akrakesh - Hackdot

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:46PM (#50347371)

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

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Thursday October 01, 2026 @11:44PM (#49929620)

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 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

Re:The new Firefox design is here on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:54AM (#49907105)

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;
    }

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2026) on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @12:14PM (#49524045)

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 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

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026) on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @12:13PM (#49170961)

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

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

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) on Thursday July 02, 2026 @07:07AM (#48759527)

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

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

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:10AM (#48380545)

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 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 materials

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

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

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) on Sunday May 03, 2026 @09:34AM (#47996806)

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

Re:Books Are Not Remotely Too Expensive on Thursday April 23, 2026 @07:32AM (#47874481)

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.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026) on Thursday April 02, 2026 @08:05AM (#47613304)

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

Re:Stop Using Grey Text on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:11AM (#47271133)

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

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026) on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @06:23AM (#47230892)

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

Re:Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation on Monday March 02, 2026 @09:12AM (#47218184)

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

Re:Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative on Monday March 02, 2026 @09:06AM (#47218122)

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.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) on Friday February 06, 2026 @07:02AM (#46911805)

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

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024) on Sunday November 03, 2024 @02:09AM (#42031582)

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.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024) on Saturday March 02, 2024 @12:09AM (#39570015)

"Upnext is shutting down on March 1st"

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

So, for which project are you hiring?

Re:Chasing Rainbows: Designing for Colorblindness on Saturday April 08, 2023 @01:44AM (#35490883)

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.

Re:Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows... on Thursday March 09, 2023 @01:51AM (#35078860)

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.

Re:I don't like making the best things on Friday February 17, 2023 @11:38PM (#34843950)

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

Re:Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself on Monday October 10, 2022 @12:55AM (#33147909)

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.

Re:Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:39PM (#33147515)

Now imagine if all such fluffy articles posted on HN has 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.

Re:Commercials make us like TV more (2010) on Saturday August 20, 2022 @11:59PM (#32537294)

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".

Re:How to Stop Procrastinating on Your Goals by Using the “Seinfeld St... on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @12:49AM (#32246945)

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.

Re:Puzzle of prized white truffle finally yields to science on Monday July 25, 2022 @10:45PM (#32233666)

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

Re:Why write about anything when there's smarter people than you? on Sunday July 03, 2022 @07:54AM (#31967031)

Gist:

Writing helps to truly understand something, and to think better

Your experience and context make your writing unique

Re:Firefox 91 – Revert back to old tab style on Monday August 16, 2021 @02:21AM (#28195441)

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

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019) on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:34PM (#19287346)

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

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (March 2019) on Friday March 01, 2019 @10:26PM (#19287318)

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

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2019) on Saturday February 02, 2019 @10:35AM (#19063488)

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