Considering the role of context and culture in creating diverse and meaningful futures — When humans think of the future, we often stick to the crystal ball mindset — there is but one future to predict. …

Takeaways from remote user research projects conducted over the past few years — The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed a lot of research from the field to remote. And there have been many articles shedding light on how to tweak or adapt research methods to online and virtual tools. For most of my projects, I am a user research team of one and my…

How Holis and CLARA helped me engage with the wicked problem of rural exodus and its impact on the social and economic fabric of a community? Seeking a change In the past few months, I had been craving for a design challenge, to go out in the field and get my hands dirty…

Reflections from Dare to learn, a festival of learning — Learning doesn’t stop once you have that fancy university degree in your hand. Lifelong learning has been one of the most important lessons I have learnt in the past few years of my life. This recently sparked interest of mine led me to ‘Dare to learn’, a festival of learning…

Curiosity, creativity and resilience to thrive in future — I am not a mother. Not yet. But my husband and I so often discuss that we wont be raising ‘kids’, we will be raising future adults. As adults, they will have to face the ever changing and ever challenging world. So, I constantly think of how will I prepare…

Productivity in today’s world As a species, we were never much concerned about our productivity till the beginning of 20th century. A quick peek at the use of the word shows how it came into vogue with the industrial revolution and it hasn’t stopped ever since.

In my last article about the future of recruitment, I described how chatbots are taking over the recruitment process. Companies already employ smart software that interact with job applicants through online chat and voice on different platforms. This software screens, communicates with applicants and presents them to the recruiters for…

In this two-part series, I look at chat bots from the perspectives of the recruiters and the recruited respectively. This is the first part. — It’s not just our homes and phones, Artificial Intelligence has made inroads in our work places and how we hire and get hired. OCR and keyword filtration technologies that help to go through job applications are not new. …

A series of articles observing ‘smart’ things from an intersection of design, technology and human interaction — After my first article about smart jewelry, it is the turn of the smart home assistants which seem to be the talk of the town in 2017. The robots are here The robots are coming or are they already here? After leaving your house cleaning to a Roomba, soon your coffee will be prepared…