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This is the second episode of a 10 Part series, "Designer’s Digest” with Hardik Pandya, Sr. VP of Design at Unacademy Group. This series is about Design as a profession, it’s daily grind, the secrets to climbing the design career ladder and what edge we’ll need to thrive in the captivating world of design. I have a co-host with me, Shreyas Satish. He is the founder of ownpath.com , ownpath is a platform for designers to upskill, find community, and unlock exciting opportunities, and also helps companies grow their design teams. I had Shreyas as a guest in episode 218 when I did a series “Where are the designers” talking to 12 top influential Design leaders from India. And for today’s episode which is also my domain of designing Digital products, we have a perfect guest and a common friend, Hardik Pandya. He is a Design leader with an innate love for building products with good design. Currently He is a Senior Vice President, Design of The Unacademy Group. Previously a Design Lead at Google Search, G Suite and Google Cloud, Ola and more. Questions How did you get into Design? You are a lateral entrant? What were early days like? Can you walk us through your journey towards being a lead designer? Were there things that came fairly naturally, like taking ownership and initiative, and were things you had to deliberately learn? In No Career Conversations in Isolation, you write “The way to get to the work you want to be doing in the future is earning the trust of your manager. Are there any stories or examples you can share where earning that trust unlocked the opportunity you were looking for? Now that you are heading teams, how does your typical day look like? Do you happen to work hands-on still? From where and how do you hire? Do you look for talent laterally? How do you spot talent? Junior / nerdy / geeky / high end colleges / pedigree? Is hiring a gamble? What are some traits you look for when you’re hiring a senior designer? How do you actually tell if they possess those traits? What are some common mistakes you see designers make with portfolios? Who have been your best hires and why? Which background did they come from? A lot of hiring conversations tend to be very backward looking i.e the work they’ve done, the situations they’ve been in and so on. But, I believe the real alpha, especially from a company’s point of view is being able to gauge what they can do in the future. What’s your take on this and how do you try to identify potential in designers? What skills do you expect from designers for the future in the world of AI? Reference links https://twitter.com/hvpandya https://www.linkedin.com/in/hardikpandya/?originalSubdomain=in https://medium.com/@hvpandya https://hardik.substack.com/ https://www.ownpath.com/ https://hvpandya.com/ https://www.instagram.com/godrejdesignlab/ https://www.godrejdesignlab.com/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrrt1Y8BkAyph0bmVRVsRF1UTgsf1Lxo9 This is a public episode. If you wou

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If you are currently applying for jobs and interviewing, you need a realistic guide to interviewing for design jobs, so we reached out to Hardik who shared his secret sauce on his experience and frameworks for interviewing. Hardik Pandya is a senior designer currently, he works at Google Search leading the user experience of the Search box & Autocomplete. He previously designed enterprise experiences in G Suite for Google Cloud. Before Google, he has helped multiple companies in India shape the experience of their web & mobile products – most notably Olacabs, Instamojo & Wellthy Therapeutics. Follow Hardik on twitter for more nuggets: https://twitter.com/hvpandya ------ On the side note: If you are building a portfolio, it’s up on our YouTube channel in which Hardik walks us through his portfolio and how to build a great portfolio. Watch the full video case study here: https://youtu.be/EGiyQHgPGjo ------- Thank you for listening to the episode and if you have questions you would love to be answered, send us a direct message on Twitter and we'll answer them for you in the next session. DM us with questions on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hireworthy Listen/ Follow on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2IdPLOJBMntHcaqfm8j3Kt?si=UAqViIqeSNOsS7_-WMtBzQ Listen on other podcast apps via Anchor: https://anchor.fm/hireworthy ------

Today we caught up with Hardik Pandya, a product designer at Google in India, currently working on GSuite and Google Photos. In this episode we dig into Hardik's background and discovery of design, working from startups to Google, the design scene and tech landscape in India, and so much more. We've also got a big announcement: we're building a new thing for you! It's called Spectrum and it's a place for the community to hang out and share what's going on in design, development, and anything else you might be interested in. We're still in beta, so expect bugs and lots of improvements over the next few weeks, but in the meantime we'd love to hang out with you and chat! Sign up at Spectrum.chat , join the SpecFM community , and share feedback in our Spectrum bug report channel ! Hardik on the web: Twitter Medium