It’s for a reason that product people often refer to a users’ way of getting through a product as “habit.” Because using a product, understanding the merits and pitfalls, and beginning to stick around with it could definitely feel like…
This is a trait that can be applied to building products. Re-framing the context of something users are already familiar with, and solving for that in the product brings a touch of novelty and excellence. When adapted as a mindset,…
Quite often, product teams end up thinking this. It’s understandably true that products are hard—to be dreamt about and shaped to solve for a need. It’s a great achievement to be able to conceive ideas, work on timelines, and bring…
In the dense pages of the product rule book, one is surely to find the (over)usage of a term called empathy. Don’t mistake—this piece of writing isn’t to talk negatively about empathy or prove anything against it. If anything, this…
Let’s say you’re threatened by a bug or a pet. The fear makes your mind picture the presence of what threatens you literally in any place you focus on. This unconnectedness and unnecessary patterns crawl their way into our mind…
Building teams or products—the underlying need is always to solve for a challenge. Framing processes to simplify an action and trusting on techniques to arrive at a solution are usually the hacks for any team and the product they’re shipping.…
I couldn’t think of a better title. Yes, it’s true I created a sticker—all artsy and nice. It’s also true that it was related to Carnatic music (and my little project, The Karnatik Kaapi) and it wasn’t remotely in the…
Thinking the negative outcome has always been shunned, especially when dreaming of a start. Factoring in the uncertainties helps for a calculated start, but there’s yet another route for understanding problems and creating solutions that eventually work. It’s in the…
Some activities stick to you. And, then they form a part of your routine. Before you realize, they turn into habits and you stop to consciously look at them. You may think the actions or the outcomes are what stuck…
Human minds are instinctive. What more, they can draw insights from one experience, stored ready as a reference for some other moments coming up. Thinking back, we humans have applied certain learnings through observation into visualizing a lot many things…