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Mohit Yadav

What Comes First: The Design or the Data?

Designing from data refines what’s known; designing to generate data explores what’s unknown. One optimises, the other discovers. Great design balances grounded insight and bold experimentation to create meaningful, resilient outcomes.

Design for an Uncertain Future: Thrive in Radical Ambiguity

In an age of uncertainty, the best designers aren’t those who predict the future, but those who prepare for it. By embracing ambiguity, designing for resilience, and supporting human judgment, we create systems that thrive not despite the unknown, but because of it.

Mind-wandering: A Creative Superpower in the Age of Distractions

Mind-wandering isn’t distraction. It’s your brain making quiet connections and sparking ideas. For designers, it’s not lost time but where breakthroughs often happen. Great ideas don’t always come from focus, they come when the mind is free to wander.

Good Enough: A Strategy, Not Mediocrity

Embracing “good enough” doesn’t mean lowering standards. It means solving the right problems without over-engineering. It’s a mindset that values clarity, function, and momentum over perfection, often leading to smarter, more sustainable outcomes.

Beyond Empathy: Designing with Rational Compassion

Empathy’s spotlight can blind us. Designers must pair emotional sparks with data, ethics, and long-term impact, shifting from feeling a pain point to systematically easing it for everyone.

Quiet Power of Design

Design’s real power is often quiet—found in thoughtful pauses, principled “no’s,” and subtle shifts that shape outcomes. It’s not always loud or visible, but it carries weight, guiding products and teams with care, clarity, and intention.

Bullshit Jobs in Design

Many design roles today risk becoming what David Graeber called “bullshit jobs”. The work that looks important but adds no real value. When design serves optics over outcomes, creativity fades and meaning is lost. It’s time to shift from theatre to true impact.