Nodes of Design

Riya Thosar is a passionate product design leader with experience building, growing and nurturing exceptional multi-disciplinary design teams. With over 20 years of global industry experience, she designed consumer and enterprise products for a wide range of industries and global audiences. Currently, she is the Director of Product Design at SAP and previously worked at LinkedIn, Netapp, Cognizant and Human factors international, where she had directed many large-scale enterprise product design programs.

With her passion for mentoring and design evangelism, she routinely volunteers to coach high-school students on a career in design and conduct workshops on human-centred and collaborative problem solving using Design Thinking methodologies.

In this episode, Riya had shared great insights on UX for ML-based products and services and shared with us the process and techniques to understand user emotion and user expectation in these scenarios.  We also discussed how we could leverage machine learning to provide a great user experience and constantly scale the product.  

Takeaways: What is ML-based user experience design, Process involved in crafting ML-based experiences, Different ways of scaling the ML-based products and services. 

Episode transcripts and Storylines - http://bit.ly/34ZHFvx

Riya Thosar recommends books:

100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weinschenk 

Hooked by Nir Eyal

Communication Arts 

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Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Crystal Sundaramoorthy is a User researcher, interaction designer, and former engineer with over 15 years of experience working on Global Banking and Markets solutions for Global Transaction Services and the CashPro platform. She is presently the VP of UX research at Bank of America. She is also an inventor with thirteen patents in her name. 

In this episode, Crystal had shared great insights on Collaborative Design and how Collaboration makes us better designers. We later discussed how to introduce collaborative design and run it effectively across various teams, along with various ways to develop a collaborative mindset on an individual level.  We spoke on a few best practices for a collaborative model that embraces an inclusive and perfectly fits all and How to Avoid Designing by Committee.

Takeaways: What is a collaborative design? How to nurture a collaborative mindset. How to Avoid Designing by Committee.

Tales from Designers around the world - medium.com/design-warp 

Crystal Sundaramoorthy recommends books:

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Janaki is a thought-leader in design-led innovation in the enterprise. She had delivered award-winning products and services that help businesses transform the way they work.  She is currently working as Head of Design, Commercial Bank at JPMorgan Chase & Co and Co-Instructor of the Customer Engagement Design at Stanford University.  

She is a proven leader in building, coaching and inspiring high-performance design teams, leveraging design-thinking, customer empathy, and co-innovation. She is an inventor on over 20 patents, and also Janaki was named as Women of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2016.  

She is an active writer and speaker on Innovation and design. She is the co-author of Gamification at Work–Designing Engaging Business Software. She was a speaker on various occasions like TEDx, IxDA and many more. She has guest-lectured at Stanford d.school, Carnegie Mellon University and San Jose State University. 

In this episode, Janaki had shared wonderful insights on Crafting a culture of innovation and how to bootstrap and foster those cultures as a design leader. She shared a few insights on gamification in the workplace to nurture better innovative and productive minds, along with a few outstanding examples and case scenarios.  In the end, we discussed how design leaders could measure success or failure for various modules that we implement, be it innovative models or gamification or anything new that we set up for the betterment of the company and our peers?

Takeaways: How to bootstrap culture off innovation, How does gamification help nurture better culture, Different ways to measure the process implementations. 

Tales from Designers around the world - medium.com/design-warp

Janaki Kumar's Website - janakikumar.com 

Janaki Kumar recommends books: 

The Design of Everyday Things Don Norman // Also available as a free online course at udacity.com

Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All -Tom and David Kelly

Business Model Generation A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers Osterwalder & Pigneur

Addition: If you enjoy thinking about how the human mind works, check out Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman and Blink by Malcom Gladwell

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Phil Balagtas is a design leader with over two decades of experience in design presently working as Experience Design Director at McKinsey Design and also the founder of The Design Futures Initiative, which is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that produces events and workshops to evangelize the various approaches which involve using Design to speculate about alternate futures. Phil has a wonderful experience working in various devices and platforms within non-profit, retail, advertising, and enterprise software organizations.

In this episode,  Phil had shared great insights on speculative design and how to use speculative design as a vehicle or method to think about alternative futures, and why designers should speculate. We also discussed how speculative design could integrate with Design Thinking to form future stories or fiction. In the latter part, we discussed various frameworks and methodologies to implement speculative design and its limitations.  

Takeaways: What is speculative design? How to use speculative design to form alternative realities, methodologies, and limitations involved in speculative design. 

Tales from Designers around the world - https://medium.com/design-warp

The Design Futures Initiative - www.futures.design

www.ztopia.show

Phil Balagtas recommend books 

Exposing the Magic of Design - Jon Kolko

Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming -  Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby 

Discursive Design: Critical, Speculative, and Alternative Things - Bruce M. Tharp and Stephanie M. Tharp

Reframe: Shift the Way You Work, Innovate, and Think - Mona Patel  

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Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Camila Nogueira is a Freelance illustrator and graphic designer from Proto. She studied Communication Design at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto. She worked as a freelancer developing several illustrations and graphic design projects -especially known for her cityscapes. She also made album covers for famous music bands like Dxydream & Jalowo. 

Camila describes herself as "Using pastel tones and playing with delicate light, shadow, and elegant lines, who seek graceful solutions at a multidisciplinary level." 

In this episode, Camila shares her insights on creative illustration and how to approach a unique storytelling perspective using your illustrations; along with these, she also shared her process of showing the heritage of towns and places and how she captures that in a unique perspective, In the latter part we discussed on building a unique style as an artist and mature your style with different ways of practice. 

Takeaways: Storytelling via illustrations. How to mature your style as an artist and build a unique perspective.  

Tales from Designers around the world - https://medium.com/design-warp 

Camila Nogueira Work - https://camilaillustration.pt

Camila Nogueira  recommends books.

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles - Steven Pressfield

Figure drawing for all it's worth -Andrew Loomis

Drawing the head & hands - Andrew Loomis

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Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Jonathan Javier is currently the CEO/Founder of Wonsulting, whose mission is to “turn underdogs into winners” and leads Professional Development for Cisco’s Early Career Network. He's also worked in Strategy and Operations team at Snap, Google, and Cisco. He works on many initiatives, advising, and words of wisdom on LinkedIn and through speaking engagements. He has led 160+ workshops in 8 different countries, including the Mena ICT Forum in Jordan, Resume/Personal Branding at Cisco, LinkedIn Strategy & Operations Offsite, Great Place To Work, Talks at Google, and more. He's amassed 75,500+ followers on LinkedIn and 5+ million impressions monthly on his content.

In this episode of Nodes of Design, Jonathan had shared his wonderful journey in building a great personal brand and explained to us why is it so important for designers to build a personal brand with a great set of examples and do and don't that one must follow while building their personal brand, He shared valuable insights on networking on LinkedIn and how to get great opportunities and build a vast network using LinkedIn as a platform.    

Takeaways - What is Personal Branding? How to build a personal brand? Using LinkedIn as a platform to gain connections and opportunities. 

Tales from Designers around the world - https://medium.com/design-warp

Wonsulting Page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/wonsulting

Jonathan Javier recommends books.

David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell 

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell 

You Are Not So Smart - David McRaney 

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Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Amy Wang is a designer and director with over a decade of experience working on user experience design, digital product design, brand identity, and the design strategy for video, web, and mobile products. Amy is currently working as a director at Amy Wang Design and previously worked in companies like - Easelly, Netflix, MPC, Apple, Focus features, Ferro Concrete, and many more.

In this episode of Nodes of Design, Amy had shared great insights on Visual Design and how to serve the needs of both the user and the client; along with that, we also discussed the effective way to settle on choices of visual preferences and how to overcome a difficulty in communicating ideas, In the latter part we spoke on various ways in which creatives can improve their visual skills like the choice of colour, theme, perspectives, etc. 

Takeaways - What is the visual design? How to overcome the difficulty of communicating ideas and Improving visual skills. 

Tales from Designers around the world - https://medium.com/design-warp

Amy Wang recommends books.

In Pursuit of Elegance - Matthew E. May

UX Strategy - Jaime Levy

Start With Why - Simon Sinek

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Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Jonathan Even-Zohar is a trained historian with a broad view of history and heritage education and how civil society and political actors abuse the past for promoting both democratic and non-democratic values. 

He was also the former Executive Director of EUROCLIO – European Association of History Educators, where he has been able to work with thousands of history educators across the continent and beyond to initiate, lead and deliver high-quality collaboration projects, funded by the European Union, as well as through private foundations. He is also a keynote speaker at various occasions like TedX and many more. 

In this episode of Nodes of Design, Jonathan shared great insights into the role of emotions and empathy in understanding the past and how designers from the present generation can take inspiration from the past and build a great present and future. He also shared the techniques for narrating a story that connects all the dots of past, present, and future. In the later part, we discussed how designers could take inspiration from nature around them. 

Takeaways - How emotion plays a role in understanding the past, Narrating a story, and getting inspired by nature around us. 

Tales from Designers around the world - https://medium.com/design-warp

Jonathan Even-Zohar recommends books.

 - The Human Web - John, and William McNeill

 - Maps of Time - David Christian

 - Responsible History - Antoon de Bates

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Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Parag Trivedi is a design leader with over 20 years of Experience; presently leading design for productivity applications on mobile in Microsoft; before joining Microsoft, he was heading the Design Team at GE Healthcare- Jack welch technology centre, Bangalore, and before that, he was heading  Design Team at Honeywell (HTS India).  Parag had lead teams through the full life cycle of various software and hardware products and won many international design awards and design patents. 

Parag and his team focus on solving some of the toughest problems in productivity, education, healthcare, agriculture, future workforce, offices, and enterprises.

In this episode of Nodes of Design, Parag shared wonderful insights on Design to Drive Outcome and how to uncover what you don't know that You already know. Parag had explained the role of decisions and tactical thinking in design and explained to us real-world examples and various tools to make these decisions. We also discussed how effective team collaboration could be achieved to gain better outcomes. On a concluding note, Parag had shared few portfolio tips and what he looks for in a UX designer candidate as a hiring manager. 

Takeaways - How to design to drive outcomes, Roles of tactical thinking and decision-making in a process and various decision-making tools, Achieving collaborations to drive better outcomes. 

Tales from Designers around the world - https://medium.com/design-warp

Books recommended by Parag Trivedi.

Books, Letterforms, and Design in Asia - Sugiura Kohei

Universal Principles of Design - William Lidwell

How to Be More Interesting - Edward De Bono

Business Model Generation- Alexander Osterwalder

Thank you for listening to this episode of Nodes of Design. We hope you enjoy the Nodes of Design Podcast on your favourite podcast platforms- Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts.

If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and rate us and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge.  This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all, as knowledge shouldn't hide behind paywalls.

Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Phillip J. Clayton is a hybrid consultant; his focus is centred around Art & Design and Business & Marketing. He started in the fine arts and found his purpose as a designer and creative consultant with 15+ years of experience working in the creative industry, Advertising & Marketing. He is inspired by people, passionate about teamwork, and practices a holistic approach to delivering excellent creative solutions that drive business results. 

He is a founding partner of noTheName: PJC, a hybrid brand-focused business solutions agency. He is also a writer and a member of the PAC Global Leadership Awards International Judging Commission.

In this episode of Design, Phillip shared insights on Brand Design and its importance and how young creative entrepreneurs enter into brand design. He also spoke about the various Attributes of Brand Design?  And what are the steps involved in designing a brand? In the later part, we spoke about the various parameters to use to measure the success of failure of the brand that you designed. 

Takeaways - What is brand design? What are the various attributes of brand design?  Measuring the success and failure of brand design. 

Tales from Designers around the world - https://medium.com/design-warp

Books recommended by Phillip J. Clayton.

Thank you for listening to this episode of Nodes of Design. We hope you enjoy the Nodes of Design Podcast on your favourite podcast platforms- Apple Podcast, Spotify, Google Podcasts.

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Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.