Shahriar Sultan - Product Designer

13/05/2026

Millenials and GenZ use ChatGPT for life advice. Not only ChatGPT, we use Claude, ChatGPT and any other AI chatbots that we can get our hands on and talk to it like its our business coach, relationship advisor, career advisor. And day by day we human getting dumber. We are not thinking enough.

We are letting AIs to dictate what we should be thinking, we should be doing, how we should be doing it. Instead of we being ourselves. That’s the real danger.

Ancient wisdom says, “The toughest job for human kind is thinking”. Now I can see why they said so. Its easier to ask AI then think for myself, why bother thinking.

But the problem we’re ignoring or overseeing is, we are losing our ability to not only think, we are losing the ability to see patterns in our own behaviour. AI knows what we want to hear. It will not say uncomfortable truth to us that we don’t want to hear about and so it is a better consulting partner, than a real human.

But truth is always always superior than false sugarcoated comfortable lies. We want to stay comfortable with things, we don’t want to see our own mistakes and create a mirage of our own self awareness that is far away from the true facts. And so we will never know about ourselves and get a bigger picture if we continue to take advices from AI all the time.

AI is not bad itself. The power it comes with, isn’t bad. The usage of it isn’t bad. The way we human use it, and the reasons we use it for is harmful. It compounds slowly, starts to build habits and accumulate to wire our brains into new thinking patterns to rely on AI instead. Slowly our own thinking get slower, blurry and we stop thinking.

07/05/2026

Going to change the name of this page to "The Design Workbench". The simple journal book for designers and for me to see the inside world of how we work in our day to day life.

Stay tuned.

06/05/2026

লিখতে পারা এই যুগে একটা বিশেষ গুণ। সবাই সুন্দর করে গুছিয়ে লিখতে পারে না৷ কথা, শব্দ বাক্য সাজানো সহজ না। এই যেমন আমি লিখতে পারি না। চাই লিখতে অনেক কিছু, কিন্তু যা বলতে বা বোঝাতে চাই তা ঠিক মত তুলে ধরতে পারি না।

ইন্টারনেটের যুগে এখন সবাই কম বেশি লেখে। লেখার সেই মাধুর্য্যটা আগেরমত আর দেখা যায় না তেমন। খুব কম। অল্প কিছু মানুষের লেখাই সময় নিয়ে পড়ার ধৈর্য্য হয়৷

তবে লিখতে জানাটা চিন্তার জন্য খুব উপকারী৷ নিজের চিন্তাগুলোকে, আবেগ গুলোকে নিয়ত্রণে রাখে৷ আর পরিষ্কার ভাবে চিন্তা করতেও সাহায্য করে।

গুছিয়ে লিখতে জানলে তার প্রভাব ইনকামেও পরে সরাসরি। এই যেমন ক্লায়েন্টকে সহজে বুঝিয়ে বলতে পারবেন যা বলতে চান। কি বলতে চান অন্তত সেটা বুঝতে পারবেন। উপকার আর উপকার। কিন্তু আমরা লিখতে ভুলে গেছি৷

06/05/2026

New site is live → https://shahriarsultan.com

Designed it, built it, wrote every case study. First time doing the whole thing solo end-to-end — and the writing turned out to be harder than the design or the code.

Six case studies in. Curious what you think.

B2B SaaS, healthcare, and complex web app design. 8+ years experience. Top Rated on Upwork.

05/05/2026

বেশ কয়েকদিন ধরে পেইজেন নাম বদলানোর চেষ্টা করছি। হচ্ছেই না। কি একটা ঝামেলা।

04/05/2026

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29/04/2026

Soon I am going to delete this page. As I have created a new profile, most of my connections, management, updates all will be shared from there. Actually, there won’t be much to share or manage.

I am not going to run any other courses anytime soon. That’s for sure. Running a course drains a lot of energy. And day by day, my patience is running short. I am not able to communicate well, people are not able to understand me. And I cannot explain well like before as well.

So it is better to take a long break and focus on the things I need to do now. This post wasn’t necessary either. Just as a little formality to let everyone know that this page is going to be deleted.

I know that no one cares whether I am deleting my page or not but I thought it would be better to share an update on this. So, here we are. By the end of this week, this page will be gone. Thank you everyone!