After 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)...

In 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...

Psst! 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...

Ever 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)...

You'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...

Still 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)...

Tired 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)...

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...

We 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)...

As 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...

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...

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...

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:...

Are 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...

In 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...

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...

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...

Did 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...

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...

How 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...

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...

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...

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...

Ryan 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. --- 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 --- Gayanjith Premalal...