My first design tool had a shutter button.
I spent years chasing light — early mornings, bad weather, waiting for the one frame that said everything without saying anything. Photography taught me something no design course ever could: that the space you leave out matters as much as what you put in.
Then someone handed me a project — a thumbnail for a music video — and said make it look good. So I did. No course, no degree, no grand plan. Just a project, a deadline, and figuring it out.
The next one was a website for a crypto project. Client loved it on the first go. I remember thinking — okay, I think I can do this.
So I kept going.
I picked up Figma the way most people pick up bad habits — slowly, then all at once. What started as curiosity turned into client work, which turned into two years of building real things for real businesses. Landing pages that had to convert or founders wouldn't eat. Brand visuals for people who had one shot at a first impression.
Design gave me a new canvas. Framer gave me the ability to build what I was designing — so I stopped handing off files and started shipping things myself.
And somewhere along the way I discovered vibe coding — that thing where you have an idea at 11pm, open your laptop, and just start building until it's real. No brief. No process. Just instinct, tools, and seeing where it goes.
It's become my favourite way to think. Some of my best work started as a random experiment with no client, no deadline, and no plan.
I keep all of it here: labs.pradipto.space →
Designing at Ladddr, based in Bangalore, and working with founders and Web3 teams on the side. Always looking for the next problem worth solving.
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Currently open to new projects.