We tried something a little different this week. We spoke with 4 different designers - Simon Leung (Product Designer at Quantum Mob), Franchesca Tingting (Senior Product Designer at Event Mobi), Rishabh Varshney (Co-founder & CEO at Lake Financial) & Sophia Yang (Marketing Intern @ Quantum Mob) - at various points in the careers. We explore their array of experiences getting started in design, what design means to them, working with unversed colleagues, and making changes to a city (like Toronto) by applying design techniques.

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Time Guide:
00:40 - Introductions
01:05 - How did you get into design?
02:12 Mish-Mash of Background
03:09 - Print is Dying
03:50 - Leap of Faith
04:22 - What is Design?
05:28 - Where do designers add value?
05:49 - Communicating the exact product
06:37 - Bad Design?
07:31 - Daily Activities
08:31 - Integration with Developers
09:40 - Startup/User Research
09:57 - Resources
10:50 - Design Communities
11:16 - Peers as your teachers
11:50 - Room for Improvement?
12:25 - Signage & Following Traffic
13:54 - Improvement to the City?
14:22 - Different Perspectives
16:03 - Changing the Slack Logo
17:10 - Tangents
17:55 - Freshii
18:44 - Speed and Design
21:31 - User Research
22:44 - Observe your target market
24:00 - Get to know your client
25:00 Moving away from ‘the clinical’
26:09 - Folding Phones
27:25 - Upcoming Changes
28:15 - Automated Cars
29:47 - Design solving problems
31:55 - Instagram ‘heart’ icon
32:35 - Evolving Roles
35:40 - Functionality
38:09 - Developer interaction
42:10 - Takeaways
43:59 - Conclusions

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Links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-ch-leung/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/franchescatingting/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rishabhvarshney/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophia-yangg/

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