Mentorship, Design and Creative Engineers with Alyona Volkova
Beyond Coding6 Sep 2023

Mentorship, Design and Creative Engineers with Alyona Volkova

Connect with Alyona Volkova:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvol


Full episode on YouTube ▶️

https://youtu.be/jW3xmo27144

New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!

Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode!


OUTLINE:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:25 - Echo-free chambers
00:01:00 - Calming yourself down
00:03:15 - Overthinking things with public speaking
00:05:29 - Recognising yourself in footage
00:06:34 - Receiving compliments
00:09:29 - Actively self-reflecting
00:12:10 - Different ways to retain information
00:15:05 - It all started with photoshop
00:17:49 - Alyona's first real job as a developer
00:20:40 - Moving from developing to design
00:22:38 - Love for software engineering and design
00:25:33 - Developers and designers understanding each other
00:28:00 - Patrick's experience working with designers
00:29:16 - Creative developers
00:32:54 - Alyona's journey with mentorship
00:36:23 - Fulfilment in mentoring
00:37:43 - Long-term mentoring relationships
00:38:59 - Mentees having similar challenges
00:40:20 - Understanding the thought process
00:42:20 - The right mindset
00:43:41 - How to be a great mentor?
00:46:08 - Pair designing and co-creating
00:47:47 - Copying designs to learn
00:50:18 - Tutorials and knowledge retention
00:51:48 - Continuous learning and improving in mentoring
00:53:30 - Past, present, future
00:55:15 - Crossing paths
00:57:18 - Mentoring has changed Alyona
01:01:29 - Rounding off

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