Taking charge, and dealing with vulnerability when you no longer get to work with the best boss in the world. — If you are reading this, then you most likely have worked for a kick-ass manager, and you know exactly where this article is heading. …

How my Design Manager inspired me to become better at my craft. — It’s been about a year since I started working at Atlassian. And, it took me almost a decade to meet a design manager I’d finally call, my most favorite! Ash Sterzenbach (who now no longer works at our organization) is some one who is super passionate about her practice, genuinely…

Ways to organize your calendar and reclaim your ‘Focus-Time’ — ‘Zoom fatigue’ is a term that isn’t alien to today’s remote world and there are numerous articles published on the internet on how to battle it effectively. With this essay we will be focusing on ways to organize our calendars better as individuals and teams so that we aren’t overwhelmed…

How a simple act of opening up your calendar, can contribute towards a more friendlier design community. — Final year design graduates were impacted in a big way during the early days of the COVID pandemic, and they still are. Students were loosing internship opportunities, job offers were being cancelled, promising startups were shutting shop, grads were not having industry mentors to guide them with their final year…

Ways to deal with the skepticism of giving up the studio space and moving in with your project teams. — Design, in the world of tech, has only matured over the years. From being mere ‘pixel pushers’ or ‘people who beautify screens’.. to becoming that elite group that works out of a fancy studio space and constantly keeps emphasising on why design thinking is important while building products.. to a…

Tips to deal with the nerve wrecking experience of calculating your bank balance endlessly as a student — The decision to study abroad is a big one. Sure, moving to a new country can be overwhelming especially if it’s your first time traveling abroad. Anxiety a.k.a excitement during your first month is a given! Have I invested in the right course? Is my faculty going to be any…

Here’s why you shouldn’t take rejections or offers too seriously. — With the industry going through a rough patch, and design students having a lot of anxiety about securing a job or taking up higher education at a foreign university etc, I thought I should share a story about one of my big rejections as a newbie in the world of…

The realization that every individual is as vulnerable and human as our very own selves. — This isn’t another “Tips on working remotely” or “How to manage your time better while working from home” sort of an article. There is more than enough content out there, and a lot more people have started sharing Zoom-screenshots on how awesome their teams are functioning today. …

Staying ahead of the pack — This essay is targeted mostly towards design graduates, those that are new to the industry or basically anybody who wants to give their job applications an edge above the rest of the pack. Grad-hiring usually happens in two ways: Apply via job portals like LinkedIn, Glassdoor etc; or directly on…