Vikram SinghinUX CollectiveThis post is your memoryWe cognitively interweave with digital objects in complex ways. How can designers design for this phenomena?Jun 23, 20213Jun 23, 20213
Vikram SinghGoogle Maps sucks (you out of thought)What Heidegger can teach us about how to make Google maps — and all tech — better.Apr 3, 2021Apr 3, 2021
Vikram SinghinThe StartupInterviewing an expert on why understanding affordances is vital for designWhat are affordances? Why are they so important? Technology theorist Jenny L. Davis explains.Jan 1, 2021Jan 1, 2021
Vikram SinghinThe StartupUX & Design Must Move Beyond ‘Needs Solving’ to Making Systems LegibleUX isn’t about *why* we do things so much as allowing us to doing things easily. This must change.Nov 15, 2020Nov 15, 2020
Vikram SinghinUX CollectiveCOVID + drunk park-goers = a great example of how systems thinking can help technologistsTech often fails because we don’t consider the wider context that it exists in. Here’s a great example of how systems thinking can help.Jul 17, 20201Jul 17, 20201
Vikram SinghinThe StartupThe Post-Covid March to Remote Worker SurveillanceAs offices go remote, nervous employers push surveillance software on employees, but at what cost?Jun 6, 2020Jun 6, 2020
Vikram SinghFacebook is already an arbiter of truth — it even creates truthSorry Zuck, Facebook doesn’t just arbitrate truth, it creates truth through its mediating qualities.Jun 2, 2020Jun 2, 2020
Vikram SinghinThe StartupPerceiving and acting are forms of thought — product design needs to recognise thisPerception and action are intertwined in an act of cognition. The same is true of all objects & tools we interact with.Feb 22, 20201Feb 22, 20201
Vikram SinghThe 2020s will be a reckoning with our past: lessons from Disco ElysiumThe world is endable. It may be ending now.Dec 31, 20191Dec 31, 20191
Vikram SinghThe False Tech Gods Will Not Offer Us TranscendenceThis narrative of ‘transcendence’ is written into our lives. But it’s a false one, especially when it comes to technology.Oct 30, 2019Oct 30, 2019