Your desk space is your silent co-founder

The skills you can't skip

The meeting you don't have

Time — My most valuable reflection in 2024

25 questions for a fresh start

What if… you apply game theory in kitchen appliances?

Better than inspiration? Deconstruct the classics

Innovation: Xiaomi gets it!

My hardware design reading list

Expose yourself

Your biggest advantage? Not knowing how.

Inside USB-C — Explained

Book notes: 101 things I learned in product design school

The modular bottle, hardware design, and some more

Book notes: Xiaomi

A list of books when designing hardware

Book notes: The goal

Book notes: Inside Apple

Designing physical products

First job vs. now

Masterclass in copywriting — The whole truth!

Fun 30-day sprints!

Don’t limit offline studies to just your competitors for insights — study unrelated industries

Looking for a therapist? Try this first.

“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.”

QnA: Research, design-led projects, documenting design decisions.

What can design leaders learn from one of the world’s most creative chefs?

To the team making it happen

Beats & breakthroughs: Turn music into your work focus pill!

What if… D2C e-commerce took inspiration from museums?

What if… you apply drama & ancient stories in fitness tech?

What if… you mix Indian festivals and fitness?

What if... you take photography principles and apply in face care?

You need less meetings, more work!

Get work feedback in unusual ways

Ditch the usual. Try something different.

How Randall Munroe created Thing Explainer

Austin Kleon

Pen & paper

Cross-pollination. The most important skill to develop after taste.

Create for one person

It's not what you see, it's what you don't!

Hack your workspace

Designers, becoming the generic PM isn’t the goal.

You don't have 10,000 hours!

Designers, create your weird… with constraints.

Become productive by resting the right way

Useful, great products

Book notes: Dance first. Think later.

Simple exercise #4 for managers for 25 weeks

Book notes: Automotive alchemy in India

Good and bad product experiences, sunglasses & links

Simple exercise #3 for managers for 25 weeks

It's not just a water bottle!

Obsession vs. feature designers

Simple exercise #2 for managers for 25 weeks

Quick 2024 mid-year reflection

How I complete tasks

Simple exercise #1 for managers for 25 weeks

Things I wish were better

Meditating by writing

How I read books and take notes

Books wishlist

8 highly useful & cheap stuff

21 great, short videos about loved brands

Excitement & hiring

I'm hiring a stellar infographics designer

Super-massive list of 172 visual explainer books

Four things that just don't work

Books I read this year till May

Office office — Urban Company Bengaluru

Zomato, Karnataka travel spots, time management

Picking a book & reading, Q1 2024 read list

Car designs, travel influencers, fitness trackers

Book notes: Build

Unusual books for designers in Real-estate tech

Book notes: The economy class founder

Book notes: The 22 immutable laws of marketing

Book notes: The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse

Ultrahuman ring is amazing, app is not

Book notes: The making of a manager

Airport announcement

List of folks to follow for HUD, FUIs

On hiring questions & A-players

I wish people would do these two things

Do a lot of work

Working with me — Updated 2024

DIY guide to leading design — a primer

Bad design managers

2023 highlights

Coaching a researcher — a sneak peek

What if... a series of quirky, useful, random ideas for Urban Company

Book notes: Creativity — a short and cheerful guide

Hands-on. Hands-off. Staying a creator.

Book notes: Unreasonable hospitality

Book notes: Eat. Delete.

Book notes: A technique for producing ideas

We are not at war

Book recommendations for content writers

Coaching team members

Beyond just a manager

Quoteyard

Places to visit in Europe for shopaholic designers

Book notes: Culture at Zomato

Generalists vs. multi-skilled specialists

The making of a magazine

AMA: Choices and motivation

Book notes: Gung Ho by Ken Blanchard

Improve your taste

10 star service design

Career growth ladders are useless

Book notes: Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard

35 aphorisms on turning 35

More biases in apps

Super swag to stun your squad

Working with me

Biases in apps

88 tips for young product designers

First Principles

A simple underrated method to iterate design better, faster

Demystifying content design at Urban Company

5 simple techniques I use to stay productive

Your portfolio is stopping you from getting that job

This little habit saved me 100s of hours in design reviews

Book notes: Trillion dollar coach

Book notes: The 4-hour workweek

Book notes: Anything you want

3 kinds of users in analytics & BI

The right way to turn down a candidate

47 tips for young product designers

'UI' design vs designing 'I' for 'U'

Design your team the way you'd design your product

Design communities aren't the users. Your end users are.

Make yourself dispensable

Solutions will fail you. Problems won't.

Invest in planning your career

Don't expect repay, encourage paying forward

Don't pay the asshole tax

Focus on knowledge, not information

Fuck instant gratification - invest time in your team

Make your team future ready

Talk notes: A roadmap for maturing design in the enterprise

Talk notes: How human abilities define digital experiences

Book notes: The tao of coaching

Data visualisation & analytics resources for designers

5 simple ways to not suck with your design job application

First time Design Lead? Do these 4 things first.

How we doubled our landing page conversion with 5 changes

Book notes: You, Inc.

4 reasons why your application for the Product Designer role won’t be shortlisted

10 things before you join a startup as a Product Designer (Part 2)

How we trimmed our features in half with a 5-days design sprint

10 things before you join a startup as a Product Designer (Part 1)

Moving to Mumbai. Again.

Cost of ambition

7 things Kyoorius Designyatra 2014 taught me and a missed flight

Weekend side-project: Re-designing Goodreads

Ember. Personal Pinterest on your Mac.

Good reads I found on the Internet

Not an average admirer

Learnings from Eric Jordon of 2Advanced