Anamorphic by @kingsidharth
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago -Conversations with industry professionals about design, building products, product management, tech, startups, and industry insights.
@kingsidharth has been solving design & product problems at startups since over a decade. He's been a part of the story of startups like ClearTax, Instamojo, and (currently) managing product & design at Headout
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Is Design Education a Case Study Factory? AI, GPT-3 and future of design, and more with Madhuri Maram
August 18, 2020 16:09 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MBIn this episode of Anamorphic podcast, we have a guest with us — Madhuri Maram discussing the latest news items in the startup & design industry. We specifically spoke about news items on - A post on UX Design publication on Medium titled "Case Study Factory" - GPT-3, AI & Future of Design #design #ui #ux #ai #artificialintelligence #casestudy #designeducation #education #gpt3
Behind every successful woman there's a...? » Industry Roundtable 4 — Leadership
June 11, 2020 07:09 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBWhat happens when you get three women leaders on a panel to talk about #design, leadership, #culture, hiring, team-building, and better representation? You get an hour and a half of awesome conversation! In the 4th edition of industry roundtable, we'll listen to — Geetaa Bhatt (Head of Design @ Clevertap), Aastha Gaur (UX Lead @Google), and Karthi (Founder @ Xperian) about their experience of 10+ years, building teams, the leaders that pushed them to become leaders, and how they are invest...
Origin Story: Chethan KVS aka Design Pilot: Designer & Youtuber with 40,000 subscribers!
May 01, 2020 15:05 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBContinuing our #whataftercollege interview series with industry professionals, we spoke to another designer & popular YouTuber with over 40k subs — @designpilot aka Chethan KVS 🥳 Watch the full video on YouTube that includes project walk through — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXRmCPe8n6M Chethan started learning Photoshop, After Effects, and other design software when he was a Chartered Accountant student! Later, his college picked him to lead the design team — while teaching them sof...
Youtube journey, design salaries, coding, & more with Punit Chawla + IG Scandal 😱😱
April 27, 2020 17:39 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBIn this episode of Anamorphic, we have an excerpt from an Instagram live with Punit Chawala. He's a UX Manager at Magic Bricks and runs a popular design channel with over 20k subs. You can find Punit Chawla on Instagram: instagram.com/punitchawlaofficial/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/punitweb YouTube youtube.com/punitchawla We got started by talking about his YouTube journey and why he joined Instagram so late? Then we went on to take audience questions like: We also took live questi...
Design Hiring at Google, Portfolio Tips, and building a Business Case for Design
April 09, 2020 16:02 - 56 minutes - 52.4 MBHow does Google hire designers? What's the hiring & interview process like? How can one improve their chances of getting through? Does portfolio matter? is it necessary for a designer? How do you convince business and stakeholders to focus on delivering real design value instead of focusing on short-term and aesthetics? Hardik Pandya, a product designer at Google, answered these and many more questions on Instagram live. --- Hardik Pandya is a Designer at Google: @hvpandya on twitter ht...
Design Roundtable 3 — The Rants of a Designer: Technical feasibility & debt, limitations, and form over function
April 04, 2020 13:14 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBIn the third designers' roundtable, we bring you quality rants with Arjun Arunkumar (Swiggy), Hardik Pandya (Google), and Madhuri Maram (Xperian). What's something that happens everywhere with all designers but we don't talk about it enough? In this episode, we spoke about technical debt, feasibility, and bandwidth and how it affects the work of designers. How can designers build shared understanding and when, at times, you have to obsessed with pixel-perfection? From there, we go on to di...
Technical Feasibility, Business Priority mismatch and other designer rants — Design Roundtable 3
April 04, 2020 13:14 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MBIn the third designers' roundtable, we bring you quality rants with Arjun Arunkumar (Swiggy), Hardik Pandya (Google), and Madhuri Maram (Xperian). What's something that happens everywhere with all designers but we don't talk about it enough? In this episode, we spoke about technical debt, feasibility, and bandwidth and how it affects the work of designers. How can designers build shared understanding and when, at times, you have to obsessed with pixel-perfection? From there, we go on to di...
Switching fields & the path to Become a Designer — switching career to design, from graphic design & motion to product design, generalist vs specialist designers: Conversation with Abhinav Chhikara
March 19, 2020 18:54 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBThis roundtable turned to a conversation between the two — Abhinav Chhikara & Sidharth, since the other guests couldn't make it. We talked about several topics but mostly covered: *Switching to design career* - Switching from a non-design industry to design or designer roles - Why self-learning is the future of design and why & how you should make your own "path" - A framework by Abhinav on how you can track your progress and what you can expect as you start to self-learn design *Switching ...
Building a career using the internet — King Sidharth's speech at PSG College Tech, Coimbatore
March 07, 2020 22:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBWhile each one of us is born naturally curious, the education system & our mental-models, that our society runs on, train it out of us. Owning and honing this curiosity can change our lives — especially in the age of the internet. With the internet, education yourself and building a career & wealth has become the easiest it has ever been. You can pick-up any soft-skill, learn a language, learn to design, build an app, learn programing, find jobs and freelance gigs across the world, collab...
#3 Building a Career with the Internet, Finding our Passion, & Building Wealth — King Sidharth's speech at PSG College of Techn, Coimbatore
March 07, 2020 22:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBWhile each one of us is born naturally curious, the education system & our mental-models, that our society runs on, train it out of us. Owning and honing this curiosity can change our lives — especially in the age of the internet. With the internet, education yourself and building a career & wealth has become the easiest it has ever been. You can pick-up any soft-skill, learn a language, learn to design, build an app, learn programing, find jobs and freelance gigs across the world, collabora...
Career in Design — from Jr. to Senior Designers, Design Mentorship & Evangelism — Design Roundtable:
February 24, 2020 11:49 - 1 hour - 186 MBWhat if we could get some kick-ass folks to sit together and talk about questions and issues that most won't address. With the first roundtable, we explored the topic "Career Path as a Designer", with: Abhinav Chhikara — Designer, YouTuber, & Digital Creator Arjun Arunkumar, Designer at Swiggy Hardik Pandya — Designer at Google Madhuri Maram — Co-founder at Xperian & D+P, Host at Hireworthy Podcast --- Here are some questions we talked about: What, we wish, we knew when star...
Conversation with Nandini Gangal, Product Designer at CRED – Anamorphic by @kingsidharth
January 26, 2020 16:54 - 55 minutes - 126 MBNandini Gangal (from Udaipur, Rajasthan) started as an engineering student, taught herself UI/UX design and went on to become a product designer at Rentomojo, Flipkart, and (now) CRED. In the first part of her interview, we discuss her childhood influences, how she discovered & learned design, how she convinced her parents for this unconventional career choice. Transcription: