Anamorphic by @kingsidharth kingsidharth

In this episode of Anamorphic podcast, we have a guest with us — Madhuri Maram discussing the latest news items in the startup & design industry. We specifically spoke about news items on 

- A post on UX Design publication on Medium titled "Case Study Factory"

- GPT-3, AI & Future of Design



#design #ui #ux #ai #artificialintelligence #casestudy #designeducation #education #gpt3

What happens when you get three women leaders on a panel to talk about #design, leadership, #culture, hiring, team-building, and better representation? You get an hour and a half of awesome conversation! 

In the 4th edition of industry roundtable, we'll listen to — Geetaa Bhatt (Head of Design @ Clevertap), Aastha Gaur (UX Lead @Google), and Karthi (Founder @ Xperian) about their experience of 10+ years, building teams, the leaders that pushed them to become leaders, and how they are investing & growing the next generation of leaders. 



Karthi Subbaraman, Founder @ Xperian 

Karthi's career spans over 20 years. She started her career as a Software engineer and later became a designer HP. She'd go on to work with many big names in the industry and become a visiting faculty at NID and MIT. 

Her recent venture is Xperia, where she teaches Product Design & Product Management to the next generation of designers and product managers. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/skarthi/ 

https://twitter.com/karthi2209  



Geetaa Bhatt, Head of Design @ Clevertap 

Geeta got her masters in design from NID and has been in the design industry for over 15 years. In the past, she has worked with brands like Human Factors International, TechMahindra, Network18 and now is a Head of Design at Clevertap. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/geetaa/ 

https://twitter.com/geetaabhatt 



Aastha Gaur, UX Lead @ Google 

Aastha has been in the design industry for over 13 years. She did her bachelors in design from NIFT, and Masters in Fine Arts & Graphic Design from California Institute of Arts. 

In the past, she has worked with brands like Distinct, Yahoo!, and now is a Senior Manager UX at Google. Aastha also has a TikTok account you should check out. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aasthagaur/ 

https://twitter.com/astadapasta  



Topics we covered: 


Why did you choose design as a career?  
What & who pushed you to become a leader?  
Picking & growing leaders  
Women Leaders  
Lack of women in the industry  
Parental Tax  
How do you hire in your team?  
Message for the audience  



Want to see someone as a guest on the next roundtable? Have a topic in mind we should cover? Let me know on twitter. Do check out the past episodes of the industry roundtable. #leadership #hiring #culture #startupculture #designleaders #womenleaders #womenintech #leadership #hiring #designhiring #parentaltax

Continuing our #whataftercollege interview series with industry professionals, we spoke to another designer & popular YouTuber with over 40k subs — @designpilot aka Chethan KVS 🥳  

Watch the full video on YouTube that includes project walk through — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXRmCPe8n6M

Chethan started learning Photoshop, After Effects, and other design software when he was a Chartered Accountant student! Later, his college picked him to lead the design team — while teaching them software and design skills — he created his YouTube Channel which now has over 40k subscribers (at the time of this interview): https://youtube.com/designpilot  

We cover his journey, learnings, and insights along the way and how he got his #firstdesignjob, discovered @ABNUX and got into #Unacademy and more. What does the interview process at Unacademy looks like? How many people are there in their design team and what skills do they have? How do they collaborate to design products from start to finish. 

And much more! 

#designerinterview #designcareer #designyoutuber #youtuber #startups #adobe #adobephotoshop #photoshop #aftereffects #motiondesign #designteams #designcollaboration #abhinavchhikara #designpilot

In this episode of Anamorphic, we have an excerpt from an Instagram live with Punit Chawala. He's a UX Manager at Magic Bricks and runs a popular design channel with over 20k subs.



You can find Punit Chawla on 

Instagram: instagram.com/punitchawlaofficial/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/punitweb 

YouTube youtube.com/punitchawla



We got started by talking about his YouTube journey and why he joined Instagram so late? Then we went on to take audience questions like:



We also took live questions from the audience like: 

1. How do you know that you can actually make a career in UX or UI Design?

2. Uncertainty of lack of certification or internship in your design career 

3. Is a degree in design worth it? Cost-Value analysis 

4. Will it be hard to get a design job without a degree or certification? 

5. I keep getting lost while learning design... 

6. Designer salaries in India & undervaluing ourselves 

7. Why do designers hate Adobe XD and the case of Punit's #missingXDpackage 

8. How do you collaborate as designers & UX designers? 

9. Do designers or product managers need to know coding? What coding skills are required in these roles? 

Punit recently launched his new podcast — Design Uncut — go check it out: https://anchor.fm/punit-chawla4



#design #designcareer #uiuxdesigner

How does Google hire designers? What's the hiring & interview process like? How can one improve their chances of getting through? Does portfolio matter? is it necessary for a designer?

How do you convince business and stakeholders to focus on delivering real design value instead of focusing on short-term and aesthetics?

Hardik Pandya, a product designer at Google, answered these and many more questions on Instagram live.

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Hardik Pandya is a Designer at Google:

@hvpandya on twitter https://twitter.com/hvpandya

Instagram: https://instagram.com/hvpandya

In the third designers' roundtable, we bring you quality rants with Arjun Arunkumar (Swiggy), Hardik Pandya (Google), and Madhuri Maram (Xperian). What's something that happens everywhere with all designers but we don't talk about it enough? In this episode, we spoke about technical debt, feasibility, and bandwidth and how it affects the work of designers. 



How can designers build shared understanding and when, at times, you have to obsessed with pixel-perfection? From there, we go on to discussing how designers and design do not have the last say or veto on the final design, output, and user experience and how do we handle that. How is that different from a company that is plain bad at making quality products? And at last, we discuss all the times when the business, client, or non-designers prioritise aesthetics over usability and UX and the beautiful words they use while doing it. 



In this episode: Arjun Arunkumar is a UX designer at Swiggy. He is @averageintel on twitter and @jedijun on instagram Hardik Pandya is a Designer at Google. He is @hvpandya on twitter and instagram Madhuri Maram is co-founder of Xperian and is @iruhdam on Instagram and @iruhdam24 on twitter