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Swapnil Acharya

Design Leader, Thinker and UX Strategist.

CDO at Cinevision.AI. Previously Creative Director at Leapfrog Technology and co-founder of Expresiv Studios. Designed norm-bending film posters, went up to Everest region with Google folks, and conceived Nepal's first economic daily newspaper.

Recent posts

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How to Onboard an AI Coding Agent Like a New Intern

Training an AI coding agent on your team's standards works like onboarding an intern — except it never remembers. Free white paper on AGENTS.md and context engineering.

blog • September 2, 2026
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Vibecoders Took Over, and a Product Designer Stopped Shipping Figma Files

I stopped shipping 50-screen Figma files and negotiated a new role instead. A designer's honest account of what vibe coding actually changed — and what it did not.

blog • August 24, 2026
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Why AI Art & Design Won't Last (And What Will)

Novelty always dies; utility is what's left standing. Fifteen years of watching platforms rise and churn says generative AI's 'empowerment' moment is no different — and here's where that leaves designers.

blog • August 5, 2026
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Everyone's Getting Dumber and Calling It Efficiency

A self-inflicted deskilling of the knowledge worker is underway, and it's showing up in the data now, not just in the confessions.

blog • July 23, 2026
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Your Client Ran Your Design Through ChatGPT. Now What?

Clients are forwarding ChatGPT critiques of design work to their designers. Here is why that feedback is flawed — and a playbook to handle it.

blog • July 7, 2026