With the year 2022 coming to an end, I couldn’t help but reflect on the changes it brought in my life. It was a bitter-sweet year in many ways with many many things to be grateful about and fewer to complaint for. To begin with, unlike 2020 & 2021, it…

Where do we draw the boundary? — These days, if someone says something, others look up their past records to check if their views are consistent with their older selves. Someone will dig up the old tweets or look up old videos just to find something which contradicts what they said now. If a person speaks on…

Disclaimer: I haven’t completed any certificate/degree course in UX till date. I started a few but couldn’t bear them till the end. This article is my point of view for why I’m not a fan of such courses. …

a late night muse — I am not an iPhone fan. Still, I cannot disagree when one says that it revolutionized the industry; it did, and for good. That 4.5" something device took the world by storm and it is tough to think of any other device paralleling the impact it created. Much of iPhone’s…

and whatever went in making that decision — One year ago, on a lazy afternoon of June 2021, I thought of checking the result of NID (National Institute of Design) prelims. The exam happened 6months back and between that time I left my job in a startup and started working in Microsoft as a contract designer. …

and how none of them makes sense anymore — On day one of my architecture college, our professor asked the entire class, “What do you want to be in your career?” and I like everyone else said, “One of the best architects of my time”. Two and half years later in that five years course, my only career choice…

“If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.” — Eric Schmidt This line is an excerpt from a marvellous speech given by Sheryl Sandberg to HBS class of 2012 on their graduation day. In her speech, she described her early career, challenges…

There’s no flavor without the spices — People love stories. Stories are what we make in present and what makes our past and the future. They’re the prime factor of our thoughts, traits and character. As a species, I don’t think we can ever get enough of them. We crave for them while watching a film, reading…

and things I learnt along the way — I’ve never been that excited for a year to end as I was for the year 2020. I think that makes the most of us. The world flipped over, we got home caged and the weirdest things which seemed too far-fetched even for imagination happened. We all had our share…