Prateek Saxena – Medium

Prateek Saxena

Design Systems Handbook

I’ve been involved in the process of instating a design system twice. First, with the short-lived attempt to move the MediaWiki platform…

3 min readJul 17, 2020

--

Design Systems Handbook

--

Prateek Saxena

Dependency Paralysis, or Not Getting Things Done

When I am about to do a task, I think of all the requirements that need to be fulfilled in order to do the task well. I then list all the…

2 min readJul 10, 2020

--

Dependency Paralysis, or Not Getting Things Done

--

Prateek Saxena

How to Take Smart Notes

I’ve always found writing to be an impossibly hard thing to do. So, for the last few years I’ve been trying to learn and practice it more…

2 min readJul 3, 2020

--

How to Take Smart Notes

--

Prateek Saxena

Deep Work

I’ve been trying to be less distracted by the Internet while working. Stopping my instinct to open The Wire in a new tab while trying to…

2 min readJun 19, 2020

--

Deep Work

--

Prateek Saxena

Never nothing to see. Algorithmic feeds or an inbox?

Twitter, Instagram and Facebook always have something to show you. Whether it is posts you’ve already seen, posts from people you never…

2 min readJun 12, 2020

--

Never nothing to see. Algorithmic feeds or an inbox?

--

Prateek Saxena

Anything you Want

I tend to take things seriously, more seriously than I’d like, and more seriously than it is good for me. Anything You Want by Derek…

2 min readMay 29, 2020

--

--

Prateek Saxena

The Backlog

All of us have a bunch of different backlogs — emails, todo tasks, articles to read. New backlogs get added all the time too — recipes to…

1 min readApr 14, 2020

--

Graph showing reducing days and increasing number of items in your backlog

--

Prateek Saxena

Prateek Saxena

Hey 👋🏽 I am a UX designer at the Wikimedia Foundation during the day, and work on open source & open data projects in the evenings—https://prtksxna.com

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams