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Put your own mask on first…

My first 6 weeks of being a new mom were full of bleak moments. Weeks of anxiety about how much my baby was eating, hours spent wishing the…

2 min readJun 2, 2018

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Put your own mask on first…

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The rest of your pregnancy (it does get better — kind of)

This is a (very late) post on the last half of my pregnancy. Read about the first half here.

3 min readJun 1, 2018

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Tools are the easy part. Do you have the right processes to make remote design thinking work?

This is part two of a three-part series on how to incorporate remote design thinking into your organization. Read part one about having the…

5 min readAug 24, 2017

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Halfway there — what people don’t tell you about being pregnant…

You will stop birth control prematurely because you think you are old and it will take 6 -12 months to get pregnant. You will promptly find…

4 min readAug 17, 2017

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Do you have the right mind-set to make remote design collaboration work?

Tools are the easy part

3 min readApr 20, 2017

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How a 10-day silent meditation course made me a better researcher

A few years ago I was a dejected sole design researcher at my startup.

4 min readFeb 25, 2017

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How a 10-day silent meditation course made me a better researcher

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You can plan design sprints, but you can’t plan “insights” or “innovation”

The best insights are not revealed while you are “interviewing” users

2 min readFeb 2, 2017

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What’s your superpower?

I am seeing the next generation of super smart MBA graduates enter the workforce. They join startups and morph into what the startup needs…

2 min readJan 19, 2017

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Start with a story, and end with the metrics

Every all-hands should start with the metrics. Every design brainstorm should start with a story.

4 min readSep 18, 2016

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The time my “awesome” feature completely bombed (and why I am glad my CEO didn’t fire me)

It’s like the time I did something awful, admitted it to my parents, and they didn’t stop loving me. Doing something awful didn’t make me…

1 min readMay 21, 2016

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Shipra Kayan

Shipra Kayan

User Experience Designer. Lifelong Optimist. Avid Reader. Fledgeling Writer. San Franciscan — by way of Thailand and India.

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