Podcast Episode > 5x5 Five Questions to Five Designers
There is a lot to learn from our fellow of designers, not about design necessarily, but about our life choices, our responsibilities and our attitude to work. In these strange times that we are in, community builds sanity. Read on.
I have been working with the team@DesignUp on the 2021 edition of the Deconstruct Report. It is about the pandemic and how it has affected the design-in-tech industry. The report covers - Where and how did designers work during the year? How did the pandemic affect their career and income? How did businesses manage this pandemic? How did they train and develop their design teams? How did they hire? How did all of us feel during these bizarre times? What are the leaders predicting as the future for design in tech?
This is a long drawn out exercise with loads of data collected, interviews, stories, data visualisations and unending deliberation over how to present things to you. We should announce the launch of this report soon. In the meantime I thought of doing a sampler, like a teaser or a curtain raiser.
We at India are reeling from the second wave that is mightier than the first one. Before this became clear, about a month back, I spoke to five designers individually and posed five questions: What worries you post pandemic? What are you looking forward to when everything opens up? What did you read, watched or heard that stayed? What’s been your pandemic epiphany/revelation? What would be your advise to your younger self?
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