Lessons I’m taking with me as I begin a new design role at Google — “Three years ago, I was studying in Minnesota to become a Software engineer, and would have laughed at the thought of designing products for Google” I still remember that day one as a designer — I wore a flat cap, an off-white shirt and fancy white joggers — trying to…

My first Sketch plugin to help you with annotations — A huge part of my job is to deliver annotated wireframes. Primary audience for these notes are developers, visual designers and QA folks. They refer these to make sure that the final implementation comes out as intended. In most cases, there is back and forth between teams and design ends…

Imagine UberPool for UberEats — Edit (March 2017): I sent out a note to UberEats design team and asked if this concept fits into their near future roadmap and got the following response: “We’re glad to hear that you think group ordering is a useful use case. We’ve been thinking about this too :). Cheers!”. …

Things I learned after my first year of working in retail — It’s been almost an year since I started my professional journey as a UX Designer. From doubting my capabilities as a designer and getting jealous of others to putting in hours to learn new and interesting tools, there were many ups and downs. And many more to come. But in…

Earlier this week, I walked into Pet Smart for the first time in my life with a subtle intention of getting a pet. World with a pet is amazing, agree? I ended up getting a male Betta fish for our house. …

…and why — It can be a mis-typed URL or a broken link that triggers a 404 error page which is server’s response to a page that does not exist. For those who aren’t familiar of how it looks, have you seen a page like this before?

During my interviews and job search, I talked to a lot of people and read a lot of articles about what to expect and how to approach different scenarios. Before I move into covering my perspective, here are some examples of great ones out there: Interviewing Tips to Help You Land Your Dream Design Job We’ve all experienced the anxiety that comes with waiting not-so-patiently for the phone to ring, or email to arrive…medium.com

Unfiltered and raw pixels —

by Rachit Gupta I use Sketch for almost all of my design work. A few days back someone asked me how to create donut charts in Sketch and I realized that it isn’t as easy as it might appear to be. …