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On this episode, I’m having a conversation with Madhuri Maram. She is a designer and co-founder of Xperian.
She is also the host of The Hireworthy Podcast. There she talks about the hiring side of design and careers in design.
In the episode, we talked about podcasting. Why Madhuri choose podcast as a platform, what she learned and unlearned from doing the hireworthy podcast. So if you’re thinking of starting your podcast, this episode will help you with what all goes behind the scenes.
Episode Navigation
[01:20] - Guest Introduction
[03:31] - Why Podcasting?
[05:01] - Hypothesis before podcast that got proved wrong
[06:25] - Things to improve in Season 2 of Hireworthy Podcast
[07:19] - Three things she learned and unlearned during the podcast
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The guest for this episode is Akshay Verma. Akshay is the Lead Product Designer at Obvious. An Award-winning design agency in India.
Akshay has done his bachelors from NID and Masters in Interaction Design from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.
In this episode we discuss what is interaction design, Some of the processes he uses for the projects at Obvious and how does processes help a designer or design team.
Episode Navigation
[00:58] - Tell us about your design journey
[01:27] - What is Interaction Design?
[03:15] - Do titles for designer limit their creativity?
[05:19] - What are the systems Signal, Process and Reveal?
[07:19] - How does creating processes help a designer or a design team?
[09:29] - Process and Recipe. What is the difference?
[10:41] - Underrated and Overrated thing about design
[12:18] - Future of Design in India?
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Website: www.akshayverma.net
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About the Episode
In conversation with the hosts of Design Lota Podcast, Angie and Sushi.
Angeline Bhavya aka Angie is an interaction designer with an experience of 8+ years. Apart from working full time, she has a personal brand called Letter Melon, building products and using Lettering and Typography.
Sushmita Charlu aka Sushi is a Product Designer and Sustainability Strategist. Eleveniche by Sushmita Charlu is design consultancy where she offers comprehensive services. And apart from that, she is the Co-Founder of Studio Vrtta, a design studio with a focus on sustainability.
In this episode, the three of us debunks some myths about side projects. We talk in-depth about side projects. Should you have one? How do to choose your side projects? And how to keep at it?
Episode Navigation
[01:07] - Guest Introduction
[02:16] - What are some of your side projects?
[03:50] - When should you make your side project your main job?
[05:19] - Difference between a hobby and a side project
[05:56] - How do you find an idea for a side project?
[08:21] - Should you monazite your side projects?
[11:27] - How does a side project contribute apart from monatization
[13:49] - Should your side project be related to your work?
[15:06] - Does your side projects mean more than to you?
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About the Episode
I’m having a conversation with Sadiyah Lasania, UX Writer at CleverTap.
In this episode, we talk in length about
👉 What is UX Writing?
👉 Designer-Writer Collaboration
👉 Layout or Copy. What should come first
👉 Her Writing Process
👉 Transitioning to UX Writing
👉 Portfolio of a UX Writer
👉 What do you think about the future of UX Writing in India?
Episode Navigation
[01:31] - Tell us about your design journey
[02:04] - What is UX Writing?
[04:55] - Layout or Copy. What should come first
[06:56] - Designer Writer Collaboration
[07:58] - Her Writing Process
[10:17] - Portfolio of a UX Writer
[11:49] - Transitioning to UX Writing
[12:43] - What do you think about the future of UX Writing in India?
Mentions
Best UX Writing Portfolio by Yuval Keshtcher
Daily UX Writing Challenge - dailyuxwriting.com
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Linkedin.com/in/sadiyahlasania
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About the Episode
My guest for this episode is King Sidharth. Sidharth is a Designer, Entrepreneur, TEDx Speaker and currently the Head of Design at Headout.
Being in the industry for 11+ years, He has worked both as a designer and a product manager.
In this episode, we talk about essential skills a designer must-have, how to transition in management and how to be a good manager.
Episode Navigation
[01:11] - Tell us about your design journey
[04:16]- What should Designers learn from Product Managers
[06:27] - Qualities a designer must have
[09:21] - Giving up IC role to be a manager
[11:36] - Problems faced by new managers
[13:37] - How a manager can communicate their vision to the team
[16:18] - Fulfilling your creative appetite being a manager
[18:02] - What makes a good manager
Sidharth on the internet:
https://www.kingsidharth.com/
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My guest for this episode is Soo Basu. She is a designer, storyteller and currently the Principal Design Manager at Microsoft.
Working as a designer for 16+ years in various domains. Currently, she has been working on the Microsoft Internet Edge browser.
In this episode, we will talk about her journey as a designer and a storyteller, how storytelling can help in our design process and the future of design in India
Episode Navigation:
[01:26] - Tell us about your design journey
[04:56] - How to use Storytelling in the design process?
[07:04] - How much time did you invest in making stories?
[07:48] - How to keep subjective feedback in the story
[10:22] - What makes a good story?
[12:40] - Challenges faced in the age of micro-content
[13:56] - How to use imagination for future interactions?
[15:47] - What do you think about the future of design in India?
Mentions:
Book - Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton
Book - Six Thinking Hats by Edward D Bono
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Personal Blog - Inktales.me/
linkedin.com/in/sunandinibasu/
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About the Episode
On Episode 06 of the Elements if design podcast, My guest is Akash Chandan; Designer and Researcher at Dunzo
He specialised in Social Design, A discipline that involves designing for society and how design affects the lives of humans. He has done his bachelors in Engineering, Masters in Interaction Design from National Institute of Design and Urban Fellowship at Indian Institute of Human Settlements. In this episode, we' will discuss in-depth about social design, Life at NID and the future of design in India.
Episode Navigation
[01:06] - Tell us about your design journey
[04:39] - What is Social Design?
[08:40] - What is a Design School? What did you learn at NID?
[11:21] - Challenges faced by a design graduate at their first job?
[14:31] - Design School cost a lot? Is it worth attending one? What are the Job Opportunities like?
[17:06] - Rapid Fire
[18:00] - What’s the most underrated and the most overrated thing about design
[22:18] - What do you think about the future of design in India?
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On Episode five of the Elements of Design Podcast, Our guest is Surabhi Mathur. Surabhi is a UX Researcher and has been working as a researcher for 5+ years,
She has a background of industrial design and business design as a part of her under-graduation and post-graduation education respectively.
In our conversation we talk about what makes a good UX Researcher, How to pivot from UX Design to Research, Performing research in different organisation and the future of UX Design and Research in India
Episode Navigation
[01:15] - Tell us about your design journey
[03:20] - How to pivot from UX Design to UX Research
[04:54] - What makes a good UX Researcher
[05:48] - Which research method to choose and when
[07:10] - Your favourite User Research method
[08:24] - Is Ethnographic Research a good research method
[10:33] - How to present qualitative research to stakeholders. How to find the right users for research
[11:52] - How to perform research at a startup or a new product
[13:50] - Rapid Fire
[15:14] - What do you think about the future of design in India?
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About the Episode
In this episode of Elements of Design, I interviewed Rahul Das.
He is currently a Lead Product Designer at Myntra-Jabong. He had been doing design for 7 Years now.
Rahul previously worked in Treebo hotels, Signeazy and Chance Inc.
Apart from this he also writes articles and contributes to publications like UXBlog and Prototypr helping designer all around the world.
In this episode we talk about, how designers can present designs to various stakeholders with least friction and opinions, Designing for Enterprise products and what are the future opportunities for designers in India.
Episode Navigation
[01:00] - Tell us about your design journey
[04:15] - How is Enterprise design different from Product Design?
[06:50] - Selling your designs.
[08:34] - Don’t Build Solution
[09:31] - Gather Feedback and iterate.
[10:22] - Role of a mentor. How should one choose their mentor.
[11:14] - Rapid Fire
[12:10] - What do you think about the future of design in inda?
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About the Episode
In this episode of Layers of Design, I interviewed <Guest Name>.
<Guest Introduction here>
</Write about what they do, current organisation>. What is the theme of this episode
Episode Navigation
[01:03] - Tell us about your design journey
[12:02] - Did you already had Unacademy in mind
[13:11] - How do you choose a mentor? How important is mentorship in a designers carrer?
[17:52] - Did you ever thought of attending a design school?
[19:35] - Most if the designers you met are self taught, What do you think is the reason for that?
[23:57] - What’s the most underrated and the most overrated thing about design
[26:22] - Rapid Fire
[27:47] - What do you think about the future of design in India?
Highlight Quote
[13:47] - When you look upto someone, the only reason you’re inspired and motivated by them
is because you want to be like them.
Mentions
• Adobe XD
• Travello
• Unacademy.com - India Largest Learning Platform
• Abhinav Chikara - Head of Design at Unacademy
• Abhinav’s Youtube Channel - ABNUX
• NID.edu - National Institute of Design
• Johny Vino
• CEED Exam - Common Entrance Exam for Design
• DesignUp - Design Conference
• Cred.club
• The Future
• Chris Do
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• Facebook.com/kvsChetan
• Twitter.com/kvschetan
• Instagram.com/design_pilot
• Youtube - Design Pilot
• Linkedin - Chetan KVS
• Medium.com/@kvsChetan
• Behance.com/chetankvs
• Dribbble.com/chetankvs
• Tip Tok - haha! You are reading this. Not on Tiki’s Tok yet :P.
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• Sticher
• Anchor.com/ElememtsofDesign
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• Facebook.com/hellomanav
• Instagram.com/hellomanav
• Twitter.com/hello_manav
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About the Episode
In this episode of Elements of Design, I interview Subin Idiculla.
Subin has been a designer for the past 15 years and has experience in designing for Enterprise, Product, E-Commerce and classifieds business.
He has worked in companies like JKT, Naukri, Snapdeal, Carwale and currently he’s the Director of Design @Housing.
In this episode, we talk about why designers should stay for longer in an organisation, especially in the early years of their career.
Subin also talks about why understanding the basics of design and sticking to them is an essential step in creating well-designed products.
Episode Navigation
[01:10] - Tell us about your design journey.
[05:19] - How do you choose where to work and how do you decide that you should stay for a longer duration?
[06:11] - Isn’t it intimidating to switch domains after working in one for long and start from zero.
[07:02] - What’s the most underrated and the most overrated thing about design?
[09:02] - How can a designer evangelise design in their organisation?
[11:02] - What do you think about the future of design in India?
[14:07] - Rapid Fire
Highlight Quote
[07:18] - You should understand user empathy.
[07:26] - It’s now about you, your product manager or co-founder. It’s about the user.
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About the Episode
In this episode of Layers of Design, I interviewed Nitish Khagwal
Nitish is a Full Stack Product Designer @ Webkul and has been designing for 8 years now.
He’s the creator of CoolHue 2.0, Vivid.Js and Micron.Js libraries and a product called UXEM. An online Empathy Mapping tool.
He’s also the founder of WebKul Design Community, a great mentor and he loves to make pixel dance.
In this episode, we talk about why designers, especially ones who are just starting their career, should have a mentor.
Episode Navigation
[01:10] - What is "3x Invision Studio smasher" means?
[02:30] - Are you a design unicorn?
[03:46] - At point do you realise to specialise in a skill?
[05:47] - What’s the most underrated and the most overrated thing about design?
[09:20] - How do make something easy when there is a lot of information out there?
[12:27] - What is important; Design Awareness or Design Education?
[15:33] - What makes a good mentee?
[16:25] - What makes a good mentor?
[18:02] - What are the three dealbreakers for being a designer?
[20:32] - How does one identify the difference between correct and incorrect information.
[22:17] - Rapid Fire
[23:10] - Tell us about your design journey
[29:10] - What is the role of side projects in a designer’s career?
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About the Episode
Hello and welcome to layers to design, a podcast where I interview design leads, mentors, influencers and evangelists to talk to them about their design journey, how to new a better designer and the future of design in India.
I’m your host Manav Madaan, a UX designer based out of New Delhi, India and with this podcast I want to contribute to the design community by inviting people that I admire and having a candid and in-depth conversation and help those who are just starting or someone who wants to pivot in their design career.
Since this is an introductory episode, I recommend you subscribe to Layers of Design in your favourite podcast app.
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