Historically, our cities, buildings, products have been designed with an implicit gender bias. It has taken some very strong voices to start bringing a change.
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Design is becoming more of a facilitative practice than a function of delivery. If you are expected to partner with business & tech leaders to think collaboratively, then these resources could be of some help.
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I have been talking to shadows through Lomography at our home garden. Praising home, praising light.
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Find personal constants. You can’t control change. That is the job of life.
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One of 2019’s highpoint was my work trip to Geneva. It turned out to be one of the most fulfilling trips as I met some great humans, worked with brilliant minds and explored the fantasy loaded countryside.
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I was invited to speak at Zomato’s product huddle last month. What would have been a better opportunity than this to share my recent contemplation on ‘Responsible Design’. I talked about alternate design lenses to become mindful and answerable for equitable futures.
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Travel postcards from a short work stay at Düsseldorf in April. Fell in love with this city. So many dimensions of design come together to make it a great place. Plazas, skyline, promenades - all seem to have the right heart.
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Last month I was invited to give a talk at UP Institute of Design to share my views on Design Thinking. I shared my experience of how I see it being practiced in the tech industry and how it is different from ‘Design Doing’.
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Courage is such a wildly important-but-understated element of design. Look at us, we are constantly at war against chaos, ugliness, unethical thinking, process shortcuts and sometimes simply with a blank sheet of paper.
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A micro essay on what my habit of drawing does to my mind subliminally. Why I feel one needs to find and nurture a way of making love with their imagination. Through any craft.
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In my experience of interviewing, interacting and leading I have come across young designers who are still obsessing over pixels. The classical ‘maker’ version of them needs a radical shift. Here is a little piece of advice for them.
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Struggled with sensitizing non-designers about design? My team did an interactive playful session with a group of engineers, analysts and data scientists to demonstrate small nuances of design.
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Conferences can be stimulating and overwhelming at the same time. I was at Interaction’17, NewYork, and that place was buzzing with some game changing ideas. Here’s a write up on some of my worries, inspirations & favorites.
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While teaching design to students of Master’s in Industrial Design, a studio exercise at the intersection of interaction design and social experiment, led to some revelations.
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