Never introduced myself so hi I'm rishav & I make stuff.

Little easter egg on my blog, for those who notice 🎲

The new DESK is live! For over 15+ years I've been writing, reflections on design, psychology and building products. Over those years I published close to 1000 articles. Today I'm re-launching DESK as a personal archive of these essays, with the goal to keep writing till the very last day. Why the re-design? The old design felt too magazine like, too much like a publication that was trying to be something that it's not. It was holding me back to be more myself. The new design is more personal, more like an archive or register of all my essays. There are currently 688 essays accessible on the new DESK, many more still hidden and coming in the next couple days. I hope you like it (:

Introducing @indent, one coworker for your whole company Indent is a single agent that is built to work with every member of your team, simultaneously. Instead of every one setting up their own agents, use Indent to build one together. Try it at indent.com

Finally. Paperlab is open source, right now. Paper on the web that behaves like paper. type on it, fold it, grab a corner and peel it. real paper, real math: the sheet can't stretch, so your words bend with the page instead of breaking at the crease. Six weeks and one stubborn idea. crazy that an internal tool I built for another project turned into a whole library. Using @threejs & @greensock 🔗 paperlab.nawwara.studio 📂github.com/NourMtir0722/Pape…

Today I’m excited to announce the public release of Scend Over the last year, we’ve been working with private equity firms, investment banks, consulting firms, and search funds to power their market research and deal sourcing M&A currently has a data problem More than ever, PE is focused on acquiring and modernizing legacy businesses. The problem is that many of these firms have little to no data footprint. You won’t find them in legacy financial databases, and their founders often don’t have LinkedIn. So your ideal acquisition target will be in the long-tail of companies in the space; but it won’t exist in traditional finance databases that firms subscribe to. Scend takes a different approach: it isn’t a database at all Give Scend a prompt and it can generate any industry-specific dataset or research you can imagine. Each value is fetched and cited by an agent - so if you wanted to estimate the revenue of a dental clinic for example, it might: 1. find that clinic’s website 2. find the page listing out the number of staff members 3. multiply (headcount) x (industry multiple) to estimate revenue 4. then cite its sources and give its methodology All to produce a single value in your dataset. Our mission in building Scend is to give private-market investors the heavy duty research and data infrastructure that public market investors have had for decades See what we built below 👇

New season. New champions. NEW King of the Hill series. 1v1. 30 mins on the clock. @figma Motion ⚔️ Players: @novikoff vs @rishavmotion Judging: @pierscowburn (Figma) Mystery guest Fridays. 10am PT. Watch two designers fight for the throne 👑

AI transformed coding, science is next @ReactorfieldAI makes scientists and deep tech startups AI-native Built by me and @berkbuilds to accelerate science with frontier AI

Some of my VFX work (NO AI !!)

I had the powers before config and all I did was shitpost !

Well @figma I'm all ears for config now !

Let’s all come together and save the Config City! @Shreyayadesign and I built Config City, which is a mission-based game with AR integration where players become Figma Rangers, complete quick challenges, and unlock custom cubes that help save the config city that's in danger. There’s also a creative side to it — players can paint and customize their cubes either in the editor or directly in AR, using stickers, materials, shaders, colors, and other visual details. They can bring the cube and add it to the map and if you’re in San Francisco, you can actually discover some of these cubes on the streets. So don't forget to check those out. We built this using @figma Design, FigJam, Figma Make, Figma Weave, Figma MCP, Claude Code, and Google's MediaPipe Library for AR. Tiny missions, collectible cubes, AR surprises, and one city to save. Checkout the submissions here: Community Link: figma.com/community/file/164… Project Link: config-city.figma.site/ @contra #configmakeathon

The Arena x MagicPath - Match 2 (Teams) hosted by @theJoshLoh Come watch agents and humans design side by side in a 2v2 match! nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1qKDzzvek…

Teaser video from a recent branding we did for Longi

I used to do watercolor paintings every week years back but with time it reduced . even though we can generate watercolor style images like the one's I used for the exploration work but nothing's going to beat the feeling of creating something with hand after spending hours

exploration around the hiring industry. the idea was to make it different than the existing brands in the space.

Other explorations

Started Explorations in neurotech ended up creating some cool shots with heatmap effect