How to Overcome Creative Blocks as a Designer?
I've come across many designers who feel completely drained by their daily work. Every design they create seems to get pulled in different directions by multiple stakeholders, l...
The Three Loops of Design Innovation
When I think about innovation in UX and product design, it’s easy to picture big launches or groundbreaking features. But real innovation rarely starts that way. It begins quiet...
Design Flows Better When You Know Code
Designers often hear that coding isn’t required to do their job well. And that’s mostly true - design is about empathy, clarity, and solving problems through experience. But for...
Why Every UX Team Needs a Checklist
Every designer has had that moment - a review where someone points out a missed interaction, an inconsistent state, or a small accessibility oversight that slipped through. It’s...
When Qualitative Research Tells a Different Story
During one of our usability sessions, we were observing how small shopkeepers used our payment feature. The transaction success screen had a cheerful animation - a confetti burs...
Small Design Drifts, Big User Impact
I once opened three screens from the same product and felt like I was using three different apps. The colors were slightly off, the buttons behaved differently, and the tone of ...
Who Really Owns Your Design System?
In one of my past teams, we had a beautiful design system - clean Figma files, neat documentation, and reusable components. Everyone praised it in meetings, but when it came to ow...
Designing with AI Without Losing the Craft
There’s a lot of noise around AI right now - and understandably so. It’s powerful, fast, and often feels like magic. But I’ve been thinking about what it really means for design...
Design Data Needs a Human Context
Not long ago, I built a small tool to observe how users interact with my designs. It tracked basic actions - clicks, scroll depth, hover points, and how long people spent on cer...
Top Figma Plugins for Icons - Free & Paid
Icons are more than decoration - they are visual cues that guide users, communicate actions, and create a cohesive look across a product. A well-chosen icon can reduce cognitive...
UX Psychology: Effort Creates Attachment
Have you ever noticed how people talk proudly about the furniture they assembled themselves from IKEA? Even if the shelf wobbles a little, they value it more than something read...
The Return of the Generalist Designer?
There’s a pattern that seems to repeat every decade or so in tech - the shift from structure back to exploration. In the early days of the web, designers and developers were all...