Unmute - The Podcast from DesignUp

Aug 30 2021 10 ep. 36 mins

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DesignUp celebrates design in technology and design for technology. It is about helping design practitioners and students gain actionable insights. It is also focused on making design accessible to non-designers. DesignUp welcomes people who do not have a design degree or specialization. Data Scientists, Product Managers, Journalists, Anthropologists, CXOs - they are all a part of this platform.

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3x3 Three Questions to Three Design Leaders - The Design Career

Aug 30 2021 22 mins

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 o

The (not-so) Secret Life of Designers - Drupad Mistry

Aug 19 2021 33 mins

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 Mus

5x5 Five Questions to Five Designers - The Pandemic

Apr 20 2021 35 mins

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

Make your body learn: A conversation with Simon Roberts

Mar 09 2021 51 mins

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

Hack the problem: A conversation with Yonatan Levy

Feb 02 2021 44 mins

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 o

Find Simplicity: A conversation with Giles Colborne

Jan 04 2021 44 mins

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 ur

Stories made with data: A conversation with Gurman Bhatia

Dec 07 2020 42 mins

Data visualizations and creating a narrative for easy consumption are pretty complex skills. If you add the expertise of journalism to this mix you get compelling stories made with data and code. Gurman Bhatia is a data and graphic journalist with experience and competence in this art form. Visit GurmanBhatia.com to know more about her work. Listen to this insightful episode made f

We, The Designers

Oct 18 2020 29 mins

Last year DesignUp initiated a study on the State of Design in Technology in India and South East Asia. This report was published and unveiled as DesignUp Deconstruct in November 2019 at the DesignUp Conference. In this episode, we talk to the research team that made this report possible. We have also initiated the survey for the next report that covers the lives of designers durin

The (not-so) Secret Life of Designers - Anurag Arora

Sep 18 2020 32 mins

From a May 2020 DesignUp Circuit Webinar we invite designers to talk about their passion point or secret projects that is not necessarily their day job. In this episode, we speak to Anurag Arora, Product Designer at Uber, about his culinary pursuits. His story covers growing up in Punjab, engineering, design education, vacation in Italy, and Le Cordon Bleu, London.

DesignUp Dispatch One

Aug 16 2020 24 mins

This three-part extension of our newsletter covers Jared Spool's account of Hawaii Missile Alert from UX Thailand and how that connects to Jim Carrey's new book. Jay Dutta, Founder, and Curator at DesignUp, explains how the design festival and conference are dealing with 2020. Finally an extract from DesignUp Festival 2019 - the inspiring talk about designing solutions to the world