Kalyani Tupkary – Product Designer at Twitch – Whiteboard.fm #033

Our guest for today is Kalyani Tupkary, she's a Hybrid Experience Designer. Currently, she's working as a Product Designer at Twitch, the world’s leading live streaming platform for gamers.

Kalyani has done her Bachelor’s in Design from NID, Ahmedabad followed by a Masters in Fine Arts from the Parsons School of Design. The insights you're going to get from this episode would be phenomenal!

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⏱️ Timestamps

00:00 Our guest of the day — Kalyani Tupkary from Twitch

00:55 Welcoming Kalyani to the show!

01:00 From NID Ahemdabad to Parsons School of Design - The Journey

04:03 You say you're a Generalist. What are your views on being a Specialist v/s a Generalist?

05:52 What is your advice on recognizing the overlaps. How do you expand your knowledge of contrasting domains?

08:15 Designs that revolve around portals to alternate worlds. The purpose behind designing new realities.

10:08 How can one re-wire the constructs, biases, and mental models which are wired in us?

11:36 Which realities should one choose after realizing all these alternate possibilities and constructs?

13:59 What is Speculative Design? What's this design discipline focused on?

15:05 Kalyani's Top 3 Free yet Extremely Powerful Design Resources!

17:22 How to be Energetic and in the State-of-Flow as a Designer?

19:01 Summing it up!

19:44 Conclusion

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🔑  Resources mentioned by Kalyani:

•  Design Podcasts - 

   Design Matters, Scratching the Surface, Design Better, etcetera.

•  Near Future Laboratory - Podcast to jump into Speculative Design

•  Learning from mentors on https://adplist.org/ and other platforms.

• Design Books - 

  Design, When Everybody Designs, Don't Make Me Think, The Design of Everyday Things, Silicon Values.

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• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kalyani_tupkary/ 

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