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akrakeshon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026)

Location: India (looking for work from anywhere in the world)

Remote: Yes, only remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Figma, HTML, CSS

Résumé/CV: https://rakeshk.com/files/Resume_Rakesh.pdf

Email: akrakesh[at]gmail.com

I have 15 years' experience in designing web and mobile applications end-to-end. I specialize in founding design at startups where I own everything design, including product design, design systems, landing pages, brand identities, and marketing design. I love designing complex, data-heavy products.

More about me: https://rakeshk.com/about.html

akrakeshon The new Firefox design is here

And, adding this to userChrome.css removes all rounded corners

    :root {
     --border-radius-small: 0 !important;
     --border-radius-medium: 0 !important;
     --border-radius-large: 0 !important;
     --border-radius-xlarge: 0 !important;
     --border-radius-circle: 0 !important;
    }

akrakeshon Books are not too expensive

I guess the hardcovers are better because they are not printed in India. From what I've seen with nonfiction books, the ones printed in India are only softcovers—pathetic paper/build quality, and poor readability because they're smaller than their US counterpart (usually 19.8 cm long in India compared to 23.5 cm in the US), and the US layout is shrunk to fit the Indian size. So, any hardcover is imported from the US and thus of better quality.

akrakeshon Stop using grey text (2025)

The article could have been more useful if its point was just 'use sufficient contrast'. As it is, the article is overly prescriptive, and feels like trying too hard to be sensational or cute.

akrakeshon Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS

Finally, seems like a real possibility of ditching my Apple device (never used Android because of Google)

akrakeshon Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative

Reduce it to the size of iPhone 5 and make the main camera flush with the surface, and I'll buy it in a heartbeat.

akrakeshon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)

"Upnext is shutting down on March 1st"

"Our team is now fully dedicated to Brief and Mailbrew"

So, for which project are you hiring?

akrakeshon Chasing Rainbows: Designing for Colorblindness

If there’s any uncertainty, adding labels, icons, or textures to each meaningful color of your design will make it accessible to many more people…

The author touches upon it; expanding on it would take another full-length article.

akrakeshon Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)

Thank you for SumatraPDF. I love that it's faster than any other PDF/ebook viewer I tried. I hate that EPUB content doesn't flow fluidly, which IMO defeats the purpose of the format, and that there is no way to customize its look in the advanced settings, because of which I couldn't use it to read ebooks.

akrakeshon I don't like making the best things

One can try to make 'me things', and strive to make them good enough, or good, or even to their best extent, but not necessarily the best out there, at least always.

akrakeshon Why you can’t tickle yourself

An advantage of hngists: you can read all the gists of all the 30 articles on the same page without navigating to a separate article page—a few clicks and a few minutes could be saved per visit.

akrakeshon Why you can’t tickle yourself

Now imagine if all such fluffy articles posted on HN have such a gist; how much time and sanity it could save. https://hngists.com is my 15-year-old nephew's attempt to do it. It would be great if you could post your comment there.

akrakeshon Commercials make us like TV more (2010)

Gist: The authors think, without interruptions, we get adapted to the pleasures of a show; it becomes less pleasurable as we get used to it. Interruptions re-trigger the initial enjoyment. So, commercials (interruptions) make us like TV more.

Thoughts: Clickbait title. A better title would be: 'Interruptions make us like a TV show more'.

Note: The authors are "working with a large TV network, which is replicating the study in its market research".

akrakeshon How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Goals by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy”

I've always thought 'don't break the chain' is a flawed technique. When you do something not because you want or have to do it, but for the sake of not breaking the chain, the first time you break the chain you'd realize that you can break it again by telling an excuse to yourself without much regret. Making excuses would become a habit, and you'd be back to square one.

akrakeshon Puzzle of prized white truffle finally yields to science

To me, Pig is a food-themed John Wick satire.

akrakeshon Why write about anything when there's smarter people than you?

Gist:

Writing helps to truly understand something, and to think better

Your experience and context make your writing unique

akrakeshon Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style

Seems they have, in 91.0. The colored bar that appears above the container tabs are not appearing for me after the update.

akrakeshon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019)

Location: Anywhere

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Independent UI/UX & Brand Identity Designer with 7 years' experience. I create iOS apps, Android apps, web apps, websites, landing pages, brand identities and marketing collateral.

Portfolio: https://radesign.in

Email: https://radesign.in/contact

akrakeshon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (March 2019)

SEEKING WORK from anywhere | ONLY REMOTE

Independent UI/UX & Brand Identity Designer with 7 years' experience. I create iOS apps, Android apps, web apps, websites, landing pages, brand identities and marketing collateral.

Portfolio: https://radesign.in

Email: https://radesign.in/contact

akrakeshon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2019)

SEEKING WORK from anywhere | ONLY REMOTE | I'm in India

I'm a web and mobile UI/UX designer.

Experience: 7 years

Technologies/Skills:

- UI/UX design for web, iOS and Android

- Information architecture

- Interaction design

- Visual design

- Icon design

- Brand Identity design

- HTML & CSS

Portfolio: http://radesign.in

Email: http://radesign.in/contact

akrakeshon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2019)

Location: Anywhere

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies/Skills:

- UI/UX design for web, iOS and Android

- Information architecture

- Interaction design

- Visual design

- Icon design

- Brand Identity design

- HTML & CSS

Portfolio: http://radesign.in

Email: http://radesign.in/contact

akrakeshon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2019)

Location: Anywhere

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies/Skills:

- UI/UX design for web, iOS and Android

- Information architecture

- Interaction design

- Visual design

- Icon design

- Brand Identity design

- HTML & CSS

Portfolio: http://radesign.in

Email: http://radesign.in/contact

akrakeshon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (January 2019)

SEEKING WORK from anywhere | ONLY REMOTE | I'm in India

I'm a web and mobile UI/UX designer.

Experience: 7 years

Technologies/Skills:

- UI/UX design for web, iOS and Android

- Information architecture

- Interaction design

- Visual design

- Icon design

- Brand Identity design

- HTML & CSS

Portfolio: http://radesign.in

Email: http://radesign.in/contact

akrakeshon The Now Habit (2015)

There are many valid points in the summary but it seems to consider only procrastination caused by perfectionism, while it's just one of the causes. Procrastination is usually the result of difficulties in regulating emotions. When we face a task we don't want to do we feel an assortment of negative emotions—we may feel bored, resentful, frustrated, anxious or guilty. We put off the task to avoid these negative emotions.

Techiniques such as Unschedule are at best just hacks that are effective only in the short term. The only way to permanently beat procrastination is to persist on work you don't want to do until it becomes a habit. Along with the usual techniques of splitting a task into sub-tasks, removing distractions, starting immediately, etc., making yourself accountable goes a long way in crushing procrastination. Read more at https://procrushtinate.com/guide.html

akrakeshon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2018)

Location: Anywhere

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies/Skills:

- UI/UX design for web, iOS and Android

- Information architecture

- Interaction design

- Visual design

- Icon design

- Brand Identity design

- HTML & CSS