Nodes of Design

Kirell Benzi is a data artist, speaker and data visualization lecturer. He holds a PhD in Data Science, presently working as Head Of Research at Ekino. His software engineering and creative coding expertise have allowed him to design new methods specially dedicated to his data passion. Consequently, his work has been shown in museums (ArtLab, Swiss National Museum), newspapers and magazines (La Re...

An engineer with a master's degree in clinical drug design, Tanushree is the perfect example that science and spirituality can walk together. As a teacher with the Art of Living , she has been facilitating youth empowerment programs for over a decade and has trained thousands of youth on mind management and meditation. In this episode, Tanushree shares how meditation can help creative to effective...

There's a lot of talk in the data visualization, We thought it might be helpful to speak with someone who is leading voice on information visualization, and so we were thrilled to get a chance to talk with Manuel Lima , Who is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, named "one of the 50 most creative and influential minds" by Creativity magazine, Manuel Lima is the founder of VisualComplexity.com,...

Amit Patil has been a UX professional for the last 13 years. Currently, he manages a team of designers around workplace intelligence in Microsoft. Previously he has worked for companies like Honeywell Aerospace, IBM and multiple startups. He is an alumnus of NID Gandhinagar and has also been an engineer early in his career. He is also a visiting faculty at NID Bangalore and a member of t...

Ana  Santos is a UX consultant, coach & educator; She helps burned-out creative entrepreneurs grow high-converting businesses and websites through UX strategy. Ana previously worked with clients like Envato, Google, Growth Mentor, EIA and SpringBoard. She is a firm believer that we all can contribute to creating a positive impact in the world. In a tech world dominated by dark patterns an...

Saurabh Srivastava is a seasoned User-Centered Innovation Manager, Design Strategist and Mixed Method Researcher with over ten years of experience. Over the length of his professional career, He has played a vital role in over 15 user-centred innovation technologies, authored 40+ peer-reviewed research publications and holds 15+ filed/granted Patents. Saurabh presently works as Lead Researcher for...

Maitreyee Kalaskar is an independent designer and illustrator. She belives illustration is not just decorative, but it is the best tool for explaining your ideas visually. The Emmy award winner Chris Do select her to be on his channel The Futur for the series called Young Guns season 2 , and in her past, she worked with clients like Krave Beauty, Bazana and many more. She also conducts talks and w...

Paavan Buddhdev is a master’s degree at the University of Oxford. In Computer Science and Philosophy, writer and very famous magician turned into a Product Designer working at AND Digital.  Who is passionate about creating magical digital experiences.  This episode explores how magic can inform our understanding of how humans behave and how it can help design digital products. Also, we h...

"Innovation comes from iteration, measurement and engagement" - Sharif Matar is a director and producer turned UX designer and Mentor. He worked with valuable brands like Chase, GA, Olay, Ford, Marriott, NBC and more. He is passionate about accessibility and helping create sustainable ecosystems that improve life.  In this episode, he shared a wealth of knowledge that will help designers buil...

We’ve spoken to many design leaders throughout Nodes of Design, but this episode is the first chance we’ve had to talk with someone who comes from the research and innovation side of design. Fabin Rasheed , Design-led, Innovator who worked in the Experience Design space for over eight years with seven patents filed as a primary inventor, four granted of which also he is Officially an Adobe Invento...

Nelio Barros is a Designer, Entrepreneur, Paraglider pilot and Type Designer of the popular type - Nixin Typeface which is one of the most-backed campaigns on Kickstarter.   In this episode, Nelio shared his journey of creating the typeface Nixen. We also had a brief talk on breaking the doubt- Typeface vs Font. Thruout the episode, we had a great conversation on how various styles of type an...

Nikhil Pawar , a Freelance Motion & Graphics Designer and the founder of Dope Motion- living in a world where design is not an option but a choice to do it. With that in the head, Nikhil disrupted motion graphics and built a network of 215K Subscribers on YouTube . Helping teach creatives on motion graphics across the globe. In this episode, I talked with Nikhil on what is his process in makin...

Patricia Reiners has had a fantastic arc to her designing for the future career from working with clients like Adobe, Google, IKEA, Vodafone. Patricia has always sought to design things that are “useful, usable, and magical. Along with the exceptional touch of Storytelling. She also runs a podcast, Future of UX , where she interviews design leaders on Designing for the future.  In today's epi...

Hey, everyone, I am super happy to announce the episode on "Hiring and Portfolios", a value bomb episode with Elize Todd is finally here.  Elize became a UX director at a digital marketing agency within one year and a co-founder of a UX design agency within two years. Now, she creates content that helps emerging designers learn how to expedite their careers. Her past clients include Adobe, US...

Luis Ouriach - who is an expert in communicating ideas through visual design, words, and debate. Luis is a lead product designer at upgrade pack, and he is a co-host of Noise podcast and manages a design publication - 8Px on medium.  Luis and I had a great conversation on design systems- tokens, values, elements, and so on. Luis shared his practical experience in building and scaling design s...

Hey, everyone hopes you guys are safe and doing well. On this episode of Nodes of Design, we hosted Eric Lauer, a creative sales coach and owner of Genmonster. They help many creative minds understand sales strategy and how to grow innovatively.  We are glad enough that Eric shared those similar teaching with us in this episode, which includes how to build a relationship with clients, manage...

Hi, everyone hopes you guys are safe and secured. We have Miriam Isaac on today's episode - She is a UX designer and Co-Founder at Hux. She is known for spreading design knowledge across various platforms. She has been Interviewed by @instagram for the @design launch. And Top 18 UX Instagram accounted for the following in 2019.  Miriam and I had a great conversation on Interaction Design whil...

In these typical situations, we all are opting for remote work. To help us clarify and teach us how we all can be competent remote practitioners, we have Alex Dovhyi - A senior product designer who has been a remote worker for over seven years.   Alex is a designer, author, and mentor. His award-winning work has enabled him to create for Fortune 500 companies by being remote working at his ho...

MINIMALISM IS THE ART OF KNOWING HOW MUCH IS JUST ENOUGH. DIGITAL MINIMALISM APPLIES THIS IDEA TO OUR PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY. IT'S THE KEY TO LIVING A FOCUSED LIFE IN AN INCREASINGLY NOISY WORLD - CAL NEWPORT As being designers, we always stuck with using different digital medium to engage or design or interact. Still, during these we most of the time forget ourselves and over consume to much content...

It is crucial as designers that you focus on your creative tools and empathise on your communication skills. As a designer, if you aren't an effective communicator, you are just a pixel pusher. Being an excellent communicator, you can easily collaborate with teams, conveying your design decisions to business and pitching ideas. To help you be a better communicator and a better listener, we have fa...

To make your social media presence more fruitful and achieve a better audience, you need to understand what makes social media special. Why do people use it? And why there is so much fuss about it? To help you answer all these questions on today's episode, we have Dot lung { Mother of social media dragons }. She is a global social strategist running her social media consultancy to create an optimu...

Branding is absolutely critical to a business because of the overall impact it makes on your company. The most important reason branding is important to a business is how a company gets recognition and becomes known to the consumers. The logo is the most important element of branding, especially where this factor is concerned, as it is essentially the company's face.  Daniel Patterson is a fo...

On this week's episode of Nodes of Design, we had Krishna Kishore Pande - Principal Experience designer as a guest on the show. He is a Certified Usability Analyst from HFI with over 17 years of professional experience in User Experience Design & Digital Strategy. He had shared his knowledge on "Lean UX" along with his industrial experience in implementing Lean UX and solving the problems. Kis...

Hello everyone, In this episode, we have Radhika Jamwal - A senior lead UX designer shedding some light on " Empathy in Design ". She spoke about empathy, practising empathy, and making it the core while designing a user-centric product.  She also shares her journey of turning from a coder to a lead designer by chasing her passion. If this episode helped you understand and learn something new...