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akrakesh

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Digital product designer, specializing in founding design at startups, and designing complex mobile and web applications.

Portfolio: https://rakeshk.com

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Location: India (looking for work from anywhere in the world)

Remote: Yes, only remote

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Figma

Résumé/CV: https://rakeshk.com/files/Resume_Rakesh.pdf

Email: akrakesh[at]gmail.com

Portfolio: https://rakeshk.com

I have 15 years' experience in designing web and mobile applications end-to-end. I specialize in founding design at startups where I own everything design, including product design, design systems, landing pages, brand identities, and marketing design

I'm no-nonsense, systems-oriented, and generalist. I love designing complex, data-heavy products.

More about me: https://rakeshk.com/about.html

I guess the hardcovers are better because they are not printed in India. From what I've seen with nonfiction books, the ones printed in India are only softcovers—pathetic paper/build quality, and poor readability because they're smaller than their US counterpart (usually 19.8 cm long in India compared to 23.5 cm in the US), and the US layout is shrunk to fit the Indian size. So, any hardcover is imported from the US and thus of better quality.

The article could have been more useful if its point was just 'use sufficient contrast'. As it is, the article is overly prescriptive, and feels like trying too hard to be sensational or cute.

If there’s any uncertainty, adding labels, icons, or textures to each meaningful color of your design will make it accessible to many more people…

The author touches upon it; expanding on it would take another full-length article.

One can try to make 'me things', and strive to make them good enough, or good, or even to their best extent, but not necessarily the best out there, at least always.

An advantage of hngists: you can read all the gists of all the 30 articles on the same page without navigating to a separate article page—a few clicks and a few minutes could be saved per visit.

Gist: The authors think, without interruptions, we get adapted to the pleasures of a show; it becomes less pleasurable as we get used to it. Interruptions re-trigger the initial enjoyment. So, commercials (interruptions) make us like TV more.

Thoughts: Clickbait title. A better title would be: 'Interruptions make us like a TV show more'.

Note: The authors are "working with a large TV network, which is replicating the study in its market research".

I've always thought 'don't break the chain' is a flawed technique. When you do something not because you want or have to do it, but for the sake of not breaking the chain, the first time you break the chain you'd realize that you can break it again by telling an excuse to yourself without much regret. Making excuses would become a habit, and you'd be back to square one.

Location: Anywhere

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Independent UI/UX & Brand Identity Designer with 7 years' experience. I create iOS apps, Android apps, web apps, websites, landing pages, brand identities and marketing collateral.

Skills: Product/brand strategy | Information architecture | Interaction design | Wireframing | Prototyping | Visual design | Style guides | Brand guides | Collaborate with engineering teams in design implementation | Copywriting | HTML & CSS

Portfolio: https://radesign.in

Email: https://radesign.in/contact

SEEKING WORK from anywhere | ONLY REMOTE

Independent UI/UX & Brand Identity Designer with 7 years' experience. I create iOS apps, Android apps, web apps, websites, landing pages, brand identities and marketing collateral.

SKILLS: Product/brand strategy | Information architecture | Interaction design | Wireframing | Prototyping | Visual design | Style guides | Brand guides | Collaborate with engineering teams in design implementation | Copywriting | HTML & CSS

Portfolio: https://radesign.in

Email: https://radesign.in/contact

There are many valid points in the summary but it seems to consider only procrastination caused by perfectionism, while it's just one of the causes. Procrastination is usually the result of difficulties in regulating emotions. When we face a task we don't want to do we feel an assortment of negative emotions—we may feel bored, resentful, frustrated, anxious or guilty. We put off the task to avoid these negative emotions.

Techiniques such as Unschedule are at best just hacks that are effective only in the short term. The only way to permanently beat procrastination is to persist on work you don't want to do until it becomes a habit. Along with the usual techniques of splitting a task into sub-tasks, removing distractions, starting immediately, etc., making yourself accountable goes a long way in crushing procrastination. Read more at https://procrushtinate.com/guide.html