Nodes of Design

Patricia Reiners has had a fantastic arc to her designing for the future career from working with clients like Adobe, Google, IKEA, Vodafone. Patricia has always sought to design things that are “useful, usable, and magical. Along with the exceptional touch of Storytelling. She also runs a podcast, Future of UX, where she interviews design leaders on Designing for the future.  In today's episode, I talked with Patricia about what is it to be designing for the future. We also get Patricia’s take on what are the vivid applications of AR/VR. Along with breaking down her way of approach for creating solutions for these mixed reality environments.  Takeaways: How is it to be like building for the future. What opportunities and challenges are there when designing for AR/VR.How to follow a process along with a different set of tool to proceed.  Books Suggested by Patricia Reiners  1. Creative Confidence - Tom Kelley & David Kelley  2. Design of Everyday things  - Don Norman  3. Don't make me think - Steve Krug  If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Hey, everyone, I am super happy to announce the episode on "Hiring and Portfolios", a value bomb episode with Elize Todd is finally here.  Elize became a UX director at a digital marketing agency within one year and a co-founder of a UX design agency within two years. Now, she creates content that helps emerging designers learn how to expedite their careers. Her past clients include Adobe, USA Today Network, Papyrus, and Robert Half. She is also an educator at the general assembly and adobe.  Elize had shared her experience in reviewing thousands of design portfolios and shared her vision on how a perfect collection should look. We also discussed the practical arrangement of content and the do's and don'ts in a portfolio, along with different ways to show your personality through your resume or portfolio. If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Luis Ouriach - who is an expert in communicating ideas through visual design, words, and debate. Luis is a lead product designer at upgrade pack, and he is a co-host of Noise podcast and manages a design publication - 8Px on medium.  Luis and I had a great conversation on design systems- tokens, values, elements, and so on. Luis shared his practical experience in building and scaling design systems and how one can start from scratch. The whole talk is filled with so much value and insights for anyone who wants to understand design systems or build one for their teams.  Reading list:  Ellio Dahl’s Intro to the 8pt Grid system. A brilliant introduction to the atomic mindset, starting from our fundamental 8pt units – https://builttoadapt.io/intro-to-the-8-point-grid-system-d2573cde8632 IBM’s Carbon design system, best holistic design system I’ve seen. And the design kits are available to download! – https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/ UXPin’s Adele is a compendium of design systems, and you can scroll through it all day https://adele.uxpin.com/ Luis part blog series on migrating our designs from Sketch to Figma. It’s long, but it gives a great insight into how I tackled it all - https://link.medium.com/kPzVX3vDh5 Gridlover.net/try – brilliant typography hierarchy tool Atomic Design by Brad Frost, forms the basis of our thinking in this discipline – https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/atomic-web-design/ If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Hey, everyone hopes you guys are safe and doing well. On this episode of Nodes of Design, we hosted Eric Lauer, a creative sales coach and owner of Genmonster. They help many creative minds understand sales strategy and how to grow innovatively.  We are glad enough that Eric shared those similar teaching with us in this episode, which includes how to build a relationship with clients, manage and grow your network, and convert your leads. We also discussed the onboarding process and multiple sales terms like CAC and how to plan if you are freelancing as the market never stays constant. In the end, we have some outstanding reads that will help you understand the business side of design and help you know how to grow your sales.  If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Hi, everyone hopes you guys are safe and secured. We have Miriam Isaac on today's episode - She is a UX designer and Co-Founder at Hux. She is known for spreading design knowledge across various platforms. She has been Interviewed by @instagram for the @design launch. And Top 18 UX Instagram accounted for the following in 2019.  Miriam and I had a great conversation on Interaction Design while Miriam shared her UX process breaking in stage by stage. We had a great chat filled with a lot of laughers in between, some learning so much value and insights thru out the episode. On a concluding note, she shared her favourite reads on UX & Behavioural Sciences.  If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

In these typical situations, we all are opting for remote work. To help us clarify and teach us how we all can be competent remote practitioners, we have Alex Dovhyi - A senior product designer who has been a remote worker for over seven years.   Alex is a designer, author, and mentor. His award-winning work has enabled him to create for Fortune 500 companies by being remote working at his home office. 370k+ people watched his courses and voted with 5-star ratings by over 7,000 students.  He shared a lot of insight into remote work, like - What exactly is remote work and how different is it from freelance. Various types of remote work, the essence and tool needed to be a remote designer. He gave young creatives a few tips on choosing their first remote job and the procedure for applying for remote jobs. We also talked about some great reads that will make you prepare for taking up remote work.  If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

MINIMALISM IS THE ART OF KNOWING HOW MUCH IS JUST ENOUGH. DIGITAL MINIMALISM APPLIES THIS IDEA TO OUR PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY. IT'S THE KEY TO LIVING A FOCUSED LIFE IN AN INCREASINGLY NOISY WORLD - CAL NEWPORT As being designers, we always stuck with using different digital medium to engage or design or interact. Still, during these we most of the time forget ourselves and over consume to much content which leads to being restless. In this episode of Nodes of design, we have Blesson Varghese a brand identity designer who created some exceptional brand identity designs that he has a cult of 45K followers on Instagram for his fantastic work. He is a follower and evangelist of digital minimalism, In this episode, he shared a lot of details and explained what exactly is minimalism and its child the digital minimalism breaking down the patterns we exploded into a conversation giving the best tips and suggestions on how to control your digital usage and how one can prevent themselves from being a digital zombie. If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

It is crucial as designers that you focus on your creative tools and empathise on your communication skills. As a designer, if you aren't an effective communicator, you are just a pixel pusher. Being an excellent communicator, you can easily collaborate with teams, conveying your design decisions to business and pitching ideas. To help you be a better communicator and a better listener, we have famous Latin America VoiceOver, Radio & Podcast, Host - Romina Hakim with us on this episode where she shared so much value and pointers on how to be effective communicators. We had a great conversation on killing your social anxiety and being open about one's thoughts with real-life experiences; We filled the whole episode with so much value. Thank you for listening to this episode of Nodes of Design. If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

To make your social media presence more fruitful and achieve a better audience, you need to understand what makes social media special. Why do people use it? And why there is so much fuss about it? To help you answer all these questions on today's episode, we have Dot lung {Mother of social media dragons}. She is a global social strategist running her social media consultancy to create an optimum digital experience for brands, personal identities, and campaigns across the world empowering creatives to achieve their dreams. Throughout the episode, she just shared a lot of value on how important is social media and how one can effectively use it to get better clients building real audiences and growing together. She also reveals her secret sauce - The DRAGON formula helping creatives to make the best use of it to develop their social media presence. If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.

Branding is absolutely critical to a business because of the overall impact it makes on your company. The most important reason branding is important to a business is how a company gets recognition and becomes known to the consumers. The logo is the most important element of branding, especially where this factor is concerned, as it is essentially the company's face.  Daniel Patterson is a founder and creative director of Highly Media - A brand strategy & creative design consultancy in Whales, the UK's creative hub. Dan and I had a great conversation and spoke on a lot of valuable things about what is branding, how branding is essential to any organisation and how young creatives can get into the field of branding and logo design. He also shed some light on how much you should charge for a logo or building a brand presence. We also discussed various takes cause of which a company goes for a rebranding project of their entire ecosystem.  Thank you for listening to this episode of Nodes of Design. To get more insights, you can follow Daniel on Instagram @brandingdan to upload some excellent content on how to enhance your brand presence and other topics related to brand strategy and identity.  If this episode helped you understand and learn something new, please share and be a part of the knowledge-sharing community #Spreadknowledge. This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.