Design Leadership
An insightful reflection on design leadership across judgement, information flow, transparency, team growth, ownership, organisational influence, and the evolving role of design beyond output.
EPC Design Events
EPC hosted an Unscripted session on understanding the Indian consumer beyond stereotypes. With leaders from Amazon, Flipkart and 1990 Research Labs, we explored how trust, aspiration, culture, and context shape product decisions in India. The following is a 10-point documentation of the session.
Design Practice
A debate on Empathy vs Consequences from EPC Design Dialogues, exploring why good design must begin with understanding people, but mature design must also examine what its decisions set in motion.
Design Practice
Takeaways from EPC Design Dialogues’ round tables on leadership, critique, AI, B2B delight, behaviour, coaching, and the shift from design as output to design as responsible judgment.
Design Practice
Psychogeography helps designers see that people do not experience places in a neutral way. Every environment shapes mood, attention, movement, and choice. To understand design deeply, we must study not just users, but the emotional force of context.
EPC Design Events
EPC Dialogues is a half-day gathering for senior designers and design leaders to share the kind of wisdom usually heard in closed rooms. No performative thought leadership. Just honest stories, interesting perspectives, and live dialogue from people who’ve built, shipped, hired, and led.
DesignOps
EPC Unscripted brought together 3 design leaders and a room of designers for an honest, unscripted conversation on hiring in 2026—what’s broken, what’s changing, and what it really takes to get hired or hire well today.
EPC Design Events
EPC Design Events
An exploration of a living ecosystem of art and culture in the historic port city of Kochi - by Divya Venkatesh, UI & Graphics Designer at Wolffkraft. Over four days, the Kochi Muziris Biennale revealed itself not as something to be rushed through, but as something to move with; embracing
Extended Pack International Compendium(E.P.I.C) is a global design journal that shapes, documents, and distils the collective intelligence emerging from designers worldwide.
What weakens design first is rarely the obstacle you can point at. It is often the ground beneath it. A useful way to rethink why teams break, adapt, or grow.
The real test of design is not how it works on a good day. It is whether it still holds when the user is stressed, interrupted, overwhelmed, or simply not okay.
Great design often begins before users say anything at all. In the pause, the hesitation, the unspoken discomfort, there is a signal. The best designers do not just study behaviour. They learn to notice what escapes the chart.
Your notebook isn’t just holding your ideas. It’s steering them. Page size, friction, and even how erasable a mark feels can push you toward commitment or endless iteration, clarity or chaos. Change the surface, and you may notice your decisions change first.
In the age of AI, information spreads fast and flattens even faster. This Unscripted session distils two debates into practical takeaways: keep context in mind when you share, use cognitive diversity to catch blind spots, then converge to ship.
I had an opportunity to attend the London Design Festival as part of the Extended Pack Collective's immersion program last year. Through the program, I had the chance to meet many designers and leaders across London. I also visited many design studios and organisations, which sparked a wealth
Design adores chairs, but life happens around tables: where we gather, spread ideas, and signal power. This essay offers a lens on what makes a table iconic and how to design one for homes and offices that are constantly shifting.
Design is Conditioning, Culture, and Consequences In Jan 2026, the Extended Pack Collective hosted an EPC retreat in Coorg, bringing together 6 Design Leaders and 10 practising designers from across the ecosystem. A vibrant mix that created the kind of energy you can’t manufacture in a meeting room. Design
During EPC’s London Immersion Program, a small crew visited Conjure for a deep, high-context session where Founder Sam Clark shared case studies and two decades of lessons on design excellence and running an independent studio.
EPC Dialogues, held in Dubai, brought global designers together to explore The Invisible Edge. These subtle human abilities help designers notice, interpret, and shape meaningful work. This recap distils the talks, panels, and reflections that unfolded through the day.
Design leadership = Shield → Signal → Shape. Shield teams from noise; signal outcomes beyond UI/UX; shape craft via critique. Drop micromanaging & process dogma; start broadcasting capability and teaching with real work. Leaders need craft fluency + orchestration.
Care deeply, but don’t cling. Detachment keeps you adaptable, trusted, and in the game longer than any single design.
