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...
Designing Mobile Interfaces People Actually Love
Think about the last app you opened and actually enjoyed using. Maybe it was effortless to navigate, or you instinctively knew where to tap next. That’s not luck or fancy visual...
How Good Products Turn Into Daily Habits
When I was at Khatabook, we shipped changes almost every day. Sometimes it was a smoother navigation flow, sometimes a faster way to record transactions. Research guided us towa...
Why Fintech UX Needs More Than Good Design
Designing for fintech is unlike working on any other product. You’re not just shaping an interface - you’re shaping people’s relationship with money. And money carries weight, urg...