Nodes of Design

Florian van Schreven is the co-founder and COO of Uizard Technologies, a startup developing AI-powered tools to revolutionize the way people build software. He has previously spoken in conferences such as UX Copenhagen, Confront Sweden, and Web Summit Portugal. Uizard, the company he co-founded, has been recognized globally and featured in international media such as WIRED, Forbes, The Huffington Post, and The Next Web. In this episode, Florian had shared great insights on computer vision and how designers can use the power of the computer vision with ML and deep learning in designing beautiful experiences, and we spoke on how to ensure a consistent experience while planning for computer vision and how did they craft Uizard product towards accessibility. In the latter part, we discussed the scope of computer vision with ML in shaping the future of Design.   Takeaways- What is computer vision, and how designers can use computer vision? What is the future scope of computer vision, the Journey of building Uizard?  Link to Uizard - https://app.uizard.io Tales from Designers around the world - https://medium.com/design-warp 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 and many more. 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.

Janel Torkington is a professional content strategist, two-time content team manager, digital marketing dabbler, and occasional poet/ukulele-plucker. She is presently working at Facebook as a content designer. She specializes in mobile ad platforms, the ad creative experience, designing and building ecosystems of tools to help advertisers create ads that look and perform great everywhere they show up. In this episode, Janel had shared great insights on using words as design tools. She helped us describe what a content strategy is and how designers can use the power of words in designing beautiful experiences. We later discussed how do you craft words to accessibility. In the end, we discussed why crafting UI text should be an integral part of the design process? What is the method she follows, along with a few practical UX writing tips. Takeaways - What is UX writing, and how different it is from content strategy. How to craft words to accessibility? UX writing tips. Janel recommends books:  The Culture Map by Erin Meyer So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson The First 15 Lives of Harry August by Claire North 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 and many more. 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.

Aleksandra is a Digital Strategist for the Art World. She is the Co-founder of Electric Artefacts, an online venue for new media art. The platform serves as an exhibition space, destination for learning and consultancy on new media art. She is also the Director of Partnerships at.ART, the digital address for the arts community. She holds a Master’s degree in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art and has experience working across galleries, auction houses and art fairs. By combining her art business knowledge with prior work in consulting and software sales, she specializes in introducing new applications to the art industry.  In this episode, Aleksandra has shared her wonderful insights on New Media Art and explained how this art movement had started along with important characteristics of new media art that separate it from old media. We then discussed how technology's rapid evolution shapes this Industry and the best lens used to test and maintain New Media Art. In the latter part, we discussed ethics, collaboration and presentation in new media art.   Takeaways- What is new media art? How different is new media from old media? The different medium of collaboration and presentation in New media art  Aleksandra recommends books: Digital Art - Christiane Paul Art of the Electronic Age - Frank Popper Future Art Ecosystems, Vol 1. Art x Advanced Technologies - Serpentine Galleries .art Domains (25% discount in the URL) - https://get.art/en?refdotart=innovate  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 and many more. 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.

Derek Mei is currently lead design at 3Play Media in Boston and is also a part-time graduate student pursuing my Master's in Human Factors in Information Design at Bentley University. He runs an agency called Umeita Design in his spare time, which specializes in user experience consulting in my spare time.  He is also extremely passionate about bridging the gap between design boot camps and helping designers land their first UI/UX job, which he attempts to address through this side project Handoff.  In this episode, Derek had shared great insights on Design Education and shared his leanings of attending a Bootcamp and a design school. He compares the contact between them in terms of cost, timing and opportunities. We discussed the various procedures of applying for design school and the best ways to choose a particular school that helps you find your passion and provide you with great opportunities.  Takeaways- Difference between design school and boot camp, How to choose the right design school, and various procedures for applying to design schools.  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 and many more. 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.  

Christopher Riggs is a Creative Director with deep experience in leading creative teams, with an experience of over twelve years in crafting environments, strategies, narratives, learning tools, digital interactions, campaigns, and brand expressions for some world’s most iconic brands, which include Starbucks, Hyatt, Jawbone, eBay, Facebook, Google, Activision/Blizzard, Kaiser Permanente, Ancestry.com, and Nike. He is currently working as Creative Director as a part of the Collaboration Technology Group at Cisco to innovate on the future of work. Other notable experience includes work with Celery Design Collaborative, Michael Osborne Design, IDEO, and teaching positions with the Academy of Art University and California College of the Arts. In this episode, Chris had shared great insights on Evocative design. We discussed the evocative design and how to incite emotions to users, and a few ways to measure the product's success rate or service's emotions. Later, we discussed learnings from the COVID-19 situation; with a lot of work happening virtually, the design has a critical role in stimulating imagination, emotion, and connection.  Takeaways- What is the evocative design? Ways to measure emotions from the product/service, Leveraging design thinking to build great emotional experience. Christopher Riggs recommends books: Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami Barbarian Days, A Surfing Life, by William Finnegan Leonardo Di Vinci, by Walter Isaacson 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 and many more. 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.

Tom Ross and Michael Janda are creative entrepreneurs and mentors who had helped thousands of creatives across the world. Tom Ross is the founder and CEO at Design Cuts, the highest-rated online marketplace for designers, and he is also the host of two famous design podcasts - The Honest Designers Show and Biz Buds. Michael Janda is an agency veteran, mentor and best-selling author of Burn Your Portfolio and The Psychology of Graphic Design Pricing. In this episode, Tom and Mike had shared super impactful insights on the fusion of design and marketing and how can designers leverage the power of marketing to build impressive experiences. We discussed how business people and designers in the same organisation build a great bond and understand each other for better growth. In the later part, we discussed how independent designers could utilise the power of both design and marketing to create a successful journey. Takeaways -  How design and marketing can be fused for better growth. How to build a positive relationship with business people as designers, How Design Thinking plays a role in integrating design & marketing.  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 and many more.  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 and many more. 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.

Paige Bennett is a user research design leader currently working as Senior User Research Manager at Affirm. She had previously worked in companies like Dropbox, Medium and Weight watchers leading and collaborating user research strategy across all products.  In this episode, Paige had shared great insights on UX Research and how UX research contributes to the product and company? We discussed various processes and frameworks on conducting research and how UX research happens at large-scale organizations considering millions of user needs. We concluded the show by Paige recommending us what she sees in the hiring portfolios of UX researchers as a Hiring Manager. Takeaways: What is UX Research? What are various frameworks of UX research? DO's and Don'ts in UX research portfolio.  Transcript of the episode and storyline  - http://bit.ly/34IJhtg Paige Bennett recommends books:  The Field Study Handbook by Jan Chipchase Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott Dare to Lead by Brene Brown 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 and many more. 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.

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  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 and many more.  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.

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: Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction by Jenny Preece, Yvonne Rogers, Helen Sharp Understanding Your Users: A Practical Guide to User Research Methods by Kathy Baxter, Catherine Courage, Kelly Caine Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change by Amy Bucher  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.

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 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.