Karthi Subbaraman

June has started on a build note. This month I am exploring Notion and Systems design as a Guild [https://guild.xperian.org] challenge. Everyday I want to make a template. If the system excites someone then all we need to do is just click a button and a template

In your college third year did you end up making logos and posters for your college fest and your friends loved your design sense and raved about it? Yes? Post that exprience, did you take figma too seriosuly and started bunking all your engineering lectures? Yes? Did you do some

We rarely talk about writing as a design skill. Wish someone told me this phenomenon two decades ago when I was striving to become a designer. I accidently discovered writing as a skill during my MBA days.Typically my love for a subject is proportional to the passion my teachers

Only 50% of typical meetings are useful based on the meeting science insights from MIT Sloan [https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-surprising-science-behind-successful-remote-meetings/] . Design meetings are not an exception to this. Poorly run meetings only get worse in a remote work scenario. As designers, we are not taught how to manage

Based on my experience in creating a Maker's Ecosystem (Xperian) in the past three years, here is my bet. In the next couple of years, I predict a new role coming up called community experience designer (CxD). This too is experience design but of a different kind. So

In my product coaching practice, past few weeks has been a little strange. The questions are not anymore about products or teams or culture or screens, it is mostly about life and finding self. Probably it is the effect of pandemic and the ongoing deadlier second wave doing this. But

Are you a designer who can craft pixel perfect screens in a jiffy but struggle to put together a decent resume that deserves a second look from a hiring manager? You are not alone. As designers we suffer resume design as our feedback loop (recruiter or hiring manager) is either

Do you have a habit of buying books and not reading them? If this sounds like you, you might be engaging in tsundoku, a japanese term used to describe a person who owns a lot of unread books. The speed at which I swipe my credit card is not the

In 2011, I changed my corporate design avatar to a strategic design consultant avatar. That was the first time in my entire career, I struggled to explain what I do for a living. While the struggle continued at my side, I met a breed called product managers in my day-day