I have been making things for twelve years. Logos, websites, brand identities, CGI campaigns, 3D renders, motion graphics. In that time I have shared work on Behance, on Dribbble, on Instagram, and I have watched the same pattern play out on every single one of them so consistently that it stopped surprising me years ago.

The designer with a hundred thousand followers posts something average and it gets three thousand likes. The unknown designer posts something genuinely exceptional and it gets forty. Not because people looked at both pieces of work and decided the first was better. But because nobody looked at the second one at all. The name was small. The follower count was low. The algorithm buried it before the design had a chance to breathe.

I built drishti because I got tired of watching that happen.

What drishti Is

drishti is a community design gallery at nitinmonga.in/drishti/ where designers from anywhere in the world can submit their best work and get voted on by the design community. It is completely free. There are no plans, no tiers, no premium features hidden behind a subscription.

The name comes from Sanskrit. drishti means vision, sight, perspective. It is a word used across Hindi, Punjabi, and most other Indian languages. For a gallery built around the act of seeing design clearly and fairly, the name felt exact.

The platform has one rule that shapes everything else about how it works. When you submit to drishti, nobody sees your name. There is no profile attached to your submission. No follower count. No verified badge. No avatar. No indication of whether you have been designing for twenty years or twenty weeks. The only thing displayed on your submission is the design itself.

Your design speaks. Not your name.

The Problem With Every Other Design Community

Behance requires a full account with a portfolio and personal details before you can post anything. Dribbble requires an account and historically required an invitation before you could upload at all. Awwwards is an editorial platform where one team decides what gets featured. Instagram rewards consistency and network size above everything else. None of these are bad platforms. But all of them have the same structural issue.

They are identity-first. The person precedes the work. And once identity is attached to design, it becomes almost impossible to separate the two. Your brain knows the name before it sees the logo. It knows the follower count before it looks at the UI. That knowledge changes what you see even when you are trying to be objective. This is not a character flaw. It is how human cognition works. Social proof is one of the most powerful biases in existence and every design platform that shows you a name before a design is activating it whether they intend to or not.

drishti removes the name from the equation entirely. The design arrives first and the design arrives alone. The vote you cast is a response to the work, not to the person who made it, because there is no person visible to respond to.

How drishti Works

The experience is as simple as any tool I have ever built. You visit nitinmonga.in/drishti/ and you see a masonry grid of design submissions from across every discipline. Logo design, brand identity, UI and UX, web design, typography, poster and print, packaging, illustration, 3D and motion, photography, editorial work. Everything is in the same gallery, sorted by votes.

If you want to submit your own work you click Submit Your Work and fill in three things. Your design image, a title, and a category. That is the minimum required. You can also add a brief description if you want to provide context, the tools you used, and a link to your Instagram or Behance if you want people to be able to find more of your work after seeing this piece. You can also leave an email address if you want to be notified when your submission goes live. None of the optional fields are necessary.

When you submit, your design appears in the New tab immediately. There is no waiting period and no manual approval queue. The design is live the moment you submit it.

The way a design moves from the New tab to the main feed is through votes. When a submission receives three votes from the community it is automatically promoted to the Trending and Top sections where it gets full visibility. This means the community itself is the moderation system. Good work gets voted up by the people who encounter it. Work that does not resonate stays in New and fades out naturally. I am not the gatekeeper of what is good. The community is.

No Login Means No Bias and No Hate

The no account requirement was a practical decision at first. I wanted drishti to have zero friction. No email verification, no password creation, no profile setup. You arrive and you submit. But as I thought about what anonymity actually means for a design community, I realised the implications went much further than convenience.

When nobody knows who you are, a few things happen simultaneously. The person voting cannot be influenced by your reputation so their vote is a cleaner signal of whether they genuinely respond to the work. The person submitting cannot be targeted personally because there is no personal identity to target. A negative reaction to a piece of design stays where it belongs, in the vote count, rather than becoming a directed comment about a specific person's worth as a designer.

Design communities can get hostile. They can get competitive in ways that turn personal. When someone does not like a piece of work and they know the designer, the feedback can drift from the design into something that feels like an attack on the person. drishti has no mechanism for that. You can vote. You can flag content that is inappropriate. Those are the only actions available. There is no comment section. There is no DM. There is no way to direct negativity at a person because there is no person visible.

What this produces is a kind of purity that is rare online. The energy in the gallery is focused entirely on the work because the work is all there is.

The Submission Experience

I want to describe what it actually feels like to submit something to drishti because I think it is different from any other platform I have used.

On Behance, submitting a project is a production. You create a case study, write a description, add tags, set a cover image, organise your work into a project structure. It takes anywhere from thirty minutes to a few hours for a properly documented project. On Dribbble you are essentially making a social media post, which means thinking about timing, hashtags, how the thumbnail crops, whether your description is engaging.

On drishti you upload your design and choose a category. The whole thing takes about ninety seconds. There is a lightness to it that I did not expect when I was building it. You are not building a case study. You are not crafting a social post. You are putting the work in front of people and stepping back. The simplicity of that act is its own kind of confidence.

Voting as a Signal

When you vote on drishti you are doing something genuinely useful for the community. Every vote helps the algorithm understand which work deserves broader visibility. A design that gets twenty votes in its first few hours is telling the system something meaningful about how the design community responds to it. That signal is clean because the voter had no reason to vote other than a genuine response to the work.