UX Banter with Dushyant.

In a year of first, I just recorded my first podcast. OMG.

Thanks to an introduction by fellow ADPList.org Top Mentor and friend Jonas Broms, I finally sat down with the globetrotting Dushyant Kanungo for a chat.

We had a fun conversation about my journey living in 5 countries and how it informed a culturally rich, empathetic leadership style. Nothing opens your mind to the vastness of human experience as moving somewhere completely foreign and just making it work.

Its not all glamor mind you. In university, I’d often only eat once every few days, worked a 2 x 12 hour shifts over the weekend and slept on the floor with a towel for a blanket and text books for a pillow. Those days were tough, but in my mind they were the “price of entry” for the life I wanted.

Then we got into definitions and functions of UX in a production cycle, state of UX in the industry. There isn’t enough time in the world to really go deep enough but it was good to scratch the surface of it.

I also got to workshop my concept called The Comparison Paradox, which basically boils down to:

“You want to begin solving your problem by observing how your problem has been solved in the past, but by doing so, you inherit all the mistakes and compromises hidden within what you observe”

Yeesh, as if life weren’t complicated enough.
That was a fun experience. I love talking about my work; it feels almost like the air I breathe. I’m always thinking about it. I’m finally getting round to expressing it a bit more now.

Here’s to many more I hope.