Hrisikesh Medhi

Nice little design detail on Shopify's 2-level side navigation 🤩 Discovered by @arsenkolyba #design #ux #uxui #uxdesign #productdesign

Philosophers have been worrying about distraction at least since the time of the ancient Greeks, who saw it less as a matter of external interruptions and more as a question of character—a systematic inner failure to use one’s time on what one claimed to value the most. Their reason for treating distraction so seriously was straightforward, and... See more

If you’re not willing to bet on yourself, don’t expect other people to bet on you

Oftentimes people get the advice that you have to rely on discipline. ... one of the things that I find is that discipline requires a lot of push, right? “I’m very disciplined about my workout. I’m really going to push it.” Motivation is a pull. It is something that is internal that fuels you, that drives you. A number of the people that I tend to... See more

Product design has become overly formulaic and the apps we make entirely uninspired. Is this the end game?

The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction . Or call it scrolling or swiping or wasting time or whatever you want. But it’s not art or entertainment, just ceaseless activity.

The key is that each stimulus only lasts a few seconds, and must be repeated.

Also, a well is an apt metaphor, because wells aren’t the value, they’re the container for the value. All the internet’s deepest wells sell their water — you and me . As much as every company likes to claim innovation and the technorati love to label innovators, innovation is not what’s happening here. Not really. The internet wells all do the same... See more