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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Nijil David — Writing</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/</link><description>Writing on product management, design systems and product operations.</description>    <item><title>Just like electricity</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/just-like-electricity/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/just-like-electricity/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:54:23 +0000</pubDate><description>Is it a component library? Is it a pattern guide? Is it a documentation site? No. Look closer. It is something bigger, heavier, and far more complex. A design system is not…</description></item>
    <item><title>The Hidden Risks of Running a Complex Design System</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/the-hidden-risks-of-running-a-complex-design-system/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/the-hidden-risks-of-running-a-complex-design-system/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:00:51 +0000</pubDate><description>A closer look at risks that can emerge as a design system grows across products, brands and platforms.</description></item>
    <item><title>Stakeholder Management in Design Systems: What Actually Works</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/stakeholder-management-in-design-systems-what-actually-works/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/stakeholder-management-in-design-systems-what-actually-works/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:13:34 +0000</pubDate><description>Design systems are never just about components, tokens, and Figma libraries. They’re about people with competing priorities, different goals, and varying levels of design…</description></item>
    <item><title>Trust and Experience</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/trust-and-experience/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/trust-and-experience/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2020 11:08:56 +0000</pubDate><description>As life moved on, I figured out those are only two types of learning but not mindsets for learning.  Let's take a walk through my thoughts. There are only two mindsets of learning</description></item>
    <item><title>Finding the balance</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/finding-the-balance/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/finding-the-balance/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>We had too many good one who wants to lead. Everyone wanted a piece of the ball. Even though we tried different strategies, none worked. While walking out of the ground, the…</description></item>
    <item><title>Us</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/us/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/us/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Often I had complaints and expectations about my other half. Also got inspired by surroundings and developed assumptions of love. But I forgot that every relationship is unique…</description></item>
    <item><title>Anger</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/anger/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/anger/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>When I get angry, I do some work. With that rage, I get things done. Same goes for my wife too. I’ve noticed that she cooks 2–3 dishes in a short period of time when pissed off.</description></item>
    <item><title>Measurables of our life</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/measurables-of-our-life/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/measurables-of-our-life/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Last week my brother fell ill. I was telling him that advises won’t matter and he needs to start measuring his health if he wants to improve it. The conversation made me think…</description></item>
    <item><title>Timmy and Drake</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/timmy-and-drake/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/timmy-and-drake/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Once upon a time, there was a well near the beach and there lived a frog named Timmy. The well had enough water for Timmy to swim. There was algae, insects to feed on and…</description></item>
    <item><title>Conversations with God</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/conversations-with-god/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/conversations-with-god/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The science in me started to find proof for everything that was written in the Bible. If I had told my students to develop blind faith and move on, they would walk my line. I…</description></item>
    <item><title>Serve no one</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/serve-no-one/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/serve-no-one/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>I’d encourage you to know more about the person you admire to see which part of that person you serve. We need to serve an ideology or a solution or an environment. It’s part…</description></item>
    <item><title>People, Process and Product</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/people-process-and-product/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/people-process-and-product/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>A system / company / environment always has three entities. There is a bunch of people using some process to make a product successful.</description></item>
    <item><title>Into the abyss</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/into-the-abyss/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/into-the-abyss/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The unkowns of our life is a force or direction we have no clue yet we strive for it.</description></item>
    <item><title>Using real sample data to make great designs</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/using-real-sample-data-to-make-great-designs/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/using-real-sample-data-to-make-great-designs/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Helping you create a customized JSON file to generate product related content.</description></item>
    <item><title>Cute chaos</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/cute-chaos/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/cute-chaos/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The right time is now and have one for all the chaos, crazy times and not for the cuteness. It’ll break you but you’ll love it.</description></item>
    <item><title>The dream</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/the-dream/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/the-dream/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>We all have dreams in mind and often hear advices to follow them. Yet every step that we take into our life, our dream walks faster to the abyss. There must be some flaw in the…</description></item>
    <item><title>30 days of a product designer</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/30-days-of-a-product-designer/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/30-days-of-a-product-designer/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>People around me often ask me what do I do as a product designer. So I thought of writing it for them.</description></item>
    <item><title>The most famous brand</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/the-most-famous-brand/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/the-most-famous-brand/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Building yourself as a brand is not about doing a massive wardrobe change in a day. If that occurs, it’ll be inspired by the environment that our mind captured lately. None of…</description></item>
    <item><title>The Enemy</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/the-enemy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/the-enemy/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>You are truly incorruptible, aren’t you? Huh? You won’t kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won’t kill you because you’re just too much fun. I…</description></item>
    <item><title>The moment</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/the-moment/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/the-moment/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The best moments of my life that I’d like to have it repeated over and over again.</description></item>
    <item><title>You don’t forget to shit</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/you-don-t-forget-to-shit/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/you-don-t-forget-to-shit/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>We can never be late in shitting. We do it at the right time and let me be honest here, it feels good and relaxed when it’s done. If we’re late, it will not make us look good…</description></item>
    <item><title>Assumptions</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/assumptions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/assumptions/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>I once assumed that my friend is an anti-social guy. From the way he carries himself, I also assumed that he must be driving a mid segment car. The real fact got revealed on my…</description></item>
    <item><title>Letting your friends go</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/letting-your-friends-go/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/letting-your-friends-go/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>A hard decision to make rather than faking the relations and stick to the close ones</description></item>
    <item><title>Three magical words</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/three-magical-words/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/three-magical-words/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>A learning from my father which resonates even today. During my schooldays, I ignored them completely. The egoistic and boastful person in me thought of it as completely…</description></item>
    <item><title>Listen. Think. Talk</title><link>https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/listen-think-talk/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.nijildavid.com/blog/posts/listen-think-talk/</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2015 11:21:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Every conversation that we have is the beginning of a relation. None of us can predict the growth of that relationship. There are three main parts of the body that we would…</description></item>
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