Self-awareness, the heart of authenticity and imposter syndrome

Design To Be Conversation

English - March 30, 2021 08:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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Previous Episode: Mig Reyes: You can’t build a strong design team and culture without self-awareness

Next Episode: Dan Mall: Creating boundaries and psychological safety

In today’s episode, I speak with Ioana Adriana Teleanu. Ioana is a UX Designer driven by the ambition to craft great products that people love. She currently works at UiPath on building RPA-enabling products that are easy to use. In the past, alongside years of working for ING Bank, she took on various freelancing and consulting roles with startups.

As a personal project, she’s built UX Goodies, an Instagram design community with over 200,000 followers, sparking healthy design conversations and providing her with insights on the design industry and the struggles designers have.

We dive deeper into self-awareness and how it relates to imposter syndrome and authenticity, how to navigate self-doubt, how weaving authenticity into your practice can help you embrace your true self, as well as many actionable insights to help you become an effective designer.