Suj Premachandran - Bringing the Power of UX Design to Children

Jul 8, 2024

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Suj Premachandran shares how Digital Influx brings UX to children, how they integrate Eastern educational philosophy, and the challenge of changing archaic education systems.

Highlights include:

How are you helping children to become creative thinkers and designers?
Are some of Digital Influx’s practices too ‘foreign’ for UK educators?
How are you bringing design to people of colour through Digital Influx?
What inspiration have you taken from non-Western education systems?
Why do students create projects related to UN Sustainable Development Goals?

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Who is Suj Premachandran?

Suj is the CEO of Digital Influx, an international, industry-led, and interactive EdTech platform that helps children, teens and adults to develop UX design skills and to think differently about problems, large and small.

Suj is also the Vice President of the recently established Digital Influx Foundation; a US based non-profit that aims to make design education accessible to all children, regardless of their socio-economic background.

Before founding Digital Influx, Suj worked in design recruitment as a senior talent partner for Revolut, one of the world’s first global super apps. And also as a creative talent consultant for product and UX people at Salt in London.

Suj is an advocate for design & UX education at Tech London Advocates, a network of more than 15,000 tech leaders, entrepreneurs and experts across the globe. He is also a member of the Design Leadership Forum.

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Find Suj here:

Website: https://digitalinflux.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suj-premachandran-b630b444/
X: https://twitter.com/CEOinflux

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