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  The bicycle has been something that’s been with us since a very young age at least for our generation and we often take it for granted. Just another artifact which we use till we come of age and then throw it away. We seldom appreciate it. I always have been attracted to the simplicity of the bicycle and both of the cycles I ever had were the most rudimentary specimens of all...

I am now reading a book called “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins. This book has a reputation for being depressing and Boy, It didn't disappoint. Just because something is either depressing or weird, we shouldn’t dismiss the truth. Truth is way weirder and depressing than fiction indeed. This is not the point here. I found a couple of profound quotes in the introduction...

I bought Netflix free trial version a couple of months back and I think Netflix has, hands down, the best UI design I have ever seen… try to convince me otherwise. The design is so intuitive and well designed that you will get lost inside and won’t probably come out unless you make a conscious decision to do so. Netflix indeed invented the term Binge-watching and even the term is adde...

The first thing you have to “just know” is that product designers are really smart people and if you ask what do these product designers design, the answer is probably everything around you and everything you can think of. But let’s focus just on the designers who design digital devices, apps, and their interfaces. And what makes these guys powerful is that they know exactly how...

All of us must have come across really popular theories, Like Einstein’s Relativity, Newton’s laws of gravity, or Max Plank’s quantum physics, which had a tremendous impact within the scope of science, but pretty much irrelevant outside it.  But I think the scope of Charles Darwin’s Theory of natural selection might extend way beyond biology. You might say that I am se...

Let me tell you about another highly inconvenient product that we carry around all the time. The Mobile phone. You might think mobile phones are the most convenient product to have ever have made but, hear out my case.  The dictionary defines convenience as “Freedom from discomfort”.  Yes, it frees you from the grueling discomfort of going to someone's place to talk...