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How a Designer’s Website Evolves Through Different Stages in Their Career

Just like characters develop in the Naruto series, designers grow in their careers. As they move through different career stages, their personal websites also change

blog • August 30, 2023
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Creativity is overrated

Creativity is counter-intuitive to designers who set out to re-invent the wheel. There are a bunch of thesis and principles that guide how users interact with the system

blog • May 20, 2022
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10 things I learned conducting a design workshop

50+ aspirants have graduated from this local home-grown design workshop and so far the impact has been phenomenal

blog • June 24, 2021
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Is “Bagbazar Design” a real thing?

Bagbazar Design is notorious and you see it everywhere, and slowly it has even creeped its way into social media and digital marketing.

blog • May 31, 2021
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Please take care and stay safe 😷

This is not really a blog post. It’s basically a jot down of things going around in my life and around me.

blog • May 15, 2021
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In my defense for super-flat UI design

I’m proud to be a flat-UI designer and embrace aspect of it. Loving the flatness is just like being a flat-earther, but better

blog • September 8, 2020
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Do you feel the burn? 🔥

A designer’s guide to coping with work-related burnout and remidal measure to boost your productivity during the time of coronavirus

blog • August 10, 2020
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Eight things I learned running a startup

I think it would be a good idea to do a retrospect and give some pointers to people setting out to launch their own startup

blog • July 17, 2020
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The Art of Deception — A Designer’s Handbook to Cheating Users

There are certain ways you, as a designer can ensure that your users are deceived. You won’t believe the third point will blow your mind.

blog • June 7, 2020
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Lo-fi wireframes don’t work, stop using them!

There is a specific reason why a wireframe is gotta be more than a skeleton for your UI Design. With realistic content, a wireframe gets its true meaning.

blog • May 23, 2020
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Graphic Design Experience won’t get you a UI/UX Job

Print design does not qualify as UI/UX Design. So the next time you think of including your lovely logos while applying for a job in a tech company, think again.

blog • December 17, 2019
A screenshot of the Dreax app that I built

Content is the King. Take a bow, peasants!

Making an app and putting it out there is the easiest thing, the difficult part is making it work. Because content is the king, and you are banana republic.

blog • October 25, 2019
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A Designer’s Guide to Design Job Interviews

I think sharing my experiences can help designers applying for jobs to get better insight and ideas on how to appear prepared in one of these design job interviews.

blog • September 26, 2019
Three alien spaceships ready to attack the Marina Bay Sands building in Singapore

Machines are taking over, and your design career is doomed

I was in Singapore a couple of weeks ago to attend a design masterclass. I was venturing into the unknown, the invisible. This was fascinating as I embarked on a journey to visualize the invisible.

blog • July 1, 2019
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WTF Went Wrong with Nepali films?

Spoiler Alert: Nepali films are 💩 One after another film still tanks at the box office but the filmmakers are still very much adamant that they HAVE made good films, but the films aren’t working.

blog • June 12, 2019
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What designers must learn from the hotel industry

A good user experience is like a good hotel experience. People will not remember what color your bedsheets were, trust me. People will remember if they had troubles falling asleep.

blog • June 8, 2019
A mentor teaching his students

Sorry, I can’t teach you how to design

I cannot teach design because it’s not something that I can train you over a session. I won’t give you instructions and you’ll manage to pull off a million dollar interface in a week. It doesn’t work that way.'

blog • December 16, 2018