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13 articles exploring friction, flow, AI design, mobile UX, and the psychology behind product decisions. All published in Design Bootcamp on Medium.

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★ Pinned · Mar 2026
Designers Can Ship Now. I Did.
It started with a fever. A sick child, exhausted parents, second-guessing medicine doses. That night I thought — this is a UX problem. So I built the solution. The story of FamilyDose — built by a designer, powered by stubbornness.
Personal Essay Product Mar 2026 · 4 min read
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Navigation · Feature UX
Smarter Navigation with Vehicle Profiles — Google Maps & Android Auto
Exploring how vehicle-aware navigation could reduce cognitive load. A deep dive into a missing feature inside a billion-user product.
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Behavioural UX
Designing for "I Don't Care" Users
What happens when users simply don't have the motivation to engage? How design creates just enough pull without manipulation.
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Friction Audit
A Small Menu, A Big Difference — Reducing Friction in Google's Stitch
How a single overlooked menu cascades into a frustrating experience — and how one small change fixes it.
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AI Design · Privacy
When AI Knows Me Too Well
The fine line between personalisation and privacy — and how over-smart AI design can quietly creep users out instead of winning trust.
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Micro-interactions
What a Simple Download Taught Me About Micro-Friction
Sometimes the smallest interaction reveals the biggest design gaps. A single button that silently breaks user trust.
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Feedback Design
The Post That Never Appeared — A UX Story of Silence on LinkedIn
When silence is the only feedback a user gets, what does that do to trust? A quiet publishing failure inside LinkedIn.
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Onboarding UX
Wanderlog — Trip Planner Onboarding Friction
Mapping the exact moments where new users drop off — and how a few changes could recover them before they leave.
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Notification Design
The Channels I Didn't Ask For — WhatsApp's Missed Opportunity
Unsolicited channels inside one of the world's most personal communication apps. How feature launches should treat existing users.
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Error States
Tapping for Nothing — Fixing Dead-End Screens in Rapido
Dead-end states that leave users stranded with no path forward. A teardown of high-stakes friction in India's fastest-growing cab app.
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Email Design
Lost in the Inbox — Why Backup Reminder Emails Are Failing
Transactional emails that feel like spam. A case for intentional hierarchy and communication that actually reaches users.
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Trust Design
Designing for Trust — Last-Mile Gaps in Swiggy Instamart
The delivery experience is the product. How last-mile UX failures quietly erode hard-won trust in quick-commerce.
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Task Flow Design
Reducing Friction in LinkedIn's Scheduled Post Flow
A step-by-step teardown of LinkedIn's scheduling flow — cutting 6 steps to 3 and making a power feature feel powerful.
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Email Design · Pricing UX
The Cost of Ambiguity: A UX Review of Norton's Renewal Email
When the same price appears twice — once crossed out — and why that single design choice creates confusion, breaks trust, and violates four UX heuristics.
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AI Design · UX Essay
Designing Temporal Awareness in AI Conversations
How a missing timestamp in an AI chat revealed a deeper design gap: AI products remember everything, but give users almost no sense of when things happened.
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