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Inventors and Investors

On February 8, 2020November 2, 2020 By gauravmathur192 Comments

Since the last 5 years, I have been fortunate to rebuild my career as a product designer. During this time, I was also fortunate enough to invest in two startups, both doing fairly well. This led me to quite a few interactions with the 'creative types' and the 'business types'. One being focused on feeling, …

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An interesting visual summary

On January 13, 2020 By gauravmathur19Leave a comment

Today I was delighted to find a visual summary by the Todoist app which I have been using last year. Found the presentation quite compelling, with clean data visualization as well as illustrations which conveyed a unique personality. You can access the report on this link.

Accessibility = Disruption = Growth

On June 7, 2019 By gauravmathur191 Comment

Disruptive Innovation = When people who didn't use a product start using it. Accessibility = When people who could not (and hence, did not) use a product start using it. Business people think hard about disruptive innovation and growth, they care about the economy. And designers think hard about accessible design, they care about individuals. …

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Listening to Michael Mayer

On April 3, 2019 By gauravmathur19Leave a comment

https://twitter.com/mmay3r/status/1092549200162648065?s=20 Michael is the founder of a company which delivers coffee. Yesterday I came across this podcast - Invest like the best - featuring him. It's quite a refreshing podcast and I found Michael an original thinker (this was also magnified by the fact that before this, I just listened to another very boring podcast). …

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A city responds to a shooting

On March 24, 2019 By gauravmathur19Leave a comment

I usually only write about products, design and startups here. But today is different. Last week, on 18 March 2019, a man opened fire on some innocent people in a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht. Three people lost their lives, five others were injured. The shooting occurred at 10.45 am. I was in …

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Masayoshi Son’s design process

On March 14, 2019 By gauravmathur19Leave a comment

Quite simple he'd like us to think. I happened to chance upon this interview (from 2017) of the founder of SoftBank, Masayoshi Son, today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa2_VBu0d7k He come across as quite a funny guy and of course I recommend watching it. This is how he describes his innovation process: MASAYOSHI SON: I ask my friends, isn't …

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Design your own Street

On March 13, 2019 By gauravmathur19Leave a comment

Today I came across this web app to design your own street: Streetmix. Quite a soothing exercise, and I recommend taking a go at it. And once you do, check out the equally if not more interesting story behind the design - You are a street designer. It mentions how this tool got people to reach …

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Ninjas and Knights

On March 12, 2019 By gauravmathur19Leave a comment

A few days back I came across this compelling presentation about... design and would like to share it here. Ninjas & Knights It's quite deeply philosophical, but also damn good storytelling.

Design for Positive Emotion

On March 10, 2019 By gauravmathur19Leave a comment

"The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have." - Steve Jobs Thinking about Positive Emotion From the last few weeks, I have been thinking over how to create better emotional experiences for people who use digital products. It turned out that I lacked a good vocabulary of emotions. We …

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What questions are you asking?

On February 17, 2019 By gauravmathur19Leave a comment

Our daily actions are answers, or attempts at answers, to the questions we ask ourselves. They shape our experience by focusing the energy of our conscious and subconscious thoughts on the search for answers to these questions. They become the lens through which we view reality. The Simpler Questions "How can I have more money?" This …

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