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Po Bhattacharyya
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Published in Benchling Engineering

·Aug 1, 2022

Good Designers Borrow

Creating A Visual System For Modified RNA — In this post, Po, a designer at Benchling, narrates how he helped build a design tool for RNA scientists working with chemically modified sequences. Read on to learn more! In the summer of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic threatened to swallow the planet, Martin, a molecular biologist at a London-based…

Design

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Good Designers Borrow
Good Designers Borrow
Design

9 min read


May 26, 2018

Be Best Tomorrow

A framework for providing feedback to your peers I think I’m a feedback junkie. I am drawn to feedback like raindrops to the ground, or a plant to light. I seek it out during check-ins with managers, in emails to professors, sometimes even on first dates. …

Leadership

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Be Best Tomorrow
Be Best Tomorrow
Leadership

3 min read


Apr 9, 2018

House of Oops

Design’s accidental consequences In the early 1990s, John Sylvan, an entrepreneurial Bostonian, quit his day job to start a business. His goal was to bring good coffee to the masses. For years he had resented the pitiable percolators that dotted America’s offices and street corners. …

Design

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House of Oops
House of Oops
Design

7 min read


Published in Microsoft Design

·Feb 11, 2018

A Crack at the Edges

Microsoft’s new take on designing for accessibility — In eighth grade, two days before my year-end math test, I slipped while playing soccer and broke my wrist. I was demonstrably bad at the game, and as a thirteen-year-old I tried to compensate for it by kicking the ball with all my strength. Usually, the ball went careening off…

Design

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A Crack at the Edges
A Crack at the Edges
Design

7 min read


Jan 7, 2018

Breathing Fire and Other Skills

The diary of a portfoliomaker Friday, Aug 25: Here I am, in Pittsburgh, on a muggy blue evening. Carnegie Mellon smells of sweat and wet paint. A salesman in a banana suit waves at me from a street corner. I ignore him. …

Design

6 min read

Breathing Fire and Other Skills
Breathing Fire and Other Skills
Design

6 min read


Dec 11, 2017

Return of the Secretary

Gender, ethics, and the conversational user interface Earlier this year, a six-year-old girl used her family’s Amazon Alexa to order four pounds of cookies and a dollhouse. Her parents were bewildered when the packages showed up at their door. Then, a news channel reporting on the story awakened Alexas in…

Artificial Intelligence

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Return of the Secretary
Return of the Secretary
Artificial Intelligence

6 min read


Oct 26, 2017

A Page From the Heart

How to reimagine your resume Let’s face it. You already know a ton about resumes. Chances are you have a resume of your own. It has probably taken you weeks to create, years to polish. You have poured your heart into it, perhaps even your spleen. You’ve squeezed your history…

Design

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A Page From the Heart
A Page From the Heart
Design

6 min read


Sep 12, 2017

Designing for Walruses

My first fortnight in design school If you’re reading this, you’re probably a walrus. You’re on an ice floe with friends. You’ve just cleaned your whiskers, and your breath smells like Arctic cod. You’re probably thinking, “How do I figure out what I don’t know that I don’t know?” In…

Design

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Designing for Walruses
Designing for Walruses
Design

4 min read


Jan 30, 2017

What Are You Going To Do About It?

Advice from a stranger So, your feathers have been ruffled. People more powerful than you are doing things that you do not like. You feel as if your country no longer represents you. That demons have taken control. You have two choices: Do Nothing Perhaps you believe in God, or a universal…

Politics

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What Are You Going To Do About It?
What Are You Going To Do About It?
Politics

2 min read

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