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Design by 3Why we say that everyone is a designerAfter a 2 month break, we are back! We are not just back, we are arguing that everyone is a designer!
If you are told that you gotta have a design degree or proper design education to become a designer, you can find some good tips on why we think otherwise. Maybe you would be able to find better ways to become a better designer and perhaps slap 'em back with "I AM A DESIGNER" with some solid arguments!
Resources:
Design by 3 Hosts
Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/
2021-04-0927 min
Design by 3How we did our career change into DesignIn this video, we are sharing our journey of how we got ourselves into careers in product design and product management.
If you are feeling doubtful and lost about a career change into Design or Product Management after establishing yourself in your current career, this video is for you! If you are wondering if you have the right qualifications to land a design job, you must watch this video!
Harsha had been a software engineer for many years before he decided to make the switch and Ganji is designing while being a Product Owner by...
2021-02-2411 min
Design by 3IKEA effect - A Great Hack for your Design ToolkitPsst! Have you been a victim of the IKEA effect?
In this episode, we explain how to use the IKEA effect to design better. Most importantly we will tell you when to avoid the IKEA effect when you design!
Design by 3 Hosts
Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/
Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/
#design #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #uxcareers #uxdesigner #designduo #designduovlog
2021-02-1906 min
Design by 3What is Parkinson's LawEver wondered why your work always fits the deadline at the last moment?
In this episode, we talk about Parkinson's Law which says "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion".
Cyril Northcote Parkinson first wrote about it in 1955 and if you understand how this law works, you can change how you work and have better outcomes.
Design by 3 Hosts
Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/
Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/
#design #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign...
2021-02-1705 min
Design by 3How to Brainstorm without having unproductive discussionsYou're asking how to brainstorm without having thousands of unproductive discussions and meetings?
If you need to have a productive brainstorming session with your team, you need to do these things:
Go for quantity over quality.
Treat any idea as a good idea.
Do it together but individually.
When brainstorming, let's try to maintain a diverging mindset focusing on creating options. When we brainstorm in a team, we judge ourselves and filter out our ideas in our heads until we come up with the best idea we can think of. This is a myth and you...
2021-01-1509 min
Design by 33 Design Tips to take from the Greatest Sports TeamsStill struggling to find the formula that clicks for your team to do great design?
Do you think that you are a great designer and you deserve to be in a greater team? Why not make your team a great team instead?
In this episode, we give you 3 tips to design like a champion team player.
Design by 3 Hosts
Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/
Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/
Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/
2021-01-0806 min
Design by 33 tips to take any Design Decision fasterTired of decisions dragging for ages? Stuck with your design as a design decision is not being made fast?
In this episode, we will tell you about a simple framework that you can adapt in your work to make design decision making faster and easier.
Design by 3 Hosts
Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/
Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/
Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/
#design #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #uxcareers #uxdesigner #designduo #designduovlog
2020-12-3012 min
Design by 3How do we design faster?As the world of design is evolving, the speed of designing is playing a crucial role. Most designers are now practising design in iterations and value the short and fast feedback loops over aiming for perfection. In this episode, we give you 3 simple tips for you to speed up your design process.
Design by 3 Hosts
Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/
Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/
Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/
#design #speedup #productdesign #designinspiration #designsprints #uxdesign #uxdesignprocess #ux...
2020-12-2216 min
Design by 33 ways to excel in Collaborative DesignWe the designers know that Collaborative Design can be challenging!🧐
So, for our very first episode, we decided to speak about how you can excel in Collaborative Design. This is a must-watch for all designers who are part of a team.
Design by 3 Hosts
Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/
Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/
Yasith Abeynayaka (sirStinkySocks) https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasithabeynayaka/
#designteam #productdesign #designtalks #vlog #productmanagement #designsprintmaster #designer #designadvice #designlovers #designstrategy #productstrategy #uxdesign #aidesigner #ML #AI #userexperience
2020-12-1919 min
Design by 3Magical Meetings with Master Facilitator - Douglas FergusonAs we got bored of talking to each other, we invited the Master Facilitator and Author Douglas Ferguson to our show! In this episode, he enlightens us with Magical Meetings and tips on being good a facilitator.
Douglas Ferguson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/douglasferguson
Voltage Control: https://voltagecontrol.com/
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Control-The-Room/
Magical Meetings: https://www.amazon.com/Non-Obvious-Guide-Magical-Meetings-Guides/dp/1646870263/
Design by 3 Hosts
Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji) https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/
Harshadewa Ariyasinghe (Harsha) https://www.linkedin.com/in/harshadewa/
2020-12-0846 min
Design by 3DesignOps: What, How and Why 🤷♂️ 🤷♀️?In this episode, we talk about a much-hyped, trendy 📈 thing in the space of design, (hashtag) DesignOps! 👩🔧 Know all the wrong reasons to be a Design Manager! and...we predict the future! 🧙🏽♀️ We have become quite a bunch of fortune-tellers!
02:00 What is DesignOps?
04:00 Do you enjoy operating tasks in Design?
10:25 Product of the week: Google Tables
14:00 Google moved April 1st to September
14:40 A DesignOps story from Figma
18:55 Design Manager vs Manager of Designers
19:30 How to be a DesignOps person or a manager?
23:50 Book review: Hacking Growth b...
2020-09-2740 min
Design by 3Being Design-Driven is overrated?14 episodes in 100 days! 🚩 Not a bad ride, eh? To celebrate this, we will tell you how design-matured you are 🧙 followed by a sensitive book review on Rework by Jason Fried 📖
01:23 What does it mean to be a design-driven team?
11:44 Product of the week: Chuck!
16:40 InVision Design Maturity Model
26:45 Book review: Rework by Jason Fried
36:22 How to measure the impact of Design
43:10 The worst way to end an episode
Products and services:
Chuck: https://chuck.email/
Books:
Rework by Jason Fried: ht...
2020-09-1844 min
Design by 3Why Design Sprints are like Ice Cream 🍦?In this episode, we ramble on the evolution of Design Sprints 🐒 ! What pitfalls you may avoid and you may fall into anyway! Also we love Jake Knapp! Buy the Sprint book! 😜
05:10 Can Design Sprints solve all the problems in the world?
10:21 Product of the week: Magic Email
15:15 What not to do when running a Design Sprint
26:26 Book review: Change by Design
35:20 How to be a good facilitator?
51:30 We are the noise in your ears!
Products and services:
Magic email: https://magicemail.io/
Book...
2020-09-0554 min
Design by 3Secrets revealed 🤫 : How designers are madeAre designers born or made? In this episode, we decided to tell you our own story! (Probably we will bore you to death! If you survive, you will never listen to us again).
01:32 Jake Knapp convinced me to be a designer
09:35 Why I was fighting to be a spec writer
13:04 I was, really, really, really good at maths
17:06 Product of the week: Walling
22:26 Ken Robinson and Rebel in no-chaos is a terrorist
26:21 Is Youtube reliable to learn?
27:49 Book Review: Leadership and Self-Deception
34:27 Make people great again, and Harsha's love for...
2020-08-2741 min
Design by 3Design in Agile: Better Love Story Than TwilightIn this episode, we ramble on how designers can fit into Agile Sprints? We think David Kelley is more creative than you. Also, we are so kind to give you some career advice.
01:34 How does the Product Designer role fit into a Scrum Team?
06:30 When should design happen in Scrum?
07:00 Dual and Tri track Agile
11:23 Product of the Episode: Canva
15:37 Speed first, Aesthetics second?
19:22 Google is not afraid to fail
21:40 Design is experimenting
23:42 Book review: Creative Confidence by David Kelley and Tom Kelley
29:50 Organizational Culture and the Role of D...
2020-08-2135 min
Design by 3Have you ever heard of AI Design Sprint™?Have you ever heard of AI Design Sprint™ 🤖? Why does @Ganji think AI cannot replace designers and why the other 2 disagree 😡? Are you ready to disagree to agree in this episode?
00:00 Summer stories or stories of the summer
01:18 Designers in AI-powered world
04:10 Figma and AI are the same
11:28 Product of the episode: Jamm
16:36 Designers! How do you use AI at work?
20:30 AI-DesignOps
23:30 Book review: Julie Zhuo's The Making of a Manager
28:09 Can AI replace designers?
37:55 AI-powered beatboxing by Ganji
Products and services:
Unscreen: https://www.unscreen.co...
2020-08-1439 min
Design by 3Screen-time is the new smoking?What is harder, 🏌🏼♀️ or 🏏? Is Google's Digital Well-being assessment telling the truth? How many daily phone pick-ups you need, to get labelled as a phone-addict 🚬?
01:40 Google digital wellbeing self-assessment
09:43 TikTok falls under the "creativity" category?
14:13 Product of the episode: TheirTube and Designer Tomo Kihara
19:47 Designers, how do you stay up to date on trends?
24:16 Book review: John Doerr's Measure what matters, the OKR book
29:24 Design for digital wellbeing
Products and services:
TheirTube: https://www.their.tube/
Books:
John Doerr's Measure what matters: https://www.whatmatters.com/the...
2020-08-0436 min
Design by 3Finally! Slack sees the elephant in the roomDid Slack and great Steward Butterfield admit defeat in front of Microsoft Teams? 🏳 Or Are they flighting back with EU competition complaint? ⚔
In this episode, we discuss what a designer could do if you are in a situation similar to Slack? How can you launch a fightback as a designer?
00:41 Slack files EU competition complaint against Microsoft
14:14 Product of the episode: Slite (https://slite.com/)
19:26 If you are a small fish in a big pond, just switch
23:45 Book review: Kim Scott's Radical Candor (https://www.amazon.com/Radical-Candor-Kim-Scott/dp/B01KTIEFEE)
28:27 Design for...
2020-07-2938 min
Design by 3Can you be forever unemployable?This episode gets heated up with a rough battle between UX and UI Design. It is extremely controversial and contagious! Wash your ears for 20 seconds after listening to this episode.
00:30 Personas are broken, just use JTBD (https://uxdesign.cc/heres-why-you-should-stop-using-personas-63c09a844e67)
07:00 Designing for accessibility is not that hard
20:30 UX Design is UI Design bruh!
31:47 Everything about Smart Facemasks (https://www.donutrobotics.com/c-mask)
36:50 Product of the Week (https://www.onwatch.app/)
39:59 Jeff Gothelf Forever Employable - Book Review (https://jeffgothelf.com/foreveremployable/)
47:55 Have Design Managers forgotten that they are de...
2020-07-2158 min
Design by 3The mmhmm... EpisodeHow do we design features that are rarely used? Is there a difference between a Product Designer and a UX Designer? What the hell is the "API-First approach" in developing products?
In this episode, we are trying our best to find answers! Do you think we succeeded?
00:10 Understanding the API-First Approach to Building Products: (https://swagger.io/resources/articles/adopting-an-api-first-approach/)
07:44 Designing for Truth Validation: Case of Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/help/1952307158131536)
17:57 Who will win in a fistfight, UX Designer, or Product Designer?
31:27 Design inspired by Just In Case m...
2020-07-141h 00
Design by 3Learning Design: Secrets Revealed!Psst, Wanna learn design without breaking the bank? The blabbermouth Ganji finally lets the cat out of the bag. Meanwhile, despite a few hiccups in performance, always pick Mural over Miro ANYDAY!!!
P.S. In this episode, we talk about design.
00:10 Product of the Week
11:36 Battle of the week: Miro vs Mural (https://miro.com | https://mural.co)
14:40 Stop selling 'What', sell the 'Why'! (https://simonsinek.com/product/start-with-why/)
19:19 Why should you listen to this podcast?
21:08 We are Apple fanboys!
23:45 How designers avoid habituation
34:45 Bye-bye developers, Honeycode is here...
2020-07-0559 minDesign by 3Forget data, use the gut feeling! (not a click-bait)In the sea of data, what is the role of gut feeling in making decisions? Is Apple really innovating or just following the leads of Google? What has DesignOps got to do with organizational culture?
In this episode, we ramble on many thought-provoking questions and controversial topics that will surely bore you to death.
00:33 Reflections on Apple WWDC 2020
12:16 Jason Fried's hey.com
18:26 Why you should base your decisions on gut feeling
25:52 How to learn design without hurting your bank account
28:40 Biomimicry: Design inspirations from nature
32:00 Skeuomorphism and Neumorphism
34:50 Confession...
2020-06-281h 02Design by 3Hips don't lie, Bats don't die!A big shout out to IDEO! We respect you! Black Lives Matter! In this episode, we go from bats to hips to Henrik Kniberg's MVP. We also give you a sneak peek at how companies run remote user testing during the pandemic.
00:27 NDI Camera wins the best product of the week
06:35 Hats off to IDEO - BLM!
13:27 'Tiktoking' is a word
15:25 How to do remote user testing right
21:50 Henrik Kniberg's abused MVP
29:09 Swedish Midsummer and Post Pandemic Life
34:00 Why Bats don't die from Corona Virus?
35:48 Hips don't lie, Bats don't...
2020-06-2038 minDesign by 3Why Ryan Holiday should sue usRyan Holiday vs Jake Knapp? In this episode, we are at war! While battling it out, we found some time to brain dump about pair design, getting feedback, and most importantly, cooking.
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00:25 Pair Design changes everything
06:35 Ryan Holiday is Passionate
16:18 Jake Knapp is an Introvert
21:03 How Music Design evolved
30:35 Don't watch News
33:30 Black Music Matters
37:28 Ganji's Cooking, Figma and Mural
47:04 Feedback and Radical Candor
52:08 Product of the Week
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Gayanjith Premalal (Ganji)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gayanjithpremalal/
Instagram...
2020-06-0958 min
Design by 3Did NASA learn by failing off the skyIn this maiden voyage, the Db3 team rambles on everything from Design Sprints, Product Design, TikTok, Nasa, Project Management vs Business Analysis, Beatboxing, Mural, and Figma.
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00:30 WFH is the best thing ever!
05:18 Massive Design Sprint Meetups!
07:00 Design Sprints and Design Processes
17:05 Did NASA learn from failure?
24:37 Failing at interviews
26:27 How to increase reach in Medium
30:55 The most boring podcast ever
32:10 Let us know that you survived this for half an hour (https://www.instagram.com/sirstinkysocks/)
40:01 Post-Microsoft acquisition LinkedIn, COVID-19 era Instagram and Youtube
43:02 3 reasons why...
2020-06-041h 02