Reading Lab Experiment

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An experimental reading interface exploring how structure, sources, notes, images and semantic zoom can better support understanding, retention and return.

Typographic Review of Snap Specs

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An early typographic critique of Snap Specs, examining additive light, depth and the unresolved reading problems of spatial AR.

Reading in Glasses: A Typographic Review of Meta Ray-Ban

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A typographic review of Meta Ray-Ban glasses, examining how captions, rendering and script support reshape reading when text leaves the screen and enters the world.

We Are Not Ready for Cheap Intelligence

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Cheap intelligence will collapse the cost of ambition, raise expectations and force us to reconsider attention, rest and what counts as enough.

Design Culture by Design: The Frameworks Behind My Team

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Design culture, built through systems not slogans: clear expectations, fewer appraisal surprises and frameworks that make feedback continuous and growth intentional.

Learning to Lead: Story That Began in a Hospital

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A Boston accident reshaped priorities: home, responsibility, sparking a move to India and a journey building Pocket FM’s design culture.

How Modern Life Is Rewiring Us

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Modern life nudges our senses, focus, memory, movement and empathy but these abilities can be retrained and reclaimed through attention, practice and small daily choices.

Creating Teams Where Ideas Can Be Shared, Challenged and Improved

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How India’s hierarchy limits innovation and why psychological safety and shared leadership can speed decisions and improve product quality.

Spatial Typography: When Words Begin to Live in Space

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Exploring spatial typography in AR and VR, how type lives in space, adapts to light and distance and rethinks legibility as a responsive, human system.

Can India Catch Up With Global Design Leaders?

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India’s design trajectory: UPI, CRED, Zomato, Co-WIN show progress. Why the gap with global leaders and what will help India catch up in design.

How AR One Sans Solves Readability in AR/VR Environments & Beyond

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AR One Sans is a responsive typeface for AR and VR, designed to keep text clear and readable across headsets, screens and immersive environments.

More Than Tools: Heidegger’s Question in an Algorithmic World

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A reflection on Heidegger’s question concerning technology and what AI and AR reveal about the worlds we are building.

Why Isn’t India Known for Digital Design Innovation? (Part 2)

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Why does India lag in digital design innovation? Part 2 explores market realities, talent challenges and what’s changing for designers and users today.

Beyond Burnout: How I Reclaimed My Life

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Reflections on escaping burnout, rethinking long work hours and building a healthier, more balanced approach to work, leadership and life.

Why Isn’t India Known for Digital Design Innovation? (Part 1)

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Why is India’s tech scene still seen as lacking in digital design? This piece reflects on the roots of the gap and what might help close it.

VoiceOver Accessibility Issues in iOS Apps

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When building iOS apps with the best intentions, accessibility can still fall through the cracks, especially for blind users who rely on VoiceOver.

People Are Hallucinating Over AI, Missing the Real Point

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I see people losing their minds over AI tools, convinced they’ll replace designers, artists and creatives. Blah, blah, blah.

Understanding Team Dynamics

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A short note on Tuckman’s stages of team development and how forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning play out in practice.

What the heck is Metaverse?

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Metaverse is the gradual evolution of the current web into a three-dimensional space comprising of infinite layers of digital experiences coming together to form multiple virtual, parallel or augmented realities.

Advances in augmented/ virtual reality displays

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The article discusses advancements in augmented reality displays, including techniques like foveated displays and multi-focal rendering, highlighting various prototypes and their potential to alleviate issues like eye strain and improve user experience.

Typography Classification in Augmented Reality v1.1

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As we are progressing in augmented reality space the complexity of information is increasing with the introduction of more features and functions. The existing typographic rules and structure of information in AR is not sufficient to solve for new variables

Are we ditching keypads for good in AR/VR?

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An exploration of text input in AR and VR, comparing virtual keyboards, controllers, hand tracking, speech and the ergonomic limits of each approach.

Factors influencing the reading experience in augmented reality

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We are in the early stages of crafting immersive augmented reality (AR) experiences and new ways to interact with elements in space.

Variables that affect the experience in augmented reality

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The augmented reality headsets are getting better with time and I was happy to see that the new Hololens 2 addresses some of these major problems that hinder

Cloud gaming and the future of augmented reality?

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Let’s accept it, cloud gaming is not a novel concept, PlayStation Now, Nvidia GeForce Now have been running for a while now and Microsoft announced...

The current state of the typography in augmented reality

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In a game or an augmented reality app, the camera/point of view (POV) is constantly moving. The glyphs in these cases are rendered continuously based

Understand display techniques in augmented reality

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The headset based augmented reality is bringing a whole new set of challenges both in terms of typography and typefaces. In a lot of cases, the text information

Preparing for the better typography in Augmented Reality

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AR is an enhanced version of a real-world environment wherein the real world is “augmented” by CG perceptual information... typography in augmented reality