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Put your own mask on first…

My first 6 weeks of being a new mom were full of bleak moments. Weeks of anxiety about how much my baby was eating, hours spent wishing the…

Jun 2, 2018

Put your own mask on first…

Jun 2, 2018

The rest of your pregnancy (it does get better — kind of)

This is a (very late) post on the last half of my pregnancy. Read about the first half here.

Jun 1, 2018

The rest of your pregnancy (it does get better — kind of)

Jun 1, 2018

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Tools are the easy part. Do you have the right processes to make remote design thinking work?

This is part two of a three-part series on how to incorporate remote design thinking into your organization. Read part one about having the…

Aug 24, 2017

Tools are the easy part. Do you have the right processes to make remote design thinking work?

Aug 24, 2017

Halfway there — what people don’t tell you about being pregnant…

You will stop birth control prematurely because you think you are old and it will take 6 -12 months to get pregnant. You will promptly find…

Aug 17, 2017

Halfway there — what people don’t tell you about being pregnant…

Aug 17, 2017

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UX Collective

Do you have the right mind-set to make remote design collaboration work?

Tools are the easy part

Apr 20, 2017

Do you have the right mind-set to make remote design collaboration work?

Apr 20, 2017

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How a 10-day silent meditation course made me a better researcher

A few years ago I was a dejected sole design researcher at my startup.

Feb 25, 2017

How a 10-day silent meditation course made me a better researcher

Feb 25, 2017

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You can plan design sprints, but you can’t plan “insights” or “innovation”

The best insights are not revealed while you are “interviewing” users

Feb 2, 2017

You can plan design sprints, but you can’t plan “insights” or “innovation”

Feb 2, 2017

What’s your superpower?

I am seeing the next generation of super smart MBA graduates enter the workforce. They join startups and morph into what the startup needs…

Jan 19, 2017

What’s your superpower?

Jan 19, 2017

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Start with a story, and end with the metrics

Every all-hands should start with the metrics. Every design brainstorm should start with a story.

Sep 18, 2016

Start with a story, and end with the metrics

Sep 18, 2016

The time my “awesome” feature completely bombed (and why I am glad my CEO didn’t fire me)

It’s like the time I did something awful, admitted it to my parents, and they didn’t stop loving me. Doing something awful didn’t make me…

May 21, 2016

May 21, 2016

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UX Collective

Delight is not cute flourishes

“Delight” is becoming an overused and increasingly bastardized term in design conversations

Jul 7, 2015

Delight is not cute flourishes

Jul 7, 2015

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UX Collective

Why I strive to reduce “User Engagement”

May 1, 2015

Why I strive to reduce “User Engagement”

May 1, 2015

Musings of a transplant

Disclaimer: I will make sweeping generalizations about both India and America. I am surrounded (as most of you reading are) by thoughtful…

Mar 24, 2015

Musings of a transplant

Mar 24, 2015

10 years in…

I want to share stories from my first few months in America

Feb 19, 2015

10 years in…

Feb 19, 2015

San Francisco is a bubble, but it’s my bubble

Thoughts imported from a post I wrote while traveling in Macedonia in Aug 2013. Similar feelings grip me every time I leave San Francisco.

Feb 11, 2015

San Francisco is a bubble, but it’s my bubble

Feb 11, 2015

Three Weeks In

What I learned about myself three weeks into a fracture

Jan 19, 2015

Three Weeks In

Jan 19, 2015

Shipra Kayan

Shipra Kayan

User Experience Designer. Lifelong Optimist. Avid Reader. Fledgeling Writer. San Franciscan — by way of Thailand and India.

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