What I Learned While Mentoring Designers
Mentoring designers has taught me as much as it’s taught them. Every conversation, critique, and review becomes a mirror - showing how people think, where they struggle, and wha...
The Core Habits of Effective Design Leaders
Design leadership is more than managing a team or delivering on deadlines. It’s about building the right culture, enabling creativity within structure, and shaping how design co...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
User Intent Lives in Actions and Pauses
What if the most revealing part of user behavior is not the click itself, but the moment before and after it? Every little thing a user does like clicking, hovering, or scrollin...
The Way Onboarding Shapes Culture
I once joined a design team where my first week felt like detective work. There were scattered files, half-documented processes, and no real introduction to how decisions were m...
Consistency Starts with Shared Thinking
A few months ago, I joined a design sync between two product streams - one focused on merchants (B2B) and the other on customers (B2C). Both teams were doing great work, but somet...
Design Works Best When Everyone Builds Together
I still remember a design review where the product manager, engineer, and I were staring at the same screen - but seeing three different things. I saw layout issues, the PM saw ro...