Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social
impactology.bsky.social
Raghav Agrawal @impactology@mastodon.social
@impactology.bsky.social
Former Diamond Dealer | Independently explored research in design, education, and cognitive science; now bringing those ideas to life via UX

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UI Design worksheet

Inspired by Five Design Sheets
fds-design.github.io
IxD process steps by Jonathan Korman
October 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This means designing tools that unbundle the university’s service of bounded scope, giving self-taught learners the compression, context, and collaborative rhythm of formal education without the hierarchy or exclusion.
October 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
What a UI design course or book should be like

Purely skill-focused, execution-oriented handbook for building useful, usable, and emotionally intelligent interfaces from sketch to production.
October 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
India – Affiliated College Model vs Western – University Model
October 3, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Most honest person I've met recently was a tech VP who told me: "I manage a team of twelve people who create documents for other teams who create documents for senior leadership who don't read documents"

The hidden economy of nonsense by Alex McCann
thestillwandering.substack.com/p/the-death-...
September 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning by Edited by Sheila L. Macrine, Jennifer M.B. Fugate direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...
September 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Junior to Senior: Career Advice for the Ambitious Programmer by David Glassanos

www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-...

"A practical guide to self-confidence, personal growth, teamwork, learning, communication, and delivering results—the soft skills that every programmer needs to succeed in their job"
September 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Ask Me This Instead: Flip the Interview to Land Your Dream Job by Kendra Haberkorn
www.holloway.com/b/ask-me-thi...

Why should only hiring managers and recruiters decide your job destiny? No matter where you are in your career journey, it’s time you were in control.
September 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Gentle introduction to sheaves on graphs by Jakob Hansen
www.jakobhansen.org/publications...
"Just knowing that two things are connected is not enough. We
need to know something about the relationship implied by connection. Sheaves offer a mathematically rigorous for approaching problems like this"
September 11, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Category Theory for the Sciences by David I. Spivak mitpress.mit.edu/978026202813...

Written in an engaging and straightforward style, and assuming little background in mathematics, the book is rigorous but accessible to non-mathematicians.
September 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Poems That Solve Puzzles : The History and Science of Algorithms Chris Bleakley

global.oup.com/academic/pro...

"It is the first book for the general reader on the history and science of algorithms. Uniquely, the algorithms are explained in a clear manner suitable for a non-specialist"
September 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Markwhen is an interactive text-to-timeline tool. Write markdown-ish text and it gets converted into a nice looking cascading timeline.

markwhen.com
github.com/mark-when/ma...
September 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
TIL about The Slide Rule, basically an analog calculator that apollo astronauts carried to space

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slide_r...
August 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Augmentability Audit Template

Use this worksheet during design reviews. Unlike usability testing, an augmentability audit checks if your system expands what users can think, learn, and do.
August 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Augmentability Heuristics Manifesto

A guide for designing systems that expand human capacity

The measure of a system is not how easy it is to use, but how much more capable it leaves its users.
August 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Lead to job posts like the former displacing the latter

Usability Engineer became ancestor of today’s UX researcher/designer

The Augmentability Designer could have become ancestor of a profession that looks more like Bret Victor, Ink & Switch, Andy Matuschak or “tools for thought” community today.
August 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"Delft Students on Software Architecture (DESOSA) is a collection of technical essays in which students explore the software architecture of 28 different open source systems"

desosa.nl/about
August 23, 2025 at 12:16 PM
A collection of short guides to concept design & software design more generally by Daniel Jackson

essenceofsoftware.com/tutorials/

Case studies in concept design by Daniel Jackson
essenceofsoftware.com/studies/
August 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Infographic for Code Quality & Debugging
August 23, 2025 at 5:15 AM
What if most common causes of bugs in software and way to fix them were presented like how medical guidelines are presented via infographics
August 23, 2025 at 4:57 AM
TIL Michael Faraday apprenticed as a bookbinder; self-taught science from books and never had formal credentials 😍

The Fascinating Story of Michael Faraday by Niall Leah

freedium.cfd/https://nial...
August 22, 2025 at 6:56 PM
What constitutes a good explanation?

Have you given or experienced explanation of anything in this manner?
August 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Systematic Method for Designers by L. Bruce Archer h/t @borisanthony.net for sharing this years ago

Dubberly's concept map on archer's checklist www.dubberly.com/wp-content/u...
August 15, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is about manipulating desirable difficulty, pushing the learner past comfort but without hitting overload the sweet spot for neuroplasticity.

So the personalization doesn't happen for content but rather in curating hard problems for people.
August 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
A bias for energy conversation holds back brain from growing new synapses, to learn new things.

Gen AI supports this resistance, question is how could they break this

Turn AI tutor from an answer-giver into a challenge curator, making learning process effortful but winnable

x.com/err_mk/statu...
August 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM