Life & Writing
What I think about when I'm not designing - and occasionally, what I write down.
Outside Work
🍳 Cooking
I cook by instinct, not recipes - mixing cuisines, flavors, and whatever's in the fridge. Apparently, I'm pretty good at it.
🚴 Pilates & Spinning
My moving meditation. Somewhere between the bike and the reformer, my best ideas tend to show up.
🎨 Painting
Oil, watercolor, a blank canvas, and several uninterrupted hours. My favorite way to slow down.
📖 Reading
Psychology, personal growth, poetry, and anything that helps me understand people a little better.
🍳 Cooking
I cook by instinct, not recipes - mixing cuisines, flavors, and whatever's in the fridge. Apparently, I'm pretty good at it.
🚴 Pilates & Spinning
My moving meditation. Somewhere between the bike and the reformer, my best ideas tend to show up.
🎨 Painting
Oil, watercolor, a blank canvas, and several uninterrupted hours. My favorite way to slow down.
📖 Reading
Psychology, personal growth, poetry, and anything that helps me understand people a little better.
Writing
Articles & Essays
Four years at Opto: a once-in-a-lifetime 0-to-1 journey
Aug 2026I joined when there was nothing. I left having shaped something real. The story of four years as a founding designer at a fintech startup.
Career Fintech 0 → 1
Problem-solving with design in complex systems
Dec 2018On designers as participants, wicked problems, and why everyone should be involved in problem-solving.
Design Featured on Prototypr Blog ↗
How I saved Opto from becoming a feature factory
Mar 2026I was a designer. It wasn't my job to fix how the product team worked. But the users' frustration cut me too deep to look away.
Leadership Product
UX and interior design are solving the same problem
Jan 2026One is pixels. The other is cubic feet. But both are asking: how does a person move through a space, understand it, and feel at ease inside it?
Design
The design-engineering problem nobody has actually fixed
Apr 2026It was not a communication problem. Everyone kept calling it that. The problem was the system itself. On bridging design and engineering at Opto.
Systems
On judgment, grace, and showing up anyway
Mar 2025Before judgment becomes a thought, it begins as a sensation in the body. On what a SoulCycle class taught me about shame, grace, and the nervous system.
Psychology Self-reflection Growth
Cracking the code for employee retention
Mar 2020A message to leadership - why retention isn't about perks, and why the concept might be obsolete.
Leadership
The top UX principles and where they quietly live
Nov 2018Seven principles that feel invisible in great products because they are working exactly as intended. You only notice them when they are gone.
UX
Things that are different in New York from India
Dec 2018Culture shock, observation addiction, and the New York Moment that compelled me to write again.
Life
Switch from Android to iOS - Muscle Memory in Denial
Mar 2018A UX designer's unfiltered take on switching platforms. Spoiler: muscle memory doesn't forgive.
UX
My Medium article that got Dunzo app funding from Google
Jul 2017A love letter to the app that replaced my mom, my best friend, and my personal assistant. Almost.
Life