We are designing a website for Healthy Planet, a group of schools in Noida and Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. In a world where education is being increasingly commercialised, compartmentalised and regimentalised, Healthy Planet schools stand out. The approach is unhurried and mindful. They look for the individual in each child and guide their learning using proven… Continue reading Healthy Planet website: play at work
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Dear Office, your services are terminated
Six weeks ago, 16 days into the lockdown, we speculated on the deep design of a post-corona world. The analysis had layers, from ‘layer 1’, the physical spaces that we inhabit, to the psychological ‘layer 3’: the arguable, hard-to-spot, broad, themes, sentiments and anxieties. These themes govern societies, and it appears, governance itself. The Prime Minister’s… Continue reading Dear Office, your services are terminated
Visionary Position: Design on Top
Look around you and you likely wouldn’t know it, if you are reading this in print in a developing country, but business is getting very, very attracted to design. If, on the other hand, you are reading this on a screen in a G-8 country, this may seem like settled fact. This is a consummation… Continue reading Visionary Position: Design on Top
Love In The Time of Packaging
“It looks like a particularly unhealthy time to be a brand,” said the Slayer of Ordinary Design, a sardonic, sage and street-wise guru known more usually as The Sood, or sometimes the SOD, a term, as he pointed out, for a piece of turf—grass, earth and all. “First, “ said the Sod, easing into a… Continue reading Love In The Time of Packaging
Indian Embassy Hacks: A Joke On Us?
Recently several Indian Embassy websites were hacked by Kapustkiy & Kasimierz L 2 Pentesters from Netherland, using the most basic security hack of SQL Injection. And it doesn’t end there: Yes, they are making fun of India and the worst part is that they are right. The Pentesters Pentesters are White / Grey hat hackers that… Continue reading Indian Embassy Hacks: A Joke On Us?
Brand Is UX, Or Something Like That
The 20th century was the Age of advertising,“ said the Undisputed Strategic Panjandrum, known with awe as USP, “right up to the Great Shift or the digitisation of everything.
The Hamburger is an Important Part of My Web Diet. Don’t Kill it Just Yet.
Hamburger menu bashing is a popular theme on almost every blog, worth its salt, writing on UX/UI. Thankfully it’s a debate, not a conclusion (here’s one). And the hamburger saviours have enough of a voice, for me to not feel nervous as I write this. It Ain’t Necessarily So Josh Constine of Techcrunch has successfully argued that… Continue reading The Hamburger is an Important Part of My Web Diet. Don’t Kill it Just Yet.