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Whiteboard.fmJan 20, 2022

Pranava Tandra – Product Designer at Intercom – Whiteboard.fm #040
Our guest for today is Pranava Tandra, Product Designer at Intercom, ex-Microsoft. She's done her Bachelors in Design from the National Institue of Fashion Technology (NIFT) and her Masters in Visual and Interaction Design from Indian Institue of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT)
In this episode, we talk about Job Interviews, Work-from-Home Burnouts, Psychology, Web3, Tips for Students, Writing Case Studies, and many more things. Previously she has worked at companies like Microsoft and Adobe. She shares a great amount of wisdom with us in this one!
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the Day — Pranava Tandra from Intercom
01:01 How and Where do you find your design resources?
03:12 Tips for Writing Case Studies
04:24 Case Studies — Keeping them complex or simple?
06:15 Avoiding and Fixing Burnouts
08:08 Planning and prioritizing time
09:39 Keeping up with Web3
10:33 Things students should include in a portfolio
11:58 Building & Showing Character in our Work
13:56 What are job interviews like at big companies?
15:56 What were your interview experiences like?
17:08 Being Confident in Interviews
17:50 Conclusion
18:17 Connect with Pranava!
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Oishee Sen – Product Designer at Bumble – Whiteboard.fm #039
Our guest for today is Oishee Sen, Product Designer at Bumble, ex-Microsoft. She's an Interaction and Communication Designer and did her graduation from the National Institute of Design (NID).
Oishee has experience in multiple fields like Storytelling, Media, Marketing, User Experience Design, and many more. In the episode, she shares her thought process and mental models around design and her experience of working at great companies.
Also, she writes great case studies and in this one, we also get to know what goes behind writing one. Don't miss out!
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the Day — Oishee Sen from Bumble
00:55 Learning Multiple Skills
05:34 Is a Design Degree Necessary?
11:09 Becoming Better at Writing Case Studies
15:17 How to Choose Your First Company
22:46 What Recruiters Look while Hiring Designers
26:36 Summing it up!
26:53 Connect with Oishee!
27:40 Conclusion
28:08 Outro
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Luca Orio – Design Systems Manager at Netflix – Whiteboard.fm #038
Our guest for today is Luca Orio, Design Systems Manager at Netflix. He's an Italian designer based out of San Francisco. He's been a designer for 19 years now and in this interview he shares some of the greatest and rarest insights regarding the things you experience as a designer and how to get the most out of things.
An amazing thing about Luca is before entering the design space, he used to be a Drummer in a Metal Band which had become quite popular and signed with labels. But, his love and passion for design are what made him choose this path. Make sure you watch the entire episode, you're going to love it!
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the Day — Luca Orio from Netflix
01:03 Switching from Music to Design
06:12 Advice for Beginners Building a Design System
10:04 Incorporating & Maintaining Design System
13:12 Being Energetic & in the State of Flow as a Designer
17:05 Resources/Learnings for Upcoming Designers
22:50 Conclusion
22:43 Outro
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Tarun Mangukiya – Founder & CEO at Iconscout – Whiteboard.fm #037
Our guest for today is Tarun Mangukiya, Founder & CEO at Iconscout. Before joining this company he has worked with companies like Microsoft, Remarkin E-Learning, and many more. Instead of going the job route after completing college, he took the startup route and built Iconscout from scratch. Being such a successful product, Iconscout was acquired by LottieFiles in Feb 2021.
Iconscout is a design resources marketplace with 2.5 Million+ Icons, Illustrations, 3D Assets, and Lottie Animations from 2000+ contributors globally. We provide the simplest way to sell, share & exchange design assets to a worldwide audience.
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the day — Tarun Mangukiya from Iconscout
00:54 Going the Startup route instead of a Job
03:23 Experience & Learnings from Building to Being Acquired
05:14 Being Energetic & in State-of-Flow
07:32 Being Mentally Strong
09:08 Top 3 Misconceptions about the Entrepreneurship World
11:53 Pieces of Advice for Upcoming Entrepreneurs
14:09 Connect with Tarun!
14:22 Ending Notes by Ansh
14:40 "How to Get Rich" by Naval — Tarun's Perspective
16:27 Conclusion
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• GitHub: https://github.com/tarunmangukiya/
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Gaurav Baheti – Founder & CEO at Procol – Whiteboard.fm #036
Our guest for today is Gaurav Baheti, CEO & Founder at Procol. Gaurav is an Engineer turned Designer & has worked at companies like Zomato and Google. But being passionate and full of potential, he decided to start his own company wanting to experiment and do what he really loves!
Procol is a digital procurement platform that helps companies digitize their buying processes. It has raised a capital of $1 Million from Blue Ventures & Rainmatter, a fund managed by Zerodha.
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the day — Gaurav Baheti from Procol
01:16 Three Mindset Shifts causing the transition from Job to a Startup
03:09 Learning and Implementing things faster
03:41 Journey of Raising Capital & What happens after Raising one?
05:19 Differentiating between Life and Work while Running a Startup
06:33 Convincing Big Clients to Trust your Product
09:48 Being in a state of flow & Managing Emotions
14:45 How books have impacted Gaurav's life
20:18 Connect with Gaurav!
21:21 Conclusion
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🔑 Resources/Books mentioned by Gaurav:
• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie — to improve interpersonal skills
• The Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey — to learn how to build trust
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg — to develop habits
• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy by Richard P. Rumelt — for building strategy
• Blue Ocean Strategy by Renée Mauborgne and W. Chan Kim — for building strategy
• Metaskill by Marty Neumeier — for a learning framework
• Read books on Human Psychology
• Learn from Mentors and Experienced people
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• LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/gbaheti
• Medium: http://medium.com/@gbaheti
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Thalita Gaddini Biancalana – Product Designer at Adidas Runtastic – Whiteboard.fm #035
Our guest for today Thalita is a Principal Product Designer at Adidas Runtastic. With a multitude of interests and creative pursuits, she feels UX design has the possibility to blend her passions for design, technology, and business, with her deep curiosity for human behavior.
Adidas Runtastic develops activity tracking apps and services such as training logs, data analysis, comparisons to other users, and other functions to help users improve their overall fitness.
On 5 August 2015, Adidas bought Runtastic for €220 million ($240 million).
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the day — Thalita from Adidas Runtastic!
01:07 Delivering the right experience to millions of users
05:34 Managing Time — Work, Interests & Personal Life
11:51 Resilience Training
12:55 Designing an application with lots of data
15:56 Top 3 Resources to Learn Design
21:56 Ways to connect with Thalita
22:30 Conclusion
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🔑 Resources mentioned by Thalita:
• Basics of UX Design — Theory & Foundation from Open Courses
• Put things to practice — Create projects for friends, people, volunteer
• Connecting with people in the industry
• Mentorship from platforms like ADPList
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Debashish Paul – Principal at Twitter Design – Whiteboard.fm #034
Our guest for today is Debashish Paul, Principal at Twitter Design. He has previously worked at companies like Facebook, Yahoo, SAP and has 60+ patents registered under his name!
In this one we're going to get to know about his process and decisions he's made to be able to grab opportunities and work with great companies and be such a great designer.
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the day — Debashish Paul from Twitter!
01:08 Getting Multiple Opportunities at the BEST Companies
08:17 Switching from Computer Science to Design (UX)
15:36 Finding a Balance of Scalability of Idea
18:41 Solving Problems and Setting Priorities
23:26 Top-3 Powerful Resources to Learn Design
28:34 Design comes down to one thing — Common Sense.
30:03 Conclusion
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🔑 Resources mentioned by [guest]:
• Follow Marketing Gurus and Experts to build your narrative
• Learn History of Money, Evolution, Design and other Domains
• Explore and use Metaphors to be able to Articulate your points more Effectively
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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/linkedindeb/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/debstract/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debstract/
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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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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalyanitupkary/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/kalyani_tupkary
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kalyani_tupkary/
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Felix Lee – Co-Founder and CEO at ADPList – Whiteboard.fm #032
In this interview, we speak to Felix Lee. Felix is the Co-founder and CEO of ADPList and currently leading product strategy and community growth there.
Previously, he's cofounded Packdat (accquired) and led design at Gotrade (YC S19), and Passpod (IDX: YELO). He also has worked with global startups from YCombinator, Antler, and more raising over $30M in 2 years from an early stage.
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Our guest of the day — Felix Lee from ADPList
00:52 Welcoming Felix to the show!
01:17 What was Felix's master plan behind the growth of his startups?
03:02 How did Felix manage to lead Design Departments and what was his journey as a leader?
05:13 How can a startup be funded by YCombinator/Sequoia? What's ADPList's story?
08:25 What are Felix's future plans with ADPList now that it is funded by Sequoia?
11:21 How to be energetic and in a state-of-flow as a Designer?
13:29 Best Design Resources to Upskill
15:53 ADPList's contribution to the growth of the Design community
16:42 Connect with Felix!
17:00 Conclusion
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🔑 Resources mentioned by Felix:
• Learning from the Best UX Tutors on YouTube
• Learn from Articles and Case Studies on https://medium.com/
• Learn from mentors on https://adplist.org/
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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felixleezd/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/felixleezd/
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Lauren B Duxbury – UX Designer at Microsoft, Prev. Honeywell – Whiteboard.fm #031
In this interview, we speak to Lauren B Duxbury. Lauren is a UX Designer at Microsoft and has previously worked with Honeywell on their Forge Design System.
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⏱️ Timestamps
00:00 Welcoming Lauren and her experience at Honeywell!
01:46 How should beginners approach building a Design System
08:41 What to do when asked to design ad-hoc solutions without a comprehensive design system?
10:34 Resources to incorporate Design Systems with Developers
12:13 Can designers Multitask?
15:00 Managing Energy to be in a state of Flow
17:38 Best Design Resources to Upskill
21:06 Connect with Lauren!
21:47 Conclusion
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🔑 Resources mentioned by Lauren:
• Learn from Articles on https://medium.com/
• Use https://www.linkedin.com/ to network with people.
• Find a mentor to improve your skills overall.
• Daily UI challenges to help you develop your UI skills.
• Keep playing with all the platforms, tools, concepts.
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Rahul Bhosale – Senior Interaction Designer at DisneyPlus Hotstar , Prev. Housing – Whiteboard.fm #030
In this episode, we speak to Rahul Bhosale. He is a UI/UX and Interaction Designer. He has previously worked at Housing, India and is currently working at Disney+ Hotstar.
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❓⏰ Questions:
00:00 Introduction
01:26 Presentation by Rahul Bhosale
06:51 How did you get started in design?
08:38 What does a Visual communications program consist of?
10:29 Learnings from the Visual Communication program that helped transition to Interaction Design
12:41 How did you get started in Housing as an Interaction Designer?
15:44 Work profile at Housing as an Interaction Designer
19:45 How did you get started in Disney+ Hotstar?
23:00 Can you tell us more about the team and it's structure?
24:40 What are some of the things you notice that beginner designers are doing wrong?
27:14 What is the Hiring Process at Hotstar?
29:27 How to get started in Interaction Design
37:00 What are your top 3 learnings from your design journey so far?
38:44 What's something you wish you knew when you were starting off?
Rahul's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamrahulbhosale/
Rahul's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rahul.design/
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Janardhan Massar – Product Designer at Unacademy, Prev. Lollypop Design Studio – Whiteboard.fm #029
In this episode, we speak to Janardhan Massar. He is an architecture undergrad from Manipal University and has previously worked as a UX Designer at Lollypop Design Studio. He is currently working as a Product Designer at Unacademy.
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❓⏰ Questions:
00:00 Introduction
02:46 Moving from Architecture to UI/UX Design
07:59 Bot M.D. – Assistant Chatbot for Doctors
20:38 Work profile at Lollypop Design Studio
23:36 Why you should create a design portfolio
29:42 Hiring at Design Agencies vs Product Companies
31:43 Experience as a Product Designer at Unacademy
33:16 Designing Tests and Results Experience at Unacademy
43:56 What are your learnings from working at a Design Agency and a Product company?
Janardhan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janardhan-massar/
Janardhan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/januxcaliber/
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Cydelle Zuzarte and Meenakshi Kamat – UX Researchers at Swiggy – Whiteboard.fm #028
In this episode, we speak to Cydelle Zuzarte and Meenakshi Kamat.
Cydelle is a UX Researcher at Swiggy and has previously worked at Hike Messenger. Meenakshi is a Freelance UX Researcher and has previously worked at Swiggy.
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❓⏰ Questions:
00:00 Introduction
02:02 What is UX Research?
03:12 Work profile as a UX Researcher at Swiggy
05:22 Work profile as a Freelance UX Researcher
06:30 Typical day for a UX Researcher at Swiggy and as a Freelancer
10:13 How to identify the need for conducting UX Research
13:54 Steps followed by UX Researchers to get relevant insights and findings – Aligning, Planning, Executing, Analysing, Sharing
21:16 Difference between exploratory and evaluative research
24:05 How do UX Researchers do interview planning
25:56 Nuances to keep in mind when documenting your research
34:59 How to eliminate bias in your research
37:33 Creating repositories and documenting UX Research at Swiggy
46:10 How to get started into UX Research
50:58 Requirements from people applying for a UX Research internship or full time role
58:20 How do you feel the nature of your work has evolved since you started off and what do you expect to change in the future?
Cydelle's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cydellezuzarte/
Meenakshi's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meenakshi-kamat-74b93410a/
Swiggy Careers: https://careers.swiggy.com/
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Abheyraj Singh – Senior Product Designer at Omio, Co-founder of Lisn – Whiteboard.fm #027
In this episode, we speak to Abheyraj Singh. He is a Senior Product Designer at Omio, Berlin. He has worked at Housing India and has also co-founded the Lisn App.
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❓⏰ Questions:
00:00 Introduction
00:40 Being a designer at Berlin
02:39 Journey from being an iOS developer to a Co-founder to a UI/UX Designer
8:33 How UI/UX design helped interact with machines
09:43 Being a designer without any design background at Housing Labs
14:06 Work and challenges faced as a Co-founder at Lisn
19:00 Implementing learnings from the journey at Lisn App
22:07 Strategy when applying for design jobs abroad
29:00 Hiring designers in India vs Berlin
33:34 Difference between a Junior and a Senior designer
36:23 How should Junior Designers cover up their breadth of skills?
37:52 Responsibilities as a Senior Designer when mentoring Junior Designers
41:30 Experience as an Industry Mentor at 10kdesigners masterclass?
45:18 Top 3 learnings from your design journey
Abheyraj's Website: www.abheyraj.com
Omio: https://www.omio.com/
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Siddhita Upare and Harsh Vijay – Co-founders at Brucira – Whiteboard.fm #026
In this episode, we speak to Siddhita Upare and Harsh Vijay.
Siddhita is currently working as the Co-Founder and COO at Brucira. She has previously worked as an Illustrator at Housing, a Senior Visualizer at TING and as a UI Designer at Turtlemint.
Harsh is currently working as the Co-Founder and CEO at Brucira. He has previously worked at Housing as a UI/UX Designer. #designfounder #brucira
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❓⏰ Questions:
0:00 Introduction
01:54 How did they get started with Brucira?
17:14 Moving from a Designer to a Founder role
24:26 Team Structure at Brucira
26:11 Design Hiring process at Brucira
28:46 How did you create Ruttl?
32:20 Design Process at Brucira
37:30 Future plans for Brucira
40:43 Setting up processes in an Agency
43:53 Challenges you faced when starting off as Co-founders
52:57 Top 3 learnings from your design journey
56:56 What advice would you give to designers who are starting off?
Brucira website: https://www.brucira.com/
Ruttl website: https://ruttl.com/?ref=topbar
Siddhita LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddhita-upare-75475b73/
Harsh LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsh-vijay-bab23068/
Brucira Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brucira/
Siddhita Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/siddhitaupare/
Harsh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hv_crash/
Ruttl Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ruttlapp/
Siddhita Twitter: https://twitter.com/UpareSiddhita
Harsh Twitter: https://twitter.com/harsh17vijay93
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Gyan Lakhwani – UX Designer at Microsoft, Intern at Zomato – Whiteboard.fm #025
In this episode, we speak to Gyan Lakhwani. He is an IT engineer with a Masters in Interaction Design from the IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay. He is currently working at Microsoft as a UX Designer and has previously interned at Zomato. #microsoft #zomato
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❓⏰ Questions:
0:00 Introduction
01:20 How did you get started in Design?
04:42 Design Program at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay
11:58 Internship process at Zomato
13:42 Work at Zomato – Redesigning Zomato Collect
16:28 First internship project
18:33 Internship Process at Microsoft India
24:33 Internship at Microsoft Foundry
29:08 Further questions about Microsoft Foundry
31:30 Designing an app for Indian Prime Minister's Office in 2015
42:30 Top 3 learnings from your design journey
46:00 Things you wish you knew when starting off
Gyan's website: https://gyanl.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gyanlakhwani/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gyanl/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/gyanl
Microsoft Careers: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en
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Zain Khoja – Product Design Intern at GitHub and Instagram – Whiteboard.fm #024
In this episode, we speak to Zain Khoja, an Information Science undergrad from Cornell University. He has previously worked at GitHub as a Design Systems intern and at Instagram as a Product Design Intern. #github #instagram
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❓⏰ Questions:
0:00 Introduction
01:20 How did you get started in Design?
05:00 Internship Process at GitHub
09:15 Project Walkthrough: Creating tools, documentation sites, and core components for Primer, GitHub’s open-source design system
15:00 Interview process at Instagram
17:50 How to explain your design decisions as a beginner
22:50 Internship experience at Instagram
25:52 Instagram Design team and their working
30:00 Top learnings and nuances from GitHub and Instagram
32:00 Balancing between learning and teaching Product Design at Cornell University
34:48 Community and volunteer work in Design
37:03 How to create a slide deck for interviews
38:22 What is your process in learnings new skills?
40:36 How important is coding for a designer?
43:33 Top 3 learnings from your design journey
GitHub Internship Project: https://zainkho.com/github
Zain's website: https://zainkho.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zainkho/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zainkho7/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zainkho
Instagram Careers: https://www.instagram.com/about/jobs/
GitHub Careers: https://github.com/about/careers
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Aboli Joshi – Product Manager at Cura Technologies – Whiteboard.fm #023
In this episode, we speak to Aboli Joshi. She is a Product Designer and Manager working in the healthcare industry. She is currently working at Cura Technologies and has graduated from NID Ahmedabad in Industrial and Product Design #healthcare #covid19
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❓⏰ Questions:
0:00 Introduction
02:36 What is Healthcare Design?
04:16 Healthcare Design internship at Elephant Design
06:27 Challenges faced when starting out as a healthcare designer and nuances in Healthcare Design vs Digital Product Design
09:20 Work at Cura Technologies
10:35 Typical day at Cura Technologies
12:26 Aboli's Healthcare Product Design project at NID
25:16 Picking up new things and compounding your skillset
26:35 Importance of design in the healthcare industry
29:43 How would Covid-19 be better dealt with if the design in the healthcare industry was better?
32:16 Changes in Healthcare Design post Covid-19
35:22 Getting into Policy Design
38:50 Advice to someone getting into design right now
40:15 Top 3 learnings from your design journey
41:53 Things you wish you knew when starting off
Cura technologies: https://www.cura.tech/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aboli-joshi-23615ab3/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bolijoshi/?hl=en
Twitter: https://twitter.com/abolijoshi
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Niteesh Yadav – Product and Type Designer – Whiteboard.fm #022
In this episode, we speak to Niteesh Yadav. He is a Product and Type Designer and is currently researching on typography for Augmented reality and future interfaces. He has graduated from NIFT Delhi, University of Reading in Typeface Design and is currently working as a Product Designer at Headout. #typography #AR
❓⏰ Questions:
0:00 Introduction
01:52 How did you get started in design?
06:56 What got you interested in type design?
08:53 Journey in going from NIFT Delhi to the University of Reading, UK
12:09 Day to day life as a MA student at the University of Reading
15:36 Motivation for writing a thesis on Typography for AR
17:42 Challenges when working on Typography for AR
25:19 Process of creating a thesis on Typography for AR
29:00 ARone, typography for AR interfaces
30:57 When will AR become mainstream?
32:40 Designing typography for Augmented Reality vs Virtual Reality
34:00 About Ideal Reality – http://idealreality.org/
37:06 New Typography Course by Niteesh Yadav!
42:00 How to learn about Typography
46:23 Top 3 learnings from your design journey
Ideal Reality: http://idealreality.org/
Niteesh's website: https://niteeshyadav.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/niteeshyadav/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Niteesh22
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Ivy Mukherjee – Design Lead and Co-Creator of Indians Who Design – Whiteboard.fm #021
In this episode, we speak to Ivy Mukherjee. She is a Product Design Lead and has previously worked at GRAB Singapore, Shopify HQ Canada, OLA Cabs, and Grofers. She is also the Co-Creator of Indians Who Design, a living directory of thriving Indians in the design industry. #designlead #indianswhodesign
❓⏰ Questions:
0:00 Introduction
01:43 How did you get started in design?
12:04 What was your experience in getting a Design scholarship to Jerusalem?
19:37 How to prepare when applying for an international Design job?
What are the differences in the hiring process in India vs Abroad?
28:58 How did you decide the teams do you want to work in at Ola and Shopify?
30:38 Working on the Drivers-Partners projects at Ola
32:44 Working in the Insights and Growth teams at Shopify
35:53 Working in the Customer Support Experiences Team at GRAB
38:29 What it means to have a growth mindset
45:24 What to look for in every opportunity or experience – People, Product and Professional growth
51:59 When do you realize it's time to level up and move on?
55:27 Future plans for Indians Who Design – https://indianswhodesign.in/
58:44 Is the Design industry getting saturated and competitive?
Indians Who Design: https://indianswhodesign.in/
Ivy's website: https://ivymukherjee.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ivy.mukherjee/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JellyIvy
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Darshan Gajara – Freelance, Personal Branding and Side Projects – Whiteboard.fm #020
In this episode, we speak to Darshan Gajara. He is a Product Designer, Product Maker and has remote working experience of more than 3 years. He is currently working as a Senior Product Designer at GraphCMS in Berlin and is the Founder of Product Disrupt. #founder #producthunt
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❓⏰ Questions:
Your story
0:00 Introduction
02:45 How did you get started in design?
Freelancing and Remote Work
05:34 How did you make the transition from full-time work to full time freelancing?
08:14 What are the key differences between being a freelancer, working remotely, and being a consultant?
13:00 What are the responsibilities when working as a consultant?
14:33 When should designers consider freelancing as a full-time option?
18:10 What do you feel about the current freelance space as compared to when you were starting off?
20:35 How do you feel Covid-19 is going to affect remote work?
Personal Branding
23:30 Do you feel that everyone should have a personal brand?
24:08 What is the purpose of a personal brand according to you?
25:48 What does a personal brand consist of?
27:02 What are the expectation vs realities of building a personal brand?
29:17 What was your approach in building your personal brand?
36:49 How can someone build their story and narrative?
40:47 Since “Mediums influence the message”, what kind of mediums do you feel are the best for aspirants to put worth their message?
Side Hustles
44:11 How was Product Disrupt created?
47:30 What is your criteria for featuring content on the Product Disrupt website and newsletters?
52:23 What methods did you use for scaling up your projects and getting more reach?
55:30 What are some of the difficulties you faced while building and sustaining Product Disrupt?
59:10 How do you decide between working on new side hustles vs scaling up existing ones?
01:02:26 How can beginners get over the fear of making their side projects public?
01:10:39 Can you tell us more about your book ‘How to crack the product design interview’ and when is it being made public?
Experiences and Learnings
01:17:12 In times when you’re feeling low, what do you do and what do you suggest your juniors should do?
01:20:32 What were your top 3 learnings from your design journey so far?
Sign off
01:24:29 What's something you wish you knew when you were starting off?
Product Disrupt: https://productdisrupt.com/
Darshan's website: https://darshangajara.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weirdowizard/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WeirdoWizard
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Sisi Yu – UX Designer at Unqork, Previously at Adobe – Whiteboard.fm #019
In this episode, we speak to Sisi Yu. She is currently working at Unqork as a UX Designer and has previously worked at Adobe as a Machine Intelligence Experience Design intern. #adobe #machinelearning
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❓⏰ Questions:
0:00 Introduction
02:03 How did you get started in design?
03:14 What made you apply to Adobe for a design internship?
04:43 Adobe design internship process
09:05 What projects did you work on during your internship at Adobe?
19:51 Designing creative tools for the future with AI and ML functionalities at Adobe
26:19 How did you develop an interest in User Experiences for AI-Native Products and what are your sources of learning?
31:33 What is the difference in workflow between standard UI/UX and UX for AI-Native Products?
39:07 Spotify Redesign project walkthrough
51:53 Can you tell us more about your interest in Creative Coding projects and how did you get started?
55:48 Top 3 learnings from your design journey
Sisi's website: https://sisi-yu.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/si.sqrd/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sheepgoesblah
This podcast is part of the #10kdesigners Network.
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Nikhil Yadav – Product Designer at Gojek – Whiteboard.fm #018
In this episode, we speak to Nikhil Yadav. He is currently working at Gojek as a Product Designer. He has previously interned at UrbanClap (now Urban Company) and has graduated from IIT Roorkee in Production and Industrial engineering. #gojek #uiuxdesign
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❓⏰ Questions:
0:00 Introduction
01:11 How did you get started in design?
02:33 How did you get your first freelance project?
05:55 Internship project at Urban Company
15:27 What is your process for applying to companies?
18:50 How did you apply for your design job at Gojek?
22:37 Projects done at Gojek
31:48 Day to day life as a Product Designer at Gojek
33:31 Hiring process at Gojek
34:54 How did you apply for DesignUp 2018 scholarship?
36:19 How can a designer get started with web development?
42:17 How to start documenting your work?
45:25 Top 3 learnings from your design journey
49:07 What is your advice to someone who is getting started in design?
51:18 What are the things you wish you knew when you were starting out?
Nikhil's website: https://nikhilyadav.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nikhil_shares/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nikhilshares
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Courtney Tam – Product Design Intern at Cognite – Whiteboard.fm #017
In this episode, we speak to Courtney Tam. She has previously interned at Microsoft and Shopify. She is studying Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and is currently interning at Facebook as a Product Designer. #shopify #microsoft
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❓⏰ Questions:
0:00 Introduction
01:04 How did Courtney get into Design?
02:21 How did you transition from Fine Arts to Computer Science background?
03:13 What made you want to apply to companies like Microsoft and Shopify?
04:30 Interview process at Shopify
06:49 How has your background in computer science helped you in designing?
10:05 Shopify Onboarding project
20:46 What are your learnings from your Shopify internship?
23:55 Microsoft Smart Tagger System project
34:54 What have been the changes in your design thinking and working approach?
36:54 Project at Cognite
44:15 How do you select the projects that you want to work on in companies?
47:21 What are your top 3 learnings from your design journey?
Courtney's website: https://www.courtneytam.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_courtneytam/
This podcast is part of the #10kdesigners Network.
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Sneha Sankar – Head of Visual Design at Graphy – Whiteboard.fm #016
In this episode, we speak to Sneha Sankar. She is currently working as the Head of Visual Design at Graphy. She has previously worked at Unacademy as the Creative Lead and has graduated from NID Ahmedabad in Graphic Design and Visual Communication. #graphicdesign #visualcommunication
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❓⏰ Questions:
0:00 Introduction
01:13 How did you get started in design?
03:00 Programs at NID, admission process, experience and day to day life
13:32 What are some of the things that design undergrads gain or lack when compared to self taught designers?
20:09 What are some of the things that you’ve learned from the industry that you wish you knew in college?
22:49 Can you tell us about your work profile during your role as the Creative Lead at Unacademy?
26:45 Process of creating the 360 marketing campaign at Unacademy and roles played by the Creative team
32:08 Most common mistakes made and nuances neglected when it comes to Branding
40:18 How can self taught beginner designers learn to pitch their ideas?
46:50 This Is Not Street Art – NID graduation project
54:21 How to convert personal work into self projects?
01:01:29 Tiptoptypetips
01:07:16 What are your tips on overcoming burnout?
01:10:17 What are your Top 3 learnings from your design journey?
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Tiptoptypetips: https://www.tiptoptypetips.com/
Graphy: https://twitter.com/graphyapp
NID Admissions: http://admissions.nid.edu/NIDA2020/Default.aspx
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Gaana Srinivas – Founding Designer at Rune – Whiteboard.fm #015
In this episode, we speak to Gaana Srinivas. She is currently working as the Founding Designer at Rune. She has previously worked at Amazon and has graduated from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. #product #interactiondesign
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❓⏰ Questions:
0:00 Introduction
01:15 How did you get started in design?
04:18 Can you tell us about the Interaction Design program at CIID?
11:45 What is a typical week at CIID like?
15:27 How can someone apply for the Interaction Design program at CIID?
16:51 Can you tell us about your work at Rune?
19:19 How does having knowledge about the Growth domain help in product level thinking?
21:52 What are some of the fields that product designers can learn a bit from, to elevate their game?
23:22 Project Vox
36:38 Immersive experiences and Messy AR
42:35 Differences between self-taught and design school backgrounds
49:23 What are your top 3 learnings from your design journey so far?
52:30 What advice would you give to people who want to get started in design?
54:18 How do you think the number of female designers in the industry can be improved?
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Rune: https://www.rune.ai/
CIID Admissions: http://ciid.dk/education/interaction-design-programme/admissions/
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Siddhant Puri – Product Manager at Bounce – Whiteboard.fm #014
In this episode, we speak to Siddhant Puri. He is currently working as a Product Manager at Bounce. He is an undergrad from UC Berkeley in Electrical engineering and Computer Science and has previously worked at UrbanClap. #product #bounce
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❓⏰ Questions:
04:40 What was the Referral network and how was it built?
06:56 How did you get into Product Management?
09:29 How did you get started in Bounce?
13:58 Why do you think development experience is important before getting into Product Management?
15:23 How has your development experience helped you in your role as a PM?
18:07 Work at bounce
23:40 Writing PRDs for different sectors in the company
32:52 What has been your role in the Growth domain of the company?
35:05 What are the challenges that you have faced as a PM at Bounce?
37:20 Day to day life at Bounce for a PM
44:26 What challenges did you come across when working at a hypergrowth stage for the company?
50:20 What are the tools used by PMs at Bounce?
51:34 Changes in workflow due to COVID-19
53:21 How to get started as a PM?
56:13 Requirements for becoming a PM
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Bounce Careers: https://careers.bounceshare.com/
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Antonio Song – Product Designer at LinkedIn – Whiteboard.fm #013
In this episode, we speak to Antonio Song. He is currently working as a Product Designer at LinkedIn. He is an undergrad from Carnegie Mellon University in Human Computer Interaction and has previously interned at LinkedIn and Paypal. He has also been a part of Iris Rover, an independent Lunar Rover project funded by NASA. #design #linkedin
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❓⏰ Questions:
1:23 How did you get started in Design?
3:00 How did you get your first design internship?
6:47 How do you approach companies for jobs and internships?
10:00 How do you prepare for interviews and what is your strategy?
17:38 Hashtag Reshare project at LinkedIn
22:03 Zoom project
33:49 What are the differences in workings and team structure at Paypal, Venmo and LinkedIn?
39:19 LinkedIn Hiring process
43:21 About the HCI program at Carnegie Mellon University
45:46 Iris Rover project at CMU
1:00:25 How do you manage to work on such versatile projects?
1:05:00 What are your future plans?
1:08:25 Top 3 learnings from your design journey
Antonio's website: https://www.antonios.work/
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King Sidharth – Head of Design and Product at Headout – Whiteboard.fm #012
In this episode, we speak to Sidharth. He is currently working as the Head of Design and Product at Headout. He was previously a part of the founding team at Instamojo. He has given more than 40 talks, 2 TEDx talks and is a Design YouTuber with his channel called King Sidharth. #design #product
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Headout: https://www.headout.com/careers
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Jeremy Stokes Jr. – Product Design Intern at Google Seattle – Whiteboard.fm #011
In this first episode of Whiteboard.fm Season 2, we speak to Jeremy Stokes Jr. Jeremy is an IT Engineering undergrad and has completed his Masters in Experience Design. He has worked at Google Seattle as a User Experience Design Intern with the Google Duo team.
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Just Us Podcast: https://anchor.fm/just-us
Google Design: https://careers.google.com/teams/design/
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Shreya Shankar – Product Designer at Uber – Whiteboard.fm #010
In this episode, we talk to Shreya Shankar, a Mechanical engineering and Visual Arts undergrad from Duke University. She is currently working as a Product Designer at Uber, San Francisco and has previously interned at Fractal Ink Design Studio, Mumbai.
Shreya's website: http://www.shreyashankar.me/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_shreyashankar
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shreya-shankar-2019/
Uber Design: https://www.uber.com/in/en/careers/design/
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Devansh Gandhi – Product Design Intern at Facebook – Whiteboard.fm #009
In this episode, we talk to Devansh Gandhi, an Interaction Design undergrad from the University of Washington. He is a former product design intern at Facebook Menlo Park, has previously interned at Unacademy and is also an incoming product design intern at Facebook Seattle.
Devansh's website: https://www.devanshgandhi.com/
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Facebook Design: https://facebook.design/
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Komal Maheshwari – Product Design Intern at Cure.Fit – Whiteboard.fm #008
In this episode, we talk to Komal Maheshwari, a third-year architecture undergrad from IIT Roorkee and a former product design intern at Cure.Fit
Medium: https://medium.com/@k.maheshwari1997
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Cure.Fit: https://www.cure.fit/
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Sanjana Galgalikar – Product Designer at Pulse Labs – Whiteboard.fm #007
In this episode, we talk to Sanjana Galgalikar, product designer at Pulse Labs, Seattle, Washington. She has graduated from the University of Washington and has also interned at Frog Design and Nordstrom.
Sanjana's website: http://www.sanjanagalgalikar.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sanjanasg
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjanagalgalikar/
Pulse Labs: https://www.pulselabs.ai/
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Chethan KVS – Product Designer at Unacademy – Whiteboard.fm #006
In this episode, we talk to Chethan KVS, product designer at Unacademy, Bangalore. He is also a Design YouTuber with his channel called Design Pilot.
Chethan's website: https://www.chethankvs.design/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KvsChethan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chethan-kvs-048583106/
Design Pilot: https://www.youtube.com/designpilot
Unacademy: https://unacademy.com/
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Duaa Zaheer – Product Design Intern at Microsoft – Whiteboard.fm #005
In this episode, we talk to Duaa Zaheer, incoming product design intern at Facebook and former product design intern at Microsoft, Vancouver. Duaa is also the founder of the design community Designers of Colour and is an undergraduate in Interaction Design from Sherdian College, Ontario, Canada.
Duaa's website: https://www.duaa.design/
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Viba Mohan – Product Designer at Obvious – Whiteboard.fm #004
In this episode, we talk to Viba Mohan, product designer at Obvious, Bangalore. Viba is also the founder of the design community Cmd+J and is a undergraduate in Interaction Design from PES University, Bangalore.
Viba's website: https://vibamohan.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vibamohan_
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/viba-mohan-91b077139/
Obvious: https://obvious.in
Obvious' hiring playbook: https://playbook.obvious.in/hiring/hiring-philosophy
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Aditya Shrivastava – Product Design Intern at Hotstar – Whiteboard.fm #003
In this episode, we speak to Aditya Shrivastava, product design intern at Hotstar. Aditya graduated in UX design from Symbiosis University, Pune.
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Arnob Mukherjee – Design System Manager at Ola, Qubole – Whiteboard.fm #002
In this episode, we speak to Arnob Mukherjee, product designer, maker and developer. Arnob is currently the design system manager at Ola and has previously worked with Qubole and Bro4u. He is the founder of Culrs App, and graduated in IT engineering from Christ University, Bangalore.
Arnob's website: iamarnob.com
Twitter: twitter.com/iamarnob6543
Culrs App: https://www.culrs.com/#/
A small growth thread for culrs side project.
https://twitter.com/iamarnob6543/status/1191216323826634753
A case study on relaunching the side project after 2 years, it talks about how I was scaling the project in the first few months.
https://blog.productdisrupt.com/growing-my-side-project-month-1-db9aeffc8719
This were the screenshot and process for the first time when we launched curls website back in 2016
https://iamarnob.com/bro4u/culrs.html
Redesigning bro4u first full fledged UI/UX Project
https://iamarnob.com/bro4u/bro4u.html
A full end to end process case study on building a design system*
https://medium.com/qubole-design/birth-of-our-new-designs-system-part1-e6a836040148
https://medium.com/qubole-design/birth-of-our-new-design-system-part2-89929f63bca3
https://medium.com/qubole-design/birth-of-our-new-design-system-part-3-4686009c62aa
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Ansh Mehra – Product Design Intern at Swiggy – Whiteboard.fm #001
In this first debut episode of Whiteboard.fm, we speak to Ansh Mehra, a product designer, filmmaker and podcast host. Ansh is a CS undergrad from VIT Vellore and is currently interning as a product designer at Swiggy in Bangalore. He is also the host of the Take it Easy podcast.
Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4M9aEfjFX3DdRNcFqDEqzA
Ansh's website: https://anshmehra.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anshmehraaa/
Behance: https://behance.net/anshmehra
Take it Easy podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7giRxq7zzZcC7RU4x6FrYt?si=DwKD7X4aR4amjzswc-MLbQ
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