fǔpí beancurd skin crisps have cracked this branding well. I was at a supermarket for my weekly grocery shopping; when walking down the snacks aisle, I noticed delightful line drawing illustrations on a minimal-looking package. Something seemed weird. What is it? I have never seen it before at any of…

Getting started with building your first design system library The dream of having a living document was made possible by enabling the easy creation of the design systems library within Figma. But since design systems are more than just a UI Kit, they are also quite confusing to start building…

Where Starbucks is succeeding at store design where others fail There’s no doubt that Starbucks coffee wins every time the consumer thinks about high-grade coffee and friendly service. …

Designers don’t have a natural urge to branch. It’s undoubtedly spectacular that designers can tinker around in their Figma files within a branch these days. During Sketch days, branching of a file was only possible via Abstract, and companies had to shell out an extra license fee for Abstract integration…

Evaluating Notion as a portfolio-building tool for product designers The latest craze among the product & design community is building and launching quick and crisp portfolios constructed on top of Notion. But there are a few reasons why as a product designer, you should dodge this fad. Using Notion Pros Users with ZERO…

Hacking growth trajectories in tech companies Career growth in the best tech companies is a struggle for most product designers. But it is most sought after by both early and experienced product designers. Unfortunately, in my experience working as a product designer, I have met some design managers that never…

Learn how to increase the adoption of your design system-based vector assets Even for the most empathetic product designers, it is never easy to practice empathy towards (Android/iOS/Web) developers. However, it is one of the reasons why Design Ops as a vertical got created. …

And six signs that your team is ready to go ahead with them Objectives and Key Results, long for, OKRs. The management team doesn’t leave a chance to implement them every year. Everyone gets to set targets for the year and then some more, labeled as “stretched” targets. …

Make a great impression in your following interview There are many blog posts about interview questions, and I don’t think any of them are wrong or bad questions in general. But as a product designer interviewing with your dream company, you have to choose which questions to ask and when. …