I remember the day I was faced with coming in terms with the horrid OS X Lion update that came in the form of some greyed out monotone finder icons. In the following days, I could immediately sense I was spending longer amounts of time trying to accomplish basic operations…

Using the Watch to unlock Mac feature on the macOS Sierra is really neat. It utilises an extremely personal device to perform something you would perform personally. This seems to be done right. But then there are some that aren’t quite. The unlocking is very quick for instance. It’s so…

Leadcode is an online advertising yield management platform for publishers. The platform lets you create, manage and monitor your campaigns on several places including Outbrain, Taboola, Facebook Ads, Google Adwords and Youtube in one place. …

LeaderAmp is an enterprise software that aims to enhance the performance of leadership teams in large organisations. It was founded by organisational psychologist Dr Matt Barney Ph.D. based on academic work and experience of training leaders with an Olympic-style results-driven coaching approach. LeaderAmp provides innovative leader development solutions that extend…

You can wave off this question often by simply answering it in a few words, sometimes just one. But it goes much deeper than that and like many questions we try to answer simply, there are those that need to be answered with much consideration. …

Early this year I was commissioned by Purple Pixel to design an app for a jobs platform. The following is a case study of the app I designed. I called it Kaam (in Hindi, meaning, job) Like with designing any application, there is a loose framework of going about the…

Today, making use of the Father’s Day celebration situation, I’m going to thank the man that fits that occasion: The Man. The Man has been tough, easy, resilient, cool, calm and various things at different times. But he has always been quite a man. The Man has had so many…

Late last year (okay, it was 2014) Bharat & I participated in Bizdroid; a Google and Nasscomm hackathon event. The agenda; to partner up with one of Google’s business partners and help them design and develop an android app; the resulting outcome being a tool that addresses the business requirement…

I was having a conversation the other day with Aveejeet Palit, who heads research at Moonraft. We got talking about the difficulty involving hiring good designers. In a way what he was implying was that good designers, when asked in a interview to show their best work, often scramble through…