Design over Breakfast

For this episode, we had the pleasure to speak to Meenakshi Kamat and Cydelle Zuzarte. They have both been working as UX researchers at companies like Swiggy, Microsoft, and Adobe. In part 1, we had an interesting and insightful conversation with them about : The relation of design and research, Using creativity in research, How they truly stay 'user centric', The fluid role of a researcher, and more. Tune in to dive into the world of UX research! Part 2 coming soon. You can watch this...

Episode 05 is out! 🥁 And this time we spoke to Malvika Kasliwal about all things UX. In this episode we speak about Malvika's journey as a UX designer from her school days to today, how she transitioned from digital design to UX, what she is doing nowadays as an industry professional and what sort of projects she works on, and finally, where she finds her inspiration outside of design and why she believes it's important to have creative hobbies beyond your work. And a lot more!

Welcome to DOB episode 04 : part 02. We hope you enjoyed part one! In this segment we take the conversation ahead with Tanmay Vippulancha. We dive into sustainable design as we answer some questions from our Instagram followers. Does Tanmay think we have failed our environment and how? How does he envision? and hopes to see people living in the future. Are cities just a machine for big corporations to continue exploiting the planet and it's people? What are the ways Tanmay experiments...

Episode 04 is out!!! This time we spoke to Tanmay Vippulancha, an industrial designer based in Hyderabad, India, about social media and sustainability. For part 01 of this episode we talked about : storytelling in design and where Tanmay finds his inspiration, developing different personas online, if we owe it to our audience to be authentic and how Tanmay manages to keep it candid on his social media. Check this part of the episode out to hear what he thinks. And don't forget to...

Hello Hello! We are back with our 3rd episode! ON TODAY'S MENU : The Art vs Design Debate. For starters : We talk about whether it even needs to be a debate? and are Art and Design two parallels that never meet? For the main course we introspect our biases towards the two and try to gauge the boundaries between the two. Also, The "bodybuilding" analogy. "Is every designer a little bit of an artist?" And for dessert, we indulge in stories about our personal journey and how Design can have...

We are back with our second episode! And this time we have a special guest joining us. Maria Marilyn joseph is a product designer working for scicommhackCERN and Scinaptics Association based in Geneva. She is currently working in the field of Science communication as a designer, which entails finding efficient and user centric ways to communicate start up projects from CERN, through the ScicommhackCERN initiative. Shaped by her experience developing an Airquality visualization device at...

As our first step towards starting conversations around design, creativity, and its impact over our environment, we reflect upon some of the things in hindsight we would tweak or do differently to optimise our education experience, if we could go back to college with the knowledge and maturity we have now. This is one of many self-reflective conversations to come which may help others find their footing within their own environment or at the least motivate to reflect upon their OWN...

Welcome to the DOB podcast. The DOB podcast is here to make conversations pertaining to the creative world, accessible to all. This one is for everyone, from young designers to doctors, engineers, chefs, house-wives and house-husbands. We believe there is a lot of latent power in debating and listening to different opinions. Join us as we figure it out for ourselves. We are new at this but very excited to start conversations.