Digital Computer interfaces are a very recent invention in the era of human beings. We did not have them when we were hunters & foragers or during the agricultural revolution and not even during the Industrial Revolution. The way we communicated with our surroundings were very different back then and…

Recreating figments of reality has been in our DNA — The oldest cave paintings that have been discovered so far, dates back to almost 45,000 years ago. We, homosapiens have always been intrigued about the world around us and tried to recreate it in different forms throughout history. Instead of being functional, these paintings tell us…

For the sake of this article, let’s keep web 3 explanation super simple. Web 3.0’s decentralised protocol will enable people on the internet to own and be compensated for their time and data of all forms, whereas today, all of these data are being exploited by centralised giants. — We might have seen different posts talk about how this could change our society. While these new dimension of products have hard to understand mechanics and you could lose money due to the poor design language of these platforms.. …

Meta is quickly becoming a new name and is becoming synonymous with the infamous metaverse we all seem to be raving about. — It remains to be seen how meta, the former facebook brand is updated with new business models surrounding the metaverse and if it would follow the best ethical and privacy friendly practices it has failed to do so far. Centralised vs Decentralised metaverses Meta prides itself on building the next generation immersive 3D experiences…

Zero knowledge proofs are mathematical proofing system where the prover (the party who has to prove something) to the verifier (The other party who would verify the statement) without conveying additional information. — I will refer to them as Zk Proofs. In Zk proofs, the statement being conveyed has to only consist of the fact that the prover knows or possesses the secret rather than telling the whole secret to the verifier or any other third party.

A guide to collect your ideas, thoughts and highlights then using digital forms of spaced repetition to master what you learn. Learning is a continous process. — “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” — James Clear Many of us spend a long time on the internet these days, consuming and learning new things only to forget them because there’s always more new and exciting things…

“Consciousness narrows as we get older”— Michael Pollan — What is explorative play?

Gamification might have been the way to go when we were new to the app and mobile ecosystem 5 years back but in today’s state where there are multiple products to help users serve the same function, app fatigue is a real problem for product companies. — Tunnel Vision Design Users are not having one single product in their mobile phones for a specific purpose (Shopping, food delivery, transport, payments) although they might have a preferential one. This begs the question, how effective is gamification for our end users? …

Many of us have made the transition from different design disciplines to UX for various reasons. Intrinsically when we all started out, we were told that it was a rewarding and fulfilling career to solve real-world problems in the domains that interested us. — This still holds true today and I truly believe that there aren’t many fulfilling job roles today as much as an Experience Designer. It comes at a price of learning every day and staying updated with trends, methods, collaborating with cross-functional teams but, like every designer, you still get that…