The questions are on the phone and I'll be answering so I'll be looking at my phone sometimes so don't be offended. Yeah I think I will answer the most asked question. Someone said, why didn't you accompany Ms. Trudy to America? I mean Ms. Trudy going to America was actually my trip. I was invited by YouTube to attend the US Africa Summit but I had a contract which the deadline was also near so I had to just go under the contract. Yeah so I had to convince Trudy to go to America and I would join her on Monday but when I went for the contract I think I felt like the video would be filmed in a day but we ended up spending two days in filming the video. I arrived in the car and I felt so tired so weak and I had to call Trudy to tell her I'm so sorry I cannot join you but he just go for all the meetings for me on my behalf and yeah that's basically what happened. I was just supposed to be at the US Africa Summit and currently she's actually there enjoying herself as a holiday because she has been in Ghana for quite a long time so she deserves it. I mean she needs that break if you don't know Ms. Trudy is my wife just go check out the link in the description subscribe and be part of her awesome channel as she shows you her trip around America. Somebody said, you're very humble what's the secret? Am I humble? Do you think I'm humble? I don't know I think I was born this way maybe if you define that as humble yeah that's okay but I think my dad has always been my mentor the way my dad lived his life just I mean living my life like my dad so I don't know if that is humble but yeah thanks for the compliment thank you this one this one made me laugh man do you have plans for your wife and kids relocate finally to America? Hell no this shouldn't be a question to ask someone like Guatemala because I'm telling the diaspora to come back home and invest how do you expect I don't understand I preach I practice what I preach right so definitely it's a big no I would live in Africa invest in Africa develop Africa and help build Africa yeah do you miss China? Yes I miss China sometimes I had a very good time in China everything that I know right now I think I lent it in China I discovered myself when I was in China like I went to China without knowing anything so China shaped my life China built me up China made me who I am today I miss China the food the people everything about China I miss it the only thing that I I hate about China the fact that the racism was quite intense when you're in China and apart from that the people are amazing man and someday why not someone is asking what is your biggest goal for 2023 wow I think like I said earlier this year was a resting year for me and 2023 is going to be bigger we're going to be traveling to more countries I think I took 2022 as a case study when I hit a million I was a bit exhausted so I didn't want to pressure myself in trying to create content every day so the main target is to hit two million this year and doing so we have to create more content every day so we're going to start like I mean as early as 1st January we'll be bringing new videos and next year no matter what we are going to the Caribbean because finally we got the visas that will enable us to hit the Caribbean I know we don't need visa to visit the Caribbean countries but you need to do transit and you need visa for that so that's what we'll be doing mine is not a question but just compliments you truly is glowing thanks for loving her oh wow that's beautiful but I thought some people are saying that through this you run for her life because I made it look like a village girl I mean whatever whatever you do people will always talk about it no matter how good you are no matter how bad you are no matter how helpful you are people will always read meanings to whatever you do and this is more like the master bedroom it looks huge man very huge Tio Aina is saying send me money bro the richest youtuber in the whole of Africa is asking me to send him money dude respect yourself so when I say Maya what is happening with your views let me tell you what's happening to my views anytime I travel to a new country yeah people want to see the new country so no matter what video you upload from that new country you're gonna get the views but if you don't travel because this whole channel is about travel content right so if you don't travel and you're still giving people content yeah it's your lawyer audience that's gonna watch it but the more you travel the more viewers you get I know how this thing works check about our videos from Zimbabwe it got a lot of views because we went to a new country check about our videos when we went to Gambia LDC it got views because like when you go to a new country people wants to watch you but when you step out of the country or maybe when you are in your own country it's just the regular views that you get but when you go to new countries that's when you gain new audience so someone is saying how do you stay focused on the goal when all hope is lost it can be very challenging sometimes extremely challenging sometimes but know why you started and use that as the only hope that you have to focus on where you're going I hope that answer was a good one I don't know but yeah um do you think the youth is doing enough to save the continent I think yes but it's not that enough and I know and believe that there are a lot of youth of Africa that are trying their possible best to put the continent on the map but there are a lot of challenges that are hindering them from putting the continent on the map I don't know if because I feel like we need support look at example myself you know traveling from different African countries to promote Africa at least we should get the support of the funding to move from one place to another but no no one is supporting you you have to use your own resources to make it happen. A lot of Africa are doing a lot like there's so many people that are that became farmers but I think they need help but the help is not coming so they have to use the little that they have to put the continent on the map in Africa it's more like each one for himself god for us all and which I think it's so sad and I've met a lot of people who have ideas man they have great ideas but the support is not coming so I would say whatever idea that you have keep working on it by yourself little by little I mean I believe that someday the continent will see what you do and I appreciate what you do man wow this question this lady is asking me how are you I know it might be a very simple question but sometimes people just want to hear this thank you I would say I'm getting better I've not been fine for a very long time but I have to stay strong for myself my family and to you as YouTube audience I've been through a lot of tough times in 2022 very tough times tough times that could easily break me down but all I do is to pick myself up and focus I sometimes you meet people on the streets they will see you smiling but when you come back home it's full of tears you know but one thing that I always say I have an ankle that keeps the soul and that ankle has been holding me tight so now and he never disappoint me he always come true for me that's why I always say no one anywhere else can tell me that God does not exist trust God keep moving and everything will be all right yeah so the whole house is a four bedroom house so we have another room in here which I think it's it's very spacious right I think so very spacious yeah and all the rooms are in seats so if you have a family you can move in here with your family the third bedroom which is also in seats yeah so it's pretty much time yeah that's what it is man someone is saying what is your biggest fear in life I don't want to die without having an impact in the society I don't want to die without knowing that my life never impacted anyone I don't want to die without God man no I don't want to die without having Christ in me that is my biggest fear that's it why don't you like to drive a car you know what I don't have a car so I don't think I need to know how to drive or maybe I need to drive so that I will pray that I own a car someday is that what you're telling me um yeah that was just by the way but I'm just um I I feel like if I own a car I feel like car is not an investment car is just maybe a necessity something that you need right so at the end of the day when you own a car you'll be like hey I think there's a latest car in town let me go buy that one I was just trying to discipline myself I mean get all the necessary investment that I need to do and at the end of the day I'll go get myself a car I think right now it the time is due to get myself a car so probably you're going to see me driving and also I have mentors right who actually prevented me from buying a car I think I have three mentors who said you don't need it you don't need to I don't think this is the right time for you to own a car so because of that that's why you've never seen me driving and I always want love to sit in people's car but very soon you see me driving my own car yeah hold on the time will come so this is a visitor's the visitor's washing so people come and use and um yeah this whole area is definitely going to be your dining so you're gonna yeah eat in here if you want to so this is the this is the smallest room or the only room down here just want to slack because we've got staffs in there so it's locked and they're all in suits someone is asking how did you become who you are today hard work and trust the God the consistency and it's not easy I think people who knew me since I started this platform will be so proud of me people who saw my struggle days in China will be so proud of me like I started this journey with our Samsung guys too my whole life is vision right so I set target among like I set target like oh in the next year this is what I want to do the next two years this is what I want to do like I think when I got married a lot of people got shocked now it's part of my year plan to get married no matter what like I said DC has been a tough year but I still got married because it's part of my year plan so I don't joke I set target and when the time is right I need to make it happen that is what am I so for me I would say hard work resilient and I'm knowing why you started what you do that's what brought me this far and never forget God I don't want to tell you anything for me I think it's God's grace man thank you someone is saying you have proven that there are great places in Africa to live how are you doing today I'm fine my brother and thanks for asking someone is saying take care of yourself and your family thank you um mine is not going to be a question but a word of encouragement I just want to tell you that I love what you do thank you and if you also love what I do encourage me in the comment section because it's very important man if you are to rule the whole world what rule will you add to the world be nice to everybody no matter who you are I'm gonna add to it if you all can be nice to each other the world will be a better place for us all so I'm saying when are you going to the US I think connecting with your fans and the African diaspora will be great it's something that I'm planning that's one of the reasons why I even I bought the mission of going to the US yesterday because listen when I go to the US I know I've got a lot of audience in the US and when I come to the US I really want to meet each and every one of you so that I'll be able to tell your stories and connect them to Africans on the continent and not just the US and even in the Caribbean a lot of people are asking me how are you I'm fine thank you for asking how do you stay consistent with your passion without being bored doing the same thing over and over again I think meeting different people with different ideas doesn't make it boring imagine spending time with Casa Preco will you be bored and coming back home and spending time with my wife to create content will I be bored or even if I leave my wife home I go out and I meet another youtuber which for me my content is more like whatever is happening like I don't plan my videos there's no script attached to my youtube videos so I don't go with the script like the video I'm doing right now there's no script attached whatever comes into my mind that's what I say the rest of the work is on my editor so I hardly get bored of doing the same thing over and over I basically feel like I don't do the same thing over and over again because I always sit down think about what I need to do go out there and just go with the flow whatever comes out yeah voila that's how it's supposed to be someone is saying do you pay for your flights you're always flying you're blessed I don't travel alone I travel with two people and you know we pay for our own flight I mean I pay for it because I feel like sometimes when you want to work with brands right the brands tells you what to do the brands limit your freedom of speech the brands limit I mean limit your voice because sometimes you see something wrong you want to say now because you're working for a particular brand you can't say it right so I decided to pay for my own flight ticket that's what I do and I think it gives us the power to be free I mean freedom cannot be paid for right so I pay everything by myself man when are you visiting Uganda I want to visit Uganda again because the last time I went to Uganda I was deported but I would love to go back to Uganda because I've seen a lot of people who are farming in Uganda I would love to tell their story especially the doctor who is into pottery farming in Uganda your amazing brother and I love your videos and I can't wait to spend time with you do you have Christ in your life I mean do you worship God of course and I I'm not shy to let people know that I have Christ in me I don't know because my whole life man I don't know I don't know what will make me change my mind I know I've been meeting so many people who tells me that God does not exist Christianity is not real or Christ is a fairy tale you can believe in whatever you believe in I'm not here to challenge you but what I've seen what I've experienced I mean the encounter that I've had with God I mean the time that God has come through for me there's no way there's no day I'm going to stand somewhere and say that God does not exist I'm going to say that oh Christ is a fairy tale story yeah you can believe in whatever you believe in but don't force what you believe on me because I have what I believe in and I believe that what I believe in is taking me to all the places that I've been to yeah it's a living area probably your TV is going to be here and yeah your sofas are going to be here and you're going to have a great time when you buy this house contact the numbers on the screen to how much is your net worth I recently googled myself and I saw my net worth and I'm like hey are you in my pocket basically I can show you my account right now when I tell people that I'm broke they don't believe me so let me just show you guys how much I have in my account I have three account details and I'm going to show you guys that I'm the brokeest YouTuber alive I'm just going to be so real with you guys man see this is 3400 Ghana city this is my dollar account 0.04 and this is my another dollar account 0.32 believe me this money was just sent by Osheh Duke Jackson see this money that I have even in my account I had only 200 cities just now Osheh just sent me 3323 Osheh just sent me this money Osheh Duke Jackson thank you so much and this is what I'm saying our trips across Africa the last time I said thank you so much for clicking on this video please like this video it means a lot to me and don't forget to subscribe and turn on your post notifications so that any time we upload a video you'll be notified traveling in Africa is extremely expensive and we are trying our possible best to put Africa on the map please donate a dollar on our GoFundMe page or our Patreon page to support our African travels thank you so much and I appreciate you all people are like oh it's your work how do you expect us to give you a dollar and I'm like oh my god see support us we need it believe me or not even 50 cents can buy us water when we travel from one country to another like traveling in Africa just one ticket by myself yeah it costs not less than 900 or 1000 dollars one person this is not like round way this is one way imagine we three we go accommodation and everything and I told Africans that hey support our travels and somebody saying it's your work go work and get your own money to travel what can I do to help our motherland like you wow that's a very touching question I'm saying that we should all be part of the chain that we are looking for on the continent the continent needs all of us I mean come and visit survey around and you will definitely see the problem and when you see a particular problem you have to find a way of solving even one of them and I believe that it's going to go a long way I cannot tell you what to do believe me the continent needs industrial revolution believe me the continent need agriculture revolution the continent needs a lot of staff man even if you go to the villages it's extremely sad you see students studying and the trees and I would love to help but one person you can't do it all and this is why we plead in our government that hey take care of your own instead of taking care of yourself and your family members how is success built I'm really stranded over how life is all about I don't think I'm the best person to answer how success is being built success can be a very lonely journey I mean people will not understand your vision people will not understand your mission people misinterpret your mission but keep going and don't think that on your way to the top you can go with your friends supporting you hell now you're going all by yourself and you might meet people along the way but those people will come true for you but they won't be there forever they're more like a seasonal kind of people that were there to support you to go to the next stage I don't know man when will you visit Eritrea I think next year will be in Eritrea because next year we're traveling to a lot of countries two weeks in every country but I mean visa access to Eritrea is a bit tough so if you can help us let me know you can send me an email and then we're going to take you from there just want to let you know Africa is proud of you and your team thank you and I'm more proud of my team because they do all the work for me all I do is to come here and talk and they take over from there but next year you will see a lot from us why is Africa so poor that we can't unite to rule our various countries well anytime I talk about unity of Africa I get sad because I don't know why we can't unite as a continent I don't know if you guys are seeing what is happening all the time it's Africa US summits Africa China summit Africa Russia summit Iran Africa summit but even them they know that individual countries are not powerful unless we come together collectively you know as Africa but yet we are not ready to sit down and say let's make Africa a country so that we'll be powerful trade among ourselves because if we trade among ourselves the world will be scared Africa will be a powerhouse I know that for sure because imagine trading oil with Nigeria imagine trading oil with South Sudan imagine trading gold from Ghana imagine Ivory Coast and Ghana trading cocoa imagine Kenyans bringing their what do you call it their flowers to Ghana imagine they got fresh milk from Namibia Namibian got meat imagine them bringing their meat to Ghana or taking it to Nigeria listen the world will be scared of us but I don't know why the leaders are not thinking about that but someday the generation that we are right now will definitely make it happen I don't know why I didn't know this man man George I eat it I was researching about him recently and he said the current generation of Africa are the cheetah generation they are willing to put Africa on their back and run with it be a cheetah generation because Africa is behind you and carry Africa to the right place and the whole world will come and see the Africa that they've never seen before what is your most favorite things about being married I think marriage actually keeps me focused in terms of being focused on achieving set goals yeah I mean anytime you go out anytime you travel you always want to come back because you know that you have a wife at home I don't know what is the favorite thing about it but I think marriage is beautiful man waking up knowing that you got your best friend beside you legally I think I got a lot of questions someone is saying would you like to work as an aeronautical engineer in the near future in any country if the opportunity opens up I don't know if you guys know that I'm professionally I'm aeronautical engineer I started practicing for a year until I decided to call it a quits to focus on my passion but I don't think why I am right now I really want to work for anyone else again because I mean being an engineer and that would be cool yeah solving problems but I don't think I'll be the first guy to build a new plane I mean they've built the plane already right I think for me I always want to make impact in people's life yeah I always want to inspire the world right but I feel like being an engineer is just from one place to another how am I going to inspire the world so I think the calling that I found on being a YouTuber speaking to people every day I mean meeting new people I think it's enough and through that I've been able to build my own business so engineering what will you advise people who wants to move to Ghana or any other African country say before you move travel to the country do your own research I mean figure it out if this is the right place for you to move because you cannot move in the year and say that oh I gave up I'm going back to my country that's not how it works so I normally tell people Africa is huge we have 54 countries on the continent don't just come and say that you want to live in Ghana no there are so many countries but you can even travel five or six countries and then pick your favorite one and move to that country this is the advice that I always tell people being a village boy now sitting beside millionaires are worthy people by the blessings of Almighty God what comes into your mind as a village boy like me I normally thank God anytime I meet successful people that I know and believe that even in 50 years of my lifetime I won't be able to meet such people so I believe that God's grace has been sufficient enough in my life it's not by my deeds that's why these people are opening up to you because when I met the owner of Kasaprako you know what you told me he's like Maya I don't grant interviews but I'm doing this interview because of him and I was like what have I done it's just God's grace in your life when I met innocent mortals I did the video you know what he called after the video he called me he said my son I'm like yes he said let me tell you something you look so small but you are mighty what you have done I've paid so much money and they couldn't do it you know and you don't expect me to say that oh I did all this to him by myself even when I'm interviewing people I don't even know the next question to ask them because I used to get scared I used to shiver when I meet successful people you have no idea I mean some some of you will be like oh Maya was not prepared for this interview yes I was not prepared but I ended up even sitting down with them was a bit shaky I mean you can spend time with somebody who owns mansions who owns properties and you you ask yourself you don't even have a car you're sitting down with these people but I'll always say God has been faithful to me and I will always give him the glory no matter where I find myself I mean especially when I meet people telling me that oh I came to Africa because of your videos I would say thank you but I know it's God using me to call his people back home you won't believe that when I'm shooting a YouTube video I don't know what I'm going to say you won't believe that when I'm shooting a video I don't know what is the next way that is going to come out of my mind all I do I stand in front of the camera and I say God your servant is right in front of you speak through me and most of you will listen and be like oh my god I changed my mind I want to move to the corner it's not what a Maya yes yeah but whenever you're praying pray for me because I feel like God has given me a job that is way bigger than me but the journey is long but we'll go together no matter what happens Maya after being a YouTuber you're going to work in a real estate for yourself no my wife will be a real estate developer I have a bigger goal than just being on YouTube yeah been on YouTube was a step but I really want to impact in a lot of people's life I really want to change the way the world see Africa I really want to change the lives of Africans guess what I want to be after YouTube I've got like four years remaining and right after four years I'm not going to let you guys know the plan but there are bigger things ahead no real estate real estate yeah it's going to be a side job my wife is going to take care of that you've traveled to too many countries in Africa which country inspired you either its people or development and what is your advice to the African youth so I've been to 25 African countries and each and every country is unique in its own way but one of the countries that I loved and I appreciate so much is Rwanda and Namibia why because the system works in these countries Namibia got the best roads in the whole of Africa which I believe that a lot of African countries needs to start investing in road development so that our food will not get spoiled right because see some countries to from the farm to the house by the time you get to the house the whole food is being destroyed I mean we need to learn to travel within our own countries via road of which some of countries you can't boast of that Rwanda because it's a cleanest country in Africa and I wish so many countries can learn from Rwanda or emulate what Rwanda and Namibia has been able to do it's saying that it's people country the nicest people I think I'll go for Nigeria people are so hospitable I think anytime I go to Nigeria I feel like I'm a celebrity of which I don't even feel like that in my own country so I mean hospitality I give it to Nigerians and when it comes to infrastructure in terms of more skyscrapers I'll give it to Kenya how do you manage all the hate comment and some misconception of your content first of all when it comes to hate comment right I'm already used to it I used to live in China I mean the country that when you upload a video I say 30 percent of the comment I hate comment so I grew a tough skin before coming to Africa so whatever people do for me all I do is I keep quiet and I listen to you right I mean you can insult me you can say whatever you want to say that what am I has done this I feel like silence is the best option for you all so I keep quiet I would never come in here to explain myself because I know that there is no truth in what you're saying because there's so many things that have happened to me on YouTube people know that when they come out to say something about Maya they're gonna get views right so they just take advantage of it every day what am I has done this to the extent that people are going to a stream of forging that I impregnated them and I'm like Jesus Christ of Nazareth I mean this is how extreme people can go so for me even if you write a hate comment I always want to see a positive content out of your negative comment that is me because I always make people's negative remarks become my source of what motivation or inspiration I can go back a bit like when I used to live in China my own class made laugh at me because of a YouTube video my own friends used to laugh at me because of a YouTube video because I create YouTube content how do you think I was able to survive because I made those laughing remarks became my source of motivation you're not perfect as a content creator but listen people will always talk you can say that hey I think the sky is blue and somebody say hey why are you lying the sky is black that is content creation I need to grow a tixkin for it if you are not ready to be on YouTube or if you are not strong don't come because listen people can't be going through a lot of tough time and it will just come on YouTube to insult you and when it gets to you do it forget it and even your fellow content creators that you're supposed to unite as one work together learn I mean learn among yourselves you know learn from each other you see your own content creators hating on you what are you going to do it's nothing you can't do you just have to relax be silent let them do their thing and believe me the end result is what matters um someone saying and some misconception of your content I think this is very important I think I've filmed a lot of videos that when the videos come out people have their own meanings to the content that you did I think my top one was the himba video people saying that oh you took advantage of them I didn't even monetize that video people were saying that I lied that the himba don't offer sex for tourists or whatever visitors listen the words did not come out of my mouth it came out from a himba guy's mouth what we read was when you come in here if you come to the himba village like as he just explained a man can give the wife to a friend my brother okay yo take care of him sexually is that true yes I went to Namibia again I asked exactly the same question to a Namibian uh himba guy and he said exactly the same we do it yes people were out there saying that I'm taking advantage of a tribe and all of that see no matter what you do people will always have something today get you used to that would you ever consider going into politics or being an ambassador or a diplomat I think I'm an unofficial ambassador for the continent whether they like it or not I'm doing what I can in my own way to change the negative narrative of Africa diplomats I don't know do you think I deserve a diplomatic passport I think I really deserve a diplomatic passport you don't think so and you ever go into politics we'll talk about that one later yeah I know and believe that someday I don't want to be a politician or something but I want to be that guy who has influence to change things in a country what do you want to do once you travel all the african countries I think I will sit back bring more people to continue where I left on one platform that's incredible right a lot of questions geez how often do you burn out as a content creator currently I'm I'm burned out currently I'm burned out and how do you handle it I take some time off just like what I'm doing so yeah and my final question what is your biggest dream this question was asked by venice academy my biggest dream is to see africans traveling from one country without a passport I want to see africans traveling from different african countries even with a passport but not visas I want to see africans investing in different african countries I want to see africans trading among themselves I want to see africans marrying among themselves I want to see africans removing barriers I want to see africans seeing themselves as one I want to see africans knowing that africa belongs to them there's time for them to cherish it do you cherish africa are you doing your possible best change the narrative of africa what are you doing to help develop africa my name is water maya and I hope I've tried I think I've answered not most but some and I know that I'll be back here again to answer more questions feel free like this video subscribe and be part of this awesome channel and also if you're looking for a house to buy in Ghana buy this house yeah I've reduced the price and listen it costs a lot of money and I don't intend to make more money out of this it's a luxury property and I know and believe that it's going to be a good investment I'll see you all in the next one I am everywhere thank you that's that's that's why I'm telling you guys I need to plant fruits in there because you need you need this are you from water region but he planted all the trees this is from water region yes you see I know the taste that this is from water region it's like you're you're a botarian yeah I love this listen if you want the best coconut in Ghana go to the botanical


Good morning guys. I'm not going to ask you to stand up because I know the pains of Bangaloreans. They've already taken pains to come here from a long way.  So in the morning, Bapu was talking about what next, right? So I thought, you know, let's talk about what next. And maybe one of these trends or topics can make it to the next conference about, you know, future of design, future of business of design. And so I'm going to talk today about business of design. Where is it heading really? You know, we have a lot of these factors, economic, geopolitical, technological that are affecting the business of design, the business of user experience. So where is it heading? So I'm going to talk about that in brief. I'm Sameer from Use Designs. I've been in this field for about 17 plus years now. I started this user experience design studio way back in 2009. And we've been on a mission to kind of change the world in India through design. So I'll just talk about these few things.  One of the things that I'd like to highlight is that you'll see some hashtags out there. Feel free to, you know, comment on that and, you know, share your thoughts on what you think about that. So I'm just going to talk about first a few trends that, you know, we see today in India. And then we're going to talk about, you know, where this business is heading really. So the first trend I see actually is a major change from 50 years ago, there was like systems of records, right? Everything was, you know, about creating and capturing transactional data, supply chain management data, inventory management data, human resource management. That was called systems of records. Now we have moved from systems of records to something called as systems of engagements with the advent of internet and, you know, employee engagement. We have gone to different types of tools like emails and social networking and things like that. That is called systems of engagement. So first systems of records where there was structured data. And now from that to unstructured data where you are talking constantly about the company or a product or service. And then, you know, these companies are trying to make sense out of it. From that era now, systems of engagement, we are moving towards systems of things in collaboration with systems of engagements. And as things like even chairs and tables, those dumb devices become intelligent, we are going to need to have a different mechanism to really capture data, analyze that data and make sense out of the data in real time. It's a huge challenge. And those I call as systems of engagements. So that's, you know, first trend that is trending. The second thing that is happening is computing everywhere.   And then when you leave the car, automatically all the data goes back to the, you know, zoom car people. You don't have to do really anything. So computing is kind of coming in every aspect of life. That's the second thing that is trending. Third thing is the data explosion. I mean, I'm sure all of you have faced already number of WhatsApp groups. How many are you subscribed to? So there's huge explosion of data that is being seen and these are some stats. Very simple. Facebook users share nearly 2.5 million pieces of content every minute. Twitter users tweet nearly 300,000 times every minute. Instagram users post nearly 220,000 new photos and YouTube users upload 72 hours of new video content. So these are just stats to look at. But this is the kind of data explosion that we are looking at. And that is absolutely going to impact our lives and the way we look at all of the things. Another thought here, as user experience designers, as cognitive psychologists, we are, you know, very near to people and we work with people's brains and the capacity of the brain. This is what is happening. We are bombarded today on an average with 400 million bits of information per second. What is the processing power of the brain? It's just 2,000 bits per second. And in the middle, there is your visual system that can process 10 million bits per second. Now with the data explosion that you see, computing everywhere, everything becoming smart, what is going to happen? This gap is going to widen further and further out. So I just want you guys to think about this for a moment and think about the implication of that on the trade of user experiences. The fourth trend is cloud computing. So with the advent of everything going on the cloud plus you have mobile data, different devices and all the data is available to different devices at all different times. So right now, people are struggling with how to synchronize this data and have the same kind of experience on different devices at the same time. So I am moving from my desktop to mobile to maybe a tablet when I am on the go and how do you retain that experience is what cloud computing is contributing to. The fifth trend that we see is the explosion in mobile users and internet usage. Especially in India, today there are about 900 odd million subscribers of mobile. We are the second largest market after China for mobile subscriptions. So here is just a statistic about the internet usage on mobiles. 232 million internet users, that is plus 37 percent year on year. We are ahead of all the developed countries and just one notch behind China in terms of internet usage on mobile. But we are the top country new internet users. About 63 million people added just in 2014. So think about that as well. So we can see here, that is Nigeria on the first spot, surprises. India is second with mobile percentage of total internet traffic by country. And this is the total percentage of e-commerce sales in India through mobile. So it is a huge explosion. We have suddenly gone from communicating with hand, somebody yesterday did that, with gestures to directly into mobile, even in the rural areas. The sixth trend that I see is of the start-up culture. Booming start-up culture, things that happened in the 80s, mid 80s and 90s in Silicon Valley in California is happening here today. Start-ups, the valuations are going skyrocketing and they are getting big money as well. So I know we are all facing that problem of hiring good designers as compared to them. And then the content type is also changing. So if you look at all the content across the internet, from text to images to videos now. And the formats of the videos are also changing from 4x3 to 16x9 to vertical video viewing. That is a big market. Last year it was about 10%. Today it is 30%. Horizontal versus vertical viewing of videos. The next trend is the agile and just in time, not just processes, but people, things, products and services. So everyone is expecting, I should get x, y, z at the moment when I require it. So that is the kind of use of behavior and thinking that we see coming up in the future. The ninth trend that I see, and this is one is big, we all see that, is the bridging the gap between the physical and digital. So there is hardly any boundaries now between the physical world and the digital world. Everything is crossing over with the advent of maybe watches or rings or maybe other NFC type devices. And the last but not the least is the M governance and E governance in India which is on the rise and it will keep on rising. So these are the 10 trends and when I started looking at different trends we kind of came up with about 50, but we cut it short to about 10 taking from different areas of life because we wanted to keep it very simple. So what is the impact on the business of design? And feel free to tweet your comments on that. And I am going to kind of present a model here about the business of design which talks about business models, UX service design models, organizational setup, design practices and individual skills. So all of these trends are going to have an impact in the future on all these four, five things. And I am going to just randomly start with impact on organizational setup. So how does an organizational setup get impacted because of these trends? And I am going to talk generically about startups mid-level or established companies as well. So the good news for all of us here designers is that UX teams will keep on growing. So today we see that a lot of startups are also coming in and they are hiring a lot of UX designers. We see a lot of requirements for ads out there.  So it will keep on growing. So the other trend there would be that non-traditional industries will start looking at UX design teams as well. By non-traditional I mean the pharma industry for example or manufacturing industries where traditionally there was only product design. They would start looking at more and more UX designers to join their teams because now the product is no more there, everything is software. You know for example the car companies they are starting to look at UX designers to come and join their teams. The other good news is designers will get involved early in the process. So rather than hey why don't you come and paint the screens they will start getting involved right from the requirement stage or even before that from design to actually strategy. That's the journey that designers will make. The org structures will also change because of these trends. The siloed org structure will no more be enough where you have either centralized teams or decentralized working with some software business units. They will need to change at a higher level where designers will be represented somewhere higher up in the management as well. And that's the next point about C-level positions. Designers need to sit on the boards and they will do that moving ahead. Though we see that the growing UX teams and all in other non-traditional companies, UX as a core will be retained because of a lot of these companies think that my core is something different. Even the traditional companies now are trying to realize that if I am a technology company I should retain that and then leave it to the experts to do the other job and that's what the UX as a core would talk about. What's the impact on individual skills? What do we as designers need to think about? I think from a specialist role the designers should move or will move to a generalist role instead of doing very siloed work of I only do wireframe design or I only do use a research or prototyping they will need to do a very horizontal type of generalist work where they are adept at doing research, design, prototyping and so on and so forth and also impacting the strategy. The skills will need to go beyond UI design. So impacting the other types of designs not just software design, not just screen design but maybe service design design of people, design of training design of ecosystems is what will happen in the future. With the advent of this huge data explosion that we see I think the user experience designer itself will be like a data researcher. How do you make sense of that data that is coming up real time? Every single minute there is tons of data that is getting generated what do you do? You know what is happening in the market but do you know why is it happening? That aspect the user experience designer will bring in and therefore that data researcher position will be created where UX will need to make sense of why for every single bit of data. And then understanding the moment of interest context. So the context is very important we always say that you know in user experience context is the most important thing. But we will go from a scenario level context to a task level context to moment level context because every moment the context is going to change and understanding that is going to be real challenging. The trend of designing in a silo is again going to change to participate in design. Meaning I am a designer I can design but I have to design with other people as well. And those could be you know technology people, business people product management etc but also with my customers and other external agencies. So that is another skill that you know individuals will need to bring. What is the impact on design practices? So I talked about the moment of interest context. So it is almost like and I know that research is kind of on the decline. We hardly do any research we hardly do any summative testing. We do some formative testing here and there that the trend I see when I talk to other customers as well. But the moment of interest context is going to be very very important. And therefore I think it is very important to know the life of people. It is no longer enough to you know kind of talk in terms of context of a tool context of maybe a service context of you know a product. It is going to be what is the life of that user or a segment of users. And therefore life research is going to be very very important to understand what are the behaviors of a segment of people. The other thing that I see is of course ecosystem design. While user experience designers are right now only involved in software design, app design, mobile design they will need to expand their horizon to design for services, people and other aspects of you know the entire ecosystem and it will become an ecosystem design. So that is going to be very important in the future as well as prototyping. We will not have that much time actually to you know kind of test our prototypes and then take it to the market. The speed of prototyping is going to be important where the prototype actually looks and behaves almost like real time. And then a very important part is going to be because of intelligence to the machines and the machine to machine communication and machine to human communication. Design for trust in machines is going to be a big area eventually. You know design for trust has been there for about 10-15 years now but in mission critical systems where NASA kind of uses those concepts but now it is going to come into you know the day to day life as well. What is the impact on UX service design models? So even today we are kind of consultants. We are consultants internally to our development teams but that role is going to change from consultant to more of a collaborator. So initially it is a support system contributor. I contribute to this product. Now I collaborate to a co-discoverer. That is going to be the trend and traditional UX is not going to be enough. So if you are talking about providing the service even internally to your organization or externally if you say I am going to provide interaction design and visual design and prototyping that is going to be commoditized. It is not going to be enough. You have to go beyond that and say how can I impact the strategy? How can I impact the future product definition? We have been trying to do that with some of our customers as well. The other point is about internal support to co-discoverer which I was talking about earlier. Even today we see that in lot of organizations the UX team is an internal support team or it is almost at the faggin. It comes at the faggin where all the development is done and then somebody says this does not work. Then they run to the UX team and say what is wrong with this? Paint some colors to this. It is still happening today. So from that role to co-discoverer is going to happen in the future. What is the impact on the business models? With all this the business models are also going to emerge and change from simple time and material to fixed price to partnerships, skin in the game. If you want to design an ecosystem you have to be an equal partner to your internal team or to your customer. If it is design studios then to your customers of course.  But then they will say prove it to me. Put your skin in the game your payment will depend on that. Let me be successful I will pay you. The payment structures are going to change the future and there are going to be turn key design projects for ecosystems. So let us say designing an ecosystem for the experience of an airport it has to be a turn key design project where software comes in place, hardware is there service is there everything is related to each other transportation is there. And then just like probably safety as a requirement I believe that user experience is going to be a mandatory requirement in the future. And when I am saying the future I am talking about 3 years from now. Not too long. So yeah these are my top picks from the top and that is it I am done. Thank you.


So this morning, I was having an interesting thought Some people might think I'm crazy because I have all these weird thoughts But it centered around how relationships were 50 60 years ago at least here in the United States pre birth control Now when it came to a woman choosing a mate Because there was the risk of I don't want to say risk of having a baby But the potential of having a baby a woman was way more selective When it came to who she chose to be intimate with and it used to be back in the day that Basically if you wanted to get laid you had to get married so there was a lot not I mean there was a discrimination when I say discrimination there was a Vetting process a woman did to make sure this is a person she'd want to have a baby with and then there was a commitment from the man to Make that happen That certainly changed after birth control And what's interesting that's happened the last 50 or 60 years here in the United States a phenomena called Dating came into place because it used to be a man would court a woman in other words He made he basically would declare his interest in a woman now by the way I'm speaking generally and not as an absolute this didn't happen all the time But much of the time a man would court a woman because he knew he wanted to go the distance with this person And then all of a sudden after birth control dating came into place and then a little bit later some something called online dating came to place So why is it important to understand this about dating? Well the thing is Dating allows an opportunity for two people to take more time to get to know each other to see if they're a fit for one Another and there's some benefit to that But the same time a man can get the benefit of Companionship connection and sex without any real commitment in the relationship And so what I think has happened lately is that women are less choosy in a different sense When it comes to men Because the reality is as men aren't committing as they once did now I'm not saying all men but a substantial percentage of men and sadly for The population out there there are pundits who are Advocating and I'm thinking of people like Andrew Tate who got banned from From some of the social media platforms now It's my perception that he's promoting a misogynistic point of view that men are quite superior to women and women should be Grateful for men for what they provide and Because of that they should accept bad behavior from men And I think that's really sad that that's being a you know espoused out there But at the same time what bothers me is women do accept bad behavior from men Because on some level women are waiting for that level of commitment from a man and they're investing in Relationships they're investing time and men They're investing time and men Hoping that this man will shift his perspective on commitment and studying of doing a better job of vetting the man like it once was When you had to decide is this a person I want to have a baby with now in the past It was based on financial resources in other words does this person have the resources to support me What I think's changed in the last 20 years Or 30 years since women are predominantly the ones who initiate divorce more often But I think women are actually Wanting more and more is a deeper emotional connection with a man a deeper emotional connection a man And I think that's a fair thing to want I think it's a very fair thing to want to have a relationship that has a level of depth Because if you can take care of yourself if you can financially take care of yourself Then the need to have the man be the provider protector per se Isn't as great Okay, and that's not to say that we shouldn't Genuinely care for our partners and want to protect them and what I mean to say is take care of them You know what it's missing today in the dating process and I said earlier how online dating has amplified this It used to be that there was a little bit of scarcity in the past when it came to dating What I meant to say is you had a very small pool of people to choose from if you grew up in tribes You grew up in villages you grew up in towns and Roughly up until about the 50s or so it was you chose people within your own social circle And there was also tribe accountability or at least social accountability in other words It used to be I for someone like myself I'm your big brother out there if I could be there for you when you're having a first date with a guy I'd have the shock done already and pointed the guy's face and say what's your intentions with my sister Well, that's certainly changed especially in the last 20 years because of these devices That there's this belief of abundance of opportunities And what can happen is people can end a relationship today and literally be online and have a date within 24 hours or less so when there's this and what I mean by scarcity From the mindset of it was like look I have to there's a small pool of people to choose from I Should be more selective and now men and women are not as selective as they used to be And I think it's more and men are less picky because the ease of getting physical Intimacy by literally a click of a button men are less picky Did you know that men swipe right on profiles somewhere between 40 and 60% of the time?  You're the gatekeepers of sex This sounds kind of maybe even draconian if you will but I'm here to say Emotional as well as physical intimacy should be earned between two people Listen, I'm sounding very puritan here. I'm sounding very righteous But I'm also witnessing that the number one emotional health issue facing most people is I'm not good enough I'm not lovable and I'm not likeable and Because of that there's a distressing lack of self-love Coming back to my book What the heck is self-love anyway a journey of personal development self-help and spiritual work There's a distressing lack of self-love and dating triggers This wound of I'm not good enough. I'm not lovable. I'm not likable when we've had Experiences over and over and over again that go nowhere This is why when I work with a client my job is to help women do a better job of vetting men To do a better job of vetting them and what vetting means is Determining if he's worth your mind body soul and spirit Instead of the traditional way that we've operated that chemistry equals Relationship success folks chemistry alone doesn't really equal relationship success compatibility in the areas of values lifestyle and more importantly emotional maturity and Women tend to read more relationship books than men women tend to read it doesn't mean you're good at Practicing it, but you're certainly reading it more than men So it's incumbent upon you to be more picky and I'm gonna say something you're not gonna like either It's incumbent upon you to treat it as a part-time job Because we're see we're swimming in a sea of strangers and whether we like it or not We'd love the fantasy that Prince Charming will just come up and rescue us with our glass slippers ain't gonna happen It's gonna require work on your part and in my realm It's only I'm only asking for a half hour a day of effort on your part whether it's swiping whether it's communicating Whether it's going out on dates meeting for coffee Cumulatively a couple hours a week if you feel like that's too much to invest Then are you really ready for a relationship? Because the delusion that it's just gonna walk into your door and certainly during COVID It was much harder to meet people because we're not out in them in the marketplace if you will It's gonna require to be ultra picky now not from the sense of Discriminating someone based on trivial things like how tall they are or such like that I don't know. I've had women who are five foot to say I refuse to date a man six foot two or under Because I want to feel protected. Well ladies Bruce Lee was five six and he could kick the butt of a dozen guys all at once And by the way, the average Navy SEAL is five six five nine and a half and they're the baddest mother You know mother's on the planet, but I'm here to say Don't give into the narrative that many of the people are espousing that you're the problem You have every right to be picky. Let me just say this and more importantly be picky when it comes to emotional maturity Because there's a lot of emotionally and emotional maturity really relates to relationship skills So humans that do Introspective work that if healed childhood wounds and traumas are more apt to be able to have the skills to lean into a relationship Because without it relationships are a heck of a lot of work and the work is overcoming our own issues When you've done the inner work You become more of a magnetic attractor for someone else that's done the work and when they've done Introspective work as well. They're better prepared to lean into a healthier happy relationship So men are less picky because they operate most often that chemistry equals relationship success Your job is to focus on shared values blendable lifestyle and more importantly emotional maturity Doesn't matter how tall he is or what kind of car he drives What matters most is is this person emotionally mature enough to lean into? A healthy happy relationship. Is this sinking in is this resonating? Please let me know post a comment below I want to hear your thoughts on everything. I just shared from beginning to end Because I'm here to say whether we like it or not It's gonna take more effort because we no longer live in a village where we can see the person We're gonna probably make with and because of that. It's gonna take a little more effort All right, that's my two cents on that I'd like to hear your thoughts on this as I said below. 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