I design. I build. Sometimes I do both at 1am just to see if an idea works.
The Story
My first design tool wasn't Figma. It was a shutter button.
I spent a good chunk of my life just chasing light. Waking up stupidly early, standing around in bad weather, waiting for one frame that felt right. Nobody teaches you that in a design course — that sometimes the thing you leave out of a frame matters more than what you put in it. Photography taught me that for free.
Then one day someone just handed me a project. A thumbnail for a music video. "Make it look good" — that was the entire brief. So I opened whatever tool I had and figured it out. No course, no degree, no five-year plan. Just a deadline staring at me.
Next thing that landed on my plate was a website for some crypto project. Client liked it on the first try, no back and forth, nothing. And that's the moment it clicked for me — okay wait, I think I can actually do this for a living.
So I just... kept saying yes.
Figma happened the way most habits happen — you don't notice it creeping in, and then suddenly it's 2am and you're nudging a button by 2 pixels for no reason. Curiosity turned into actual client work, and client work turned into two years of building stuff for real businesses with real stakes. Landing pages that had to convert, or the founder genuinely wasn't eating that month. Brand visuals for people who had exactly one shot to not look like amateurs.
At some point Framer entered the picture and everything shifted. I wasn't just designing anymore, I was shipping. No more handing off files to a developer and hoping they didn't ruin it. If I could imagine it, I could put it live myself.
And somewhere in all this I fell into vibe coding — you know the feeling. It's 11pm, you get an idea, you open your laptop not because you have to but because you can't not. No brief, no client, no process. Just you and the tools and wherever it takes you.
Honestly, that's become my favourite way to think now. Some of the stuff I'm most proud of started exactly like that — no deadline, no client, nobody asked for it. Just an experiment that turned into something.
I keep all of it here if you want to poke around: labs.pradipto.space →
Currently
Designing at Ladddr, based out of Bangalore, and doing side work with founders and Web3 teams. Still just looking for the next problem worth losing sleep over.
What I Work With
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Currently open to new projects.