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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...

Continued from the previous article… We crave feedback; what I mean is we are doing an action we need to see a reaction. Like when driving a car, you expect to accelerate when you are pressing the throttle. The converse is also true; we go crazy when we don’t see or feel any feedback This is the primary factor behind people quitting exercising and dieting too soon; you don’t...

This question might sound very stupid, but trust me, it's not. The fundamental reason for its ubiquity is surprising, even a bit embarrassing. Let’s first get into some background… The "Like" button has not always been a standard in social media, as it is now. It was first introduced by a video sharing company called Vimeo, but to be honest, it has not a lot to do wit...

There is a famous Rajinikanth dialogue that roughly translates as “all men are allured by land, gold, and women” (which you can generalize into people of the opposite gender), and it’s an old saying too. So, you can infer that these attractions have been with us for a long time, but all of a sudden where this Cars, Bikes, Mobile Phones, Computers, and even headphones love came fr...

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...

People are claiming to see it in the face of Aishwarya Rai, In the Taj Mahal, In Mona Lisa, In the Logo of Apple, In a lot of Flowers, and even in the structure of galaxies. How is this single specific ratio is found in almost all places which are deemed beautiful?? Is it actually there?? I think, Its complete horseshit…. And I have a case for it (with empirical evidence). But, let's...