Hacker News: akrakesh

New comment by akrakesh in "Books are not too expensive"

akrakesh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:32:59 +0000

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.

New comment by akrakesh in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

akrakesh — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:05:17 +0000

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

Remote: Yes, only remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Figma

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

Email: akrakesh[at]gmail.com

Portfolio: https://rakeshk.com

I have 15 years' experience in designing web/mobile applications end-to-end. I specialize in founding design at startups where I own everything design, including landing pages, brand identities, and marketing materials

I'm no-nonsense, systems-oriented and generalist. Love designing complex, data-heavy products.

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

New comment by akrakesh in "Stop using grey text (2025)"

akrakesh — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:11:22 +0000

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.

New comment by akrakesh in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"

akrakesh — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:23:20 +0000

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

Remote: Yes, only remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Figma (and some HTML & CSS)

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

Email: akrakesh[at]gmail.com

Portfolio: https://rakeshk.com

I have 14 years' experience in designing web and mobile applications end-to-end. I am very strong in both UX and UI, and I specialize in founding design at startups where I own everything design.

I work with the founders, product managers and engineers, juggling usability, UI visuals, tight time-lines, and engineering constraints to take products from 0 to 1. I'm very comfortable doing things that don't scale to launch the MVP, and also establishing systems and workflows to grow the product.

I also take care of landing pages, brand identities, and marketing materials.

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

New comment by akrakesh in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

akrakesh — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:12:00 +0000

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

New comment by akrakesh in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

akrakesh — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:06:07 +0000

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.

New comment by akrakesh in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

akrakesh — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:02:07 +0000

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

Portfolio: https://rakeshk.com

I'm a no-nonsense, systems-oriented, generalist product designer with 14 years' experience. I specialize in founding design at startups, taking care of almost everything related to design. Love designing complex mobile and web apps. More about me: https://rakeshk.com/about.html

New comment by akrakesh in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)"

akrakesh — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 07:09:02 +0000

Location: Anywhere (I'm in India)

Remote: Only remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Product design, UI/UX design, Brand identity design, Graphic design, UI writing, HTML & CSS

Résumé/CV: https://radesign.in/files/Resume_Rakesh.pdf

Email: rakesh[at]radesign[dot]in

Portfolio: https://radesign.in

I'm a multidisciplinary product designer with 13 years' experience in designing web and mobile products for B2B and B2C (5 years full-time; 8 years as an independent contractor).

I specialize in designing complex products and in working as the solo/founding designer at startups, taking care of many aspects of design.

New comment by akrakesh in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)"

akrakesh — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 05:09:23 +0000

"Upnext is shutting down on March 1st"

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

So, for which project are you hiring?

New comment by akrakesh in "Chasing Rainbows: Designing for Colorblindness"

akrakesh — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 05:44:46 +0000

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.

New comment by akrakesh in "Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)"

akrakesh — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 06:51:46 +0000

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.

New comment by akrakesh in "I don't like making the best things"

akrakesh — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 04:38:08 +0000

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.

New comment by akrakesh in "Why you can’t tickle yourself"

akrakesh — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 04:55:09 +0000

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.

New comment by akrakesh in "Why you can’t tickle yourself"

akrakesh — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 03:39:30 +0000

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.

New comment by akrakesh in "Commercials make us like TV more (2010)"

akrakesh — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 03:59:46 +0000

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".

New comment by akrakesh in "How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Goals by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy”"

akrakesh — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 04:49:12 +0000

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.

New comment by akrakesh in "Puzzle of prized white truffle finally yields to science"

akrakesh — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 02:45:04 +0000

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

New comment by akrakesh in "Why write about anything when there's smarter people than you?"

akrakesh — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 11:54:29 +0000

Gist:

Writing helps to truly understand something, and to think better

Your experience and context make your writing unique

New comment by akrakesh in "Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style"

akrakesh — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 06:21:47 +0000

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

New comment by akrakesh in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019)"

akrakesh — Sat, 02 Mar 2019 03:34:18 +0000

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