182 / Designers are rising and starting companies

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Product Disrupt Half-Monthly

Apr 2025 • Part 1

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Welcome to Issue 182

After two months of travel, it feels good to be writing this issue from my home base in Berlin. Spring is around the corner, and I'm here for it.

I caught a few good movies on the road – The Substance totally blew my mind. Visually stunning, weird in the best way.

Have you watched anything good lately?

Designer Founders

Excellent initiative by the fine folks at Designer Fund to encourage more designers to become founders by starting companies. They curate and highlight the insights by the seasoned designer founders gathered through history.

Hear your calling

FLORA – Creative AI

Open canvas AI tool that connects all the other AI tools to bring you all the AI prowess under one app. You can use it to generate ideas, create images, and also animate them. The use cases and the highlighted community projects are mighty impressive.

Flower your ideas

Liquid Metal

Micro-tool by Paper that lets you easily convert any shape or logo into a shiny liquid metal render. Adjust it to your liking and take it with you.

Make it shine

Live Site – Navigate

Navigate brings an interesting concept to monetize the use of your data. Their website is a visual delight. I was blown away by their typography and scroll-based visual storytelling.

Price your data

Portfolio of Sania Saleh

Sania Saleh is a designer based in London. Her portfolio site is a beautiful showcase of her visual design work. Just keep scrolling to be inspired by her versatile work.

Shot of inspiration

DESIGN JOBS

Founding Product Designer – Medbill AI

New York City, US · Senior · Full time

Sr. Product Designer – Layer Health

Boston or NYC · Senior · Full time

Director of Product Design – MyFitnessPal

Remote · Expert · Full time

INTERESTING STUFF THIS MONTH

• Curated Social Headers

• Alma – Nutrition Companion

• TabTab – Tabs Manager

• Your Life in Weeks

• Resume to Website

Curated by Darshan Gajara.

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