0242 - Digital Product Design with Mitch Eva

Our hosts today are Bonnie Lyons and Téo Bayon, and our guest is Mitchell Eva, Principal Designer @ Sonalake,

Dublin. 

Welcome to the podcast Mitch. Starting off, could you say a little about your background and interests?

·       A short sketch of the kinds of projects Sonalake works on?

·       How does your process change between your in-house products like SwitchedOn Fibre and your client work? 

·       What differences have you seen between working as a designer in Africa vs Ireland?  

·       Where do you see product design fitting within the whole product lifecycle? 

·       How is a Product Designer different to a UI/UX Designer or an interface designer? 

·       Thoughts on essential skills to work UX/ID?

·       Do you use AI in your own designer workflow?

·       Can you talk about the need for designers to go outside the bubble and consider the whole enterprise system... and sell the value of design to your team, your clients, the corporates.

·       Any books you'd recommend from your (virtual) bookshelf?

Are there any questions from the audience?

Notes, extra questions, and further reading:

Mitchell Eva on Sonalake - When Design is Not Design - https://sonalake.com/latest/canvases-and-frameworks-when-design-is-not-design/

Mitch has put together a design-focused learning resource library – (link) 

Innovation podcasts

The “Sans Permission” podcast (in French)

Actor Network Theory – see the Wikipedia entry (link). ANT arises as a coevolving concept/framework through the work of scholars such as Michel Callon, Madeleine Akrich and Bruno Latour, the sociologist John Law, and others.

The HEART framework - https://www.heartframework.com

Figma Design - https://www.figma.com

Friends of Figma - https://friends.figma.com/dublin/

Acknowledgements

Music 

Title: Moody Break  01

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source:  a-Wed10Oct2024

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Cover Art 

Title: MitchAndAllen

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: MitchAndAllen.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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