empathetic-systems

Jan 09

Your Application Needs Different Zones for Different Levels of Understanding

Aravind Kunnath

Two related problems that I have consistently seen in teams are Architectural decisions made before understanding the domain become increasingly difficult to change. Technically, organizationally and psychologically difficult. Teams carry these decisions like a weight. This weight manifests as...

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Nov 11 2025

Empathetic Systems: Designing Systems for Human Decision-Making

Aravind Kunnath

Software begins as an idea in our minds, gets translated through assumptions and decisions into code, and then gets deployed into an environment where it becomes "the software." But what we're rarely taught is that the story doesn't end there. Once software is deployed and running in production,...

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