Author: Naushad
-
TikTok was a canteen; Instagram is a café
How the ban of TikTok and launch of Instagram Reels in India with restrictions and biases lead to exclusion of tier 3 and tier 4 city users mostly lower castes. Read more at the link https://restofworld.org/2021/instagram-and-class-in-india/
-
Portfolios are part time jobs
Image of Calendar reminder about work ExclusionExcludes people with less time Bias NDA Abstraction Companies : Show Me your PortfolioAlso Companies: Here is your NDA.
-
Amazon App splash screen dark pattern
So I checked the Amazon app after a few months. Just for reference, Amazon App Logo changed from this to this. At first I was looking for the old Amazon logo by memory, after finding no results, i realized, the logo has changed. What got me irrirated was the splash screen was now full lenght…
-
On using flags to represent languages
Recently, i came across this new website of RockyLinux which is a successor of CentOS as CentOS was killed by RedHat and people wanted a similar operating system that they could rely on. One of the former founders of CentOS took on the task of creating the variant of CentOS that people would make together…
-
Hire for ability and skills while being cognizant of the contextual limitations.
I came across this LinkedIn post by Patrick Neeman. As a designer who has worked in multiple contexts i can relate to it. I have worked at large organizations where the design team was in double digits to startups with 2 designers and solo designer. Having seen all the constraints be it business, politics, technology…