Unmute - The Podcast from DesignUp Shiva Viswanathan

In our career as a designer we are expected to grow - from a practitioner of design to a collaborator who can seamlessly work with business and technology teams. From a collaborator to a mentor who will guide young designers. From a mentor to a manager who can guide a team to success and growth. If everything goes well we can become a strategist who can contribute to the business or a design leader who has the proverbial seat at the table. This growth demands skills. It also demands smarter a...

Drupad Mistry is a musician, composer and a designer. He works as a User Experience Design Specialist at McKinsey.In this episode he guides us through Sarod - his musical instrument, collaborations, inspirations, travel and of course design. There are a few things that he mentions that we should probably know about:The SarodUstad Amjad Ali KhanThe French documentary on Flamenco Music and ManganiyarsSarod Studio - A collaborative YouTube Channel

We at DesignUp have been working hard on our Deconstruct Report on the pandemic and how it has affected our design-in-tech industry. This is a long drawn out exercise with loads of data collected, interviews, stories, data visualisations and unending deliberation over how to present things to you. We should announce the launch of this report soon. In the meantime I thought of doing a sampler, like a teaser or a curtain raiser.We at India are reeling from the second wave that is mightier than ...

Simon Roberts is a business anthropologist. He is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field of anthropology in business and the use of ethnography in corporate research, design and innovation. Early in his career Simon established Ideas Bazaar, the UK's first dedicated ethnographic research company and subsequently led a human-centred R&D team at Intel Corporation. He has been actively involved in the EPIC community since its inception in 2005, he chaired the conference in 2012 and 2...

Yonatan Levy has been building tech products since 2005, some of which are used by millions of people. As a product manager, UX expert, entrepreneur and executive he has led teams in industries ranging from e-commerce and fintech to social platforms and cybersecurity. He has gathered profound insights on problem-solving and creative thinking, which has led him to become a trainer of executives and professional teams. Yonatan has written a #1 Amazon Bestseller titled The Other Ideas: Art, Digi...

Giles Colborne is the founder of CX Partners and the author of Simple and Usable. Giles works on digital strategy and organisational design for major brands, worldwide. Currently, he is devising initiatives for senior management in large corporates to measure and manage the customer-centricity of their organisations. In this episode, we talk about his journey to CX Partners, the urge to write a book, simplicity as a concept, user cohorts, and strategies for designers to design simpler product...