Rajat Agarwal – DesignWhine https://www.designwhine.com Tech Through A Design Lens Sat, 07 Nov 2026 11:12:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://www.designwhine.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-DW-author-initials-50x50.jpg Rajat Agarwal – DesignWhine https://www.designwhine.com 32 32 How Transsion Won Africa’s Smartphone Market by Designing for Where People Actually Live https://www.designwhine.com/transsion-africa-smartphone-design/ https://www.designwhine.com/transsion-africa-smartphone-design/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:30:00 +0000 https://www.designwhine.com/?p=17979 Transsion’s Tecno, Infinix and itel held 47% of African smartphone shipments in Q1 2026. Its advantage was not just price, but designing around networks, power, skin tone, device limits and repair as product requirements.

The post How Transsion Won Africa’s Smartphone Market by Designing for Where People Actually Live appeared first on DesignWhine.

]]> https://www.designwhine.com/transsion-africa-smartphone-design/feed/ 1 OpenAI GPT-6 Astra Can Use Software Like a Human. What Does That Mean for UX? https://www.designwhine.com/openai-gpt-6-astra-computer-use-ux-interface-design/ https://www.designwhine.com/openai-gpt-6-astra-computer-use-ux-interface-design/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:37:48 +0000 https://www.designwhine.com/?p=17035 OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra pushes computer and browser use forward, letting AI agents operate software more like people. For product and UX teams, that turns the interface itself into a new machine-access layer.

The post OpenAI GPT-6 Astra Can Use Software Like a Human. What Does That Mean for UX? appeared first on DesignWhine.

]]> https://www.designwhine.com/openai-gpt-6-astra-computer-use-ux-interface-design/feed/ 1 Why Do We Only Empathize When It’s Profitable? https://www.designwhine.com/why-do-we-only-empathize-when-its-profitable/ https://www.designwhine.com/why-do-we-only-empathize-when-its-profitable/#comments Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:00:13 +0000 https://www.designwhine.com/?p=15092 I’ve been designing digital products for fifteen years now, and lately I’m wondering if we’ve all been complicit in a massive lie. We talk endlessly about “user empathy” and “don’t make me think” philosophies, yet the world is full of confusing interfaces that nobody seems to care about fixing. Why? Let me start with something […]

The post Why Do We Only Empathize When It’s Profitable? appeared first on DesignWhine.

]]> https://www.designwhine.com/why-do-we-only-empathize-when-its-profitable/feed/ 10 Human in the Loop: Last Ditch Effort for Us to Stay Relevant? https://www.designwhine.com/human-in-the-loop-critical-analysis/ https://www.designwhine.com/human-in-the-loop-critical-analysis/#respond Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:25:24 +0000 https://www.designwhine.com/?p=14368 There’s a certain pathos to watching an industry invent increasingly elaborate ways to convince itself it’s still needed. Enter “Human in the Loop,” or HITL as the acronym-obsessed tech world has christened it. This latest buzzword represents what may be Silicon Valley’s most audacious act of self-preservation: convincing us that artificial intelligence systems require human […]

The post Human in the Loop: Last Ditch Effort for Us to Stay Relevant? appeared first on DesignWhine.

]]> https://www.designwhine.com/human-in-the-loop-critical-analysis/feed/ 0 How Long Does It Take to Build a Design System? A Practical Estimation Model https://www.designwhine.com/how-to-estimate-creating-a-design-system-in-hours/ https://www.designwhine.com/how-to-estimate-creating-a-design-system-in-hours/#respond Sun, 20 Oct 2024 11:40:15 +0000 https://www.designwhine.com/?p=13121 Design-system estimates become misleading when teams quote months without defining scope. This guide breaks the work into auditable effort ranges for foundations, tokens, components, documentation, code alignment, governance and adoption so teams can build a defensible estimate.

The post How Long Does It Take to Build a Design System? A Practical Estimation Model appeared first on DesignWhine.

]]> https://www.designwhine.com/how-to-estimate-creating-a-design-system-in-hours/feed/ 0 ChatGPT Texts You First: Impressive or Concerning? https://www.designwhine.com/chatgpt-texts-you-first/ https://www.designwhine.com/chatgpt-texts-you-first/#comments Thu, 19 Sep 2024 06:09:28 +0000 https://www.designwhine.com/?p=13034 When ChatGPT texts you first, it becomes a bit difficult to decide whether it is impressive, creepy, or a bit too risky. On September 15th, 2024, a Reddit user named SentuBill posted a screenshot that quickly went viral, sparking a wave of curiosity and debate. In the screenshot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT appeared to initiate a conversation […]

The post ChatGPT Texts You First: Impressive or Concerning? appeared first on DesignWhine.

]]> https://www.designwhine.com/chatgpt-texts-you-first/feed/ 3