A How-To guide on using Airtable for better note-taking and sense-making for User Research — As User Researchers, we love when our participants open up and talk freely. But (sort of) despise it when we have to scour through mountains of quotes to make reconstruct a model of how humans think and what they do. …

Building an app or writing a book — the fundamentals still hold true — A core tenet of being a User Experience Designer is, “You are not your user.” Despite having preached this to several people, I failed to adhere to my advice recently. Three weeks back, I was mulling over some topics to write a blog post. I like to read, so why…

Having a clear outcome in mind makes reading more engaging and effective — “Books Bill Gates thinks you should read.” “9 books Warren Buffet thinks you should read this year.” “7 books Elon Musk thinks everyone should read.” Each time I come across an article like that, I feel honoured. All these super successful, wealthy and intelligent people are taking the time to think about me! I am sure you have seen such articles and listicles flooding social media posts and crying for attention. Heck! There are even…

Tips for reading effectively in the 21st century — Welcome to Get, Set, Read. A newsletter dedicated to helping people to break bad reading patterns and start to enjoy reading. I am Sridhar, a User Experience Researcher by profession. …

Maybe, or maybe not. — This is a thought I have been pondering on for the past few weeks after reading Radical Candor by Kim Scott. An ideal organisation is one where every employee thinks and acts in a way that is natural for them. …

P.S: Some tips to get through a reader’s block — Reading a book is a long-term commitment compared to scrolling through a news feed and liking stuff without even reading 140 characters completely. So it isn’t surprising that a lot of people don’t prefer reading books. …

Tips on being candid with yourself and your team — Check out Part 1 of this post: My first 100 days as a UX lead Note: Opinions expressed in this article are solely mine and do not express the views of thoughts of my employer.uxdesign.cc ‘Radical Candor’ by Kim Scott has been on my to-read list for a long time. While the title piqued my curiosity, I kept thinking if it was one of those boring management books or lets-all-sit-down-and-hold-hands BS. But finally I did pick it up…

Terminal 4 in Singapore Changi airport has an automated baggage check-in and security check. Both of these processes are quite time-intensive, so automating them seem the ideal thing to do. …

Recently I conducted some user interviews with young kids for a project. This was the first time I was interviewing kids, so I did have some apprehensions about it. But it went surprisingly well. …