of LookUp and it’s launching with iOS 26! Try out the Beta here: testflight.apple.com/join/P8t1v62U

Alan Kay is speaking at the Notion conference. This will be exciting!! 💯 makewithnotion.com/speakers/ala...

Received a conference acceptance a few days ago. Then an another email, saying that they erroneously sent me an acceptance email, and it was actually a rejection. Such is the state of my rejections of late. 🥲

The idea of having complete context on a person is a myth—context is vast, dynamic, and often intangible. No AI can capture it Bad Contextual Computing UX isn’t from a lack of context, but from a lack of shared understanding of it. Wrote about it here: blog.viditb.com/the-paradox-...

In the last 8 months, job hunt has been stressful yes, but it's the feeling of "no matter what I do, no matter how hard I try, it's just not enough" that's stuck with me and it's soul crushing.

I started researching on context about a year ago, and have wanted to write this post for that long. I think I finally have something meaningful to say. Just finished this ~2000 word post that also has a lot of visuals. Hoping to post it next week.🤞

I hear Apple's open to Mergers and Acquisitions for AI. Maybe they would also be open to hiring prototypers who've designed AI experiences? 🙃

Finally stopped procrastinating on this wrote a new blog post. This time I talk about how AI is best when it stops taking the center-stage: blog.viditb.com/beyond-spark...

Boo!!

Throwback to when I wrote a mini research zine on designing pizza ovens, for my class in Berkeley.

Had friends over for Pizza the other day, made an eclectic bunch, and then made some Naan for dinner from the left over dough. 🙃

@jessiechar.com Hey Jessie! I’m curious if there’s a way to find old Layers Conference talks? I was trying to reference a 2018 talk from Figma people, and finding it difficult to watch it online.

I once got a rejection email that went something like this: "Very cool that you met Tim!... However, we've chosen to move ahead with other candidates." 🙃

My Uber driver has Beethoven's symphony playing in the car. Impeccable taste I must say.

What makes a great pizza? virtuosovidit.blogspot.com/20... Disclaimer: This isn't a recipe (I'm still working on it)

I think I have gradually developed a hobby for photography.

7 books in a year. You’ll know my job hunt has stopped when my GoodReads activity slows down.

Loved reading Spy ✗ Family! How have I missed out on reading manga until now. Such fun!! 💯

Highly recommend Stolen, such a good watch :

This section of portfolio is coming along nicely.

Made some holiday Pizza!

Love my oil cruet

Berkeley might just be the best city I've ever lived in. 1. Very very walkable 2. Greenery all around 3. Small Human Scale Buildings 4. Decent Bus Network 5. Most importantly, you run into cool, kind people all the time. 6. Also, ample cool vegan cafés and restaurants!!

After spending a year and half at UC Berkeley designing emerging tech, I think it's important to hate tech a little. Not just be not smitten by it, but rather be over it completely. Like how about we start with no technology? And then add only what's necessary?

Trying out this new experiment where I try to make one post on my blog every day, that doesn't include my opinions, reviews, or tech stuff. Just random, every day things, rather than big thought posts. virtuosovidit.blogspot.com

Is that a Liquid Glass speech bubble I'm seeing in a comic? 😂

New app. Shiuli: Making it easy to write Alt Text for your images. Sharing TestFlight soon. #A11y #Accessibility

The APXGP ✗ HotWheels merch is so cool! But ships in May 2026!?!?! So weird.

Was watching F1 the other day, and I was thinking what if, instead of fictional brands or big sponsors, Apple just used that space to promote indie apps and small businesses? Wouldn't that be something!

Love the Berkeley vibe

Some people have asked if my thesis videos are TouchDesigner, or AfterEffects visualisations (perfectly valid way of prototyping visuals). They're not, this is a completely functioning works-like and looks-like prototype.

Slept for 2 hours straight after having coffee at 5PM. I think caffeine is having a reverse effect on me. 🤣

Slept for 2 hours straight after having coffee at 5PM. I think caffeine is having a reverse effect on me. 🤣

F1 was fun, but also very tropey and predictable. Loved the performances though; that's what kept me seated for a rather long 2h 38m runtime:

Making some updates to my thesis lamp.

At this point I think I can safely rank the Bay Area's Avocado Toasts. 😄🙃

Biggest lessons I learnt from my thesis last year: 1. Don't judge your work while making. 2. Make something small. Very very small, and then have it grow. Not the inverse.

Trying to use ChatGPT to update my portfolio and obviously it does better when I ask it to do small interactions as opposed to bigger full-page changes. Nothing beats writing your html + css.