Karthi Subbaraman

Ruthlessly say NO to things and don’t fall prey to urgency. As a leader, focus on long term, ignore the short term. You must do things that are important. Delegate things that are not important. Does that sound like a bunch of productivity advice you have received? All the

I hop from meeting to meeting in my day and I don’t have time for real work! Does that sound like you? If yes, you are not alone. Meeting overload and calendar creep are the first world problems every executive of our times go through. Here are some tips

A part of Team Productivity Series ✨ “This could have been an email” is a common comment we hear from team members who walk out of an unproductive meeting.  In all honesty many important organisation decisions can be taken by a responsible individual. Many issues can be resolved via emails or

Threshold Bar Raiser is the name of the game I have been playing for over two years now. Every time something happens outside my locus of control, I bring up my toxic positive self and immediately start counting my blessings. I don't stop there. I write down all

As forever students of human behaviours, designers know a thing or two about how human beings buy. For someone interested in selling, understanding buying behaviours is pivotal. Here are some observations around how human beings acquire value👇 1. Human beings love buying. They hate being sold to. In other words

It is human to want abundance but to chase scarcity. This behaviour of sapiens is fascinating. Now that we have handled the basic aspects of user experience hierarchy like functionality, reliability, durability and even usability, it is time to move up the ladder towards pleasure and significance. Following the order

When it comes to First principle thinking, the popular names we hear ranges from Aristotle to Charlie Munger to Elon Musk. In all honesty, every design thinker, every chef out there, ought to use first principles to solve problems. It is impossible to unleash creative possibilities otherwise. For example, chefs

Thirteen pieces of timeless advice given to M.Des (Strategic Design Management) students of National Institute of Design as a part of jury. 1. Strategic Design is all about focus. Focus comes by saying deliberate NOs. Saying NO is hard for all sapiens. Use your technical (design) competence to show

As the name suggests, a landing page is a standalone page where your potential customer "lands" after directed by an email or ad or search. Usually a landing page is super specific page created for a specific purpose such as lead generation or click-through sale by providing something

Product Design is a continuous and an iterative process. Managing design improvements on the go and handing off newly minted designs to the development teams gets very tricky especially when the team handles a complex product. * Screen-wise or page-wise design and development handoff is too rudimentary. What worked for simple