Rahul Gonsalves
@gonsalves_r
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Designer - @PhonePe. Built and sold @obvious_in #GirlDad
Bengaluru
Joined May 2009
just launched something I’ve been leading for the past few months at PhonePe: The design team’s official website! Quite proud of how this turned out—made me realise how much I love narrative design and working with a scrappy team ❤️
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The annual design pilgrimage to @DesignUpConf. Amazed every year at how it grows and yet still manages to feel like a community.
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During Covid when we were all “staying safe at home,” I did YouTube fitness videos led by this German lady who filmed in an apartment with spectacular natural lighting that characterizes the nicer apartments in these buildings. In my narrow and long Chicago town home with poor
Why do I emphasize small-lot, wide and shallow buildings? Because they are the recipe for dual-aspect units that "live like a house," with a front and a back. The wide front window wall faces the street (connected to the public life outside) and the wide back window wall faces
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Why are #Koramangala Inner Ring Road footpath getting redone and narrowed? It was wide enough for many to enjoy their morning and evening walks.
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The most ill conceived project that is to befall our city. It will be disastrous on a decadal time scale if this becomes a reality.
Here's what @DKShivakumar had to say about Bengaluru Tunnel Road. “You cannot satisfy everyone. Everyone wants to own a car, and then they complain about traffic. Time is money, I don’t want people to be stuck in traffic anymore..” 1/n
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Sigh. The first thing I do when I hear about new car launches these days is zoom in to check whether they have physical buttons on the interiors. Spoiler alert: almost none do :(
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I'll be here less and less: if you would like to keep up with my thinking or get in touch, please check out my website:
rahulgonsalves.com
Rahul Gonsalves' home on the internet.
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Trying to spend less time here and more on my own digital home. Spent the evening doing some housekeeping - setting up Mailgun, moving my domain off Gandi and on to Cloudflare.
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A brand new children’s library opens at the Bangalore International Centre: curated by @ChampacaBooks. So important to have free, open public spaces.
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Hey Bangalore friends! I'm coming to town to jam with my team on https://t.co/F6d9Dh2WQx. Looking for a place to work out of Tue->Fri in town/Indiranagar (4 or 5 of us). Any conference room you're not using will do! Guaranteed mast
singonesong.com
Discover your singing potential with AI-powered vocal analysis and coaching
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just put out the pitch call for volume n°2 of @PatinaMag and I’m so excited about this theme 🫶🏼 if you’re a writer, creatives, academic, curator, anyone who loves to write and has stories to tell about this theme, please please pitch!
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Wen India?
For example the difference in land use between Chicago city blocks in the left (and these are pre-war, when we supposedly had good urbanism) and the Prague city blocks on the right (which has more density, green space, and income and use diversity thanks to spatial discipline).
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A huge milestone for a great product. Congratulations Team @figma!
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Never gets old: I love using our own products and getting something magically show up at home! Thanks Team @pincode!
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