Daniel Destefanis

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Product Designer @anthropicai, previously: @figma & @discord — Building @theclocksapp

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Daniel Destefanis

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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!

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

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.

Building a design tool that lets you animate Metal shaders (for iOS and MacOS) with a timeline. Now I just need an app to use this star intro for

With the release of Fable 5, I thought it would be fun to build and open-source a new MacOS screensaver using a metal shader, that way could also try building your own! Totally free, link to the repo below

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

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

Latest work from playing with the now open-source paper shaders, maybe i should make this into a wallpaper

Gradients look better with some 3d depth

Liquid glass but it's 3d, all in metal

Exploring new vibes for a 2026 update to my design portfolio

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!

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

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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.

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!

Using Fable to build myself a 3d mockup tool

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!

Here’s the updated Claude voice mode in action. I especially love how Claude voice animates in

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.

Built a tool to animate it

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

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.

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

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).

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

I'm really excited about our new Figma feature, variables. So, I built a new plugin I call "Find Variables" to help you find where they're being used across your design. It will be free and open source once it's published to Figma community!

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

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

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