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When to Adapt, When to Hold Firm: A Product Designer’s Balancing Act

Dealing with non-design stakeholders can be tricky, I’ve outlined my take on the sweet spot between adapting and level-setting…

4 min readApr 7, 2024

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When to Adapt, When to Hold Firm: A Product Designer’s Balancing Act

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Design Epiphanies That Have Led Me to Successful Outcomes

As a design practitioner, I love reflecting on my experiences and learning from them. To that end, I’ve stumbled upon some transformative…

2 min readDec 26, 2023

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Design Epiphanies That Have Led Me to Successful Outcomes

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Top 5 takeaways from my stint at Gopuff

Gopuff office in Times Square, New York

4 min readAug 22, 2022

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Top 5 takeaways from my stint at Gopuff

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Design Reflections from my time at Ansys

Ansys UX team

5 min readMay 9, 2022

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Design Reflections from my time at Ansys

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How understanding user context (situated action) impacts the design positively

The proposed design should account for the user as well as the local context to successfully solve a problem.

6 min readMay 6, 2022

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Random people walking on a busy street

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Gaurav Nikam

My Design Philosophy

Design, on a broader level, for me is about creating profitable desired future states of reality. By profitable, I mean that which enriches…

5 min readSep 1, 2021

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My Design Philosophy

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Gaurav Nikam

The problem with labels: self-imposed mental constructs

Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash

3 min readJan 28, 2021

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The problem with labels: self-imposed mental constructs

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Gaurav Nikam

Are we misdirected in our pursuit of happiness?

All that we pursue, we pursue to attain the end goal; Happiness, or so we are convinced. Happiness is a fragile and temporary state at…

3 min readApr 3, 2020

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Are we misdirected in our pursuit of happiness?

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Gaurav Nikam

Why consciousness and religious faith do not go hand in hand.

I am quite aware that I have a staunch opinion about this matter and it may not be welcomed by all the readers nonetheless it’s what I…

3 min readJan 11, 2020

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Why consciousness and religious faith do not go hand in hand.

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How to be in control of your arbitrary emotions.

Emotions are rarely in the atomic state. Rather, think of an atom as your demeanor towards a person. The nucleus consisting of the…

3 min readDec 15, 2019

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How to be in control of your arbitrary emotions.

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Gaurav Nikam

Gaurav Nikam

Senior Product Designer @BAL • Critical Thinker // In a perpetual pursuit of refining my interpretation of reality and beyond.

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