Design by 3

Ganji, Harshadewa, and sirStinkySocks

Db3 is a Podcast by three lifelong friends Ganji, Harshadewa, and sirStinkySocks on a mission to embarrass each other. Yes, they also talk through a secret magical door to the beautiful world of design. When they stop embarrassing each other topics such as Product Design, UX Design, Business Analysis, and Product Management are taken up.

  1. How we did our career change into Design

    02/24/2021

    How we did our career change into Design

    In this video, we are sharing our journey of how we got ourselves into careers in product design and product management. If you are feeling doubtful and lost about a career change into Design or Product Management after establishing yourself in your current career, this video is for you! If you are wondering if you have the right qualifications to land a design job, you must watch this video! Harsha had been a software engineer for many years before he decided to make the switch and Ganji is designing while being a Product Owner by profession! Each journey is unique and that is why we decided to talk about it openly with you. Resources:  Some YouTube channels that we have been following to learn design:  AJ&Smart: https://www.youtube.com/c/AJSmart/featured NNgroup: https://www.youtube.com/c/NNgroup/featured Some books that we recommend for anyone who wants to learn design:  SPRINT by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky  The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman  Creative Confidence by Tom & David Kelley   An online course that we recommend for anyone who wants to learn design: Product Design: The Delft Design Approach - https://www.edx.org/course/product-design-the-delft-design-approach Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ #design #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #uxcareers #uxdesigner #designduo #designduovlog

    12 min
  2. How to Brainstorm without having unproductive discussions

    01/15/2021

    How to Brainstorm without having unproductive discussions

    You're asking how to brainstorm without having thousands of unproductive discussions and meetings?  If you need to have a productive brainstorming session with your team, you need to do these things:  Go for quantity over quality.  Treat any idea as a good idea.  Do it together but individually. When brainstorming, let's try to maintain a diverging mindset focusing on creating options. When we brainstorm in a team, we judge ourselves and filter out our ideas in our heads until we come up with the best idea we can think of. This is a myth and you will NOT generate great ideas by doing so. One simple exercise to practice going for quantity over quality is to timebox the idea generation session to a couple of minutes and set a goal for the number of ideas that each individual should generate. When generating ideas, dare to go wild! If you are a facilitator, set the stage for it. Announce openly that everyone can go wild in this brainstorming session with the ideas. Treat all the ideas as good ideas but do not appreciate or turn down any of the ideas that are generated. Criticizing can be done in a later step when we are converging our options down. However, most of the brainstorming sessions end up being unproductive due to noise and power. That is why we encourage the brainstorming to be done individually, anonymously, and silently even if everyone is gathered in the same room. If the CEO is a part of your brainstormer, if her idea was exposed, everyone will like the idea just because she is the CEO! If someone looks at the other's idea on paper and says "What a cool idea!", the rest of the team will feel reluctant to go against it as it is already perceived as a good idea by one of the participants. Try these tips and methods in your next brainstormer and let us know how it went! Happy Brainstorming! Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ #design #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #uxcareers #uxdesigner #designduo #designduovlog

    9 min

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Db3 is a Podcast by three lifelong friends Ganji, Harshadewa, and sirStinkySocks on a mission to embarrass each other. Yes, they also talk through a secret magical door to the beautiful world of design. When they stop embarrassing each other topics such as Product Design, UX Design, Business Analysis, and Product Management are taken up.