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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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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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• Website: https://www.oishee.io/



• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Oinkee



• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oishee-sen-898622b7/



• Behance: https://www.behance.net/oisheesen





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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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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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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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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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