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Pranava Tandra – Product Designer at Intercom – Whiteboard.fm #040
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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• Website: https://pranavatandra.medium.com/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/pranavatandra
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pranavatandra/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tandra.jpg/
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Oishee Sen – Product Designer at Bumble – Whiteboard.fm #039
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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• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Oinkee
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oishee-sen-898622b7/
• Behance: https://www.behance.net/oisheesen
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Luca Orio – Design Systems Manager at Netflix – Whiteboard.fm #038
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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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the Day — Luca Orio from Netflix
01:03 Switching from Music to Design
06:12 Advice for Beginners Building a Design System
10:04 Incorporating & Maintaining Design System
13:12 Being Energetic & in the State of Flow as a Designer
17:05 Resources/Learnings for Upcoming Designers
22:50 Conclusion
22:43 Outro
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• Website: http://lucaorio.com/
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/lucaorio_
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucaorio_/
• LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/lucaorio/
• Medium: http://medium.com/@lucaorio_
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Tarun Mangukiya – Founder & CEO at Iconscout – Whiteboard.fm #037
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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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the day — Tarun Mangukiya from Iconscout
00:54 Going the Startup route instead of a Job
03:23 Experience & Learnings from Building to Being Acquired
05:14 Being Energetic & in State-of-Flow
07:32 Being Mentally Strong
09:08 Top 3 Misconceptions about the Entrepreneurship World
11:53 Pieces of Advice for Upcoming Entrepreneurs
14:09 Connect with Tarun!
14:22 Ending Notes by Ansh
14:40 "How to Get Rich" by Naval — Tarun's Perspective
16:27 Conclusion
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• Twitter: https://twitter.com/TarunMangukiya/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarunmangukiya/
• Medium: https://medium.com/@TarunMangukiya/
• GitHub: https://github.com/tarunmangukiya/
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Gaurav Baheti – Founder & CEO at Procol – Whiteboard.fm #036
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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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the day — Gaurav Baheti from Procol
01:16 Three Mindset Shifts causing the transition from Job to a Startup
03:09 Learning and Implementing things faster
03:41 Journey of Raising Capital & What happens after Raising one?
05:19 Differentiating between Life and Work while Running a Startup
06:33 Convincing Big Clients to Trust your Product
09:48 Being in a state of flow & Managing Emotions
14:45 How books have impacted Gaurav's life
20:18 Connect with Gaurav!
21:21 Conclusion
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🔑 Resources/Books mentioned by Gaurav:
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie — to improve interpersonal skills
• The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey — to learn how to build trust
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg — to develop habits
• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt — for building strategy
• Blue Ocean Strategy by Renée Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim — for building strategy
• Metaskill by Marty Neumeier — for a learning framework
• Read books on Human Psychology
• Learn from Mentors and Experienced people
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• Website: http://gbaheti.me
• Instagram: http://instagram.com/gbaheti
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/gbaheti
• LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/gbaheti
• Medium: http://medium.com/@gbaheti
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Thalita Gaddini Biancalana – Product Designer at Adidas Runtastic – Whiteboard.fm #035
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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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the day — Thalita from Adidas Runtastic!
01:07 Delivering the right experience to millions of users
05:34 Managing Time — Work, Interests & Personal Life
11:51 Resilience Training
12:55 Designing an application with lots of data
15:56 Top 3 Resources to Learn Design
21:56 Ways to connect with Thalita
22:30 Conclusion
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🔑 Resources mentioned by Thalita:
• Basics of UX Design — Theory & Foundation from Open Courses
• Put things to practice — Create projects for friends, people, volunteer
• Connecting with people in the industry
• Mentorship from platforms like ADPList
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• Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xNjEzNzUwYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw
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