Using AI tools to visualise faces in everyday objects. — Have a brief look at the image below. What comes to your mind first? A Ghost? A soldier with a cap? A French painter? I don’t know. But I’m pretty sure you saw some face on that vase. There’s a name for this thing — Pareidolia! Simply put, it is…

(Thoughts on design in the age of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence) — “What is the difference between man’s design and God’s design?” This was the interview question that I had to face from Prof.Kirti Trivedi while seeking admission to IIT Bombay for Master of Design program. I’m not sure whether I understood the profoundness of that question at that time, but I…

Passwords are hard to remember, which is why most number of people on this planet use 123456 as their password. But as a side effect, they become very easy to guess. So, what do people do then? They just make one not-so-complex password they can remember, and use the same…

Mistaken Plagiarisms in Design — “I’ve seen this idea before!... this guy must’ve copied it from that one!" How many times you’ve thought like this while looking at an interesting idea? In the pre-internet era (read 'when we were smaller') the scenario was completely different. …