Tanuj

Privacy and security in this world mostly means “which private company do you trust with your safety?” The answer often coincides with who has the largest walls and deepest moats.

Each jewel of Indra’s Net includes the reflections of all the other jewels; the significance of this symbolism is that each entity in the universe contains within itself the entire universe. This idea, rather than positing interdependence among separately existing entities, asserts that the whole does not owe its existence to the coming together of... See more

To avoid accidental presses and to make the moment more deliberate and meaningful, we went with a long press. The challenge with a long press is always discoverability—How does one know they’re supposed to hold? The answer is to provide instant feedback with an animation that builds anticipation. [...] Another choice we make to improve... See more

Human beings simply aren’t equipped with the necessary bandwidth to process the explosion of information that our world has normalized.To make things worse, it turns out that the desktop metaphor underlying so much of our computing was not equipped to handle it either. In response to the increased stimuli, our Desktops simply started generating... See more

tiny internets is an inquiry into how we create more human, natural, and homey spaces to shape, live in, and form bonds in.

“Africans have a thing called ubuntu. It is about the essence of being human, it is part of the gift that Africa will give the world. It embraces hospitality, caring about others, being willing to go the extra mile for the sake of another. We believe that a person is a person through other persons, that my humanity is caught up, bound up,... See more