💼 Dir. of design at ResolvetoSaveLives.org ❤️ Lead Simple.org 🪙 Seed investor 😷 Started Healthicons.org 🎨 Prev. design partner at GV.com
London
- Tweets 1,881
- Following 787
- Followers 56,609
- Likes 66,717
Pinned Tweet
Over 30 million blood pressure measures have been measured in Simple. Big milestone. One of our designers @jamiecarter7 wrote about it.
simple.org/blog/thirty-milli…
1
5
35
12,860
Do people outside of tech know how realistic "Knives Out: Glass Onion" and the show "Silicon Valley" really are? They feel like 90+% reality to me with just a sprinkling of exaggeration.
105
131
2,295
483,905
Cole Alma Burka arrived just in time for Father's Day. She and her mom are doing great. ❤️❤️❤️
ALT An incredibly beautiful baby sleeping in a bassinet.
117
1
621
If only there was a way to combine messenger apps into one.
Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Twitter DMs, Messenger, SMS, iMessage, Slack, Teams... it's gotten ridiculous.
ALT The Adium duck icon looking lonely on a green background.
26
7
404
The modern use of CSS where you basically inline your styles with specific class names like "padding-12px font-size-24px color-blue" still blows my mind. Is this how everyone does it now? I miss the days of abstracted classes like "sub-nav." Do I just need to embrace the new?
89
19
363
Do designers of induction cookstops even cook? We just moved and this is even worse than our old flat.
53
5
346
150,017
I sort of love the recent trend of design portfolios created in Notion.
👀 Easy to scan
✒️ Writing is readable
🤯 Don't need to learn a new UI on every portfolio
🎨 Creativity loves constraints
12
17
329
How much fun would it be to time travel back to 2000s and design websites at 800x600 in websafe colors and html/tables again?
ALT Me back in 2002 on my old Thinkpad, designing websites.
58
5
316
55,187
Most software designers put immense effort into software that doesn't really matter.
17
15
275
46,914
Many designers think their job ends in research, Figma, and hand-off. I’m reminded every week how hard it is to ship good software. Real artists ship... software that works.
10
35
270
Big update to the Healthicons .org project. We now have over 1350 quality icons, free and open source, for anyone working on medical projects. Great work from our all-volunteer team. 💖
ALT New icons from the Healthicons project.
16
26
238
18,242
Is it possible to learn to breathe better? I often unconsciously hold my breath and create a lot of tension in my body. Anyone have personal experience improving their breathing and relaxation during everyday life? 😨
85
4
211
Been playing with Arc Browser from @browsercompany for the last week. Really lovely and refreshingly new UI for a web browser. It feels like my tabs aren't drowning me for the first time in a long time. arc.net/
ALT A screenshot of the Arc Browser with my work tabs open on the left of the browser window.
13
5
211
40,546
Just booked my first flight to India in 2 years. Cannot freaking wait. See you in 2 weeks Bangalore! ❤️🇮🇳
10
197
Today, Simple.org crossed 2 million patients enrolled!!
It took 3 years to cross 1M and only 7 months to cross 2M. Huge effort by many healthcare workers from thousands of clinics and hospitals in 🇮🇳🇧🇩🇪🇹🇱🇰🙌
ALT Confetti and celebrating 2 million patients enrolled.
8
17
191
Heartbroken for the people of Ukraine. When you've lived in places that are safe from warfare, it's hard to imagine the terror of war on your doorstep. 🇺🇦
3
23
164
Anyone else miss the days when designers were arguing about square vs. circle profile photos? So quaint.
ALT Examples of square and circular profile photos.
18
6
164
39,358
Whoever created these excellent career ladders at @intercomdesign, thank you so much. Putting them freely available online is an amazing resource. So helpful, especially on a small team like ours. 🙏 docs.google.com/document/d/1…
2
10
171
30,488
We started "No meeting Wednesdays" a few months ago at work. Once people were convinced to take it seriously, it's become a wonderful day in my week to refocus. 😌
8
9
162
Lord knows I've been wrong about new technology before, but are we sure we want to be strapping screens to our faces?
39
8
163
30,101
Not going to lie... updating this slide is very satisfying. simple.org
ALT A slide deck showing Simple's growth from a small pilot to over 2 million patients.
7
6
145
I can't believe I had never seen this before. This is the perfect encapsulation of how crap the user experience is on almost ever media website. We've broken the web.
/ht @benterrett
how-i-experience-web-today.c…
5
30
137
Wow, I'd never seen this population density map before. The scale of India, East Africa, and the area around Indonesia are totally wild in contrast to the vast emptiness of the Americas. visualcapitalist.com/3d-mapp…
5
29
124
Respect to the @figma team for shipping ⌘F search. Works exactly like you think it would... which is not an easy thing to do! I'm sure there's a lot going on under the hood.
Nice work @skuwamoto @zoink and team 👏
ALT Screenshot of the Figma user interface showing a search for the word "Home" and the results.
3
5
124
Hiring a product designer to work with me and the team at Simple.org. We're a non-profit working to reduce deaths from hypertension, the world's biggest killer. Good salary and significant product ownership. Remote from 🇬🇧🇪🇹🇳🇬🇪🇺🇮🇳. Please RT. phg.tbe.taleo.net/phg01/ats/…
6
68
123
I have at least 4 friends getting their private pilot licenses in the last year. Is this the new bougie midlife crisis? 🛩️
29
114
I'm pretty confident @iamharaldur could win "Most Patient Person" in 2023 🏆
1
1
113
6,850
Making lists of fake patients for a demo app. Using Hindi names for spices as surnames makes me smile... Mahima Masala, Amit Amchoor, Dhruv Methi Dana... 🫑🌶️🧂😄
8
115
Want to design better software? Build a habit of using your own apps or tools almost every day.
Even designing clinical software, we try to enroll (fake) patients and manage 'visits' every day. This is in addition to loads of field research with real healthcare workers.
5
9
112
In the last 5 years, we've learned a lot about designing digital tools for monitoring millions of patients with hypertension and diabetes. We have now collected the most important lessons into a practical Playbook. 1/5
2
13
105
19,375
It's a big day! Our article about Simple was just published in the British Medical Journal: Informatics. It's the first time I've authored a journal article. 🎉
PS: Publishing in a peer-reviewed journal is an enormous task—even with wonderful help.
informatics.bmj.com/content/…
14
6
90
16,252
I wish every new designer would see this and take it to heart: "The work is never just the work" 👏
The work is never just “the work”. The actual “work” you have to do, is just a very small part of a whole invisible set of a project. There’s the world around the work, to get the work, before the work, between the work, beyond the work, outside the work, etc.
ALT Infographic showing how a development project's phases can be broken down and estimated into different types of works
5
7
87
9,752
I only learned today that the 3-dot overflow menu is called a "kebab menu." Makes sense, I guess, and I love a good kebab, but is that really common parlance in design now? computerhope.com/jargon/k/ke…
25
5
87
13,850
This smart-ass quote still makes me smile. 😏
Someone in the audience asked: "How important is social media for a designer?"
“Self-promotion doesn’t make you into a better designer. Doing better designs makes you a better designer.” —@dburka
4
5
83
12,400
I'm increasingly impressed by people who put in many years trying to accomplish good work in tough places — e.g. healthcare or government.
5
3
85
Four years ago, I designed this poster in a couple of hours on a flight home from India. Now, variations of it are in tens of thousands of hospitals in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. Design is a pretty wild profession. dribbble.com/shots/4574497-H…
2
2
81
Apparently the use of Royal Dansk cookie tins as junk containers is cross-cultural — hearing reports from Canada, US, India, and Pakistan. In our family, we stored sewing supplies and extra buttons in the can.
18
1
74
If you were trying to teach a non-designer practical user-research techniques, what resources would you recommend? Books, videos, tutorials?
💡 E.g. I work with epidemiologists and I want them to be able to ask patients and clinicians better questions on their use of software.
16
5
79
29,992
How powerful would it be if schools taught students how to ask truly open-ended questions and carefully listen to the other person's answers?👂
5
9
72
12,223
Can you recommend a good Figma tutorial for total beginners? Some engineers and epidemiologists I work with would like a "Figma for Dummies" (their words) to get up to speed. 👨🏾🎓👩🏾🎓🧑🏿🎓
19
75
An hour ago in Colorado... we were just taking a walk and this moose family ambled by.
ALT A moose family in the forest.
2
1
65
6,280
What's the best website builder these days for a young artist to show their work online? Asking for a friend, thanks.
😃 Easy-to-use
🎨 Looks great
🖥️ Hosted solution
🫰 Reasonable subscription fee
✖️ No store
41
70
Last month, 1 million patients had a follow-up visit recorded in Simple. Huge achievement from the team... and of course the tens of thousands of healthcare workers striving to help their patients. Incredible. ❤️
Simple now has 2 million patients. The truly incredible part? In the month of April 860,822 patients had hypertension and diabetes visits recorded. Imagine that many patients meeting healthcare workers, being treated, and having data recorded. Incredible.
simple.org/blog/two-million-…
4
4
70
To be fair, I had 7 years of professional experience by the time I was 25. Don't discount the kidz! But generally, yeah, actually do something before you advise people on doing the same thing, is a pretty good rule of thumb.
4
2
68
7,902
I'm still on a 3-year-old 13" MacBook Pro with an Intel processor. Should I upgrade to one of these new 14" MacBook Pros with the M2 Pro or M2 Max?
63
73
44,681
Happy birthday @nickburka... we're practically twins. 😜
ALT A photo of twin brothers, Nicholas and Daniel Burka
8
67
9,627
Sometimes your @replies just blow up in Indonesia. Nice work @health_icons team! 🇮🇩
Buat kalian yang sedang mengerjakan project tentang kesehatan atau medis dan butuh icons yang berhubungan dengan tema tersebut, bisa ke healthicons.org | Thanks a lot to @dburka who created this awesome resources!
1
7
69
Scanning every dropdown menu for:
- United Kingdom
- UK
- Great Britain
- England
Key takeaways: 1) Forms are hard. 2) Ted Lasso was right: "How many countries are in this country?" or even "How many names does this country have?"
11
1
67
Really good examples in this thread that show how much "design" happens in the engineering and implementation of software. If you don't focus on these issues, you'll never be a great product designer. 👇
Designers: I implore you to learn about the back-end system of the apps you work on.
How can you advocate for the user if you don’t know how their data is being used, or stored? How can you offer a good experience if you can’t signal what’s going on under the hood in the UI?
3
13
68
13,496
Had a great time speaking with @shreyas_satish and a big group of designers and PMs in Bangalore on Saturday night. Thanks for having me @ownpath_xyz team!
ALT A group of designers standing in a row, facing the camera.
2
4
69
Taking a driving test still makes me nervous, even after driving in North America for 25 years. Thank goodness I got it. 🇬🇧😅
7
67
I'm craving inspiration. What are your favorite well-designed websites that inspire you right now? 🌈
34
4
66
26,669
There is a fine line between being self-sufficient and being a poor collaborator. Unsure which side I fall on. 👈👉
4
3
60
How do you all evaluate senior candidates who have many <18 month stints in their work experience in the last 10 years?
88
1
62
60,412
Good afternoon Indian designers. Want to come work on tools that save lives from heart attacks and strokes? We're hiring a senior mobile product designer to join my team on Simple.org. We pay well and you can be based anywhere in India. resolvetosavelives.bamboohr.…
2
22
66
Looking back, I'm still pretty happy with the logo for @GVteam. Great internal team collaboration between @GVDesignTeam and @GoogleDesign.
ALT The logo for GV
57
Do you respond to everyone who DMs you? I try to respond to anyone who has authentic questions and have met a lot of great people that way.
14
1
61
9,221
Depressing that right now LinkedIn might be the best social network to talk to other design-minded folks. 😑
9
2
54
10,241
Wild! I just discovered that the first website I worked on is still online: a collection of WWI photos by Jack Turner, a soldier from the Canadian island I grew up on. The world wide web is a remarkable place.
Check out that sweet Team page! epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/30…
7
56
I love this phrase... but why is it so hard to avoid getting dragged into emergencies?🚨
5
4
53
6,332
I'm always surprised when I hear students being encouraged to specialize. Many of the best senior design leaders I know are generalists.
In hindsight, going against all the advice I got by remaining a generalist and slowly *discovering* my specialisation, instead of trying to *decide* one has been a great thing for me.
Highly recommend being patient with this, whether it takes 2 years or 20.
5
1
51
8,855
I'm proud to be selected to the jury for the "INDIA’S BEST DESIGN AWARDS." It will be interesting to see what great projects, studios, and students apply to win. 🇮🇳 design-india.com/ibda/
Daniel Burka
Director of Product & Design, Resolve to Save Lives
Daniel Burka is a passionate designer dedicated to simplifying complex global health challenges. As the director of product and design at Resolve to Save Lives, he leads simple.org
6
3
48
11,265
Holy smokes... started using the Warp terminal for Mac. It's SO NICE.
☀️ Beautiful, minimal UI
⚡️ Super fast
👏 Helpful hints for common commands
app.warp.dev/referral/J9WD6Y
4
4
52
13,400
"A wiser fella once said, sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well, the bar eats you." Send good vibes, please.
17
52
It's impressive how many new features in Figma just work like you'd expect them to. So refreshing.
I used "Sections" for the first time today. And, the new "Search" felt the same way a few months ago. (Example below contains fake patient data)
ALT Screenshot of a Figma document using the new "Sections" function to separate ideas from a mobile screenshot from the original app design.
3
49
8,580
Want to have your mind blown? Simple.org was used to record just over 720,000 patient visits in Feb. Over 7.5 million patient visits have been recorded since we started. 🤯
6
2
53
I'm shocked that incredible design like this doesn't get more love in the US design community. Built on difficult data, exposing critical info for the public and advocates. 💕
rand.org/research/gun-policy…
If design isn't easy-to-digest or from a big co., it gets little appreciation.
2
10
48
8,112
Is there a super easy way to record a video of yourself speaking with a slide deck over your shoulder like a newscast?
ALT A photo of myself with a slide appearing over my shoulder in the frame.
17
2
52
Still finding inspiration in 37BetterBank by @37signals, 20 years later. cc @jasonfried
2
1
51
3,544
Excited (and a little nervous) to be giving a keynote at @ixdconf in Zürich in a month. Maybe see you there? I think there are tickets still available. interaction23.ixda.org/sessi…
2
3
49
8,699
Has anyone ever responded positively to "Can we just hop on a call for 15 min?" in the entire history of Linkedin?
13
44
By default Material Design suggests using initials in lists of people. Do you find it useful? Even better, have you ever observed users who found it useful?
ALT A screenshot of a standard Android list of names.
45
1
49
29,463
I love updating this slide. There are now 2.5 million patients with hypertension and diabetes managed using Simple.org in 🇪🇹🇮🇳🇧🇩🇱🇰
In July, >1 million patients had a follow-up visit recorded. This is design in action (and a huge effort of healthcare workers).
ALT A graph showing growth of enrolled patients from 2019 to the present.
1
45
It's wild how a bureaucratic culture affects how people communicate. Everything is obscured in acronyms and generalized language. Drives me 🍌s.
7
3
49
The new camera effects built into MacOS 14 are so nice. Takes the same mediocre camera in my MacBook Pro and actually does a decent job of lighting and blurring. Doesn't make me look any more "professional" in meetings tho. 😜
6
1
46
5,319
