Alok SharmainBootcampHow Retrospectives Are More Than Just a Corporate Jargon?The great American philosopher Michael Scott once posed a question as a form of reflection to his compatriot — “Why are you the way you…Apr 14Apr 14
Alok SharmainBootcampHow I Designed a Colour Palette from Scratch For My Personal WebsiteAs part of my ongoing attempt to clean up my website under the hood by building and using systems for colours, typography, class names and…Dec 1, 2023Dec 1, 2023
Alok SharmainBootcampHow Real-World Inspiration Shapes Architecture, Industrial Products, Digital Design and MoreDid you know that velcro’s design and function was inspired by a plant? Or that the passive cooling found in termite moulds inspired the…Jun 29, 2023Jun 29, 2023
Alok SharmaMy Writing Process with Obsidian and NotionIn my college days, I used to write blogs and articles for a few startups, online and print magazines. This was long before I pivoted to a…Nov 19, 2022Nov 19, 2022
Alok SharmainBootcampWhen Design Thinking Doesn’t WorkDesign thinking is a systematic, human-centric approach to problem solving. It involves thinking about the relation between the product and…Jan 25, 2022Jan 25, 2022
Alok SharmainBootcampAlgorithms vs heuristicsSteve Jobs, and by extension Apple, have been a huge proponent of operating at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. Ken…Oct 17, 2021Oct 17, 2021
Alok SharmainBootcampWhat is system feedback and why designers should care about it?In 1979, the U.S. saw its most significant nuclear accident when reactor no. 2 at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania suffered a partial…Sep 21, 2021Sep 21, 2021
Alok SharmainBootcampHow can designers avoid shallow work and protect their productivity?With the risk of oversimplification, Product Design can be defined as ‘creative problem solving’. It gets complex real fast though…Jul 1, 2021Jul 1, 2021
Alok SharmainBootcampWhimsical Docs: A designer and PM’s new best friend?Whimsical Docs, the latest addition to the Whimsical suite of products, is the perfect documentation and thinking tool for Designers, PMs.Mar 14, 2021Mar 14, 2021
Alok SharmaWhy I Built my Personal Website From Scratch with Figma and WebflowInstead of using a makeshift website builder, I designed and developed my personal website from scratch with Webflow. But why did I do…Jan 29, 2021Jan 29, 2021