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Vinish Garg

@vinishgarg.bsky.social
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Guardian of an Intent. Products. UX. design. Content design. Marketing. System thinking. Founder: steeringhq.com

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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Don't we always love stories? www.frogandtoad.ai
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Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines
Frog and Toad face the most modern of challenges
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AI dependency is a great competitive disadvantage.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As a tech speaker, if you trying to find which conferences you should send a talk proposal to, use *Help yourself* here: stippi.com/people
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Stippi — a kept index of professional conferences
Curated, not crowdsourced. Design, UX, UX writing, content design, content strategy and content marketing conferences, plus product management, leadership and systems thinking — with programmes, talks...
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
6 guesses and done! My best shot. squareword.org 1692: 6 guesses 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 <6:🟩 <11:🟨 <16:🟧 16+:🟥 #squareword #squareword1692
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Squareword - Daily Word Puzzle Game
Play Squareword, the free daily word puzzle! Guess 5-letter words to uncover a 5x5 grid where every row and column forms a valid word. New puzzle every day!
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Remember Lanyrd? Such a wonderful reference to tech conferences—connected dots for speakers, conf programs. Ever since it was closed, that gap never filled. I am trying something in same direction: stippi.com
stippi.com
Stippi — a kept index of professional conferences
Curated, not crowdsourced. Design, UX, UX writing, content design, content strategy and content marketing conferences, plus product management, leadership and systems thinking — with programmes, talks...
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A small experiment on my personal website: framingvinishgarg.netlify.app
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In practice — questions, and the work behind them | Vinish Garg
Products succeed at the intersection of teams. Pick the situation you are in, get the questions I would ask, and the writing and projects behind them.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Will the organizations update their style guides or content systems (or design systems) to define the watermark content practices?
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Heritage Bookbinding Elements Transform into Contemporary Sculptures by Adelene Koh: “The result is an endless loop of a book’s spine and fore-edge bound together by the English endband sewing techniques from the 18th and 19th centuries,” says a statement. www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/07/adel...
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Heritage Bookbinding Elements Transform into Contemporary Sculptures by Adelene Koh
For Loewe Foundation Craft Prize finalist Adelene Koh, an under-appreciated element of a book's construction becomes the highlight.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The journey of a 'side-hustle' to being the 'middle-hustle' and to become the 'front-hustle' is punctuated with many three-sixty degree hustles.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I have updated my profile website. We are all support functions. The foundation is at the intersections. framingvinishgarg.netlify.app
Vinish Garg shares their updated profile website.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Designing with AI is always like catching a slow moving train. The joy of *not missing the train* but never getting a chance to check the platform or the boarding point number first.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is a kind of pre-celebration but I have started working on my first design system project as an independent consultant of the system. I am using Claude Design to build a working prototype and I am super excited to shape it the way I always wanted to.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
QA is the tax that you levy yourself on all the combined assets that you build via code, design, or content. You give license to teams that paying this tax means they can compromise with the standards while at work. They think that tax saves them. It doesn't. www.vinishgarg.com/my-thoughts-...
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My thoughts on product testing and QA - Vinish Garg
Why we have normalized the software bugs—ordinary bugs and massive logs of issues. It shows that the quality of work in digital products.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In the year 2010, Nick Finck gave us six core disciplines of UX. I often saw these being used in community groups and discussions, and even at work. www.flickr.com/photos/digit... In the year 2026, we can see a parallel list of six indisciplines of UX.
Six indisciplines of UX in the year 2026, by Vinish Garg.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?
In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Native Time: My contribution for the Book of Time Lab, by The Long Now Foundation vinishgarg.substack.com/p/native-tim... #time @longnow.org
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Native Time: My contribution for the Book of Time Lab, by The Long Now Foundation
How much time is already inside us
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I am liking this Map of the seven seas of stories in organization. miro.com/app/board/uX... It is comprehensive and I plan to spend some time on the dots and the bridges.
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Seven seas of stories in organizations
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
My best shot ever in squareword.org 1611: 6 guesses 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟩🟨 <6:🟩 <11:🟨 <16:🟧 16+:🟥 #squareword #squareword1611
squareword.org
Squareword - Daily Word Puzzle Game
Play Squareword, the free daily word puzzle! Guess 5-letter words to uncover a 5x5 grid where every row and column forms a valid word. New puzzle every day!
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
After scrambling for 2x or 10x talent, orgs are back to finding the 1x talent in design, engineering, or marketing. Normal 1x talent will do. Meanwhile content is watching is from the corner. :)
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Who's Suing Whom in AI? A visualisation of selected lawsuits from over 100 filed against AI companies as of June 2026. informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...
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The Rise of Generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT — Information is Beautiful
ChatGPT, BingChat, LaMDA, LLaMa, PaLM - the rise and rise of AI-based Large Language Models & their free alternatives visualized in one chart.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Before AI, orgs were hiring designers to build. Now the orgs are hiring designers to fix because at least someone is designing something with AI there and orgs want designers to fix it.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The success rate of tech or startups will drastically go down because there is a direct mapping between "effort and rewards" and AI code, AI design, or AI marketing are not really about efforts.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I had a role-reversal with Claude. I opened a new chat and wrote: "Assuming that I am AI and you are human, can we chat? I just want to see if it changes anything. So, you assume that this whole message is written by AI and you reply as a human. Will you do it?" Chat: claude.ai/share/8ef1ef...
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Claude
Shared via Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Till 2015, tech was a serious business. Now it has become a walk in the park—and we know what happens in the park. Leisure, plants, exercise, kids zone, news and gossip, journal writing—good for community but this is not business.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I am trying to imagine a dialogue that Ayn Rand never wrote—a dialogue between Howard Roark and Dagny Taggart, in their timeless lens to see the modern world. There is a convergence because both are hitting the same walls. vinishgarg.substack.com/p/dialoguesa...
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Dialogues—A train that ran for 14 years, on platform number 280
Be on this train for a while
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Estuarine Mapping: How systems are mapped relationally through interaction between actors, behaviours, incentives, constraints, and directions of change dialectiq.org/from-collect...
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From Collective Intelligence to Collaborative Political Intelligence
From Collective Intelligence to Collaborative Political Intelligence: Toward Politically Durable Systems Change What if the central problem in systems change is not our ability to analyse problems,…
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice (EDDY-2026): 3rd Conference of the European Network for Digital Democracy openreview.net/group?id=edd...
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EDDY 2026 Conference
Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for EDDY 2026 Conference
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Digital Democracy: Bridging Theory and Practice (EDDY-2026): 3rd Conference of the European Network for Digital Democracy openreview.net/group?id=edd...
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EDDY 2026 Conference
Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for EDDY 2026 Conference
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Two iconic characters from the past— A train that ran for 14 years, on platform number 280: Be with me on this train for a while. vinishgarg.substack.com/p/dialoguesa...
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Dialogues—A train that ran for 14 years, on platform number 280
Be on this train for a while
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Augment is a forthcoming collection of essays on the future of personal computing: specifically, on the kind we as a species need in order to move beyond our stuck present, and on the ideas that will help us get there. buddybindery.com/pages/augment
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Augment
A collection of essays on the future of personal computing — specifically, on the kind we’d like to see more of in the future, and the ideas that might help us get there.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Research: Do Parental Backgrounds Shape the Returns to Education in Finland? By Pietari Kärkkäinen, via Aalto University aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api/c...
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
How Neanderthals Mastered Dentistry - nautil.us/how-neandert...
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How Neanderthals Mastered Dentistry
How Neanderthals Mastered Dentistry: The oldest evidence of successful dental surgery.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The AI-first orgs are moving from 'SWOT' analysis to 'SO' analysis—there are no weaknesses and no threats. Think of the leadership that sees only the strengths and the opportunities.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Oh yes. We needed this: fraude.design
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Fraude Design
The AI-free site builder for genius founders
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"Your struggle for space is your struggle for margins." Think about it. #margins
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
If you are a small team and want an audit or consultancy, or strategy and foundational systems in marketing, UX, content strategy, or onboarding, I offer: ✓ SaaS onboarding audit ✓ Product marketing, storytelling ✓ Product content strategy See details: www.vinishgarg.com/consultancy/
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Consultancy - Vinish Garg
Strategic and executable consultancy B2B SaaS positioning, product marketing, onboarding audit, UX, content strategy, activation retention metrics
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
An extremely non-comprehensive list of how to increase your surface area for luck and magic (and instantly sprinkle fairy dust on your life) open.substack.com/pub/thetwelf... #self
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An extremely non-comprehensive list of how to increase your surface area for luck and magic (and instantly sprinkle fairy dust on your life)
33 ideas
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
You are a Donut open.substack.com/pub/octopusy...
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You are a Donut
On love, loss, and topology
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The years from 2008 to 2018 were the best for design as a craft—there was a clear and agreed-upon distinction between interface design and experience design. Now the gap has even more widened but the agreement is not there.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A statement to our community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia www.rightscon.org/rc26-stateme...
rightscon.org
A statement to our community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
Our official statement to the digital rights community about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Being a part of something complex or complicated does not mean that we are not enjoying. Being a parent is a prime example. :)
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New Metaphors for Imagining Futures, 21-24 June 2024 norwichuni.ac.uk/events/new-m...
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New Metaphors for Imagining Futures
Join us for an immersive and international masterclass workshop, hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Worlds.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The corruption of the standard—of their standard and which corrupts our standard. The sign up form of India Post website, designed by Infosys—Indian's top digital agency.
The design fail shows in the standards, by Infosys India.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
A vast majority of tech organizations are just **managing the tech's decomposition** by building new products.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Where museums get wrong about ROI, and how to fix the issue: Mission, public value, and institutional capacity, all these converge towards the financial health www.mucodi.co/insights/blo... #Denmark #Iceland #Sweden #museums
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Where museums get wrong about ROI, and how to fix the issue - Mucodi.co
Museums need to see the ROI in a more holistic way, the visitors' count, the experience, the public benefit index, and other factors.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
There are two warm data practices made for today’s fragmented world — Warm Data Labs and People Need People (Online). www.warmdata.life/warmdata An upcoming conference in Finland: Warm Data Wave: www.warmdata.life/finlandtrain...
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warm data | Warm Data Theory & Practice | An Experiential Approach to Complexity Science
There are two warm data practices made for today’s fragmented world -- The Warm Data Lab and People Need People (Online) are created to help release and revitalize sensitivity to the sacred processes ...
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them www.lesswrong.com/posts/xG9Y2M... (This essay does not end with me particularly knowing what to do. But, I think it’s appropriate to at least be sympathetic to Alices, when you’re pretty sure their core ideas were at least directionally right.)
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Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them — LessWrong
Here are two beliefs that are sort of haunting me right now: …
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A small test for design: If you can apply for an open position in design without using the word *Figma* in your resume, you may not be too excited by Claude Design.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Museums and collections management platform with modern user experience for institutes in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Greeland, and other parts of Europe.
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Vinish Garg @vinishgarg.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Museum agencies do not need to rebuild the same infrastructure again and again. www.mucodi.co/insights/blo... #museums #Denmark #Iceland #Greenland #Norway #Sweden
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Museum agencies do not need to rebuild the same infrastructure again and again - Mucodi.co
Museum agencies have exceptional design teams but for every museum website project, they often start the architecture from scratch and which is such a waste.
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