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Pranava Tandra – Product Designer at Intercom – Whiteboard.fm #040
Season 4 · Episode 10
Thursday, January 20, 2022 • Duration 19:42
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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Oishee Sen – Product Designer at Bumble – Whiteboard.fm #039
Season 4 · Episode 9
Wednesday, January 12, 2022 • Duration 28:34
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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00:00 Our guest of the Day — Oishee Sen from Bumble
Luca Orio – Design Systems Manager at Netflix – Whiteboard.fm #038
Season 4 · Episode 5
Monday, December 20, 2021 • Duration 24:11
Our guest for today is Luca Orio, Design Systems Manager at Netflix. He's an Italian designer based out of San Francisco. He's been a designer for 19 years now and in this interview he shares some of the greatest and rarest insights regarding the things you experience as a designer and how to get the most out of things.
An amazing thing about Luca is before entering the design space, he used to be a Drummer in a Metal Band which had become quite popular and signed with labels. But, his love and passion for design are what made him choose this path. Make sure you watch the entire episode, you're going to love it!
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00:00 Our guest of the Day — Luca Orio from Netflix
Tarun Mangukiya – Founder & CEO at Iconscout – Whiteboard.fm #037
Season 4 · Episode 7
Tuesday, December 14, 2021 • Duration 17:10
Our guest for today is Tarun Mangukiya, Founder & CEO at Iconscout. Before joining this company he has worked with companies like Microsoft, Remarkin E-Learning, and many more. Instead of going the job route after completing college, he took the startup route and built Iconscout from scratch. Being such a successful product, Iconscout was acquired by LottieFiles in Feb 2021.
Iconscout is a design resources marketplace with 2.5 Million+ Icons, Illustrations, 3D Assets, and Lottie Animations from 2000+ contributors globally. We provide the simplest way to sell, share & exchange design assets to a worldwide audience.
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00:00 Our guest of the day — Tarun Mangukiya from Iconscout
Gaurav Baheti – Founder & CEO at Procol – Whiteboard.fm #036
Season 4 · Episode 6
Monday, December 6, 2021 • Duration 22:15
Our guest for today is Gaurav Baheti, CEO & Founder at Procol. Gaurav is an Engineer turned Designer & has worked at companies like Zomato and Google. But being passionate and full of potential, he decided to start his own company wanting to experiment and do what he really loves!
Procol is a digital procurement platform that helps companies digitize their buying processes. It has raised a capital of $1 Million from Blue Ventures & Rainmatter, a fund managed by Zerodha.
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Our guest for today Thalita is a Principal Product Designer at Adidas Runtastic. With a multitude of interests and creative pursuits, she feels UX design has the possibility to blend her passions for design, technology, and business, with her deep curiosity for human behavior.
Adidas Runtastic develops activity tracking apps and services such as training logs, data analysis, comparisons to other users, and other functions to help users improve their overall fitness.
On 5 August 2015, Adidas bought Runtastic for €220 million ($240 million).
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00:00 Our guest of the day — Thalita from Adidas Runtastic!
Debashish Paul – Principal at Twitter Design – Whiteboard.fm #034
Season 4 · Episode 4
Monday, November 22, 2021 • Duration 31:44
Our guest for today is Debashish Paul, Principal at Twitter Design. He has previously worked at companies like Facebook, Yahoo, SAP and has 60+ patents registered under his name!
In this one we're going to get to know about his process and decisions he's made to be able to grab opportunities and work with great companies and be such a great designer.
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00:00 Our guest of the day — Debashish Paul from Twitter!
01:08 Getting Multiple Opportunities at the BEST Companies
08:17 Switching from Computer Science to Design (UX)
15:36 Finding a Balance of Scalability of Idea
Kalyani Tupkary – Product Designer at Twitch – Whiteboard.fm #033
Season 4 · Episode 3
Monday, November 15, 2021 • Duration 20:31
Our guest for today is Kalyani Tupkary, she's a Hybrid Experience Designer. Currently, she's working as a Product Designer at Twitch, the world’s leading live streaming platform for gamers.
Kalyani has done her Bachelor’s in Design from NID, Ahmedabad followed by a Masters in Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design. The insights you're going to get from this episode would be phenomenal!
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the day — Kalyani Tupkary from Twitch
00:55 Welcoming Kalyani to the show!
01:00 From NID Ahemdabad to Parsons School of Design - The Journey
04:03 You say you're a Generalist. What are your views on being a Specialist v/s a Generalist?
05:52 What is your advice on recognizing the overlaps. How do you expand your knowledge of contrasting domains?
Felix Lee – Co-Founder and CEO at ADPList – Whiteboard.fm #032
Season 4 · Episode 2
Monday, November 8, 2021 • Duration 17:53
In this interview, we speak to Felix Lee. Felix is the Co-founder and CEO of ADPList and currently leading product strategy and community growth there.
Previously, he's cofounded Packdat (accquired) and led design at Gotrade (YC S19), and Passpod (IDX: YELO). He also has worked with global startups from YCombinator, Antler, and more raising over $30M in 2 years from an early stage.
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00:00 Our guest of the day — Felix Lee from ADPList
00:52 Welcoming Felix to the show!
01:17 What was Felix's master plan behind the growth of his startups?
03:02 How did Felix manage to lead Design Departments and what was his journey as a leader?
Lauren B Duxbury – UX Designer at Microsoft, Prev. Honeywell – Whiteboard.fm #031
Season 4 · Episode 1
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 • Duration 22:26
In this interview, we speak to Lauren B Duxbury. Lauren is a UX Designer at Microsoft and has previously worked with Honeywell on their Forge Design System.
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