#30 | Nick Cochran | Driving and growing design within organisations

In episode 30 I talk with Nick Cochran, Design Strategy Manager at ExxonMobil. During UX India we sat together and exchanged over his experiences building and growing internal design communities, resources and culture for many years. We tap into his experience transitioning from a technical IT role into the design and being part of day one of design within the organization why and how to evangelize a design-mindest within an organisation and how he helped to establish a internal design culture how to pull in other departments into design practices and methods and empower other teams to use the same methods - building bridges with other departments how to grow a design community, methods, processes within an organisation and built out the infrastructure that empowers the design team to drive impact how to communicate design value to other teams and what it can deliver to the business and the products This episode is in collaboration with uxindiaconf (ux-india.org) UX INDIA. More episodes from the UX India (and soon IXDA Interaction 20) are on the way. About UX India UX India is a not-for-profit venture, UX INDIA is built by, built for, and sustained by its growing community of designers, enthusiasts, influencers from business, education, and governance.UXINDIA is being organized by UsabilityMatters.Org(UMO). With over 800+ attendees at UX India 2019, it was India’s largest conference on user experience design. UXINDIA™ helps to educate the next generation by bringing innovators and UX practitioners from across the world. Learn more at https://www.ux-india.org and https://www.umo.design