We need to hold an intervention for the design community.Somewhere around the time Framer Motion and Lottie became popular, designers collectively lost their minds. Suddenly, every

Product Designer

How to use Motion to explain logic, not just to show off

Animation is Not a Decoration

We need to talk about the industry's obsession with "Clean."You know the look. A sea of white space. Light gray text in white background. Tiny icons with no labels. It look gorgeou

How to stop designing for Dribbble and start designing for Humans

"Clean Design" is Usually Just Lazy UX

You want my email. Fine.You want a password. Okay.You want me to confirm the password, provide my mother's maiden name, tell you my job title, and then solve a captcha that asks me

How to stop treating new users like suspects in a criminal investigation.

God Hates Your Sign-Up Form

We need to have an intervention about Mobile First.In every kickoff meeting, we nod solemnly when the client says it. We chant it like a mantra. We put it in the brief.Then we run 

Stop designing 1920px desktops and squeezing them into 375px phones.

"Mobile First" is a Lie We Tell Stakeholders

There is a dangerous myth in our industry that "Handoff" is the moment you throw a Figma link over the wall and pray.You spend weeks perfecting the pixels. You align everything to 

A guide to component logic

Stop treating Developers like Photocopiers

Let's be honest : We all love designing the "Happy Path."The Happy Path is that beautiful scenario where the user has a perfect high-res profile photo, the internet connection is f

Designing for When the Server Ghosts You

The "Happy Path" is a Fairy Tale

We've all been in that meeting.A Product Manager walks in, and throws a chart on the screen. "Good news, we've increased engagement on the setting page by 400%!"Everyone claps. Cha

When "Good Business" becomes "Bad Design.”

The Metric vs. The Human

We need to admit that we have a hoarding problem.We spend six months locking ourselves in a room to build the Ultimate Design System. We follow Atomic Design religiously. We name o

Somya Verma

Product Designer