Zain Khoja – Product Design Intern at GitHub and Instagram – Whiteboard.fm #024
In this episode, we speak to Zain Khoja, an Information Science undergrad from Cornell University. He has previously worked at GitHub as a Design Systems intern and at Instagram as a Product Design Intern. #github #instagram ???? Subscribe to Whiteboard.fm to stay updated with more interviews and clips: https://www.youtube.com/whiteboardfm?sub_confirmation=1 ❓⏰ Questions: 0:00 Introduction 01:20 How did you get started in Design? 05:00 Internship Process at GitHub 09:15 Project Walkthrough: Creating tools, documentation sites, and core components for Primer, GitHub’s open-source design system 15:00 Interview process at Instagram 17:50 How to explain your design decisions as a beginner 22:50 Internship experience at Instagram 25:52 Instagram Design team and their working 30:00 Top learnings and nuances from GitHub and Instagram 32:00 Balancing between learning and teaching Product Design at Cornell University 34:48 Community and volunteer work in Design 37:03 How to create a slide deck for interviews 38:22 What is your process in learnings new skills? 40:36 How important is coding for a designer? 43:33 Top 3 learnings from your design journey GitHub Internship Project: https://zainkho.com/github Zain's website: https://zainkho.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zainkho/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zainkho7/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zainkho Instagram Careers: https://www.instagram.com/about/jobs/ GitHub Careers: https://github.com/about/careers This podcast is part of the #10kdesigners Network. Home: https://10kdesigners.com Browse bite-sized learning in business, product, UI/UX design, freelancing and more: https://booklets.io Get real design inspiration from the world's best-designed apps: https://uisources.com Brought to you by your host, Mayank Khandelwal. Instagram: https://instagram.com/mayankk98 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mayankk98