After 4 years of building products and teams at
@gojekdesign
, today was my last day.
I got a chance to learn a lot, work with awesome people, visit new places & eat tasty food. I will always feel proud for being a tiny part of this team's journey 🙏
Hi twitter,
I would like to follow more indian women designers doing interaction design. Please help 🙏
RTs appreciated and please tag your suggestions with
#VisibleWomen
If you haven't read
@johnmaeda
's
#DesignInTech
[], you should. This was my first time reading this report and believe me there are so many good things to learn in it.
As a designer for and from Asia, here are some points that I dug into:
I see the design school vs ‘self-taught’ argument often and what folks miss is that these are both paths within the same journey. You can skip school and pursue the craft on your own or you can go to school to pursue the craft.
Worked from an office space today after almost 2 years. It was fun but totally unproductive. And yeah it reminded me how much I hate commuting in Bangalore.
📣 We are hiring in Bangalore for the Gojek Ads and Promos design team.
We are looking for someone with around 3 years of experience to join the current team of 3 and help the product scale.
More details here 👉🏽
DM me if you have any questions 📥
We've started posting about the
@JivaAg
design team on a new Medium publication. As the audience we build for is significantly different from us, we started by talking about how research co-ordinators are key to knowing our customers.
I had a blast hosting
@aprajit_kar
in last week's edition of
@ownpath_xyz
's fireside chat series.
This week I'll be talking to
@hvpandya
about his design journey and the role of designers in product companies.
You can request an invite here 👇🏾
I had joked once that the interview process at a previous company had gotten so complex, that I would probably not have made it through if I had applied post the changes.
Page 45: If there was only one screenshot I would have to share, it's this one. Designers, you need to take the effort to understand business if you want to have a seat at the table.
Discovered these hand drawn wireframes from 2011-2012 while cleaning my old desk. These were for an indian travel site, one of the first projects I worked on.
If you are interviewing, consider asking the salary bands and the compensation for your role in the first round itself. That way both parties understand if going through the process is worth it.
One thing that recently gets me pissed off is startup founders complaining about CTCs. How can they market the possibility of high jobs to students but at the same time ridicule those who ask for what they are worth?
Going through resumes and portfolios and see many designers in India referring to themselves as 'self-taught'.. No idea why that is given so much importance or what it is even supposed to mean.
Designers will literally make a fake portfolio as a side-project instead of working on their own portfolio... It's me, I'm designers.
Anyway, this is my take on what an honest Product Design portfolio would look like -
@ChettyArun
That’s the reality. Most managers out there in India are really ICs, as companies don’t really give them any other ‘title’ to grow into. Surprised you did not know this.
I’m probably one of the minority who hates tweet threads. They break my train of thought while reading them especially if linked to other tweet threads or articles, plus I hate their impermanence. Just write a blog please!
I've been writing on the internet since 2006-ish but I'm still wary of what I put out here. Anonymity is freeing and multiple times over those 15 odd years, I have taken refuge in posting on secret blogs with 0 audience.
When wanting to write, this script plays in my head often:
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
-Mark Twain
How do those who post/blog/publish overcome this?
@berkun
@Folletto
@jonesabi
A good friend is looking to onboard a Product Designer as part of the founding team. They're launching an exciting program in the design education space. If you're looking for a new gig, please DM and I'll connect you folks.
It sucks that you have to "prepare" a portfolio before applying for a design job.
If you are stuck at a bad place, your motivation is bound to be at a low level preventing you from focusing on building a portfolio. Like other roles, shouldn't a resume be enough?
But in the end what you are trying to do is spend time learning about the craft. Going to school doesn’t guarantee that you end up being a good designer and nor does taking the ‘self-taught’ route.
@vibamohan_
@impactology
I treat the interview process as a reflection of the org. Are they using a generic job description? Are they able to communicate well during the process? How do they negotiate with you?
When I joined the team in July 2018, the app was called GoResto and it was built to cater to our GoFood merchants. By September 2018, the team had started working on the next iteration, i.e,
@gobizbygojek
; an app with a bigger vision 📈
Catering to the needs of different types of merchants and their businesses is quite a challenge, especially when orders are scaling every day.
Hence, we built GoBiz. 🖖
It was totally worth waking up so early and rushing halfway across bangalore to meet all these designers. Thanks
@jdallcaps
for organizing this event!
#IxDD
Things I learnt yesterday:
1. You will find bollywood music in the most unlikely places
2. Collaboration on
@figmadesign
is all good but without ground rules being set prior it can end up being an intrusion into the designer's process
1/2
Thanks for joining us tonight
@ChettyArun
,
@agrawalravi95
,
@Kenneth
and other folks! In case you have a question for us/any of the speakers, our DMs are open. We're also hiring designers across the board, check out the roles here: 💪
post a picture of some landscape from a place where you've been, where the main requirement is that you NOT appear in it. just a picture, no description
I don't think I appear in any pics.
Please do this chain post thing because why the heck not. The format survived from 1935 to the era of LLMs after all.
(OG: Prosperity Club / Send-a-dime)
This is from near Corbett National Park in Uttrakhand.
“Iteration speed - not craft - gets you to PMF. Once you get there, the freedom to obsess over details that most users won't notice is your reward for building something people want.” 💯
Building
@usenumbies
showed me the cost of craft, and this screen (way too deeply nested; nearly forgot about it) is such a great reminder.
Iteration speed - not craft - gets you to PMF. Once you get there, the freedom to obsess over details that most users won't notice is your
@impactology
Interesting, didn’t interpret it like that. Building portfolios isn’t easy, it takes time & effort. That needs privilege + people at a job won’t have their’s updated. As a designer you are expected to show past work but portfolios shouldn’t be a barrier for you to apply.
🤝 How can you delight users?
Discuss the role of delight in design with
@abhinitial
Talk to him about challenges you've faced and learn from his experiences in design.
🗓 16th Oct at 5.00 PM IST.
Register here to receive an invite👇
Since the instagram post() doesn't talk about what the designer does in this workflow, I thought I would elaborate a bit.
P.S. IPM is an acronym for Iteration Planning Meeting
My favorite informal meetup is back. Last time we spoke about being a single designer in a team and what to do when joining a new job, among other things.
P.S. It's teetotaller friendly :)