My favourite posts on designing a new feature

(Last updated: 29 Mar 2024)

These were written by people who actually designed them. You should read these to understand how some of the most popular features got conceived.

• Threads in Slack, a long design journey

• Facebook reactions (because not everything in life is Likable)

• Evolving the Facebook News Feed to Serve You Better

• Building Zomato Gold

• Designing Google Maps for Motorbikes

• Facebook Friends Icon and Why symbols matter

• Ola Play design

• Redesigning the Uber pickup experience

• Redesigning Chrome Desktop

• Redesigning Uber for Business

• How Stack Overflow Redesigned the Top Navigation

• Redesigning Android Emoji

• Medium’s Heart to Clap journey

• Future of Slack

• Story of how Swiggy POP was built…

• Designing To Encourage The Habit Of Tipping

• How Spotify Designed a New Homepage Experience

• Linear: A design reset

• Family Values

P.S When you want to understand how a popular design is created, just type in “X design/redesign” and you’ll find it on the designer’s personal website or on Behance or Medium.

Note: I will keep adding more interesting posts I find to this list.