The document discusses the speaker's background growing up in Africa and of Indian descent. It then discusses their career path including college, travel experiences, internships, and work at various startups and design studios. It focuses on the speaker's passion for design and experiences working on projects at different companies to reimagine product experiences through a design process that starts with discovery, includes design and execution, and aims to solve real problems and move experiences forward.

1. IT'S NOT ABOUT SHIPPING PRODUCTS,
BUT MOVING THE EXPERIENCE FORWARD
@shalin

2. ABOUT ME

3. NERVOUS SPEAKER

4. BORN IN AFRICA & OF INDIAN DECENT
I AM A CULTURAL SMÖRGÅSBORD

5. DEFINED BY MY EXPERIENCES

6. THE PAST & THE PRESENT
lots of failure leads to growth

7. COLLEGE CAREER
the five year plan

8. TRAVEL
australia and flash

9. JOSH DAVIS
macromedia flash

10. BACK TO SCHOOL
academy of art

11. PASSION AND DETERMINATION
opportunity looks like hard work

12. INTERNSHIP
ten no’s and one maybe

13. NOISE13
real world experience is always better than school

14. ADVERTISING
#fml

15. HOT STUDIO
its visual or user experience

16. HOTNYC
getting comfortable

17. A STARTUP
what happened to building design studio?

18. SOCIALIZE.it
startup life

19. DESIGNER FUND
raise funding to sustain and validate the idea

20. FIVE COMPANIES
connect and make a product

21. MONDAY AT 9 AM
coast to coast

22. THE DIRECTIVE
reimagine the uber app experience

23. THE TEAM
small & nimble

24. THE PROCESS
keep it fast and loose

25. DISCOVERY
what, why, who, how

26. DESIGN & EXECUTION
high fidelity

27. UNDERSTANDING THE
DESIGN PROCESS

28. DESIGN SOLVES REAL PROBLEMS

29. DESIGN STARTS AT THE BEGINNING

30. WHY

31. ENGINEERING
fucking amazing

32. 18 MONTHS AGO
“design” as a practices was non existent

33. TODAY
“shared vision” approach

34. HAVE WE HAD FAILURE
fare split

35. DENIAL
its not a river in africa

36. PROJECT SPRINTS
eight weeks

37. TWO WEEKS / SIX WEEKS
discovery vs execute

38. DISCOVERY
discovery vs execute

39. EXECUTE
discovery vs execute

40. COMPROMISES
discovery vs execute

41. WE BELIEVE IN
moving the experience forward