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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...

Last year when I was reading a business book (Left brain Right Stuff by Phil Rozenberg), I happen to come upon something called “The Serenity Prayer”. It reads like… “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference” The book was about decision making and the context was a...

This is the article, I said I would write in the "Facebook like-button" article... We are all smug in a way that we believe “I make the calls in my life”. But the only way it would be possible is only if you are locked in a room for all your life. All of our decisions are affected by external factors – Ads, posters, movies, books, etc. In most cases, we are the ones...

Biggest… Or perhaps the most impactful news this year… Sorry, Not about COVID… HUL is renaming their face cream range – From Fair and lovely (And Fair and Handsome) to Glow and lovely (and handsome). Seems like a Trivial thing, right?? I don’t think so. To be clear, HUL is no saint, even though doing this might undermine their sales. They had to do It beca...

Continued from the previous article... Let me start with a small story… A few days back I was… not exactly cooking, but you can say working with chilli powder. And then all of a sudden I was having this hot and burning sensation in my hands. As for how everyone usually does, I went to wash my hands; the important thing here is that the burning sensation was not too hot that I w...

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...

Last night when I was watching this amazing documentary called Racing Extinction, which I wanted to watch for years, with literally tears in my eyes (It doesn’t usually happen), I was wondering about why despite the science being crystal clear, and everyone knowing something is wrong, we (as common people) aren’t doing anything about it. For a little bit of context, Racing Extinctio...

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...