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The Paradox of Context in Computing

Why more context isn’t always the solution for bad contextual computing. This post serves as a primer to contextual computing and offers a framework for designing good contextual experiences.

Artificial Intelligence

Beyond Sparkles and Chat

AI helps best when it stops taking the center-stage

Ubiquitous Computing

Apple's ELEGNT solution can benefit from distributed ambient displays, rather than a robot

Apple's Robotic lamp could benefit from delegating its tasks to other ambient displays, while the robot focuses on what's on the desk.

UI

The way we interact with apps is changing, so should the way they are designed.

The current state of apps and the advent of Apple Intelligence makes it important to have an action centered design approach to designing apps. The phone is only a part of a much larger ecosystem.

product design

Make • Show • Learn

The iterative design processes behind LookUp's product design and features.

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Prototype: A World Clock Sticker

An NFC sticker that tells you world time.

design

Some thoughts on the Humane device demo

I was going through Humane’s Ted Talk video snippets, and while most of it was a demo whose merits can only be judged once people spend time with it, some points stood out to me. The most compelling parts are when its use as an interface for artificial intelligence“

UI

Navigation in streaming services is a mess.

Streaming Service Navigation relies on showing a lot of options at once, but what if it were simpler?

UI

Redesigning the macOS Ventura Form Layout

macOS Ventura introduces a new design to display forms. The design looks like this: As you can see with this design, it's got a couple of glaring of issues when used in wide width situation: There's too much space between the title and value. This makes reading the values veery

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Designed for iPad

Over the last few years, the iPad has transformed significantly from being a large touch screen device to a device that supports multiple inputs and can be used in a variety of situations. It’s changed the way people interact with their apps. A good iPad app experience is not

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Designing for iPhone X

Vidit Bhargava Over the ten years of iPhone’s existence, Apple’s star product has gone through many iterations and has changed it’s screen size and aspect ratio at least of couple of times. Each time the iPhone’s screen changed, it opened up possibilities for newer interactions and