EP#6 | Isha Bhatt : Architecture, Technology, Software Futures | Part I

Isha Bhatt is the Director of Product Management at YouTube Commerce. She studied architecture at the KRVIA in Mumbai and was a part of the first batch of students. After moving to the United States to study industrial she began her foray into the tech world, completely by chance, as a User Interface designer for Rediff in the late 90’s. As she mentions in Part I of the conversation, the world wide web was being designed from scratch and she found herself completely at home as a designer, in an environment surrounded by engineers.

Looking into the rear-view mirror now, she speaks about her journey as a Design Thinker and Leader - especially as a woman in a male-dominated Silicon Valley Tech Industry, as one full of surprises and challenges without much precedence. Isha’s longest stint being Paypal (8 years) she narrates stories of being confronted with cultural differences and socio-economic realities of the different parts of the world while working on the design of a product that is meant to make everyday life easier for people across communities.

In part II Isha also elaborates on her anticipations regarding the future of technological innovations. We discuss with her how she see’s the world of software being received across the world, by communities and what its disruptive capacities might be for various cultural practices. Her wide range of experiences across different product categories like e-commerce (ebay), fintech (Paypal), automobile (Volvo) and currently Youtube gave us a very rich insight into the different aspects of product design.

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