I recently decided to jump out of my comfort zone to improve my public speaking and facilitation skills.These are some of my learnings after having a wonderful session with Bjørn de Wildt.
Top learningsConnect your opinion to fact. When you add weight behind your opinion with some facts, it shows why something is interesting and helps you bring in the listener.
Silence puts things into spotlight. Creates attention. Silence is awkward but when used…

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What was project aboutA mobile app for iOS and Android to continue with your comment conversation on Figma. You can subscribe to updates to a bunch of files and get instant access to the conversation on the phone.Further plan included creating a Slack App, Viewing full canvas and file browser – all via your mobile phone.I stopped this project when Figma announced their Slack App which was in fact the same thing what I was planning to build.How w…

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A quick note how using Figma can refine your process and bring all the distributed work from different software to one single source of truth. Below are some examples from personal experience.

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Recently, I moved my content from a self-built & maintained website using Jekyll and Github Pages to Notion Docs hosted on a custom domain using Fruition.Several reasons for it:Better writing experience with Notion I wrote in markdown, in Visual Studio Code. Although I was comfortable enough with it, there's no doubt that typing in a dedicated editor like Notion is always better. Yes, I have tried multiple markdown editors.No deployment …

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Ostrich Books was started to solve problems of book availability and their high cost. A lot of books were either not available in local stores or were costly if ordered online. Getting suggestion online was even worse. If you're an avid reader, you’d have despised the Amazon India and Goodreads recommendation system.



The ProblemThere are only a few good bookstores in Bangalore and even lesser number of libraries. And after making an astronomi…

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Volt aims at teaming up people, sports and people who love sports. With Volt, you can host or join a match, book an arena for your team or compete in a tournament. All in one place!→ This was originally posted on behance.net→ Available as project on Dribbble

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As a designer, I believe side projects are of utmost importance. You get to experiment with various scenarios working on a new topic and it dramatically enhances your skill. On the other hand, I also believe that designers are pretty protective about their work. We take immense shame in accepting if we fail at improving a product through design. But as they say, failing and failure are different things.While trying to improve Google Translate’s …

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This is a co-written article with Indhuja. For better context, please skim through what we wrote in the first iteration.Side projects are teachers, of sorts. After trying to redesign the Google Translate app and failing, Sahil and I tried again. Only while writing about it did we realize we weren’t failing, but making real good progress. We learned to not trust the first iterations of the designs we made and to never give up until we’ve solved …

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About Urban Sports Club Urban Sports Club offers a flexible flat-rate sports membership within Europe for more than 50 types of sports—fitness, yoga, swimming, climbing, team sports, wellness and much more. With over 10,000 partners across Europe, Urban Sports Club is the market leader in this segment. Within Urban Sports Group lies OneFit and Fitogram along with other smaller acquired entities. Urban Sports Club has apps for Android and iOS, a …

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