Udhaya Kumar Padmanabhan on India

<p>Udhaya Kumar Padmanabhan is a Global Strategic Design Director at <a href="https://www.designit.com">Designit</a>, an international strategic design consultancy. He is based in Bangalore, and in this conversation we talk about challenges and opportunities inherent in designing information systems for the Indian market.</p> <h2>Listen to the show</h2> <p><a href= "https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/theinformedlife/The_Informed_Life_-_Episode_65_-_Udhaya_Kumar_Padmanabhan.mp3"> Download episode 65</a></p> <h2>Show notes</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/uxfirst/">Udhaya Kumar Padmanabhan</a> (LinkedIn)</li> <li><a href="https://www.designit.com">Designit</a></li> <li><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India">Languages of India</a> (Wikipedia)</li> <li><a href= "https://negd.gov.in/india-enterprise-architecture">IndEA (India Enterprise Architecture)</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.meity.gov.in">Indian Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.swiggy.com">Swiggy</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.zomato.com/kingman-ks">Zomato</a></li> </ul> <p><em>Some show notes may include Amazon affiliate links. I get a small commission for purchases made through these links.</em></p> <h2>Read the transcript</h2> <p><strong>Jorge:</strong> Udhaya, welcome to the show.</p> <p><strong>UKP:</strong> Hey, Jorge! Thanks for having me here.</p> <p><strong>Jorge:</strong> I'm excited to have you on the show with us. For folks who might not know you, can you please introduce yourself?</p> <h3>About UKP</h3> <p><strong>UKP:</strong> Okay. So, my name is Udhaya Kumar Pamanabhan. A very long name, but friends and family called me UKP. I've been a practicing designer for 25 years. In that ballgame, I was part and parcel of many, many successful acquisitions. I built and sold a couple of my own companies. And design is the only thing I've been doing for a living. And I started way back, with very, very rudimentary stuff like visual design, graphic design, and all