Design by 3

After a 2 month break, we are back! We are not just back, we are arguing that everyone is a designer! If you are told that you gotta have a design degree or proper design education to become a designer, you can find some good tips on why we think otherwise. Maybe you would be able to find better ways to become a better designer and perhaps slap 'em back with "I AM A DESIGNER" with some solid arguments! Resources: Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ #design #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #uxcareers #uxdesigner #designduo #designduovlog

In this video, we are sharing our journey of how we got ourselves into careers in product design and product management. If you are feeling doubtful and lost about a career change into Design or Product Management after establishing yourself in your current career, this video is for you! If you are wondering if you have the right qualifications to land a design job, you must watch this video! Harsha had been a software engineer for many years before he decided to make the switch and Ganji is designing while being a Product Owner by profession! Each journey is unique and that is why we decided to talk about it openly with you. Resources: Some YouTube channels that we have been following to learn design: AJ&Smart: https://www.youtube.com/c/AJSmart/featured NNgroup: https://www.youtube.com/c/NNgroup/featured Some books that we recommend for anyone who wants to learn design: SPRINT by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman Creative Confidence by Tom & David Kelley An online course that we recommend for anyone who wants to learn design: Product Design: The Delft Design Approach - https://www.edx.org/course/product-design-the-delft-design-approach Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ #design #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #uxcareers #uxdesigner #designduo #designduovlog

Psst! Have you been a victim of the IKEA effect? In this episode, we explain how to use the IKEA effect to design better. Most importantly we will tell you when to avoid the IKEA effect when you design! Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ #design #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #uxcareers #uxdesigner #designduo #designduovlog

Ever wondered why your work always fits the deadline at the last moment? In this episode, we talk about Parkinson's Law which says "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". Cyril Northcote Parkinson first wrote about it in 1955 and if you understand how this law works, you can change how you work and have better outcomes. Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ #design #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #uxcareers #uxdesigner #designduo #designduovlog

You're asking how to brainstorm without having thousands of unproductive discussions and meetings? If you need to have a productive brainstorming session with your team, you need to do these things: Go for quantity over quality. Treat any idea as a good idea. Do it together but individually. When brainstorming, let's try to maintain a diverging mindset focusing on creating options. When we brainstorm in a team, we judge ourselves and filter out our ideas in our heads until we come up with the best idea we can think of. This is a myth and you will NOT generate great ideas by doing so. One simple exercise to practice going for quantity over quality is to timebox the idea generation session to a couple of minutes and set a goal for the number of ideas that each individual should generate. When generating ideas, dare to go wild! If you are a facilitator, set the stage for it. Announce openly that everyone can go wild in this brainstorming session with the ideas. Treat all the ideas as good ideas but do not appreciate or turn down any of the ideas that are generated. Criticizing can be done in a later step when we are converging our options down. However, most of the brainstorming sessions end up being unproductive due to noise and power. That is why we encourage the brainstorming to be done individually, anonymously, and silently even if everyone is gathered in the same room. If the CEO is a part of your brainstormer, if her idea was exposed, everyone will like the idea just because she is the CEO! If someone looks at the other's idea on paper and says "What a cool idea!", the rest of the team will feel reluctant to go against it as it is already perceived as a good idea by one of the participants. Try these tips and methods in your next brainstormer and let us know how it went! Happy Brainstorming! Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ #design #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #uxcareers #uxdesigner #designduo #designduovlog

Still struggling to find the formula that clicks for your team to do great design? Do you think that you are a great designer and you deserve to be in a greater team? Why not make your team a great team instead? In this episode, we give you 3 tips to design like a champion team player. Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/ #design #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #uxcareers #uxdesigner #designduo #designduovlog

Tired of decisions dragging for ages? Stuck with your design as a design decision is not being made fast? In this episode, we will tell you about a simple framework that you can adapt in your work to make design decision making faster and easier. Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/ #design #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #uxcareers #uxdesigner #designduo #designduovlog

As the world of design is evolving, the speed of designing is playing a crucial role. Most designers are now practising design in iterations and value the short and fast feedback loops over aiming for perfection. In this episode, we give you 3 simple tips for you to speed up your design process. Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/ #design #speedup #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #uxcareers #uxdesigner #designduo #designduovlog

We the designers know that Collaborative Design can be challenging!

As we got bored of talking to each other, we invited the Master Facilitator and Author Douglas Ferguson to our show! In this episode, he enlightens us with Magical Meetings and tips on being good a facilitator. Douglas Ferguson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasferguson Voltage Control: https://voltagecontrol.com/ Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Control-The-Room/ Magical Meetings: https://www.amazon.com/Non-Obvious-Guide-Magical-Meetings-Guides/dp/1646870263/ Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/

In this episode, we talk about a much-hyped, trendy

14 episodes in 100 days!

In this episode, we ramble on the evolution of Design Sprints

Are designers born or made? In this episode, we decided to tell you our own story! (Probably we will bore you to death! If you survive, you will never listen to us again). 01:32 Jake Knapp convinced me to be a designer 09:35 Why I was fighting to be a spec writer 13:04 I was, really, really, really good at maths 17:06 Product of the week: Walling 22:26 Ken Robinson and Rebel in no-chaos is a terrorist 26:21 Is Youtube reliable to learn? 27:49 Book Review: Leadership and Self-Deception 34:27 Make people great again, and Harsha's love for solving problem 36:58 What's Ganji's end game Products and services: Walling: https://walling.app/ Ideo Designkit: https://www.designkit.org/ Books: Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40510378-leadership-and-self-deception Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/

In this episode, we ramble on how designers can fit into Agile Sprints? We think David Kelley is more creative than you. Also, we are so kind to give you some career advice. 01:34 How does the Product Designer role fit into a Scrum Team? 06:30 When should design happen in Scrum? 07:00 Dual and Tri track Agile 11:23 Product of the Episode: Canva 15:37 Speed first, Aesthetics second? 19:22 Google is not afraid to fail 21:40 Design is experimenting 23:42 Book review: Creative Confidence by David Kelley and Tom Kelley 29:50 Organizational Culture and the Role of Design 31:44 Feature teams vs Product teams Products and services: Canva https://www.canva.com/ Books: Creative Confidence: https://www.creativeconfidence.com/book/ Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/

Have you ever heard of AI Design Sprint™

What is harder,

Did Slack and great Steward Butterfield admit defeat in front of Microsoft Teams?

This episode gets heated up with a rough battle between UX and UI Design. It is extremely controversial and contagious! Wash your ears for 20 seconds after listening to this episode. 00:30 Personas are broken, just use JTBD (https://uxdesign.cc/heres-why-you-should-stop-using-personas-63c09a844e67) 07:00 Designing for accessibility is not that hard 20:30 UX Design is UI Design bruh! 31:47 Everything about Smart Facemasks (https://www.donutrobotics.com/c-mask) 36:50 Product of the Week (https://www.onwatch.app/) 39:59 Jeff Gothelf Forever Employable - Book Review (https://jeffgothelf.com/foreveremployable/) 47:55 Have Design Managers forgotten that they are designers too Products and services: OnWatch: https://www.onwatch.app/ Books: Forever Employable: https://jeffgothelf.com/foreveremployable/ Everything else: Designing for Web Accessibility: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tips/designing/ -- Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/

How do we design features that are rarely used? Is there a difference between a Product Designer and a UX Designer? What the hell is the "API-First approach" in developing products? In this episode, we are trying our best to find answers! Do you think we succeeded? 00:10 Understanding the API-First Approach to Building Products: (https://swagger.io/resources/articles/adopting-an-api-first-approach/) 07:44 Designing for Truth Validation: Case of Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/help/1952307158131536) 17:57 Who will win in a fistfight, UX Designer, or Product Designer? 31:27 Design inspired by Just In Case minimalism rule 42:24 Book review: The Obstacle is the Way 47:43 Messenger and Whatsapp Integration 53:08 Mmhmm app is the way Products and services: mmhmm: https://www.mmhmm.app/about Books: The Obstacle is the Way: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1781251495/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_4dddFbQXA0QR1 Design by 3 Hosts Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/

Psst, Wanna learn design without breaking the bank? The blabbermouth Ganji finally lets the cat out of the bag. Meanwhile, despite a few hiccups in performance, always pick Mural over Miro ANYDAY!!! P.S. In this episode, we talk about design. 00:10 Product of the Week 11:36 Battle of the week: Miro vs Mural (https://miro.com | https://mural.co) 14:40 Stop selling 'What', sell the 'Why'! (https://simonsinek.com/product/start-with-why/) 19:19 Why should you listen to this podcast? 21:08 We are Apple fanboys! 23:45 How designers avoid habituation 34:45 Bye-bye developers, Honeycode is here! (https://www.honeycode.aws | https://tilda.cc) 40:15 Learn design without hurting your bank account 49:04 Summer vacation plans 59:00 We might end the podcast with this episode Products and services: Readaway: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/readaway/id1434754905 Facebook mentorship: https://www.facebook.com/help/380533659173752?helpref=popular_topics LinkedIn found to be Snooping on your clipboards: https://gizmodo.com/linkedin-and-reddit-are-the-latest-apps-found-to-be-sno-1844268155 Honeycode: https://www.honeycode.aws Tilda Publishing: https://tilda.cc Online courses: Product Design: The Delft Design Approach: https://www.edx.org/course/product-design-the-delft-design-approach Books: Start with Why: https://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/1591846447 Creative Confidence: https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Confidence-Unleashing-Potential-Within/dp/038534936X Made to Stick: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1400064287/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_QYxaFb9CX45FF Vision in Design: https://www.amazon.com/dp/9063692056/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_3WxaFbYDEBKD3 YouTube channels: AJ&Smart: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeB_OpLspKJGiKv1CYkWFFw The Futur: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-b3c7kxa5vU-bnmaROgvog Product School San Francisco: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6hlQ0x6kPbAGjYkoz53cvA

In the sea of data, what is the role of gut feeling in making decisions? Is Apple really innovating or just following the leads of Google? What has DesignOps got to do with organizational culture? In this episode, we ramble on many thought-provoking questions and controversial topics that will surely bore you to death. 00:33 Reflections on Apple WWDC 2020 12:16 Jason Fried's hey.com 18:26 Why you should base your decisions on gut feeling 25:52 How to learn design without hurting your bank account 28:40 Biomimicry: Design inspirations from nature 32:00 Skeuomorphism and Neumorphism 34:50 Confession on winning an OpenIDEO Challenge 40:05 Design Ops and Spotify's culture 46:16 Airbnb's inclusive design 52:08 Taking design for granted Apple WWDC 2020 Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4An0ndagZsQ New email app in town: https://hey.com/ A basic online course on Industrial Design: https://www.edx.org/course/product-design-the-delft-design-approach Biomimicry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomimetics Japanese bullet train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMtXqTmfta0 Material design: https://material.io/design/ Neumorphism: https://dribbble.com/tags/neumorphism OpenIDEO New Life Challenge: https://challenges.openideo.com/challenge/new-life/top-ideas Life at Spotify: https://www.instagram.com/spotifyjobs/ Airbnb's stance against discrimination: https://www.airbnb.com/against-discrimination Happy Birthday song by Kevin Lax (Creative Commons Attribution) --- Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ganjilive/TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@ganjiliveTwitter:https://twitter.com/ganji_09Medium: https://medium.com/@gayanjith Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harshadewaTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@harshadewalkTwitter: https://twitter.com/harshadewaMedium: https://medium.com/@harshadewaYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/c/HarshadewaAriyasinghe Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sirstinkysocks/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sirstinkysocksTwitter: https://twitter.com/yasiththebaMedium: https://medium.com/@YasithYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnezQGxnUrxbVCwNYKJEVXg/

A big shout out to IDEO! We respect you! Black Lives Matter! In this episode, we go from bats to hips to Henrik Kniberg's MVP. We also give you a sneak peek at how companies run remote user testing during the pandemic. 00:27 NDI Camera wins the best product of the week 06:35 Hats off to IDEO - BLM! 13:27 'Tiktoking' is a word 15:25 How to do remote user testing right 21:50 Henrik Kniberg's abused MVP 29:09 Swedish Midsummer and Post Pandemic Life 34:00 Why Bats don't die from Corona Virus? 35:48 Hips don't lie, Bats don't die! 38:30 Outro NDI Camera: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ndi-hx-camera/id1477266080 Mobbin: https://mobbin.design/ Figma: https://www.figma.com/ Mural: https://www.mural.co/ Bats don't die: https://theconversation.com/why-bats-dont-get-sick-from-the-viruses-they-carry-but-humans-can-137151 Hips don't lie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUT5rEU6pqM --- Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ganjilive/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@ganjilive Twitter:https://twitter.com/ganji_09 Medium: https://medium.com/@gayanjith Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harshadewa TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@harshadewalk Twitter: https://twitter.com/harshadewa Medium: https://medium.com/@harshadewa Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/HarshadewaAriyasinghe Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sirstinkysocks/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sirstinkysocks Twitter: https://twitter.com/yasiththeba Medium: https://medium.com/@Yasith Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnezQGxnUrxbVCwNYKJEVXg/

Ryan Holiday vs Jake Knapp? In this episode, we are at war! While battling it out, we found some time to brain dump about pair design, getting feedback, and most importantly, cooking. --- 00:25 Pair Design changes everything 06:35 Ryan Holiday is Passionate 16:18 Jake Knapp is an Introvert 21:03 How Music Design evolved 30:35 Don't watch News 33:30 Black Music Matters 37:28 Ganji's Cooking, Figma and Mural 47:04 Feedback and Radical Candor 52:08 Product of the Week --- Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ganjilive/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@ganjilive Twitter:https://twitter.com/ganji_09 Medium: https://medium.com/@gayanjith Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harshadewa TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@harshadewalk Twitter: https://twitter.com/harshadewa Medium: https://medium.com/@harshadewa Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/HarshadewaAriyasinghe Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sirstinkysocks/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sirstinkysocks Twitter: https://twitter.com/yasiththeba Medium: https://medium.com/@Yasith Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnezQGxnUrxbVCwNYKJEVXg/

In this maiden voyage, the Db3 team rambles on everything from Design Sprints, Product Design, TikTok, Nasa, Project Management vs Business Analysis, Beatboxing, Mural, and Figma. --- 00:30 WFH is the best thing ever! 05:18 Massive Design Sprint Meetups! 07:00 Design Sprints and Design Processes 17:05 Did NASA learn from failure? 24:37 Failing at interviews 26:27 How to increase reach in Medium 30:55 The most boring podcast ever 32:10 Let us know that you survived this for half an hour (https://www.instagram.com/sirstinkysocks/) 40:01 Post-Microsoft acquisition LinkedIn, COVID-19 era Instagram and Youtube 43:02 3 reasons why no one should be a PM (https://youtu.be/6QgaXr_VHJo) 46:28 How to close a podcast (send your suggestions: https://www.instagram.com/harshadewa) 49:14 Ganji beatboxing and Harsha's hit songs (Ganji: www.tiktok.com/@ganjilive Harsha: https://youtu.be/Smy-RET03vM and https://youtu.be/zqgX2BLp7-Y) 52:11 Podcast genre and the best noise for dishwashing 55:48 Figma beta and Mural beta --- Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ganjilive/ TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@ganjilive Twitter:https://twitter.com/ganji_09 Medium: https://medium.com/@gayanjith Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harshadewa TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@harshadewalk Twitter: https://twitter.com/harshadewa Medium: https://medium.com/@harshadewa Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/HarshadewaAriyasinghe Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sirstinkysocks/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sirstinkysocks Twitter: https://twitter.com/yasiththeba Medium: https://medium.com/@Yasith Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnezQGxnUrxbVCwNYKJEVXg/