Professional Reflections
SANJALI JAIN
Digital Designer at Photobox Check-Out mevolute: https://mevolute.com/ Connect with Tobias: linkedin.com/in/tobsch
Personally, I am really happy to have left Italy and Germany to study at MDX. I got exposed to a diverse community in London, which now helps me understand and appreciate cultural differences and its benefits. In summary, this is exactly the way I want my startup to be and grow into, being experimental, collaborative and diverse. All the different perspectives, an international mindset and openness will help us to be innovative and build learning experiences for people.
throughout their entire life. We observe that people do not make use of their natural ability to learn and that they experience a drop in learning at an early stage in life. Through our modern-day technology, we guide individuals as well as organisations to become these natural learners (again). So learning is seen as a life-sustaining process like breathing.
Why do we highlight a reason to exist? Not only due to inspiration Living in Berlin now, there is from Simon Sinek do we another thing I miss dearly know about the importance from my life and the people at MDX: The Claddagh Ring. ;) of a clear purpose. It is for good reason that since the beginning of mankind, mevolute is a combination philosophers have been of "me" and "evolute". Our natural learning approach is asking the "Why?" question. By transparently ingrained into our identity. communicating a reason to exist, we define a At mevolute we are common ground as well as convinced that all human shared understandings and beings are born with the values. ability to learn and grow
I’m Sanjali and I graduated as a Product Designer from MDX in 2016. Today I am a Digital Designer at Photobox. What I have learned from the course at MDX is that design can be as complex or as easy as you want it to be. You can describe it in 1000 words or you can describe it in an icon. I must say, I wasn’t always the ‘confident designer’ sometimes I didn’t even know if I was doing the right thing but I remember Wyn saying in our first class: “You are already a designer, if you have chosen to be here.” I still have a lot to learn because corporate design is so different one cannot just simply create exceptional new concepts and expect they all are going to be approved. Sometimes none of them are. However, the challenge is to still create the exceptional with all the restrictions and to the company’s standards. Nevertheless, don’t be afraid to justify your design or your thoughts. The right company will appreciate your individuality; and believe it or not - this is exactly how I landed my job at Photobox. Also, keep evolving, learning new skills and make sure to give full attention to Adobe Creative Suite and Solidworks classes. PRODUCT DESIGN Middlesex University Faculty of Science and Technology
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