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Design Lota

Design Lota

Angie & Sushi

The podcast about life as Indian Designers. Hosted by Interaction Designer Angeline Bhavya and Industrial Designer Sushmita Charlu. As designers from two different fields, our intention is to be an authentic voice of the everyday designer and to bring the Indian design community closer.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Design Lota episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Design Lota for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Design Lota episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

Design Lota - E010 Design and Spaces
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11/08/17 • 37 min

Design duo Adrita Das and Karan Worah of 'Smarter than a waffle' talk about various kinds of spaces impact design. References and full transcript for this episode at https://designlota.wordpress.com/2017/11/08/881/
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Design Lota - E029 Design Mentorship with Anshuman Dhar
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08/16/20 • 43 min

In this episode, we speak to recent graduate, UX designer and Co-founder of Cmd+J, Anshuman Dhar who shares how mentorship can help newbies as well as seasoned designers.

Anshuman talks about how he moved from chemical engineering to UX design

Angie and Anshuman discuss how the definition of mentorship is changing and the power of community mentorship.

We note how design institutions have easy access to mentorship in the form of a rich network of different kinds of mentors to learn from.

Anshuman describes the gap that Cmd+j seeks to fill.

Young designers are looking for ‘someone like us’ who made it.

Mentorship is about giving back to the community.

As a mentee, assembling your own mentors by finding people who resonate with your unique journey can be powerful.

We look at best practices of reaching out to a mentor online.

Design Lota blog: designlota.com

Design Lota is hosted by designers Angeline Bhavya and Sushmita Charlu.

Podcast Music by Shankar Narayan

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In Part 1 of this episode, Manojna Yeluri - Lawyer and Founder of Artistik License, walks us through the legalities of being artists and designers.

She tells us what got her working with the creative community as a lawyer. We learn about the methods she has used to demystify legalese and make useful legal information more accessible.

We power through those tough questions about how to handle difficult clients and projects and ways to make the process more structured. We also speak about IP, NDAs, plagiarism, power games and managing effective feedback loops.

Manojna offers some useful advice on best practices that we can follow as creatives to take care of some of these aspects ourselves.

She ponders how the future of the law can be as a dynamic as creativity is and how both parties can learn from each other and build each other up for the better.

The transcript for this blog is on our blog www.designlota.com

Podcast Music - Desh by Shankar Narayan

Podcast hosts - Sushmita Charlu and Angeline Bhavya

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Design Lota - E011 Design and #lifegoals
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11/22/17 • 29 min

Manoj Chenthamarakshan, a designer turned life-coach, talks about how our state of mind can affect our work. References and Transcript for this episode at: https://designlota.wordpress.com/2017/11/22/episode-11-design-and-lifegoals/
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Design Lota - E016 Designers and Tools
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07/11/18 • 11 min

In this episode, Sushi and Angie chat about designers and the tools of their trade. We attempt to define what design tools are, and what qualifies as a design tool. We reminisce about a time when design was more about thinking with your hands. We question if tools beginning to define the designer, and does knowing or owning tools ensure a superior quality of design work? We discuss the importance of a foundation of intangible and valuable design tools in a world where tools come and go so often.
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Design Lota - E023 Experiments with Productivity
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09/02/19 • 12 min

In this episode, Sushi and Angie discuss productivity and how it’s about managing expectations and emotions as much as it is about managing time.

We discuss how emotions play a huge role in how we feel about our work and go about accomplishing tasks.

We share how high expectations can be counter-productive and keep us from taking the first step.

We talk about how to tend to your to-do list often to keep it realistic.

We look at ways to take real breaks that actually energize us instead of shortcuts that wear us down.

We talk about the power of scheduling and saying no.

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Design Lota - E020 A year of Design Lota
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09/12/18 • 6 min

It's been year since we started this podcast. We're fondly calling it a Lota-versary! While most of our episodes are recorded remotely, for this episode we met and had a quick chat about how we started, what we learnt and some of our favourite episodes. We also video recorded this episode and have it up on our blog designlota.com
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Design Lota - E021 The User in UX
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09/26/18 • 43 min

In this episode we talk to Ripul Kumar, Head of UX at Tally and Ex-founder of a design research firm, Kern. Ripul talks about how he discovered User Research to be his forte and what led to him opening his own research firm. We discuss how research techniques must be creatively adapted to the cultural context to get meaningful insights. Ripul gives us some ideas on what to do when there is not enough budget or priority given for research in a corporate setting, and how to bring in a culture of research in different ways. We ponder about 'best practices' in the research process and when to use them. Ripul shares his experience watching and being part of the changing design scene in India over the last couple of decades. We talk about Design Leadership and what it takes to lead design in our contexts. Ripul talks about his learnings in the journey from Research Consultant to Head of UX and also a course in Management at MIT Sloan.
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Design Lota - E014 Design Portfolios
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06/13/18 • 44 min

We chat with Martijn Van den Broeck, author of the Unofficial Design Portfolio Handbook, about putting our work out there, personal branding, and how helping others is as effective as portfolios in creating opportunities. We talk about Martijn's journey into design and his experience as a student at Umea institute of Design in Sweden. Martijn tells us how he got started writing about Design Portfolios and how his Medium articles on this topic got him onto IDEO's radar. He shares how sharing your journey and your imperfect work can be a wonderful way to showcase your authenticity and create opportunities for meaningful work. He talks about his Internship opportunities at IDEO and Google. He also shares some practical advice for designers and students who are working on their portfolios. Martijn's portfolio and his handbook can be found here: http://martijnvandenbroeck.com/ Umea Institute of Design: http://www.uid.umu.se/en/ Design Lota blog: designlota.com
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Design Lota - E022 Art as a Life Skill
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08/09/19 • 37 min

In this episode, we speak to Nitasha Sarangi, who is an experienced graphic designer and an Art Therapy researcher.

Nitasha talks about what sparked her interest in Art Therapy and how art can empower people to deal with issues like stress, grief, personal tragedy and more.

She talks about the variety of art activities like drawing, pottery, music and movement that she uses in her workshops. She also elaborates on the science of Art Therapy and why it works.

She also enlightens us on how she points her clients to clinical therapy where that may be more beneficial.

We discuss the importance of teaching art as a core subject in school education.

She shares how conducting Art Therapy workshops has made her a more empathetic designer.

She shares her views about making art accessible and how natural it is to us as human beings.

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Nitasha’s Art Babblers initiative:

www.artbabblers.com

https://www.instagram.com/artbabblers

https://www.facebook.com/artbabblers/

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FAQ

How many episodes does Design Lota have?

Design Lota currently has 38 episodes available.

What topics does Design Lota cover?

The podcast is about Design, Podcasts and Arts.

What is the most popular episode on Design Lota?

The episode title 'E010 Design and Spaces' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Design Lota?

The average episode length on Design Lota is 29 minutes.

How often are episodes of Design Lota released?

Episodes of Design Lota are typically released every 14 days.

When was the first episode of Design Lota?

The first episode of Design Lota was released on Sep 2, 2017.

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