An interview series where we talk to designers about how they got started in design, their internship and job experiences. Hosted by Mayank Khandelwal.. Subscribe on YouTube for videos + clips!
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! ⭐ Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips https://www.youtube.com/whiteboardfm?sub_confirmation=1 _____
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! ⭐ Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips https://www.youtube.com/whiteboardfm?sub_confirmation=1 _____
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! ⭐ Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips https://www.youtube.com/whiteboardfm?sub_confirmation=1 _____
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. ⭐ Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips https://www.youtube.com/whiteboardfm?sub_confirmation=1 _____
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. ⭐ Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips https://www.youtube.com/whiteboardfm?sub_confirmation=1 _____
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). ⭐ Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips https://www.youtube.com/whiteboardfm?sub_confirmation=1 _____
Our guest for today is Debashish Paul, Principal at Twitter Design. He has previously worked at companies like Facebook, Yahoo, SAP and has 60+ patents registered under his name! In this one we're going to get to know about his process and decisions he's made to be able to grab opportunities and work with great companies and be such a great designer. ⭐ Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips https://www.youtube.com/whiteboardfm?sub_confirmation=1 _____
Our guest for today is Kalyani Tupkary, she's a Hybrid Experience Designer. Currently, she's working as a Product Designer at Twitch, the world's leading live streaming platform for gamers. Kalyani has done her Bachelor's in Design from NID, Ahmedabad followed by a Masters in Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design. The insights you're going to get from this episode would be phenomenal! ⭐ Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips https://www.youtube.com/whiteboardfm?sub_confirmation=1 _____
In this interview, we speak to Felix Lee. Felix is the Co-founder and CEO of ADPList and currently leading product strategy and community growth there. Previously, he's cofounded Packdat (accquired) and led design at Gotrade (YC S19), and Passpod (IDX: YELO). He also has worked with global startups from YCombinator, Antler, and more raising over $30M in 2 years from an early stage. ⭐ Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips https://www.youtube.com/whiteboardfm?sub_confirmation=1 _____
In this interview, we speak to Lauren B Duxbury. Lauren is a UX Designer at Microsoft and has previously worked with Honeywell on their Forge Design System. ⭐ Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips https://www.youtube.com/whiteboardfm?sub_confirmation=1 _____
In this episode, we speak to Rahul Bhosale. He is a UI/UX and Interaction Designer. He has previously worked at Housing, India and is currently working at Disney+ Hotstar.
In this episode, we speak to Janardhan Massar. He is an architecture undergrad from Manipal University and has previously worked as a UX Designer at Lollypop Design Studio. He is currently working as a Product Designer at Unacademy.
In this episode, we speak to Cydelle Zuzarte and Meenakshi Kamat. Cydelle is a UX Researcher at Swiggy and has previously worked at Hike Messenger. Meenakshi is a Freelance UX Researcher and has previously worked at Swiggy.
In this episode, we speak to Abheyraj Singh. He is a Senior Product Designer at Omio, Berlin. He has worked at Housing India and has also co-founded the Lisn App.
In this episode, we speak to Siddhita Upare and Harsh Vijay. Siddhita is currently working as the Co-Founder and COO at Brucira. She has previously worked as an Illustrator at Housing, a Senior Visualizer at TING and as a UI Designer at Turtlemint. Harsh is currently working as the Co-Founder and CEO at Brucira. He has previously worked at Housing as a UI/UX Designer. #designfounder #brucira
In this episode, we speak to Gyan Lakhwani. He is an IT engineer with a Masters in Interaction Design from the IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay. He is currently working at Microsoft as a UX Designer and has previously interned at Zomato. #microsoft #zomato
In this episode, we speak to Zain Khoja, an Information Science undergrad from Cornell University. He has previously worked at GitHub as a Design Systems intern and at Instagram as a Product Design Intern. #github #instagram
In this episode, we speak to Aboli Joshi. She is a Product Designer and Manager working in the healthcare industry. She is currently working at Cura Technologies and has graduated from NID Ahmedabad in Industrial and Product Design #healthcare #covid19
In this episode, we speak to Niteesh Yadav. He is a Product and Type Designer and is currently researching on typography for Augmented reality and future interfaces. He has graduated from NIFT Delhi, University of Reading in Typeface Design and is currently working as a Product Designer at Headout. #typography #AR ❓⏰ Questions: 0:00 Introduction 01:52 How did you get started in design? 06:56 What got you interested in type design? 08:53 Journey in going from NIFT Delhi to the University of Reading, UK 12:09 Day to day life as a MA student at the University of Reading 15:36 Motivation for writing a thesis on Typography for AR 17:42 Challenges when working on Typography for AR 25:19 Process of creating a thesis on Typography for AR 29:00 ARone, typography for AR interfaces 30:57 When will AR become mainstream? 32:40 Designing typography for Augmented Reality vs Virtual Reality 34:00 About Ideal Reality – http://idealreality.org/ 37:06 New Typography Course by Niteesh Yadav! 42:00 How to learn about Typography 46:23 Top 3 learnings from your design journey Ideal Reality: http://idealreality.org/ Niteesh's website: https://niteeshyadav.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niteeshyadav/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niteesh22 This podcast is part of the #10kdesigners Network. Home: https://10kdesigners.com Browse bite-sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best-designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98
In this episode, we speak to Ivy Mukherjee. She is a Product Design Lead and has previously worked at GRAB Singapore, Shopify HQ Canada, OLA Cabs, and Grofers. She is also the Co-Creator of Indians Who Design, a living directory of thriving Indians in the design industry. #designlead #indianswhodesign ❓⏰ Questions: 0:00 Introduction 01:43 How did you get started in design? 12:04 What was your experience in getting a Design scholarship to Jerusalem? 19:37 How to prepare when applying for an international Design job? What are the differences in the hiring process in India vs Abroad? 28:58 How did you decide the teams do you want to work in at Ola and Shopify? 30:38 Working on the Drivers-Partners projects at Ola 32:44 Working in the Insights and Growth teams at Shopify 35:53 Working in the Customer Support Experiences Team at GRAB 38:29 What it means to have a growth mindset 45:24 What to look for in every opportunity or experience – People, Product and Professional growth 51:59 When do you realize it's time to level up and move on? 55:27 Future plans for Indians Who Design – https://indianswhodesign.in/ 58:44 Is the Design industry getting saturated and competitive? Indians Who Design: https://indianswhodesign.in/ Ivy's website: https://ivymukherjee.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ivy.mukherjee/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JellyIvy This podcast is part of the #10kdesigners Network. Home: https://10kdesigners.com Browse bite-sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best-designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98
In this episode, we speak to Darshan Gajara. He is a Product Designer, Product Maker and has remote working experience of more than 3 years. He is currently working as a Senior Product Designer at GraphCMS in Berlin and is the Founder of Product Disrupt. #founder #producthunt
In this episode, we speak to Sisi Yu. She is currently working at Unqork as a UX Designer and has previously worked at Adobe as a Machine Intelligence Experience Design intern. #adobe #machinelearning
In this episode, we speak to Nikhil Yadav. He is currently working at Gojek as a Product Designer. He has previously interned at UrbanClap (now Urban Company) and has graduated from IIT Roorkee in Production and Industrial engineering. #gojek #uiuxdesign
In this episode, we speak to Courtney Tam. She has previously interned at Microsoft and Shopify. She is studying Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and is currently interning at Facebook as a Product Designer. #shopify #microsoft
In this episode, we speak to Sneha Sankar. She is currently working as the Head of Visual Design at Graphy. She has previously worked at Unacademy as the Creative Lead and has graduated from NID Ahmedabad in Graphic Design and Visual Communication. #graphicdesign #visualcommunication
In this episode, we speak to Gaana Srinivas. She is currently working as the Founding Designer at Rune. She has previously worked at Amazon and has graduated from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. #product #interactiondesign
In this episode, we speak to Siddhant Puri. He is currently working as a Product Manager at Bounce. He is an undergrad from UC Berkeley in Electrical engineering and Computer Science and has previously worked at UrbanClap. #product #bounce
In this episode, we speak to Antonio Song. He is currently working as a Product Designer at LinkedIn. He is an undergrad from Carnegie Mellon University in Human Computer Interaction and has previously interned at LinkedIn and Paypal. He has also been a part of Iris Rover, an independent Lunar Rover project funded by NASA. #design #linkedin
In this episode, we speak to Sidharth. He is currently working as the Head of Design and Product at Headout. He was previously a part of the founding team at Instamojo. He has given more than 40 talks, 2 TEDx talks and is a Design YouTuber with his channel called King Sidharth. #design #product
In this first episode of Whiteboard.fm Season 2, we speak to Jeremy Stokes Jr. Jeremy is an IT Engineering undergrad and has completed his Masters in Experience Design. He has worked at Google Seattle as a User Experience Design Intern with the Google Duo team.
In this episode, we talk to Shreya Shankar, a Mechanical engineering and Visual Arts undergrad from Duke University. She is currently working as a Product Designer at Uber, San Francisco and has previously interned at Fractal Ink Design Studio, Mumbai. Shreya's website: http://www.shreyashankar.me/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/_shreyashankar LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shreya-shankar-2019/ Uber Design: https://www.uber.com/in/en/careers/design/ This podcast is part of the 10kdesigners Network. Home: https://10kdesigners.com Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/whiteboardfm Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/whiteboard.fm Browse bite sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98 Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips!
In this episode, we talk to Devansh Gandhi, an Interaction Design undergrad from the University of Washington. He is a former product design intern at Facebook Menlo Park, has previously interned at Unacademy and is also an incoming product design intern at Facebook Seattle. Devansh's website: https://www.devanshgandhi.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/madebydevansh LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devansh-gandhi-041563122/ Facebook Design: https://facebook.design/ This podcast is part of the 10kdesigners Network. Home: https://10kdesigners.com Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/whiteboardfm Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/whiteboard.fm Browse bite sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98 Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips!
In this episode, we talk to Komal Maheshwari, a third-year architecture undergrad from IIT Roorkee and a former product design intern at Cure.Fit Medium: https://medium.com/@k.maheshwari1997 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ko_mleh LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/komal-maheshwari-840a87152/ Cure.Fit: https://www.cure.fit/ This podcast is part of the 10kdesigners Network. Home: https://10kdesigners.com Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/whiteboardfm Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/whiteboard.fm Browse bite sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98 Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips!
In this episode, we talk to Sanjana Galgalikar, product designer at Pulse Labs, Seattle, Washington. She has graduated from the University of Washington and has also interned at Frog Design and Nordstrom. Sanjana's website: http://www.sanjanagalgalikar.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sanjanasg LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjanagalgalikar/ Pulse Labs: https://www.pulselabs.ai/ This podcast is part of the 10kdesigners Network. Home: https://10kdesigners.com Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/whiteboardfm Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/whiteboard.fm Browse bite sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98 Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips!
In this episode, we talk to Chethan KVS, product designer at Unacademy, Bangalore. He is also a Design YouTuber with his channel called Design Pilot. Chethan's website: https://www.chethankvs.design/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KvsChethan LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chethan-kvs-048583106/ Design Pilot: https://www.youtube.com/designpilot Unacademy: https://unacademy.com/ This podcast is part of the 10kdesigners Network. Home: https://10kdesigners.com Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/whiteboardfm Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/whiteboard.fm Browse bite sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98 Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips!
In this episode, we talk to Duaa Zaheer, incoming product design intern at Facebook and former product design intern at Microsoft, Vancouver. Duaa is also the founder of the design community Designers of Colour and is an undergraduate in Interaction Design from Sherdian College, Ontario, Canada. Duaa's website: https://www.duaa.design/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/duaazaheers/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/duaa-zaheer/ Microsoft Garage: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/ This podcast is part of the 10kdesigners Network. Home: https://10kdesigners.com Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/whiteboardfm Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/whiteboard.fm Browse bite sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98 Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips!
In this episode, we talk to Viba Mohan, product designer at Obvious, Bangalore. Viba is also the founder of the design community Cmd+J and is a undergraduate in Interaction Design from PES University, Bangalore. Viba's website: https://vibamohan.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vibamohan_ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viba-mohan-91b077139/ Obvious: https://obvious.in Obvious' hiring playbook: https://playbook.obvious.in/hiring/hiring-philosophy This podcast is part of the 10kdesigners Network. Home: https://10kdesigners.com Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/whiteboardfm Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/whiteboard.fm Browse bite sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98 Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips!
In this episode, we speak to Aditya Shrivastava, product design intern at Hotstar. Aditya graduated in UX design from Symbiosis University, Pune. Aditya on Behance: https://www.behance.net/adishri_ Aditya on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adishri_/ Aditya on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adishri1302/ This podcast is part of the 10kdesigners Network. Home: https://10kdesigners.com Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/whiteboardfm Follow on Instagram: https://instagram.com/whiteboard.fm Browse bite sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98 Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips!
In this episode, we speak to Arnob Mukherjee, product designer, maker and developer. Arnob is currently the design system manager at Ola and has previously worked with Qubole and Bro4u. He is the founder of Culrs App, and graduated in IT engineering from Christ University, Bangalore. Arnob's website: iamarnob.com Twitter: twitter.com/iamarnob6543 Culrs App: https://www.culrs.com/#/ A small growth thread for culrs side project. https://twitter.com/iamarnob6543/status/1191216323826634753 A case study on relaunching the side project after 2 years, it talks about how I was scaling the project in the first few months. https://blog.productdisrupt.com/growing-my-side-project-month-1-db9aeffc8719 This were the screenshot and process for the first time when we launched curls website back in 2016 https://iamarnob.com/bro4u/culrs.html Redesigning bro4u first full fledged UI/UX Project https://iamarnob.com/bro4u/bro4u.html A full end to end process case study on building a design system* https://medium.com/qubole-design/birth-of-our-new-designs-system-part1-e6a836040148 https://medium.com/qubole-design/birth-of-our-new-design-system-part2-89929f63bca3 https://medium.com/qubole-design/birth-of-our-new-design-system-part-3-4686009c62aa This podcast is part of the 10kdesigners Network Home: https://10kdesigners.com Browse bite sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98 Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm on YouTube to stay updated with more interviews and clips!
In this first debut episode of Whiteboard.fm, we speak to Ansh Mehra, a product designer, filmmaker and podcast host. Ansh is a CS undergrad from VIT Vellore and is currently interning as a product designer at Swiggy in Bangalore. He is also the host of the Take it Easy podcast. Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4M9aEfjFX3DdRNcFqDEqzA Ansh's website: https://anshmehra.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anshmehraaa/ Behance: https://behance.net/anshmehra Take it Easy podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7giRxq7zzZcC7RU4x6FrYt?si=DwKD7X4aR4amjzswc-MLbQ Twitter: https://twitter.com/IamMehra This podcast is part of the 10kdesigners Network. Home: https://10kdesigners.com Browse bite sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98 Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm on YouTube to stay updated with more interviews and clips!
© 2020-2025 Ivy Podcast Discovery LLC
