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1:1 Coaching

Thinking in Product Metrics

Funnel Analysis Coming soon

Churn Analysis Coming soon

Career Tidbits Writeups Connect on LinkedIn

Writeups.

A running list of things I’ve written on design, product, and craft, across Substack, Medium, LinkedIn, and Quora.

2026

The Chair You’re Sitting On Disagrees
It’s not me, it’s the AI,” said a designer
Design Meeting That Went Off Script

2025

Applied to 100 Product Design Roles, Yet No Callbacks
UX Hiring Manager’s Mindset While Screening Portfolios
Design Interview Where Someone Finally Said It Straight
Designers are too emotional
Abandoned Edge Case
Design can’t mature if we react to everything instantly
Fixing UI Is Easy. Fixing Decision Debt Is the Real Challenge
Struggling with Take-Home Assignments? Here’s What Worked for Me

2024

Insights from HeadOut & Flipkart Leaders on Elevating Product Experience
When 'Good Enough' Smells Bad
Puncturing Innovation by Thousand Cuts
Cut Assumptions, Dodge Costly Mistakes

2023

Don’t marry mobile app design
Evaluating learnability of a product or feature

2022

What is a typical UX design process?
Do you think sketching is important in the UI/UX design process?
Guerrilla testing — How to convince people to lend their 10–15 min
Team Bonding — Dealing with vague, blunt, or critical feedback

2021

Why does user experience matter for businesses?
Error message — That’s too lengthy
Next Billion Users — Login vs Log In

2020

Explaining Problem Solving to a Kid
Okayish experience at design workshop
Familiarity drives user preference
The word PROCESS in design is raising eyebrows?
Responding to vague feedback
Similarity between design and law of energy
Design Resistance — We have already discussed enough
Design feedback — Let’s agree to disagree and move on
But this design is impractical
Design feedback — Output vs Outcome
Design Feedback — Listen vs Hear
When not to care about usability?
Setting up product for success
Bye-bye minimalism, hello essentialism
Using consistency to design for trust and loyalty
What difference knowing design principles make?
Wondering about the difference between art & design
What’s the best advice for designers?
Date a design process, don't marry!

2019

Growing as a designer
As we know UI UX is a long process, how do you tackle if something is required to go live earliest?
How can you explain about UX design to a lay man?
Is a bachelor’s degree important to become a UI UX designer?
What are some unsaid rules of being a good UX designer?
Is it mandatory to possess a Master's degree in UI/UX for a person who wants to settle in UI/UX field?
Next billion users - We have good internet too

2018

What is the standard procedure you follow in UI UX?
How deep can you go within ten words?
What does ‘user experience’ mean to you?
Does a UX/UI designer need to be extremely good in coding, or would just moderate knowledge with the front end, be fine?
What is the biggest lie your cell phone tells you?
Is design really important in technology?
What are the essential skills/knowledge for a UX designer?
If I had to read only one book about UX, what book should I read?
What is interaction design?
Where did you learn UX designing?
What is the difference between a UI developer and a UI designer?
Is the Monsoon Course on HCI 2017 by IITB worth it?
Do I need to take UX design training from an institute?
How does being a member of Interaction Design Foundation help?
Who can become a UX designer?

2017

How much does an UX degree matter?
Can I get feedback on my UX designer portfolio?
How important is UX for creating a product?
As a UX designer, which blogs do you follow to keep your knowledge updated?
How does poor knowledge in programming affect a UX designer?
Where can I get UI inspiration?
How do you believe that UX/UI contributes strategically to the company’s success?
Which of these is more interesting to learn: SEO or UX Design?
What are the chances of a BE Computer Science graduate becoming a UX designer?
What is the difference between product design and UX design?
How does a UI/UX designer, with zero coding knowledge, get a good sense of constraints and opportunities of the technology stack?
What is the best understanding of UI and UX?
What is the relationship between communication and expression?
Which field is better UX designer (No Coding) or UI developer?
How do I become a hero in UX designer from zero?
What can you teach me that can be useful in my life?
What recognition does The Interaction Design Foundation's course certificates have in the UX industry?
How much do UX designers code/program at work?
Should I start UX design course online or should I join an institute?
Why talking to your user makes sense?

2016

Why would you need a ux designer?
What should I learn after HTML, CSS and JavaScript in order to be a UI designer?
What is user experience?
What does it mean by a “good” user experience?

2015

Explaining UX to Non-Designers
What do people who know UX think of the Interaction Design Foundation?
If I want to build a custom user interface, does it make sense to use Bootstrap 3 or Foundation?

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