Ep. 54 | ANU DAY, ANU DESIGN: Learning Lean UX From Former IBM UI-UX Developer, Anu Jayasinghe

It’s ANU day, ANU episode, and in this latest edition of The Agile Coach, Vivek Khattri welcomes Anu Jayasinghe. Anu is the Design Lead at Publicis Sapient. Formerly a UX Designer at IBM, Anu would be a great resource of UX design insights and he will be sharing big chunks of it here, in The Agile Coach.HIGHLIGHTSHow Anu get into UXFinding the first jobAnu's first experience with agileThe UI-UX differenceCurrent projects and challengesHow to start with UX designWhat sets a designer apartQUOTESAnu: “My internships and all that I realized I loved what I did. But when I saw the reality of what that's like, professionally, it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do. But I realized that UX and the whole digital space were a lot more interesting to me.”Anu: “We started doing agile in two weeks, sprints, all of that. And we would, at the end of every two weeks, delivered the design, to engineering.”Anu: “The biggest thing that sets apart a designer from an engineer or business analyst or product owner, whoever is that, for a designer, the, what they care about the most is that end-user, like the human being, who is using whatever the product or services, and that's what they care about, that's the person they care about.”Get to know Anu and what he’s up to:About AnuAbout Publicis SapientAnu’s WebsiteConnect with Vivek and find out more about what he’s up to:About VivekAbout The Agile CoachAgile Coach WebsiteIf you enjoy The Agile Coach and are interested in learning more, you can check us out at the link below:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-agile-coach-llc