So like I introduced myself and got to talking to a little bit of you, this is really base level advanced custom fields. So for those of you that have never heard of advanced custom fields, touched advanced custom fields, this is going to be a great entry point for that as far as understanding what advanced custom fields is and being able to utilize that in your site. Throughout this presentation, I'll have some slides that will show website examples, work that I've done, things that I've completed with advanced custom fields that hopefully spur into you some of those thinking, some of those thoughts as to how you can use advanced custom fields for your site. So again, advanced custom fields for the non-advanced. I'm Jonathan Ober. So when we think about our websites and we think about the work that we're doing as designers and maybe even as developers, we really want three things. We want well designed sites. We want our clients to have the complete freedom to be able to edit the content on their sites. And then we also, we don't want our client to ruin them. So as a designer developer, I'm building websites in Photoshop and I'm handing those off to clients and I'm hoping that they don't ruin the work that I've done, the designs that I've done. And so these are some of the problems in the real world that sometimes we face. We're looking at you design a site and you hand it off and all of a sudden the client starts updating content and we know how things can go. So we're going to start first with some examples and these are just sites that I've done, things that I've completed just to kind of give you a little base level of the work that I'm doing. And some of these I'll come back to again in slides later. So a lot of these you'll see slideshows with headings and subheadings, you'll see buttons. You'll see some different visual elements where there's separation of graphics. These are all done in advanced custom fields. This one in particular had some alternating content left and right with images and headings and text. Another slideshow has some buttons. This one actually has a video slideshow that moves as well.  This section of this site here has some sections that detail some of their contact information, other outlets where they've, how they have different locations. They have a gallery, news and articles and we're doing a lot of work there with advanced custom fields. Another example here just a team page utilizing advanced custom fields to show a staff page. So at this point right now what I'm just showing you is design. Sites that I've designed or have worked on and different elements. You know, like I said slideshow services, breakdown of what the client's doing, what the site is trying to convey and that's a beautiful design. And so hopefully some of you, you know, if you are a designer you're designing sites like this and you're, again, maybe looking at some of what I've shown you and you're thinking, well how do I design that? How do I create a home page like that? And so that's kind of what I want to get into now. So we're all familiar with this guy, our WordPress editor, it's gone away soon maybe. But we're familiar with the content editor but we know that as maybe content writers or as designers and developers we're very limited to what we can do in that. We have our headings, we have bullets, we have lists, we have some degree of creating content on the left and the right in the center but there's really not a lot to design when it comes to that. I'll preface this by saying I'm sorry if you're a Gutenberg lover or BFF or whatever but soon Gutenberg's going to be here and I'm not going to talk bad about Gutenberg because honestly I haven't had enough experience with it, I've had enough to make me hesitate right now because of the work that I'm doing in advanced custom fields, it's not quite there for the work that I'm doing but I also will preface this by saying I launched a site for a school with 185 pages about two months ago that's all running on Gutenberg right now and so far so good. So when we're looking at designing our sites and we look at the editor, I talk about how that's very limited in what you can do. You don't have a lot of columns, out of the box you know, the way to align content, put in images and have text next to it, at least not easily, you end up getting that kind of juxtaposition of images that maybe the content flows underneath and you don't have that creative freedom or that ability to really control that. Gutenberg brings in columns and some different block elements that really helps to separate those things but it's still not quite there when it comes to designing full websites. So now we bring in page builders. Love them or hate them, I'll tell you I've used them, I've also probably abused them as crutches to design quickly for clients who don't have funds to really put together a custom built design but at the same time one of my first points was that I'm designing sites and I want the client to edit those but I also don't want them to ruin them and if you've used any one of these, maybe Visual Composer and Elementor and Divi Beaver Builder, you know that once you give that over to the client, say goodbye to the design that you made, right? Now there are some lockdown things that you can do but for the most part, once you give them a page builder, they will ruin it. So we have our problem, we have our desire, and now about our solution. That's advanced custom fields. So advanced custom fields, what is it? It's a WordPress plugin which allows you to add extra content fields to your WordPress edit screens. These extra content fields are more commonly referred to as custom fields, part of the CF and then they can allow you to build websites faster and educate your clients quicker. I will say again, when we look at those page builders, we have our made a page builder site, a Divi site, educating your client on how to edit that, how to drag things in the right order, add some padding, add some margins. It's difficult. You're now giving them design tools, design tools that maybe as a web designer, that you've spent years learning how to properly pad something, give it margins, strokes, whatever it might be, design. So again, part of what ACF is, it gives you the ability to add fields on demand. The ACF field builder allows you to quickly and easily add fields to your WP edit screens with only a click of a few buttons. I know that sounds like magic and easy words, but when you get into it, you start to build a workflow where it really is easy and few buttons. You can take ACF and you can add fields anywhere. So if a custom post type, you want to add fields, you can add fields. You have a post or a page, you can add fields. You want to have advanced custom fields based off of users that are logged in. You can do that. You really truly can add fields anywhere. And then you can show them anywhere. So again, as you're creating fields and you're creating content with advanced custom fields, you can begin to place them around your design, whether it's in the footer, the head or the sidebar. Within your page, you can really build nice sites, great sites, putting content fields anywhere. So let's look at what kinds of fields there are. This list is huge. It might be a little overwhelming. But for me and for what we want to cover, just basic, the fields that I love and use a lot, the text field, the text area field, image field, checkbox and radio buttons, true-false button groups, wissy-wig, I use that one a lot. The... What else do I use a lot? The actual content and the repeater field use those tremendously. Now some of these fields... Advanced Custom Fields is a free plugin, but there are... There is a paid version developer license that gives you all of these fields. So not... If you go and you download Advanced Custom Fields right now, you're not going to see some of these. And I'll be the first to say that Advanced Custom Fields Pro is probably my best investment as a designer developer. I learned about Advanced Custom Fields probably three years ago. I've used it on every website since at the developer level, and I don't get any money for saying that. So now that we know a little bit about, again, our problem and a solution to Advanced Custom Fields, let's look at how we get started with Advanced Custom Fields. So when I get a design, when I get a new site from a client, it's a process. I basically, I look at that website and I say to myself, do I need more than just a content editor? Do I need more than just what the WordPress content editor has to offer or something like Site Origins, Page Builder, or even, you know, Gutenberg and where that's going right now. Do I need more than that? And then I also look at my design and I think to myself, that design, that slideshow, that services offering, that team page, what field groups or fields will I apply to that design? Okay. So we're going to look at that, we're going to look at exactly that and I'm going to walk you through how to get started with Advanced Custom Fields. So the first thing you do in Advanced Custom Fields is you want to create field groups. And typically, my process is I look at the different sections of the site. I look at block terminology, top to bottom, left to right and how I'm going to lay out content on my site. So with Advanced Custom Fields and field groups, I might have a field group for the home page because I have special content on that called actions, services. If I'm using something throughout my site, like a slider on the top of the page, I'll turn that into a field group. So a lot of times just thinking about how you'll utilize those elements on your site within your templates helps to kind of drive how you set up those field groups. So here's an example of some field groups that I've set up. So I had an attachment page, I had a home page slider, an options page, and just a field group that was assigned to my pages. And I'll get into more about how you assign those to different templates later in another slide. So now that I have my field group, it's time to get started adding fields to that group. So field group is kind of the outside box. Fields are the next step. When you set up a new field group, you're going to set up a field name and then you're going to end up setting up the type. So the first thing you do, and we'll look at a slide that has a picture of that, is give it a name and then give it a type. Pro tip. If you're creating field groups and you're creating fields, make sure not to give similar or the same names to your field names, because there can be some conflicts there, especially if you get into multiple field groups and you might have a reference to an image, you don't want to just call it image every time. It's not that one won't necessarily hurt everything, but it gets confusing when you're looking at your code. So this is our field group. Once we've created a field group, we've clicked in now and we're naming our field group. So up here in the top, we'll name our field group just like we name a page or a post. And then underneath of that, we have our field order, label, field name and field type. What you're going to end up doing then is at this point, you'll add a field, which is our blue button here, and then you'll go through some different options. This is a little scrolled down. This is actually in our field group. I've scrolled down and these are other options where one of the powerful things with Advanced Custom Fields is that if you have a field group, let's say you created a custom page or a custom post type using a field group, and you can use these options. You can turn off certain content editor type things like your excerpt field or your content editor altogether, different things within word press. You can turn on and off so that when you're creating a custom page template like a home page, maybe you don't want the original content editor be there, but you want your own fields to be there. So we're going to give our field some settings. We're going to label it and that label is essentially going to auto-generate a name. You can change those, but to me it's like I'm naming something. So I kind of want that field name to be the same. The field name is what's going to be called up in your code and we'll look at some of that PHP code in a little bit. You also select your field type there. That'll be that long list from that prior slide where there was like 30 different options. Each field type has different options here. So I'm selected on the text option, but if you select image or any of the other options, this will using conditional logic will change and reflow depending on which one you select it. So just be mindful of that. There are other settings there, but since we're just talking basic level ACF, I'm not going to get into them. I'll be honest, I don't really use a lot of these either. The top portion here is where the main nuts and bolts are of your ACF field groups or field settings. So now we have our field group and we've assigned fields. So now we've got to tell those fields where to go. So we're going to assign our field groups to our page or post template or a specific area of your site. In the next screen you'll see this, but a pro tip here is you can have a field group, you can create it once and you can assign it to multiple page templates or post templates. It's a pretty sweet thing. So you end up getting this location meta box, which allows you again, you can do an and type thing. So if I select a post type that's in a certain category, it will only show those fields for that. You can use the OR rule. So like, for instance, I create a lot of pages where there's a slide show at the top and I might use that on the homepage, but I might also use that same slide show, the code maybe not the same style on a post or a page template. So I create that slider once and I can use that using the OR. I can assign that to any template. We're about ready to get into some code. Okay. So if this is, if this has so far been scary, I apologize for the next scary thing.  So now we're going to display our values in our theme. So the way that ACF works is basically you want to retrieve field value. So again, let's say I have a field that's you know, I'm writing my own custom page and I have a title and a subtitle that I want to kind of override the content editor and I have other fields in there. I'm going to use get field or the field depending on how I want to work my code to basically pull that content that's being entered into the field and I'm going to display that content in my code which will then in turn display on the front end of my site. So we're retrieving a field value as a variable. We're going to use get field function. This is the most versatile function which will allow the return of a value for any type of field and to display a field you can use the field, the underscore field in a similar fashion. So let's look at what that means because right now might not mean anything. So we're displaying a value in our theme. So this is essentially the code, either the top or the bottom that I would want to use to display values in my theme. So again, I can use the very basic level the field and then in the green the field name whatever I've put in that box on that field group will display on my page or on my post because I put that code into my template file. Now one of the things that I've been doing recently is because again I want to prevent clients from ruining my life is sometimes a client might fill in content but they might miss a field box. So what do you do if they don't fill in content maybe just don't display that field. For instance I'll show an example later where there's a staff page and everybody has or most everybody because we don't talk in absolutes we're not sith. Most everybody has like a LinkedIn or a Gmail or something in their profile. Well some of those people just don't want to have that public. So if you use the field name the first one and you're trying to pull that link in it's going to look for that and it's going to create that space in your code. But if you check first to see if that field has been filled in it's going to just skip over it because we're using the get field and it's basically like well you're not there so I'm just going to skip over you. When I learned that part that was like a light bulb revelation for me. It's great. So there's more examples of this on advancedcustomfields.com in their resources. I will say like as a plugin they have superb documentation so all of this can be found there as far as helpful stuff. So now what I want to do is I want to start to show you some examples. So this is a slide show and this goes through each picture and right now in this design the heading and the subheading and the button text is all the same. But the way that I'm controlling this is through advancedcustomfields. So I have a slide show field group called slides and that's here and so I've named that field group slides and what I'm using here is because this particular piece of content is repeat it I'm using the repeater field type. So in that repeater I have these other fields so basically let's just say like I want to do something multiple times I can create a repeater and so it runs that field types each time. So this one, this particular client wanted the ability to have either a video or an image. So the first thing I do is I just check with the radio button is it a video or an image. Advancedcustomfields has conditional logic so I can actually pull that in and say okay if it's a video upload a video file so I can upload that mp4 whatever it might be and then if it's an image it gives me the ability to upload an image. So again on the back end I'm making that choice the client has the ability to choose a video or an image and then they upload accordingly. And then this one has a place for heading text content so that little paragraph underneath and then button text and button link. So again to give the client the full ability to edit that they need to have all these fields now if they remove one of those where they just don't have a field filled out that field just doesn't show so that button doesn't show with just an empty square with no text so they don't fill that stuff in. So this is the field group with its fields this is what the slide show looks like within the WordPress editor so on the homepage I've assigned this field group to the homepage template and now they will see this little slides area where they see that radio button I choose image or video they can upload an image add some little text in there to tell them how big that image should be and then they have a heading text they have that content they have a button text and the button link. And again the way that I'm doing this you'll see the code in the next slide so that's our in the back end admin of WordPress I go to the homepage that's what I'm seeing so oh I didn't preface scary slide so this is code so my HTML and CSS or my HTML and PHP are showing but this is a slide and I know for those of you that might be further back might be a little hard to read but I was trying to fit like all the lines of text on the slide and it was not really working out but basically what this repeater is doing is it's I got a div that's just called slider because I'm a simple man and within that we're looking for the field group slides and because it's a repeater it's going to go through that looking each time does it have an image or a video does it have a heading, does it have a subheading does it have a button text and a button link when it gets to the end of that if the client has three slides or five slides it'll just execute and so this bit of code is basically bringing that in so you can see in the top or maybe you can't see because you sat far back because you don't want to be in the front that I'm getting things like the background image the button text, the button link and all those bringing those variables in and then in my code and again these slides will be up later I think they'll be tweeted out or whatever so another way that I use advanced custom fields is through the wissywig field group so this I kind of condensed it all into one that way you could see it so I have using advanced custom custom fields option page I have an options page, a theme options setup where I have a footer column one where basically it's a wissywig where they can enter the logo and their contact information and this is the one line I kid you not of advanced custom fields PHP that then spits out that text now I've styled that so I'm calling up that class item or column one and styling specifically the gray text and then the bold text is white but it's still controlled in the theme options where the client can come in and change the phone number if they ever change that so another thing that I've done a lot with advanced custom fields it's another repeater, it's a service repeater so this is my field group these are the repeater fields I have image, image, type a title that's a text type content that's a text area button text and button link and so in the WordPress editor I get this walk where I can the client can change the image of that service give it a title, give it some content button text and a button link that's the scary stuff so again that repeater is calling up services from the options page so this is a little different I have a central location for my theme options when you do an options page you have to make sure that you're calling up those options by doing instead of just looking for the field group you have to look for it comma, little quote options, close quote so that way it just knows that it's pooling from that options page the nice thing about that, think of that as like if you've ever done print, like a master page I use the theme options as kind of like global settings, master settings for the site and then on the front end this is what it looks like so when you go to the site you would see their services, they repeat one thing I haven't mentioned yet is repeaters are drag and drop capable so if for instance the client wants to say you know what, we really want to push our assembly let's move that to the center or let's move that to the front, they could just drag that field after they've filled it all in to the top of the list and it'll be right at the top or it'll end up being on the left I have another example of a service repeater I don't have the code up here but again this one has a background image text and then those buttons link out so another example that I'd like to show you is just a staff page this again has images and this is a repeater images with a title, a person's name and then underneath of that the field group has a place for like a description, like what their job description is, their phone number their email address and they have fields that they can just fill in, again if there's not content in that field it just won't show so one person might have you know four bullets next to their name with their different description or anything somebody else might only have three like this guy at the bottom so instead of, so I coded in those slashes because you know we didn't want the client to mess up the putting in slashes to kind of design that there so this is an example of somebody who didn't want their LinkedIn information out there and they just have three options versus the four and this is another this is a sister site of that previous one, this is their staff page I'm very similar, that's just a repeater with the staff members so another thing that you can do with advanced custom fields, I have using some like nth child type shenanigans and tomfoolery I have a repeater but it just alternates that left and right position as far as the image and the text and everything so again if you did gave that over to a client to design a page with a page builder, they'd probably mess that up they'd probably figure out how to use an h2 versus an h1 or whatever it might be put different text on the button, put a different color on the button, how many of you have had clients do like hot pink or hot green text you know so this is just a repeater for the different sections of the site and they can put in the title, the subtitle that content in the button text so another thing that I've done before using advanced custom fields got that big stretched image and you just want some text with a heading and some content in a button again they can just swap out background images and I just have it set to cover so if they unfortunately this is one that they can mess up but I put in text that says use a certain size image but they could upload a thumbnail size you can't 100% dummy proof anything but that's just another example of advanced custom fields so I showed you this slide show before again this has heading text, subheading button text and button link and again the client can control the order of those slides very easily I don't know about you guys but I've used like revolution slider and there's tons of ones out there I actually used just a very simple al slider carousel so it's a little bit of javascript with advanced custom fields to make all this magic work and a nice thing if you were in Tim's talk first thing in the morning so like what seems like a day ago if you had to speak last um if you were in Tim's talk right here he said he stood right here too um it's talking about design systems and one of the things that advanced custom fields has really helped me with is building design systems because if you look at it like the examples I've showed you they all have slide shows they all have service blocks they have staff member pages they're designed differently they look differently but when it comes to the back end advanced custom fields it's all the same like I'll be honest don't show this to anybody that I work for but I go into my sites and I just can export field groups from one site to another just like you export post into another you can export a JSON file open up advanced custom fields import it it'll have your field group it'll say slides and you'll go into it and it'll be your repeater and it'll say image or video and that's like my starting thing I just have a couple JSON files I just reuse over and over again because it works so this is like taking Tim's design style to the next degree as a developer being able to design these so again another slide show button, button text so so I survived thank you Ken for that picture so so hopefully problem solved we want to design better websites I don't know about you I want to design better websites hopefully you as well want to design better websites we want our clients to be able to have complete freedom to edit so I don't need to be called up to say hey can I change the text on this slide show I was like yes you can remember when I taught you advanced custom fields in your site oh yeah and they can go and edit that but I don't want them to ruin it and while I just about you can ruin things it's really hard I will say it's really hard to ruin an advanced custom field site because I'm controlling the fields and I'm controlling the design and I'm just letting the client deal with the content so I think that's it this better not be a math problem okay awesome go ahead yeah I mean there's only so much that I can really control but for the most part advanced custom fields is pretty bullet proof when it comes to that yeah you can set I think you can do there's pretty much min max and a lot of things have like you know if you're uploading like certain file types like limit it I mean I created so for the school district that we just did we I built this convoluted mess but it was a PDF uploader for like school minutes and stuff and it's literally like upload a file but it has to be a PDF because I didn't want to uploading DOC files you know so a lot of the field types have qualifications that need to be met before and they'll get the great red like box highlight and it'll be like hey you did this wrong you cool yeah well yeah you could do yeah required you could do required on everything right yes sir oh it's it's simple let me see if I could find you one that has a field here I'll do what I don't ever like to do and that's called live websites so this is a site that I have these are our field groups and I can go into oh look at that um listen I don't even know how to I guess arrangements oh there we go wasn't turned on I just didn't want you guys to see all my production my notes that I didn't write so your question was adding in specific details so I can come in here and here I can give instructions for the author shown when submitting data so you can put little text like hey this text should be or this image should be a certain size or this text should have a certain amount of characters or this is where this text is displayed in the slideshow underneath the heading like if you want to get super specific but yes you can it's built right and baked right into the system I was expecting that one from him okay so I okay so the other day like Joe tweeted and now he's like I'm doing some ACF stuff in Gutenberg and it's and he was like well that's on ACF and I'm pretty much in the camp of I feel like we're in the witching hour when it comes to like 5.0 like I'm going to wake up and be really upset because I feel like it's just coming there's just bugs still that how ACF integrated into where it falls in the blocks like I was running into things so when I do slides for sites I make it so that the slider is always at the top because in my mind that's where the slideshow is so if I go to this site and I go to edit my slider is at the top well Gutenberg doesn't even acknowledge ACF when I say put this right after the title because you can tell it where in the position and it automatically just drops it after Gutenberg and again I don't know if that's on ACF or if that's just Gutenberg being like I'm the new kid on campus and I don't really care so there are some things there I think yeah I mean I don't really know the answers there's still definitely some things to figure out I have and I'll admit I don't know if this should be on camera but I've been hitting classic editor on a lot of my sites just because the customizations that I'm building Gutenberg is not ready for me to be able to train those clients Will it work with ACF? ACF has gone over a million sites yep Gutenberg is going to roll out and a lot are going to be a lot of issues somewhere down the line there's a great article written and Kevin was just reading it that explains what it does what's coming with ACF well I know with the changes to our right hand sidebar and how content gets pulled in I think Paul had shown a little toggle with short codes and how to get that in there so ACF you can manipulate some of that sidebar content like I often will put in not just a featured image but maybe like this client in particular they have a blog post that on the blog uses a featured image but then the blog uses a different featured image so I just created a secondary featured image while ACF and Gutenberg doesn't like that over in the sidebar so now I'm dropping that down into just another field in that block at the bottom so it's not there yet when it comes out there's going to be tweaks coming from both sides the way I look at it exactly is that just the layout that changes but the function is still the same and it just stops working because that is the worry right from what I've done because the school district site was running both ACF and Gutenberg from what I've done it seems like rhyme and reason there aren't any and sometime like I haven't seen functionality go away but I don't know if that's because my field was filled in and initiated before Gutenberg was installed it's still in the database and aside from flushing that and hoping for the best it's needless I'm not an expert in all things that ACF and Gutenberg are fighting about right now but from what I've experienced it's not there yet good questions so that concludes my presentation I'm not really good at bowling but if you're going to the after party and you want to talk I would probably prefer talking than bowling but if there's a pool table is there a pool table I think if there's a pool table that's probably where you'll find me I don't want to play you, you do math on Saturday pool is just math I mean it's locked too but it's mostly math it's math let's just you guys have been awesome thank you for making it all the way to the end of the day you you might think you won with all this ACF knowledge but I got a free breakfast today because I switched with somebody so


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He goes and Like and fold them, you know, and she kept folding I'm looking at her out of the side of my eye like She folded them clothes up like it was no big deal And so I had to talk with her. I was like, what are you doing? Why are you folding that? Why are you doing this nasty laundry? That's just you know She's like well, it's like, um, you know, I want to show him that I can make a good wife And you know, I just want to show him that I'm domestic I'm like, no, you need to make a good maid because a wife is an equal As far as respect, you know, if you're gonna marry somebody like him and he's rich y'all gonna have a maid, okay? so She was like, well, that's just how I am. That's just how I am.  Okay, she should be there She is living in a one bedroom apartment on the bad side of town with her child who's Nine or ten, okay Eight nine, I don't know Seven eight nine ten one of those.  Yes women Women that says yes. Yes.   If y'all are being too nice, y'all need to cut that out, okay? if a man can't respect you for who you really are and Without you having to basically put play a slave or maid or a yes woman then you're not supposed to be with that person Okay, you get out of there because you don't want to be you don't want to end up Where my friend end up, you know and the funny thing is The funny thing is like out of all our little group She's doing the worst and she had the baby by the celebrity and I'm not talking about just Some like one hit wonder. I'm talking about Legendary celebrity, okay And when I say legendary I mean like You know if you if I said his name everybody would know who he was okay, so What I'm saying is Yes women don't get it women who have respect for themselves stand up for themselves are strong and You know Know what they want Don't you don't have to prove your wife material unless you until you got that ring Okay, until you have ring you're nobody's wife material Okay, if they if they see in you What they want in a wife without you having to Flip over backwards then that's the man you want you don't want to have to show off and do flips like a monkey and a circus act in order to Make someone think your wife immaterial no Chances are If they're asking you to do certain things that they would never ask another woman to do you're the doormat, okay?  They would treat their wife like that. They have too much to lose Okay, if you're in a long-term relationship with someone who treats you like that You need to get out because they don't really love you. They don't respect you. They're playing with your emotions They're using you and you will end up in a place.   You just look pathetic You know and I'm just saying this because I have so many people that sometimes You know it's just they come to me and they tell me all these things and I'm like I Can see it from like a bird's-eye view and they're just in it so they don't understand what I'm seeing I'm seeing you know what you're being played They're never coming back to you your hope is It's not it's not a good thing Use that energy that you keep hope alive with To move forward in your life to learn And to stop Depending on other people to make you happy to accept you to say oh You're you're the one. No, you should be saying that to yourself. Yes I'm the one.  No, if you if you have someone in mind or a type of person in mind that you want and You go after them or let them come after you without you having to submit Then that's how it how it needs to be you know a woman only submits to a man that she fully trusts Who who fully can take care of her? Who she feels safe with? Who she would put her life in his hands? So some submission does not mean Being a yes woman it means Being able to sleep at night with no anxiety knowing your man has your back Knowing he's gonna take care of you and your kids knowing that he's going to provide and protect you just like You know a man supposed to do okay, that's true submission, you know If you're always constantly worried about a man if he's never got any money if he's not helping you out if he's just you know Doing this isn't that and making you worry and then asks you to submit and you do that's false submit Submitment and in the back of your mind You're telling yourself that you're not worth anything So you'll need to stop that Only submit to a man who deserves it and when I say submit I don't mean bow down I mean only exhale and feel secure That a man can handle the job so you don't have to worry That's submitting like for a for an example if a man says Honey, I'm tired. I worked all day My feet hurt can you please massage my feet can you massage my feet, baby? You know and if you were staying at home all day if you weren't doing nothing if you got to sit in a lap of luxury go shopping Have lot of taves with your friends at Starbucks Order stuff online if you got to do all that and your man just got home from a 12-hour day And he's asking you to rub his feet and you say yes, that's not submitting that same, baby I appreciate what you do. Thank you. Here's your thanks because I got all these shopping bags I got us free time on my hands, you know my friends and I had a good time at lunch today So thank you Okay, now let's flip the script and the man went out to work and He said hey massage my feet, baby, but you just came home from work, too and your feet hurt even worse because you know you probably wore heels or some uncomfortable shoes and You say well, I need to massage my feet too, baby at the same time. It's like oh, no, I don't want to do that Do me, you know, that's that's the sound right there, you know, I Know a lot of people have to work. I know like it takes two incomes I might not have agreed with it because that's not how it was raised.  Okay, so thank you all for watching Thumbs up if you agree. I'll see y'all later. Peace


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Greetings. My name is Brenda Van Goghva, founder of the UN Chamber Music Society. Welcome to today's concert in celebration of Human Rights Day. Throughout this concert, we are honored to hear from three of the great leaders of human rights who have committed their lives to fighting for human rights. We will hear from Ilse Brandes-Carris, UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights and Head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York, Derek Leon Washington, OHCHR's Senior Regional Human Rights Fellow, and Ndaba Mandela, founder and chairman of the Mandela Institute for Humanity. I would like to thank them for their kind support to this concert. I hope that you will enjoy the music program, which will celebrate musical works by female composers and composers of minority communities, representing an artistic tapestry of composers from diverse backgrounds. We are excited to feature music by Grace Moore, a 12-year-old participant in the New York Philharmonic's very young composers program. Other musical gems, which will be featured, include compositions by Geraint Talveur, a 20th-century composer who was the only female of Les Sixes, and Francesca Gonzaga, a 19th-century Brazilian female freed slave. I would like to thank all the musicians and friends of the UN Chamber Music Society, including the beautiful Flutus Caro Wincense, Principal Harpist of the New York Philharmonic Nancy Allen, and the Associate Principal cellist of the Boston Philharmonic, Velera Mirages, for bringing beauty in the world and for their generous support to this occasion. There are so many wonderful organizations dedicated to raising awareness of music composers of underrepresented communities such as Opus Illuminate, which will be featured in today's concert, and I would like to thank them for contributing to this concert. By celebrating the works of composers from diverse backgrounds, we help to realign the world of classical music with its nuanced history, while expanding notions of what is considered conventional classical music, symbolizing our hopes of building bridges of understanding of human rights. I hope that you will enjoy the concert. I thank you. I wish to thank the UN Chamber Music Society and its artistic director, Brenda Van Gogh, for this wonderful initiative. Music is the highest expression of human existence. It is the language which everyone speaks and that speaks to everyone, the language that connects us regardless of who we are and where we come from. More than any other form of communication, music represents the universality that binds us together as a human family. That power, in my view, has never been as important than at this time of unprecedented global turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic is at heart a human rights crisis with devastating impact on our basic rights and fundamental freedoms. This is why this concert, marking the adoption of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights, is so timely and so important. In particular, by bringing to the limelight composers of minority communities and female composers, we celebrate not only the diversity that our societies depend on to thrive and grow, we also amplify the voices of those who are often marginalized and unheard. As the pandemic has disproportionately impacted on racial, ethnic and religious minorities, the concert symbolizes the truth that we will only build back and recover better from the pandemic if all voices are heard. The Universal Declaration for Human Rights explicitly underlines that a common understanding of the rights and freedoms it sets out is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge. Music can achieve that common understanding. Just as music is not just a series of notes, human rights are not just written words. They bring dignity and solidarity to our existence. Thank you. Greetings. My name is Derek Leon Washington. Like an ensemble, each person has a role to play in promoting human rights. Our roles are interconnected and work better when we're all in tune. This is why I'm having part of this concert hosted by the UN Chamber Music Society. A few years ago, I created a museum exhibition and program series about salsa music. I displayed musical instruments that shared the roots and routes of the style that included West Central African, Indigenous, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Spanish, Sephardic Jewish, Roma and Amazir elements to name a few. The exhibition eliminated how music can share some of the complicated ways we're connected and how we can all move forward together. Through music and dance, it initiated dialogues giving people the opportunity to really experience tangible and intangible cultural heritage. My work focuses on music created when the cultural and democratic aspirations of communities are not in harmony with their physical realities. I created a citywide interactive program series about how the American, French and Haitian revolutions created a type of community protest music, democratic music making that still inspires us today. The program reminded our communities that the applause and the chance for frontline workers during the high of the COVID-19 pandemic are part of rich musical legacies. These legacies manifest and fill in some of the largest protests in United States history in 2020, specifically calling for the end of systemic racism not only in the U.S. but around the globe. Here in New York City, jazz musicians lack processions, traded notes with classical string quintets, followed by West African drummers turning to intergenerational parties with bass-heavy electronic music from the Caribbean. Musicians provide an environment so protesters can march peacefully, sing loudly and dance towards our collective freedom. This concert helps us think about hard questions that are central to the performing arts, whose work is included in archives, who receives funding and who has the opportunity to direct. Multilateral dialogues might help address some of these questions. Music is a universal language. I hope this concert helps us find a common language to fight for the civil and human rights of us all. Thank you. Greetings. My name is Nder Mandela, the chairman of the Mandela Institute for Humanity. I would like to thank the UN Chamber Music Society for presenting this concert. This event symbolizes the world's cause to action for solidarity with all people everywhere fighting for justice and equality for all. Ladies and gentlemen, I commend the UN Chamber Music Society for featuring black composers who have changed the course for classical music history in celebration of this important day. I hope that you will enjoy this concert. I thank you.


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My name is Sameer Chabukswar and I belong to Yoj Designs. I am the CEO and founder of Yoj Designs. Introducing myself, I feel that I've come a full circle or about to come a full circle. I started my career as an industrial engineer. I'm a trained industrial engineer and I was designing man-machine systems back in 1994, 93 and 95 and as a natural progression decided to pursue my masters in human factors engineering. Where we were taught you know what are the implications of designing for the humans rather than for the systems and that's how I've gotten to the field of user experience design. A few years back, about eight nine years back, I felt that the need for design in India is great and we need to create a niche here and therefore I started this company Yoj Designs and we've been fortunate to make a small dent. Today we see that about almost 80% of our clientele are from India so there's great awareness about the field of design and user experience design and I hope to continue this journey forward. Thank you. Thank you Samir. Hi, my name is Narendra Ghaté. I'm the chief designer in Tata LXC. I'm a mechanical engineer and I think I'm a good mechanical engineer. I've done my industrial design and I've also done my MBA from I am Bangalore so it's a bit complex but last 20 years I'm in Tata LXC and we started from almost zero and now we are a very large design practice with very different diverse domains and that way I totally agree with what I think Professor Natkarni said in the beginning that we are dicing and slicing the design profession into small small bits and pieces and each one of us so we have started service design we have started UX design we have started branding we have started graphic design so all of it is sort of giving us projects but overall what we see in our studio that if the designer is good he's able to actually apply himself in any one of these different domains and that's what I hope all of us would get into also in terms of agreeing. Thank you Narendra. Hi, I'm from the academia side not from the industry side I'm Deepak, Deepak John Matthew. I am a student taught teacher because I have not studied design I studied physics I studied painting I studied graphic design and I did some research on design education and I worked in NID for 14 years now we are actually have a new baby in the new IIT IIT Hyderabad we have started a department of design where normally when everybody starts from class one two three four I start from the opposite we start a PhD then MDS then we are started a dual degree for the engineers now we'll start BDS so that's the opposite direction we are looking at so this is my background but my best education from the age of 20 to 30 I traveled all over India hitchhiking and traveling almost like that so before being a part of this academia I was a nice person my audible hi I'm Maina Khosh and currently I'm teaching in Jadovpur University which is like one of the top state universities in India before that I have been teaching in IIT Kharagpur for almost five years and prior to that I was working in one of the corporate sectors in design research and development that was again another for almost five years prior to that I was working on some research projects funded by the government and before prior to that I was doing my master's in design from IIT Kanpur so and you might be wondering like how old is this person right so this is for last 11 years I've been pursuing that and in between I forgot to mention like I started up my own consultancy and like started to running it on and off so the motto that I had was to try out different organizations and you know you know have experienced different ventures in different models and modalities so and it has been a it has been a very interesting experience all through you know experiencing the government organizations looking at your own business looking at research projects as such so it has been it has been quite a nice journey but in short and my background as a bachelor degree was from architecture so I'm a registered architect as well so so that's one thing and what one thing that I have that I focus still date is I'm still learning there's so much to learn and I feel I'm so incomplete and you know it's never enough so so that that's what drives me and it's great being part of UX India and meeting all of you here we'll interact further during this session thanks all right thanks for the introductions to the panel so let's um straight to the question the first question right so we all as a community I think we are all fairly successful today I mean if not everyone at least because I haven't I haven't seen too many students raising their hands as individual designers I think we all know design as a craft well but the but the issue that we are facing today I think of the lot that we have today I don't know how many of our of us are individual contributors which we are going to come to know in the design quadrant so the results that we're going to announce after lunch today but there are individual contributors versus there are design leaders per se but there are a lot of people who aspire to lead their products businesses by design so the question to the panel there here is with so much emphasis being given to design driven innovation especially given the context of where we are today in India are design leaders born or are they made so I would like to start with academia side of the things design leaders are born or or are they made are they made okay oh very good question but what is a design leader actually because a designer is a designer you know the moment you become a leader you put on weight and you know just you know commanding all these things so that way design leaders are made but I would ask the same question to you are designers are made or created because all this design education all the academia the biggest question is actually design after teaching design the industry will tell they are not good you know they don't have the experience so I would say to become a design leader you need a primarily you need leadership qualities so that is plain as well as sometimes it is coming from your cultural background see I'm coming from a village I lived in the forest in my childhood so when I came to this kind of age I had severe stage fright you know so I could not even stand at the stage for a minute you know I could not speak English because I studied a government school but I in in in over a period of time I come and talk now I can sit anywhere in the world no problem so you know I'm not scared of you so but maybe because I was trained in the forest climbing the trees that I'm using now or you guys are training me you know so all these people are training me so I don't think there is nothing called born or nothing called trained it's the difficult question passes on to me right so to answer this I recall one of my professors from IIT Kanpur professor Prashant Kumar so this question was there also and what he said I still remember and I kind of agree to that is we are all designers anyway like we are designing life firstly so the decisions that you take towards the decisions that we take towards our lives working working for us towards something and we are crafting it crafting around it I think that that's what is the basic quality which a designer has you know to take a take a vision and to work and change things around it which works for you and works for others as well so I think we have that outlook as living creatures as you know people with cognitive abilities we try to do that all the time but yes as I agree with Deepak as he was mentioning like when it comes to the fitness when it comes to academic paradigm yes they are taught designers are taught and built to act and react or you know to craft the knowledge in a particular fashion which works towards the end but then you get born designers as well now from an academic platform we get to see this difference of designers born and designers taught is at the placements so you know people who are not bothered with placements as such are perhaps the designers born and people who who are very motivated towards placements are perhaps the designers start it's a it's a very what do you say it's a very crude way of looking at it but you know just to give an idea you know it's I think both both are correct and and both exist that way thanks so what do the industry feel okay I'll I'll give a very specific couple of not examples but what I think are points that I think is a definition of a leader especially a design leader and if I wear again I'm looking at the prof again if I wear my student hat looking back what I see was the design teacher was able to interact with multiple students their projects look at them and quickly give them enough feedback so that the student improves the design leader in an organization which I hope I mean so I have some of my team here which I hope I'm doing in our office is to be look to look at different projects and very quickly and hence the different designers very quickly tell what has to be done so that the project succeeds that the customer succeeds to be able to give nuanced directed quick feedback and clarity that is required is what I feel is a primary role of a design leader I mean the leadership quality might come there but the point is everybody's on the same side so the moment a solution comes clear everybody just knows what to do to bring that clarity is part of the core leadership role of a designer or a design leader is what I think if a lot of business school shared the same thought process as Deepak here they would be out of business because they sell leadership we create leaders right specifically design leadership I think design leaders are made because design as a discipline is a deliberate attempt classic definition attempt to you know solve certain problems of human beings an artist cannot be made or a trained artist actually is a misnomer because most of the times they are born with something there could be certain designers here I don't know they are born with the natural ability to design but I think that design leaders are created and multiple factors kind of contribute to that of course the education of layer for leadership as well but astute understanding and empathy for humans is what makes a design leader cool so leadership apart I think we all aspire to even if our designers trained designers I think we are emotional at core and being emotional I think it pays two ways so we take advantage of being emotional to understand our users and empathize a lot with them and in empathizing a lot with them we might become a little sensitive as well so that speaks about me I'm more sensitive and also probably a little bit more introvert and then sometimes I keep thinking that it might be detrimental to making a case for if I see a problem if I see a way it has to be addressed and stuff I need to be able to influence across the board so that this is this is the right way to do it right so so that kind of quality is it something that has to be taught and inculcated in the students on the board go onwards or is it something that has to be supported by the industry so that they groom them into successful people right so so the question here is for academia right so in order to help these people to influence across the board right so for academia how should we mold them in the early stage so that they don't just come out as as the products that we see today who are just designers being involved in their own worlds but they also get a big picture view of things so that they can cut through the org and then drive that influence across so that in the common collective interest of the business they drive the design driven approach which will help both businesses and customers succeed right so the question question for academia is how should we mold them in the initial initial in the first place to start with apart from taking just design how should we mold them yeah okay uh how the question is how do we mold the designers to fit the industry fit the industry so that they can drive the influence yeah actually it is almost like a readymade shop every industry actually feels that you know just go to a bakery by the cake and just pick it you know so it's off the shelf you know everybody thinks that you know you just bake it keep it ready like our job is keep it ready and you come and pick it you know and then oh it's very tasty it's very nice you know like but i feel like as academia we feel like parents you know i'm like a father i feel like i'm a mother or father so i get a baby i grow them and i feed them i comb her hair and put nice bindi teacher how to cook how to broom know how to talk nicely and the industry is like mother-in-law you know next day morning whatever thing you do they don't like it you have not trained them enough you know they don't know they don't know they're not a no experience come on i'll train you first two years they they put them under training okay so this is what we want you know so i think um our job is to make them a nice good human being so designer is secondary you know what we we we train is to be sensitive to things you know so to get adapted to any place and so tomorrow you're going to uh you're getting married to a ux company or a furniture designer funny furniture design company or you know maybe something else you know like you are and you need to mold like i'm i'm sure our our early generation there was nothing called compartmentalized design thing you know like say i'm a photographer so if there's a furniture to be designed i say i don't do it because i'm a photographer so that is what is happening today but as a designer you get adopted to the new environment and so it takes some time you know to get this thing and then an intelligent design student their job there are two types of designers in the world you know one is you want a job nice placement good fat salary like nowadays you know i'm sure we get something like 15 000 applications for this hundred 200 odd seats in design school okay so these many people want to become designers earlier i'm sure hardly some 40 50 people are playing so that is what we say that genuinely interest or the misfits of the other discipline or those who would not get into engineering you know they were coming now this is very lucrative so they're coming that is why you find all these misfits because they're not interested they're interested in that money actually and so they will also very slowly get expelled also so nothing to worry about that actually you know like you when you throw out people because they actually came to you because you're paying good salary that's why they're not genuinely interested in doing something you know so that's what i feel you know so i don't know i answered the question yeah Deepak just snatched away the you know metaphor of mother-in-law was just preparing for that like so um yeah i look at it from how do you really prepare the the budding designers for the world and so one of the ways that that we all are looking at or all the D schools are looking at is the interdisciplinary which he was also mentioning Deepak was also mentioning like rather than having these silos within an academics you kind of break it and you explore which is in many cases the scenario when you hit the industry right so maybe you're trained in something but you have to do something completely different or you have you at least have to be scalable enough to pick up something which is it sounds very alien to you so that's one but coming to the preparedness or you know how how much you are prepared they are for the industry now for this one of the very interesting things that's happening right now when you see the academic world when a student comes in in the first year when we talk to them sometimes you know what's their mission what do they what the expectations they have from the course sorry about my throat so um so one of the things that we are we are surprised with is a student in the first year knows he would be like you know by the end of two years or three years i i wish to develop this startup it will have all these features and you know he's ready with you know his ideas he already knows what to do and the the design education is perhaps just a means just an academic means to reach there which unlike was what professor was mentioning was is the is the zeal to learn and to unlearn you know the the best part of academics is you have to unlearn many things as well like you have this expectation of learning but then you don't get you know narrowed down with the vision that this is the way things has to be done you know you also unlearn certain things you accept some new ideologies and you you kind of become more flexible in nature so that that should be i think the true nature of design education i don't know how much it's achieved or is achievable in reality but having said that if you have this kind of a setup i think that makes you much more prepared for the industry so i don't know if if you get graduates or post graduates like that who are who are who knows the basics and who are ready and who can pick up things quickly i think that's what we aim at as a preschool to prepare the students with the with the readiness so that you can accept a new change and you can scale up very fast so it's it's almost you diminish the gap like oh i'm training training this person again so it's like you already know certain things and you are just scaling up to the expectations of them i think that's the way forward and that's the that's the model which is the schools can adopt or or even that's the approach the students should have while they're pursuing the education so what does the industry think once you get this well trained people from their parents to your side how do you help them succeed by balancing things that are required so that they are successful i mean the issue here is i think academy is saying that we are doing the best from outside and once they land on on this side they are pigeonholing to one kind of thing wherein they are just refining their craft and that's it most of them right so if not everybody and then that could be the reason why we only have very few leaders but is there any way industry can help them to be groomed into leaders yeah sure some mother-in-laws are really good and welcome you know their counterparts there also so what we do specifically is to train people on on the job directly and give them understanding of how to fish rather than teaching them you know this is fishing and you know i'll fish it for you and that has helped a lot even young designers who have their basics right then can pick up very fast one of the huge gaps that we see still from academy is that since design is taught as a craft it's more like doing you're doing an interface if you do wireframes if you do visual design that's design is the concept that is emerging out of the students i think that needs to be broken in some form and given some kind of constraints of time effort and money which is business orientation because because of the academic projects though they are timed maybe three or four weeks when the real projects come the work kind of spreads you know out of the time bounds and that is one of the biggest gap that i see right now since we're all talking about metaphors i also give one more so my wife is a kindergarten teacher and we discuss quite often and the education that i think she gives to the fire world is what really makes a huge difference in that kid's life i feel the design colleges need to be like that kindergarten school where they are just preparing the base like he just now said and the kid knows that he has to learn for at least 20 more years before he sort of settles down what i have an issue with multiple times is that and the student also and maybe some of the colleges also are training for their first job everything is you know what is my placement what is that first job i'm going to get once i somehow get into the job my life will be fine it is not that way so this attitude of learning continuously and having the basis fund us back is something that we expect the academics to sort of impart cool um now let's change the gears i mean the fact that our economy today i think indian economy i think it's it's offering a lot of opportunities and we designers are getting a chance to work on our own needs for our own consumers and there is a lot of excitement out there in in the startup world wherein design can play a crucial role so is there any any such thing as indian design or indian ethos in curriculum that you could embed so that they can become successful designers and then drive the interest of our audience our own people right so so we are at a crux wherein we can drive innovation for our own needs through design so i'd like to hear from academia side what are we doing to teach something to designers so that they can design effective for effectively for our own own own needs for our own people and also also from the industry side how do you see these things changing because until yesterday um as we understood right so we were kind of a back office for everything that was happening in the western world and and now we have a chance to design for ourselves right so so to start with from the academia side how are we teaching them to design for our own needs is there anything like indian design in the curriculum i just want to understand the question what do we design for ourselves means it's me or the group people in this room or for our indian economy yeah okay india i don't know what is india because is it the india as per the geographical map or little bit older which was including pakistan and bangladesh or little bit older including the gandhar the afghanistan and little bit older which is including the iran and the arabia or little bit older which actually was gondwana you know so i consider i wanted to design for gondwana you know which is just when we all wear one one piece of one chunk of soil and then we just drifted apart so something is there in all everybody's mind which is your common and because we have drifted i'm wearing a shirt which is a printed and you are wearing a blue shirt so that kind of a choice difference is there actually so so basically design is design you know when you call indian design you always suddenly we run back to a village and run back to a craft you know pachamaldi craft you know or you that is indian design okay so why you are actually because they were doing for themselves you know are we doing anything for the ourselves is the shoe made by me no is the shirt made by me no then how can we call but if you look at the olden tradition of india the the potter was making for that himself and to the community nearby so the the need was but today when we're looking at i don't know whom all you are serving in the world actually when you know we live in multiple times you know like so when you say i'm designing for india actually my course is in india but i'm actually looking at the user experience of somebody sitting in alaska you know so regarding do we teach to be indian designers we teach them to be designers too as i said in the beginning to be sensitive i believe we should not teach design we should teach them what he was telling actually we teach them business we teach them etiquettes we teach them ethics we teach them about time management you know you know all these things we teach then automatically they will become a good designer because design is something which you are also the other is involved you know that is it's like marriage you know like if i'm single no problem i can get up at any time i can sleep at but when i'm married you know somebody else will wake me up oh chalo uto bachako school page night types you know so similarly design has that aspect the other is involved the other person is involved the the user is involved so there are certain things to start with you know trained into that sense actually that is what we need to train actually not design actually design as per the need now we have all of this process you know like all design can be taught three days no no problem rest you require another maybe so many years to be you know to refine it to bring it to that thing so did i answer your question that was a very indian answer the jokes apart like design in india the first thing that came to my mind is make in india so you have you remember that logo like there's a lion there with a lot of gears in it so so the way we are looking at design in india as again deeper corrected point pointed out correctly is that we look at vernacular entities like whenever we are talking about indian design as such or india in design or things like themes like that we are going back to the vernacularism so that's one approach of looking at design but then there's another way of looking at it which is the way scientific world is looking at is like the number of patents and number of you know technology transfers or things like that which are happening in india and you know what's what's like the innovation index that you have in in the in the global range so and are we producing enough you know enough of these people who are catering towards it so that that's like an indicator where do we stand and and that's that's what is is one of the parameters very politically speaking you know like like where we are heading and you know are we at the at the cutting edge or things like that being a developing economy our economy is facing a lot of you know different attributes so looking at all of that yeah the role of designers or the role of indian designers in the entire arena is is gaining momentum so that's a very good thing to happen a good thing which is happening and but this there's different notions towards it towards it so so it's it's it will take some years to answer you to like to see where we are in that arena you know are we the players or are we the consumers or are we the partners so so it will take some time and evolution where we are heading to but we are we are looking at a very dynamic time so that that's very very interesting to look at so before going i wanted to ask you one question to the moderator is there something called indian engineering or indian subjects why you have read it but only about indian design absolutely not so the the entire essence of the question is because we have this big thing about design in indian make in india was there anything specific to that i think i got the answer okay i have a slightly longest answer and it's slightly more practical in terms of what i see in the industry and what is happening uh 15 20 years ago when we started a studio there was a lot of insecurity about india among indians itself and initially we had a lot of difficulties doing or convincing our customers that we can do a project for you here in india we being tata's you know we could just change our stance and we started doing projects abroad first so we did a lot of projects in the us and uk and japan and when we came back and started showing those projects saying that see this is what we've done for japan and this is what we've done for us we started getting projects here strangely people in us uk did not judge us for being indians they just saw the kind of work that we are presenting but in india there was this insecurity in the beginning but now a lot of that is changing there's a lot of confidence in the industry about indian designers or the talents that is over here and one simple example that i would like to give uh is this a service design project that we did for kochi metro so it's a government organization it was a large project and it was literally done for the first time in the world where a single design agency was given experience design service design for all touch points so right from designing the jingle to station furniture to the app to the branding to the interconnectivity to the system design all of it was done by a single agency because the government was forward enough thinking and had confidence in us that we could do it so there's a huge sea change that we are seeing in the last few years and again uh referring to something that professor nath khan said about uh involving government we're doing so many projects where government is actually proactively thinking about using design in some of the programs so we see this change happening and we are very glad to be a part of it um design in india basically um should be judged based on the impact factor uh it's good that at least we are talking about design in india 15 years ago this question would not even arise they would always say back office of the west right at least we are now questioning is there something called or exploring that factor and i think the you know design is design of course but the problems of india are very different because of the scale and to solve those problems maybe i don't know whether you have that experience or not maybe we'll have to come up with new methodologies or new processes we don't know at this point because that work is probably being done by a very small section even in the industry right now um so i think design in india should be viewed as a very nascent just born child right and which has which should be just based on the impact that it will have later in the game


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So I want to talk to you about the future of content and media. First of all, let's think about this for a second, right? What makes content and media really powerful? The future of content and media, in my view, is not technology, it's humanity. What kind of content touches us as people has little to do with how we generate it, has all to do with who we are and what the context is. Technology, of course, is changing everything to do with media. But let's not make the mistake and say, well, just because it is mobile, of course, you know that in five years everything is mobile, including our brain.  The mobile phone is essentially a brain extension. What we do on the mobile is backing up our brain, outsourcing our memory, picking our partners, doing all the things that we used to do with our own heads.


is frequency. Well, mathematically speaking, frequency is a rate. So a number of times something happens in a second. So if it's one time per second, then it's one hertz, right? If it's two times per second, then it's two hertz. H-e-r-t-z hertz. If it's a hundred times a second, it's a hundred hertz. So that's the basic of sound frequencies and how they're measured with math, or basically with science. Like frequencies have different wavelengths. They're measured in nanometers, and how that works is they're going to measure how many times it goes up and down within a nanometer, which is like a hundred thousandth of either, so really small. So depending on what color it is, every color has a different wavelength or invisible colors such as infrared. Measure them, but we can't really see them. We get magnetic waves every day from Earth. You know, Earth has a magnetic field, and that's why you're standing on the ground, right? If there's no gravity, you know, you'll be flying into space, right? So Earth has a magnetic field, and guess what shape it is in? It's in the torus. It's in the torus. What's a torus? This is in the shape of a torus. Everything is frequency. Nikola Tesla said that if science begins to study non-physical phenomenon, we're going to achieve more in 10 years than we have achieved in the decades and the centuries of science before it. And he's also said that the secret of the universe is frequency, energy, and vibration. So the foundation of everything as we know it is frequency. Can we change matter with frequency? Of course you can. It happens all the time, right? If you look at some mathematics, basically they're playing sound frequencies onto water, and then it makes different patterns based on the frequency of the sound, okay? So you can change the shape of matter, such as water, with sound. That's very clearly done. We're mostly empty space. If you take a look at an atom, you know, there's a nucleus, there's electrons, protons, but if you actually measure how big those nucleus are in the electrons, they're tiny, tiny, tiny little things compared to the amount of space that they take up. So the atom itself is primarily just empty space. And we're all made up atoms. So basically we're all primarily just empty space. So how does empty space become consciousness? Like how does empty space manipulate or change or alter empty space? Because that's what we're doing, right? We use our minds and consciousness in order to create things. How do we do that? How is empty space aware of itself? That's a very profound question, and it goes down to frequency. Our consciousness is not limited within our physical bodies or our physical brains. We have more than one brain, okay? We think that we only have this brain in our skull, but we also have a heart brain. And we also have our gut brain. We call it downtown. You got in the heart, mind, because there's these bundles of nerves in our hearts that is similar, basically identical to the nerves in our brain. And we also have enough nerve endings in our gut to be as much as our brain. Observer effect is that when we observe some electrons in some experiments, depending on whether there's an observer, it becomes a particle or a wave. So the electron changes its behavior depending on the presence of the observer, depending on the consciousness. You know, that postulates that the consciousness can affect reality. And that connects to spirituality, which is what's the foundation of many people's beliefs, right? Because of prayer, meditation, primarily prayer and speaking to God, speaking to a higher power, is that our consciousness can affect and change what's going to happen in real life. So if you want to pray for somebody, for them to heal, that prayer is going to be heard by God or higher power or by whatever you believe in, and then you'll be able to change the reality and help that person heal.