In Search or a Better Chair
Researching chair designs… ..in the search for a better one.
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The Gap between Good Intentions and Impact
The gap between good intentions and impact of the resulting action (or choice) has been an area of interest to me. A decade ago, a Brad Pitt linked non-profit messed up an affordable homes project [2008-2015] in New Orleans. Meant to be green and sustainable, the homes had severe structural and mold problems. 6 of…
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What’s the Worst that could Happen with Poorly Worded Menu Options?
Choices on mobile apps (also on any app) need to be worded appropriately so as not to cause any confusion in the user. This menu option on a sleep tracking app seemed to be a clean way to do it. A simple line that explains each option when selected. What’s the worst that could happen…
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Feature Suggestion for Todoist
In my last post, I recommended reading the book, To-do List Formula. I also shared my own key takeaways from the book. The book highly recommended the Todoist app to create and track tasks. I started using it ever since, and compared to all the apps I have used so far, I have found it…
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What if the Comments Section on Social Media had a Search Feature?
Do you feel the need for a more effective comments section on social media? What if the comments section had a Search feature? Making it easier to search for comments, and to continue conversations in sub-threads.
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Reading and Writing Smarter
While looking up an old blogging account of mine, I stumbled upon a RattL ’em idea from many years ago. I had made a suggestion to Google, sometime in Feb., 2013 regarding composing of emails. People sometimes want to, or even unintentionally tend to write lengthy mails. And people’s attention spans have become shorter [or…
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What if We could Mute Serial-Forwarders on WhatsApp Groups
What if WhatsApp had a feature that allows a user to mute specific person(s) in groups? The user who mutes another user on a group is simply not shown messages from that user.
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Idea for a Review Mode for Note-taking and Planner Apps
Note or Planner apps like EverNote, Google Keep and others, could include a ‘Review Mode’ for existing entries.
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Elevators and Nosocomial infections
Nosocomial infections are infections that patients contract inside of a hospital, due to contamination or germs present there. A patient undergoing treatment at a hospital is almost always has a weak immune system, which is more susceptible to infection. And the odds of contracting an infection are higher in operation theatres and ICUs. Most likely…
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An Idea for Food Delivery Services
A feature to allow you to schedule food orders with your preferred food delivery service.
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Design Thinking | Human Behaviour | Improve | Innovate | RattL-em | Wings
The Middle Seat
In 2019, the US FAA approved the company Molon Labe Seating‘s (MLS) landmark seat design for commercial airplanes. What MLS did, is take the problem of discomfort of middle-seat passengers, and attempted to solve it by: (i) widening the middle seat (from 18″ to 21″), and (ii) placing the seat slightly lower, and slightly…
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A Forward: What is Butt Dust?
Image: link I had shared this forward on social media a few years ago, and it popped back up today. Apart from the innocence, simplicity and being purely hilarious, it is a nice example of the recognition stage of ’empathy’, a term we behaviour and design thinking folk throw around a lot. Situations we accept…
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WT f UX
A bit about UI, UX and the worst kind of UI and UX, the seemingly invisible kind.
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Constraints and the beautiful A-10
Constraints and the beautiful A-10. Contrary to oddly popular belief:
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Exploitative Businesses & Divine (and Tech) Interventions
As some businesses get increasingly exploitative, sometimes other businesses and sometimes a divine intervention comes to counter the effect.