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Our guest for today is Pranava Tandra, Product Designer at Intercom, ex-Microsoft. She's done her Bachelors in Design from the National Institue of Fashion Technology (NIFT) and her Masters in Visual and Interaction Design from Indian Institue of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT)

In this episode, we talk about Job Interviews, Work-from-Home Burnouts, Psychology, Web3, Tips for Students, Writing Case Studies, and many more things. Previously she has worked at companies like Microsoft and Adobe. She shares a great amount of wisdom with us in this one!

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⏱️ Timestamps

00:00 Our guest of the Day — Pranava Tandra from Intercom

01:01 How and Where do you find your design resources?

03:12 Tips for Writing Case Studies

04:24 Case Studies — Keeping them complex or simple?

06:15 Avoiding and Fixing Burnouts 

08:08 Planning and prioritizing time

09:39 Keeping up with Web3 

10:33 Things students should include in a portfolio 

11:58 Building & Showing Character in our Work

13:56 What are job interviews like at big companies?

15:56 What were your interview experiences like? 

17:08 Being Confident in Interviews

17:50 Conclusion

18:17 Connect with Pranava!

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• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tandra.jpg/

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Our guest for today is Oishee Sen, Product Designer at Bumble, ex-Microsoft. She's an Interaction and Communication Designer and did her graduation from the National Institute of Design (NID).

Oishee has experience in multiple fields like Storytelling, Media, Marketing, User Experience Design, and many more. In the episode, she shares her thought process and mental models around design and her experience of working at great companies.

Also, she writes great case studies and in this one, we also get to know what goes behind writing one. Don't miss out!

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⏱️ Timestamps

00:00 Our guest of the Day — Oishee Sen from Bumble

00:55 Learning Multiple Skills

05:34 Is a Design Degree Necessary?

11:09 Becoming Better at Writing Case Studies

15:17 How to Choose Your First Company

22:46 What Recruiters Look while Hiring Designers

26:36 Summing it up!

26:53 Connect with Oishee!

27:40 Conclusion

28:08 Outro

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In this episode, we speak to Rahul Bhosale. He is a UI/UX and Interaction Designer. He has previously worked at Housing, India and is currently working at Disney+ Hotstar.

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❓⏰ Questions:

00:00 Introduction

01:26 Presentation by Rahul Bhosale

06:51 How did you get started in design?

08:38 What does a Visual communications program consist of?

10:29 Learnings from the Visual Communication program that helped transition to Interaction Design

12:41 How did you get started in Housing as an Interaction Designer?

15:44 Work profile at Housing as an Interaction Designer

19:45 How did you get started in Disney+ Hotstar?

23:00 Can you tell us more about the team and it's structure? 

24:40 What are some of the things you notice that beginner designers are doing wrong?

27:14 What is the Hiring Process at Hotstar?

29:27 How to get started in Interaction Design 

37:00 What are your top 3 learnings from your design journey so far?

38:44 What's something you wish you knew when you were starting off?

Rahul's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamrahulbhosale/

Rahul's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rahul.design/

Rahul's Twitter: https://twitter.com/RahulBhosale__

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In this episode, we speak to Janardhan Massar. He is an architecture undergrad from Manipal University and has previously worked as a UX Designer at Lollypop Design Studio. He is currently working as a Product Designer at Unacademy.

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❓⏰ Questions:

00:00 Introduction

02:46 Moving from Architecture to UI/UX Design

07:59 Bot M.D. – Assistant Chatbot for Doctors

20:38 Work profile at Lollypop Design Studio

23:36 Why you should create a design portfolio

29:42 Hiring at Design Agencies vs Product Companies

31:43 Experience as a Product Designer at Unacademy

33:16 Designing Tests and Results Experience at Unacademy

43:56 What are your learnings from working at a Design Agency and a Product company?

Janardhan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janardhan-massar/

Janardhan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/januxcaliber/

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In this episode, we speak to Cydelle Zuzarte and Meenakshi Kamat.

Cydelle is a UX Researcher at Swiggy and has previously worked at Hike Messenger. Meenakshi is a Freelance UX Researcher and has previously worked at Swiggy.

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❓⏰ Questions:

00:00 Introduction

02:02 What is UX Research?

03:12 Work profile as a UX Researcher at Swiggy

05:22 Work profile as a Freelance UX Researcher

06:30 Typical day for a UX Researcher at Swiggy and as a Freelancer 

10:13 How to identify the need for conducting UX Research

13:54 Steps followed by UX Researchers to get relevant insights and findings – Aligning, Planning, Executing, Analysing, Sharing

21:16 Difference between exploratory and evaluative research

24:05 How do UX Researchers do interview planning

25:56 Nuances to keep in mind when documenting your research

34:59 How to eliminate bias in your research

37:33 Creating repositories and documenting UX Research at Swiggy

46:10 How to get started into UX Research

50:58 Requirements from people applying for a UX Research internship or full time role

58:20 How do you feel the nature of your work has evolved since you started off and what do you expect to change in the future?

Cydelle's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cydellezuzarte/

Meenakshi's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenakshi-kamat-74b93410a/

Swiggy Careers: https://careers.swiggy.com/

This podcast is part of the 10kdesigners Network.

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In this episode, we speak to Abheyraj Singh. He is a Senior Product Designer at Omio, Berlin. He has worked at Housing India and has also co-founded the Lisn App. 

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❓⏰ Questions:

00:00 Introduction

00:40 Being a designer at Berlin

02:39 Journey from being an iOS developer to a Co-founder to a UI/UX Designer

8:33 How UI/UX design helped interact with machines

09:43 Being a designer without any design background at Housing Labs

14:06 Work and challenges faced as a Co-founder at Lisn

19:00 Implementing learnings from the journey at Lisn App

22:07 Strategy when applying for design jobs abroad

29:00 Hiring designers in India vs Berlin

33:34 Difference between a Junior and a Senior designer

36:23 How should Junior Designers cover up their breadth of skills?

37:52 Responsibilities as a Senior Designer when mentoring Junior Designers

41:30 Experience as an Industry Mentor at 10kdesigners masterclass?

45:18 Top 3 learnings from your design journey

Abheyraj's Website: www.abheyraj.com

Omio: https://www.omio.com/

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In this episode, we speak to Siddhita Upare and Harsh Vijay. 

Siddhita is currently working as the Co-Founder and COO at Brucira. She has previously worked as an Illustrator at Housing, a Senior Visualizer at TING and as a UI Designer at Turtlemint. 

Harsh is currently working as the Co-Founder and CEO at Brucira. He has previously worked at Housing as a UI/UX Designer. #designfounder #brucira

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❓⏰ Questions:

0:00 Introduction

01:54 How did they get started with Brucira?

17:14 Moving from a Designer to a Founder role

24:26 Team Structure at Brucira

26:11 Design Hiring process at Brucira

28:46 How did you create Ruttl?

32:20 Design Process at Brucira

37:30 Future plans for Brucira

40:43 Setting up processes in an Agency

43:53 Challenges you faced when starting off as Co-founders

52:57 Top 3 learnings from your design journey

56:56 What advice would you give to designers who are starting off?

Brucira website: https://www.brucira.com/

Ruttl website: https://ruttl.com/?ref=topbar

Siddhita LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddhita-upare-75475b73/

Harsh LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsh-vijay-bab23068/

Brucira Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brucira/

Siddhita Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siddhitaupare/

Harsh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hv_crash/

Ruttl Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruttlapp/

Siddhita Twitter: https://twitter.com/UpareSiddhita

Harsh Twitter: https://twitter.com/harsh17vijay93

This podcast is part of the #10kdesigners Network.

Home: https://10kdesigners.com

Browse bite-sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io

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In this episode, we speak to Gyan Lakhwani. He is an IT engineer with a Masters in Interaction Design from the IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay. He is currently working at Microsoft as a UX Designer and has previously interned at Zomato. #microsoft #zomato

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❓⏰ Questions:

0:00 Introduction

01:20 How did you get started in Design?

04:42 Design Program at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay

11:58 Internship process at Zomato

13:42 Work at Zomato – Redesigning Zomato Collect

16:28 First internship project

18:33 Internship Process at Microsoft India

24:33 Internship at Microsoft Foundry

29:08 Further questions about Microsoft Foundry

31:30 Designing an app for Indian Prime Minister's Office in 2015

42:30 Top 3 learnings from your design journey

46:00 Things you wish you knew when starting off

Gyan's website: https://gyanl.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gyanlakhwani/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gyanl/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/gyanl

Microsoft Careers: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en

This podcast is part of the #10kdesigners Network.

Home: https://10kdesigners.com

Browse bite-sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io

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In this episode, we speak to Zain Khoja, an Information Science undergrad from Cornell University. He has previously worked at GitHub as a Design Systems intern and at Instagram as a Product Design Intern. #github #instagram

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❓⏰ Questions:

0:00 Introduction

01:20 How did you get started in Design?

05:00 Internship Process at GitHub

09:15 Project Walkthrough: Creating tools, documentation sites, and core components for Primer, GitHub’s open-source design system

15:00 Interview process at Instagram

17:50 How to explain your design decisions as a beginner

22:50 Internship experience at Instagram 

25:52 Instagram Design team and their working

30:00 Top learnings and nuances from GitHub and Instagram

32:00 Balancing between learning and teaching Product Design at Cornell University

34:48 Community and volunteer work in Design

37:03 How to create a slide deck for interviews

38:22 What is your process in learnings new skills?

40:36 How important is coding for a designer?

43:33 Top 3 learnings from your design journey

GitHub Internship Project: https://zainkho.com/github

Zain's website: https://zainkho.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zainkho/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zainkho7/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/zainkho

Instagram Careers: https://www.instagram.com/about/jobs/

GitHub Careers: https://github.com/about/careers

This podcast is part of the #10kdesigners Network.

Home: https://10kdesigners.com

Browse bite-sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io

Get real design inspiration from the world's best-designed apps: https://uisources.com

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98

In this episode, we speak to Aboli Joshi. She is a Product Designer and Manager working in the healthcare industry. She is currently working at Cura Technologies and has graduated from NID Ahmedabad in Industrial and Product Design #healthcare #covid19

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❓⏰ Questions:

0:00 Introduction

02:36 What is Healthcare Design?

04:16 Healthcare Design internship at Elephant Design

06:27 Challenges faced when starting out as a healthcare designer and nuances in Healthcare Design vs Digital Product Design

09:20 Work at Cura Technologies

10:35 Typical day at Cura Technologies

12:26 Aboli's Healthcare Product Design project at NID

25:16 Picking up new things and compounding your skillset

26:35 Importance of design in the healthcare industry

29:43 How would Covid-19 be better dealt with if the design in the healthcare industry was better?

32:16 Changes in Healthcare Design post Covid-19

35:22 Getting into Policy Design

38:50 Advice to someone getting into design right now

40:15 Top 3 learnings from your design journey

41:53 Things you wish you knew when starting off

Cura technologies: https://www.cura.tech/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aboli-joshi-23615ab3/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bolijoshi/?hl=en

Twitter: https://twitter.com/abolijoshi

This podcast is part of the #10kdesigners Network.

Home: https://10kdesigners.com

Browse bite-sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io

Get real design inspiration from the world's best-designed apps: https://uisources.com

Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal.

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