This conversation is between 2 Senior Design Managers at Canvs. They talk about the knowledge & discipline it takes to keep products coherent between brief and build,, and how business realities benefit from the process.

A lot of product conversations begin with features and functionality. Debprotim Roy, Founder, and Premankan Seal, CDO, suggest that the decisions that truly shape a product tend to emerge somewhere else: in the space around the task it enables.

Real work in product design begins by being observant. Premankan Seal, Chief Design Officer, discusses how the best product designers study the world around them to transform their everyday product decisions.

Arjun Rajkishore, Principal Designer, led a session for the team on how to spark fresh thinking, use AI as a creative multiplier, and expand what they're capable of creating.

Most accessibility fixes don't require starting over. This piece walks through what design teams can address in a live product, without waiting for the next redesign.

Drawn from Kat Holmes' book Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design, this piece looks at the assumptions that keep exclusion embedded in the products build.

This piece is based on a study of accessibility issues in Indian banking and payment apps, mapped against findings from Dr. Jakob Nielsen's landmark 2001 report on disability and web usability.

Hamsika, Product Designer, writes about how the way we remember has changed. She explores what we lost when saving moments became effortless, and why there is a growing return to the tangible.