Daniel Destefanis

@daniel__designs • 15,353 subscribers

Design @figma, Previously: @discord Building @theclocksapp

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Daniel Destefanis

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I'm excited to announce I'm joining the design team at Anthropic to work on their consumer products!

My very first iOS app has a name! Introducing Clocks, a more fun standby mode. I've been designing in it Figma and building with Cursor. Testflight soon!

New background and clock for my upcoming app. Designed in Figma, built with Cursor

Weekend progress on The Clocks App, designed in Figma built with Cursor.

First project using three.js, little work in progress landing page for The Clocks App

Gradients look better with some 3d depth

We just shipped a brand new feature for Figma Make. Take any Make, convert it to a set of editable design layers for you to iterate on, annotate, or share. More to come, we're just getting started

Really happy with how my first app is coming together. Designed with Figma, built with the help of Cursor.

My first iOS app launches tomorrow!

Exploring new vibes for a 2026 update to my design portfolio

We just launched Community for Figma Make! Now people can easily play and remix real vibe coded ideas. I'll be posting new files that use shaders, three.js and other fun ideas for free throughout the week. Link below

Onboarding progress for my app over the weekend

A playful carousel for my new portfolio, built with framer motion

I'm excited to share Code Layers are available today in Figma Sites! I'm excited for people to build rich, interactive ideas for their sites either with Code or using AI. Huge shoutout to the team, it was an incredible amount of work and there's more to come!

I don't only make gradients you know, heres a recent swiftui transition using metal shaders

Early testflight is going well, excited for people to try this!

Still so stoked on my app and matching screen savers turned out

Really trying to explore gradients that feel more dreamlike

Just published this swipe-able card stack as a Figma Make for anyone to reuse, community link in the next tweet

Built my second iOS app over the weekend, a guitar tuner built specifically for me. It's simple, exactly the features I need with visuals I had fun designing.

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Over the weekend I built a little slime pet with help of claude code. He hangs out, falls asleep, jumps around, and sings the lyrics to whatever song I have playing on spotify, I love him.

I was tired of not being able to browse my Twitter bookmarks more visually, so I made an infinite grid with the ability to filter by folder. Built on top of Andrew's great work. It's open source, I'll post the link below!

What if Macbook notch was a place you could store stuff? I'm building myself a MacOS app I'm calling Knapsack. It's essentially the inventory UI from Animal Crossing but as a clipboard manager. You can store stuff there, assign icons for that stuff (because why not), and more.

So excited to announce my first iOS app has launched! Clocks is a more fun standby mode for your entire setup. Turn your phone, ipad, or mac into a beautiful clock display. It's available in the app store now, link below. Happy to answer any questions about my process!

Built a tool to animate it

Just launched a 2026 update for my personal design portfolio, really happy with how it turned out.

My new Figma plugin, Vector Fields is out! Create generative patterns with lines, dots, and custom SVGs. It's free and open source and very fun to play with

I built a new mesh gradient tool that can create beautiful gradients from photographs. The results are often dreamlike and capture a general vibe. I'm calling it Photo Gradient, it's free on web and soon a Figma plugin, link below

I've been building a new app I'm calling Worldly, it teaches me about a new place in the world everyday and links to wikipedia if I want to learn more

Light shimmering on the water

So excited to share Code Layers, a new feature Niko and I have been working on that’s coming soon to Figma Sites

Built a new Figma plugin I call "Magic Messages". It generates entire conversations using ChatGPT and renders them using our design system at Discord. You can set a topic, # people talking, and # of messages. This way we can generate content for our designs more easily.

Just published a new Figma plugin for creating mesh gradients from photographs. It's called Photo Gradient. It's completely free, available now on Figma Community or in your browser (links below).

Still a few case studies to write but finally shipped a new design portfolio that captures more of my side project work. Built with next.js and Cursor

Todays gradient (all in metal btw)

I've been working on a new Figma plugin called Selection Text. It's a lightweight way to see how your text layers are styled in any given frame or set of frames. I designed it to be fast, lightweight, and feel native to Figma. I'll post an in-depth look once it's published!

Just submitted my new Figma plugin for approval. It helps you create gradients from photographs

Working on a new side project for dithering and applying Riso graph-like effects on the web and in Figma

The aesthetic has to match on your whole setup so we're making screensavers cool again. Coming soon to The Clocks App