Designer. Products, tools, objects, what-ifs. Prev founding designer @luckyrobots
Joined October 2013
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Kieran Parker retweeted
My desk was always buried in sticky notes and index cards I could never find.
So I built the notes app I’ve always wanted. Droplist is a simple daily planner that feels like paper, but you never lose an idea or a to-do. There's a daily note for dropping thoughts as they come, and a desk view for organizing the bigger parts of your life.
See a fully interactive demo right on the homepage and try it for yourself → trydroplist.com
Kieran Parker retweeted
🚀 We’re thrilled to announce the release of Lucky Engine 2026.3! "The Matrix for Robots" is now 100% Agentic 🤖✨
To train autonomy, you need a "Matrix" a virtual playground where they can learn before touching the physical world.
Today, we are dropping Lucky Engine 2026.3, and we think that it redefines how synthetic environments are built.
• Real-time ray tracing & path tracing
• 100% agentic (AI agents fully control the engine)
• Upload a photo → instant data generation for your policies
• Graph-based procedural generation, AI generated determinism
• No Blender required. Here’s what’s inside 🧵 👇
Insightful question and response here.
And something I (and others) should keep in mind when selling yourself.
Chris asked what Parthos speciality was after hinting at wanting to work with him.
The response listed a bunch of generic things.
Had he replied with a direct "Logo design" or even "Logo design for hardware companies" im sure Chris would have earmarked this designer for the next hardware client that needed a logo.
But by being a bit too generic, you get put into the pool other other general designers (and likely buried).
During some hiring rounds, I often had general designers that were good but didn't stand out in one specific area.
But the ones that were extremely good at a specific thing/discipline/etc are still bookmarked - should i need that specific talent in the future.
Kieran Parker retweeted
I love pinterest, but always wanted more control of the UI. So I made a free plugin for chrome that turns your pinterest into a beautiful gallery that puts you in control. Introducing minimalpin.
Get it for free: minimalpin.com
Moved into this house 18 months ago and have slowly been renovating all the rooms.
During that time, I setup a small desk in a cramped room we were using as storage.
Today I finally setting up my office after months of converting the garage into a liveable space.
Still a mess, still a few cables to hide within paneling/cabinetry.
But what a view.
Can’t wait to be creative in this space.
Cad tool thinking in a design system is an interesting concept.
Gives me the same feeling moving from Fusion360 to Plasticity for 3D modelling.
Can't wait to get my hands on this and play around with it.
The pen tool hasn't changed since 1987. We're rebuilding it at Opacity.
Early access: opacity.com
2 years later and the new $2.99 subs still hit the same 😂
Kieran Parker retweeted
if Google can post this, there’s no reason to be shy to post your design work here
Celebrating small wins is hardwired into "Achieve," our goal-tracking sample app.
We wanted the simple act of checking off a task to feel like a celebration. Instead of the standard #Material ripple, we used Styles to drop in a custom, high-contrast completion animation—specifically, a brand-colored ring that expands and fades on tap, paired with a subtle pressed-state gradient.
It lets us focus entirely on polishing those custom, rewarding micro-interactions while Material handles the foundation.
#GoogleDesign #MaterialDesign #JetpackCompose #AndroidDev #UXDesign #InteractionDesign
Kieran Parker retweeted
I'm using Concentric Scaling for pill-shaped elements.
It's a technique where an icon's center matches the container's sides, keeping spacing aligned across every component size.
Kieran Parker retweeted
We decided it's time you all know exactly what we're building @OpacityHQ. We've been hard at work building a visual-first, full-stack software development platform, that gives you a team of autonomous AI agents to build and grow your software products and businesses.
I'm very lucky to get to build the thing I've always wanted :D
The future of software development is here.
Kieran Parker retweeted
people assume bootstrapped = lifestyle and lifestyle = no big goal/impact.
but they forget that you can be selfish, it's fine. you can have the lifestyle the great product and the huge impact.
many businesses have bootstrapped to well beyond 100M arr and have more impact than most VC funded companies.
you just need to sit with yourself and think about what you want before doing what everyone else is doing.
it's the ultimate form of having agency.
Kieran Parker retweeted
NEW FEATURE: Drag & drop any photo to generate its Japanese colour palette and gradients.
JAPANESE GRADIENTS [ FOR UI ] ™
Tell me this doesn't give you drop shipper course-bro vibes?
"I make $1,000 an hour, here is how... oh also i sell a $999 on how to do it yourself"
My friend Corey makes $1,000/hour doing the simplest AI business I've seen all year.
Only 5% of businesses use AI beyond ChatGPT, the other 95% need you.
He sits with a small business owner for 45 minutes, finds where they lose 5-10 hours a week, and prescribes off-the-shelf AI tools that fix it. He charges $999 for that assessment.
He's a doctor writing prescriptions. The tools already exist. He just knows which ones. Everyone wins.
50% of his clients then hire him to implement it, and that's where the $1,000/hour work comes from.
Corey came on the podcast @startupideaspod and gave away a full course for free.
Like actually the full way you can copy his system and run it yourself on your own:
- The exact offer (with a money-back guarantee that makes it a no-brainer)
- The 4-phase system to deliver it
- A template you can download and use today
- 6 things to upsell after the assessment
- 7 ways to get clients with zero audience and zero capital
Even if you never start this exact business, watching @coreyganim break it down will get your brain working on your own productized AI service. That's the real reason to press play.
Link: youtube.com/watch?v=dhbcVxYh…
Or watch below (1hr course)
Yeah, I know it's an hour. But if you're serious about startup ideas in the AI age right now, this is one of the most useful hours you'll spend all week. Corey holds nothing back.
I love this era. A laptop, a few conversations, and a real business.
Go get it.
