Hey TDC fam! Join me in my conversation with Sneha Sankar - a Brand experience designer, an art director, an illustrator, and a typography enthusiast. She has co-founded the design consulting firm Prophecy: an innovation, strategy, and design consultancy focused on building digital products and brands. Sneha also teaches Brand experience design with the 10kdesigners community platform. She has experience in designing for tech firms like Ola, Unacademy, and has done art direction for a number of projects for various brands.
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In this episode we talk about designing for tech brands, creating and running your own design consultancy, financial stability, NFTs, metaverse, web3, design team structures, Prophecy - the design consultancy, and so many interesting things.
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Chapters:
01:20 Starting as a creative person
07:55 How is formal education in Design an advantage
13:03 Unlearning things learned in design school
18:55 Design MBA
27:42 How to structure a design team
34:16 Hobbies 35:35 Financial freedom
43:26 Story of Prophecy-the design consultancy
50:49 How to start a design consultancy- Step-by-step process
54:51 TipTopTypeTips- Backstory
01:02:25 What is Brand-experience design
01:04:39 Teaching BX Design with 10kdesigners
01:08:20 Metaverse Jargons: Rapid-fire
01:19:55 We3 for web3
01:28:03 How to design for Web3
01:33:40 Takeaways from being a designer in tech firms
01:39:55 Biggest fear while staring as a designer
01:41:51 Time management, multitasking
01:45:28 Importance of designers in the real world
01:51:35 Favourite designers
01:53:26 Content suggestions
Please find below the links to Sneha's works:
Prophecy design consultancy
