Podcasts about motivate design

Mona Patel is the founder of Motivate Design, a UX research, design, and staffing agency that helps organizations understand what their customers want and design better solutions for them. She is also the founder and CEO of Gray Zones, a series of live social experiments designed to reframe thinking and create more empathy, awareness, and understanding to complex social issues and topics. In addition to her work as an entrepreneur, Mona is the author of the books, Reframe and The Thing About Swings. While Reframe shares Mona's wisdom on evoking the spark of creativity anytime, anywhere, The Thing About Swings is a picture book that inspires people of all ages to question, dream, and design a better world. Mona joins me today to discuss the role of design thinking in transforming your life. She describes the power of asking “what if” and defines what design thinking means today. She shares the steps for using design thinking to redesign your life and reveals the different “excuse personas” that hinder us from transformation. She also discusses why empathy needs to be a business case before organizations can fully embrace it and highlights how we can cultivate empathy within ourselves. “Design thinking is more like communication: once you understand the concept, you just do it and get better and better at it.” - Mona Patel This week on Girls in Tech: Mona's childhood, her internship at NASA, and the power of asking “what if” What design thinking means today How to use design thinking to transform your life Naming your excuse persona and identifying how you show up after things get harder Founding Motivate Design and UXHires and how being able to sell gave Mona the experience to start a company What's new in the world of UX Why people need to create and cultivate a portfolio if they want to get into UX Why soft skills matter What “gray zones” are and how the idea spun into Mona's social experiment of the same name How technology can play a role in addressing society's empathy and compassion problem Why empathy needs to have a compelling business case Why empathy is a charged word The difference between understanding someone and empathizing with them Bringing design thinking, UX, and technology into empathy and compassion The impact of research, sympathy, and storytelling as skills Connect with Mona Patel: Motivate Design Gray Zones UXHires Book: Reframe: Shift the Way You Work, Innovate, and Think by Mona Patel Book: The Thing About Swings by Mona Patel Motivate Design on LinkedIn Motivate Design on Instagram Motivate Design on Facebook Motivate Design on Twitter Mona Patel on LinkedIn Inspiring Girls in Tech...One Conversation at a Time Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of Girls in Tech. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | GooglePlay | Stitcher | Spotify | iHeartRadio Be sure to share your favorite episodes on social media to help us reach more listeners, like you. Join us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn. For more exclusive content and information, visit our website.

Deepali Vyas interviews one of her favorite, inspiring, dynamic and creative entrepreneurs in her network — Mona Patel, Founder and CEO of Motivate Design. With a degree in engineering psychology, Mona’s expertise sits at the intersection of human emotion and technology. She has assisted clients including Mercedes-Benz and GE in identifying the next ‘Big Thing’. She is also a best-selling author of the book: Reframe: Shift the Way You Work, Innovate, and Think. She has gone from junior design researcher to managing a multi-million dollar portfolio at Motivative Design. Let's learn how Mona Patel gets it done!Deepali also answers questions on job search and interview techniques, particularly sensitive topics such as interviewing while pregnant. We are building a community, empowering professionals everyday.

All-time favorite guest Mona Patel—Founder & CEO of Motivate Design—is back to chat with Jonathan in another AMAZING episode! This is a really fun episode that’s also PACKED with great advice. Some of the topics discussed in this episode: What matters to Mona in building a company? How does Mona deals with people problem at Motivate Design? The difference between a President and a CEO The importance of self awareness in a founder  New Island vs Old Island metaphor & managing big change in a company The importance of R&D & Thinking Time Jonathan’s _Temperature Checks _at AJ&Smart Loneliness in entrepreneurship & how to avoid it Relationship banks & Canvas Strategy Why you should do your research before asking someone for help And last but not least, HOW TO INTIMIDATE MEN!

The founder and CEO of NYC-based Motivate Design, Mona Patel, first came to our attention after appearing on another great podcast, Jonathan Courtney and Jake Knapp’s Product Breakfast Club.  She spoke about running and scaling an agency, which was interesting – but what really got us was her unique take on the Discovery process.  Her [...] Read more » The post Podcast: Breaking the Rules and Generating Insights with Mona Patel appeared first on Mind the Product.

Jonathan interviews Mona Patel, who really makes Jonathan look like a boring, lazy person in comparison. Mona is the founder of 3 companies: Motivate Design, UX Hires, and Insider Insight. Aaaand she’s the author of Reframe: Shift the Way You Work, Innovate, and Think. Jonathan who? Some of the topics covered: Mona’s story in a nutshell. Her work at NASA(!!) and Kodak.

Mona is the CEO of Motivate design, UX expert, professor, speaker and author. “I work to make technology approachable. At first, I got to think about keeping shuttles in space and medical equipment operating smoothly. It was groundbreaking and heavy, and I thrived. It gave me a distinct POV: there is no problem too big to solve for, and no design too small to make a big impact.” In 2009, Mona started Motivate Design, a UX/UI research and design agency. They are based in NYC and their clients Fortune 500 companies from all over the world. Our UX staffing agency UX Hires (2010) was born soon after to support a need Mona saw in the community. Motivate has been on the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing companies list three years in a row. Mona’s latest project is a new proprietary method of customer investigation, Insider Insights. It uses the best practices of investigators to get to the truth about what customer’s think about your company. We talk about this exciting new project in the podcast – it’s brilliant. Mona also does a million other things, so go to businessforunicorns.com/podcast to read her full bio.   In this podcast Michael and Mona discuss: Mona’s amazing book Reframe: Shift the Way you Work, Innovate and Think. Why business leaders are crummy at defining our actual problems. Mona’s 8 BS Excuse Personas. The power of “what if” questions. The importance of design in the customer’s experience. Common design pitfalls most companies make. The key signs that your company should consider doing market research. Mona’s advice on personal branding, speaking, and becoming an author.

In this Focus Forty episode, I speak with Mona Patel, the Founder and CEO of Motivate Design on getting customer feedback and hearing NO as YES. Who is Mona Patel? Mona Patel is a dynamic entrepreneur with 17 years experience convincing leaders at some of the world's biggest brands to understand, value and optimize their […]The post DYT 099 : Customer Feedback & Hearing YES when they Say NO | Mona Patel appeared first on .

As the passionate founder of Motivate Design – a user experience research, design and staffing firm – Mona works with large organizations to help them understand how users are using their brand, product or service. Overall, Mona and her team tackle a big question: How do you understand how people work and think, and then how does that apply to the design of products? Her team will heavily research, work intentionally across industries, apply different perspectives, and even shadow actual users, to find insights that can then help improve the experience a customer has with certain service or product. When she’s not leading her team of 25 at Motivate Design, which also happens to be an Inc. 5000 company, Mona is an instructor at Parsons The New School for Design. Her passion for encouraging others to think about design problems creatively has expanded to writing a book, Reframe: Shift The Way You Work, Innovate and Think; hosting workshops, launching design camps for kids and even a children’s design book. Mona also is a though leader on user-centered design and innovation, experience strategies, usability, lean startups and business management who writes for Fast Company and TIME Business. In episode 19 of I Want Her Job: The Podcast, Mona shares her technique for triggering design ideas, advice for those considering a startup life and her favorite resources for reading up and getting ahead. For detailed show notes and a detailed list of Mona's resources for learning about UX design go to www.iwantherjob.com 

Design thinking and creativity are like muscles: we all have them, but they are more useful when they are strengthened! In this bestselling book Reframe: Shift the Way You Work, Innovate, and Think, Mona Patel gives you the perfect exercises for your design workout, giving you the tools you need to unleash your inner designer. Mona is a regular contributor to Fast Company, Time Magazine, and Forbes, and she is the founder and CEO of Motivate Design. Mona is also an adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design. In this episode, she explains the ways design thinking informs her life and her work, and she shares some of the strategies she uses with friends, family, colleagues, and clients. In addition, you will learn: how to unleash your creativity through design thinking why everyone can be creative creative openers you can use with your teams questions that actually limit our creativity how to push people to create something better without making them feel bad the most important question for designing solutions which assumptions hold us back what it is like to be a woman of color leading a design company the power of a design-centered culture in the workplace If you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and review it on iTunes. For automatic delivery of new episodes, be sure to subscribe. Thanks for listening! Links to Topics Discussed   Four-C Model of Creativity by James Kaufman and Ronald Beghetto TEDx Talk by Mona Patel Ethnography Kodak Excuse Personas White Space Project Greenlight Human-centered Design Woman and Minority Owned Business Maslow Hierarchy of Needs Thank you to Clark Nowlin for his sound engineering and to Emmy-award-winning Creative Director Vanida Vae for creating the Curious Minds logo!

Earl Nightengale Click Below to Listen to Today's Show   Today's quote is part of Sir Richard Branson's Top 10 Quotes on ideas.   Thanks, Sir Richard for the inspirational quotes. Everything begins with an idea." – Earl Nightengale We had a guest speaker at our office the other night. Mona Patel, CEO Motivate Design -presented her concepts of Innovation through Design Thinking. You can follow Motivate Design on Twitter  @Motivate_Design or Mona at @MonaPatel We were led through 3 parts of an 8 part exercise to get us to start thinking out of the normal scenarios in which we work.  The Message: Unlock Your Creativity by Asking What If As Earl Nightengale says, "Everything begins with an idea." Sometimes those ideas can come about by asking yourself, "What If?" We went through an exercise trying to think about ways that we as a company can move forward, move fast more effectively. What ideas could we come up with in 3 minutes by asking ourselves What if? The important part was to not judge what we were saying or what our ideas were. What If we could do this and this would happen? What if we did this and then this and this team would be able to do that?   Each person went through this exercise in the three minutes time to get these ideas out. Once we wrote out our What If's in the 3 minutes, we had to stop.  We broke up into groups of 4-5 people then we each read one What If out loud to the others. Each person would read a What if, then the others were only allowed to say one of three things. Plus 1 - if they thought of the same thing. Plus Love - if they Really LOVED the idea and supported it. I'm Good, if they were out of ideas to share. This went on through the lists.  It is amazing what ideas were thought of that we all thought Plus Love.  These were ideas that we could then take further. The next exercises had us send our ideas through "Funnel Vision" and ask 3 questions: Did we LOVE the Idea - If yes, move to the next question. If no, the idea was out! Does the idea meet business needs?  If it won't help the business, then the idea was out. Does it show empathy for the end user. (That would be us! That was what the goal was to begin with.) All of the exercises allowed us to bring out IDEAS using these tools. What ideas have had that could help you, your business, your career, etc.? How do you go about creating ideas?  Think about how and what you can Ideate, Create, Innovate in your life. Everything begins with an idea! Thank you for listening to Goal Getting Quote of the Day! I appreciate you coming back and listening. Subscribe to our Goal Getting Podcast Monthly Quote Pack Special If you liked this quote or our others on Goal Getting Quote of the Day, we have a monthly collection of 20 AWESOME wallpaper-size images full of great quotes. For $4.99 per month or just $49.00 per Year, we will send you our monthly Quote Pack to help inspire and motivate you. Just visit GoalGettingPodcast.com/images Today and SIGN UP! Thanks for listening to Goal Getting Quote of the Day. If you like this or any of the Quotes, please leave a comment below. I would love to hear your thoughts. If you like our podcast you can easily go Subscribe to our show on iTunes at Goal Getting Podcast.com / itunes or Subscribe to us on Jabbercast at Goal Getting Podcast.com/jabbercast The new Jabbercast App is the best listening experience for podcasts. Check it out.   Please follow us below on your favorite social media channel.  We would love to hear from you there, too. Send us a Tweet, or Instagram Like. You can connect with us on your favorite by going to GoalGettingPodcast.com / and then Twitter or Facebook, or Instagram They will easily take you to the social media platforms and make it easy to follow us. QUICK & EASY - Click here to go leave a review on iTunes I get a lot of my quotes from great books that I read. And if you like to listen to books on Audio like I do, I put together a deal with Audible to give Goal Getting Podcast listeners a FREE Audiobook of your choice AND a 30 Day Trial of Audible's service to try them out. Just click the link in the Blue Box to get to the Audible sign up! Get Your Free Audiobook Here Hi, I would love to know what you think of the show. Do you enjoy these Quote of the Day segments? Let us know by leaving a comment below. Make Today a Great Day! Subscribe to us on iTunes Like our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/GoalGettingPodcast Follow us on Twitter: Podcast at @GoalsPodcast Tony Woodall, Your Host at @TonyWCMB Follow us on Instagram at @GoalGettingPodcast    

Tim speaks with Mona Patel, the CEO of Motivate Design about uncovering usability problems, dealing with creative directors, and competing in classical Indian dance.