Zain Khoja – Product Design Intern at GitHub and Instagram – Whiteboard.fm #024
Episode description
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
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❓⏰ 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
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