With experience comes greater understanding. Using that tactfully should be your winning strategy. — How many years have you been into digital design? 5…8…10+Years? You know how it strikes! You’re being good at what you do everyday and then you face the glitch! To stick to your current organization or it’s time to move into a new territory? Creative skepticism is not a made…

How the border gets blurry in the usage of Persuasive Technique in design. — Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse. — Sophocles The opening line of the just-released Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma starts with a warning. It is an extension of The Great Hack (The Great Hack, dark patterns and UX) which deals closely with the world of design…

Whys and Hows of looking at the Mirror before showing it to others! — There’s 87%* probability that the first question you would face from a speaker at a UX will be “What’s the no.1 quality of a UX designer?” Hands will rise from the enthusiastic audience and most likely the answer would be “Empathy”! …

Stay positive, practice life and stop giving money to the Happiness Industry We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato First things first: This article is not intended to bring happiness…

And how to be focused on what you are and what you want to be — If you have been designing UI out of your personal interest even though your official title reads FED or PM even BA, let me congratulate you first! Welcome to the world of User Experience which everyone is talking about for quite some time. You have the courage to change your…

And if it’s okay to turn to your phone for emotional support. — As our intimacy with machine are growing day by day, it’s time to rethink where to draw the line. How easy to do that being in a completely disruptive environment? Take one of the most disruptive behavioral problem of our times: Depression. Varied data is showing that depression has doubled…

How to replace cliched tags for meaningful ones — If you are overwhelmed with over-usage of hashtags and wish, there had been better human sense and sanity checks, welcome aboard! A little background here. I am a keen follower of digital marketing trends and try to interact with whatever comes on my way in the online world. Like many…

Netflix Documentary The Great Hack raises question about practicing ethical UX. — It’s been a few days since the Netflix documentary “The Great Hack” has hit our drawing rooms and by this time, a million people must have watched the 1hr 54m documentary rumbling about how our life is locked in a dystopian web of our own data. Like any of the…

How to earn respect as a creative problem solver in a non creative environment. — I was about to write this article with the title “How to earn respect as a UX Designer”. Then I paused for a moment. …