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Considering I imagine myself as an Indian instant-noodles connoisseur (!), how can I not be excited about a completely new noodles brand being launched in India? I first Googled ‘Saffola Oodles’ and BigBasket was the first e-commerce link that stared at me….
Rashmi Samant was all over the news in India (and in Karnataka, given that she studied in Manipal Institute of Technology earlier) as recently as February 12-13. After all, she became the first Indian woman to occupy the position of president of…
A lot of features that we come across or use or like on digital/social media/messaging platforms/apps mimic the offline equivalents. The ‘save’ icon is a floppy disk in most apps/digital services, even if many millennials don’t have a clue as to what…
Traditionally, wine has always been associated with glass bottles and glass serving containers (it’s literally called ‘wine glass’!). But in recent times, quite a few brands are trying other forms of containers and packaging for selling wine. A few examples: The Brazilian…
Two ads from January 2021, for 2 different products, but their messages are polar opposites to each other! I loved the first one – for Unilever’s Degree Deodorant, by the agency BBDO USA. The ad film features NBA star Kevin Durant and…
Back in 2010, Jacquelyn Krones, a (then) Senior Product Manager at Microsoft (she now is Director of Responsible AI Practice, Microsoft) revealed the results of a multi-year, large-scale ethnographic study on how people searched for information on different devices. Beyond the many…
Last year, a clever design idea by the Bangkok-based agency CJ WORX for their client, Thai Health Promotion Foundation. The client wanted to remind people in Thailand to consciously reduce the intake of salt, for health reasons. Simply offering them a smaller…