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Stop Designing Pixels: The Only Four Skills AI Can’t Automate Out of Your Design Career!
AI might be everywhere, but it is still not ‘there’ yet.
 • Mehekk Bassi
Hiring in 2025 was a Big Vibe Check, with a Huge Personal Bias!
This is precisely why you were getting rejected. But wait, will the situation improve in 2026?
 • Mehekk Bassi
The Billion-Dollar Distraction: Why Space Data Centers Are the Final Form of Digital Waste!
If you think we’re done destroying our planet, think again. Because the race to the space has just begun.
 • Mehekk Bassi
Things I Miss in My Home
My neutral-colored home, with clean furniture and ambient lighting, lacks something.
 • Mehekk Bassi
The Three Lies Every Senior Designer Tells in an Interview (And the Truths That Get You Hired)
In this brutal job market, not everything you may assume to work, will work.
 • Mehekk Bassi
The Tyranny of Delight: Why Your Users Don’t Need Another ‘Magical’ Experience
Instead of chasing magical UX moments, how to design for product outcomes that actually move the metric!
 • Mehekk Bassi
The Problem With Most AI Companies Isn’t Their Product Offering, But…
The reports are in, and hundreds and thousands of AI companies are witnessing a sharp decline in their user-base, and subsequently — revenues.
 • Mehekk Bassi
The Six Secrets Of Networking Nobody Told You Before…
Everyone tells you to go out there, and ‘network’, but nobody tells you ‘how’. In this story, I will decode exactly what works, what doesn’t, and what’s…
 • Mehekk Bassi
The Best Designers Are Not Talking About Design Anymore
Why do the designers we look up to seem to talk less about design — and more about everything else?
 • Mehekk Bassi
Your Dream Job Doesn’t Exist, Because The World That Promised It Doesn’t Either…
With the news of Amazon laying off thirty thousand people in upcoming days (Oct 2025), what is a dream job anymore?
 • Mehekk Bassi
My Resume, Portfolio, And How I Landed A Design Role In 2025!
The good, the bad, and the ugly of job hunting in the era of AI. Read about — what worked, what didn’t, and what saved my sanity in all these weeks.
 • Mehekk Bassi
Many AI Companies Are Nearing Their Bust Cycle — Will Tech Hiring Resume?
AI led to massive layoffs and thousands of people suffering — will it create that many jobs to hire that many people back?
 • Mehekk Bassi
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