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Rick Banister says “Listen up!”
Let people in the open-source community know you are listening by responding promptly.
Listen to more than just what users are saying, look for context clues to reach a greater understanding.
Fall in love with the problem, not the solution.
A language gap can still yield an experience overlap.
Don’t just listen to users’ words, observe their actions.
Don’t act like the expert, be the apprentice and let your users teach you everything they know.
Suspend your judgement in order to listen objectively.
Let data ask all the questions.

Some background: https://a8cdesignflow.wordpress.com/2017/09/30/listen-up/

About Rick Banister

Rick Banister is a designer at Automattic, currently leading the Jetpack design team.
He studied multimedia design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. After graduating in 2005 he worked as an interactive art director for an advertising agency. He then became a partner in a small digital agency and built his first WordPress sites on WordPress 2.0. After seven years in client service he joined a DIY community startup, helping build a user base of 50,000.
Four years ago he reentered the WordPress world by applying to work at Automattic. Since then he has worked on GlotPress, WordPress.com, and Jetpack. He works remotely from New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife Ada and dog Lima Bean.

About his talk at #WCNashik

Listening is a key skill in a design practice. Stakeholder interviews and research are helpful tools, but only paint part of the picture. Growing as a designer requires an ever increasing amount of empathy.
The designer must become an active listener, open to new experiences, free of biases, and ever curious. Automattic incorporates listening into its design work in a number of ways—this talk will explore a number of those to give the audience a sense of how to be more receptive to customers and clients.
Designers at Automattic use techniques like ‘active listening’, observing user behavior, looking for the right problem considering solutions, suspending judgement, debiasing, and exploring data from all angles to avoid dubious correlations in order to best serve our customers.

Well I always hate saying this “Did you book your seats?”, Common become a part of amazing Nashik WordPress community, do book your seats here https://2017.nashik.wordcamp.org/tickets/ Very few seats left!

Meet RJ Taleha Khan, She is a TEDx Speaker | Software Test Engineer| Blogger | RJ at Radio Masala | Food Walks | Youtuber | Influencer | Digi Marketing | Creative Writer.

Taleha Khan’s Profile:

• A full time Software Engineer with over 6 Years of experience.
• A TEDx Speaker at TEDxJSSATE , TEDx talk available on Youtube.
• Speaker at HelloMeets , spoke on the topic “how to speak at Tedx Talks”
• Panel keynote Speaker at Delhi’s biggest bloggers meet organised by Markitiers
• Certified Advanced Beginner , Intermediate , Proficient level by IndiBlogger
• Invited as motivational speaker at many events organized by schools, colleges
• Is an RJ since the past 3 and half years with an online radio channel- Radio Masala
• She took interviews of the hidden talent from the society and did shows like Thought City Express and Bon Voyage around the world.
• Judged RJ Hunt at Annual Fest at IEC college of Engineering, Noida
• Apart from being an RJ and software engineer, she is an independent creative writer, blogger and youtuber. Her blog is called The Ohh-So-Me Blog where she pens her views on versatile topics from food to beauty to lifestyle to books to DIYs to technology.
• She is a social media influencer.
• She also does Food Walks with Delhi Food Walks taking food enthusiasts through a trip down memory lanes of Shahjahanabad.
• She has been a youth ambassador for peace with United Nations Peace Federation.
• Her interview has been published in Akhbar e Mashriq and Dainik Jagran
• She has been interviewed by various bloggers too.
• Has participated in Chroma Tech Grand Masters hosted by NDTV
• Participated in the NYC Flash Fiction Challenge
• She have written radio review booklets and hosted guest shows with RJs on Radio City & Radio Mirchi
• Interviewed by Sahapedia where she talked about the food , custom and traditions of Old Delhi.

Few more details at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/talehakhan

TOPIC: How to boost content marketing and blogging simplified for WordPress websites

At WordCamp Nashik, she will be talking about tools and strategies to simplify blogging and boost content marketing. She will share some of the tips and tricks she have used as well as some of the curated techniques she has learn.

Isn’t it an interesting talk? All in all #wcnashik has more such good talks lined up, Make sure you book your seats here https://2017.nashik.wordcamp.org/tickets/ before they are sold out!

See y’all at #WCNashik!

Gauri Sawant; Society told her that she is not a woman; but she became a mother. They told her that she has no rights of her own, that she does not exist in the eyes of the law; yet, she took in an orphaned girl to protect her right to a happy childhood, so that another little girl doesn’t get trafficked and disappear into oblivion.

Gauri Sawant, born and raised in Pune, is a transgender living in Mumbai for more than 20 years. Gauri Sawant is a 37-year-old transgender social activist. Born as Ganesh Suresh Sawant, she was born and raised in a conservative family in Pune. At a very early age of 9, after her mother’s demise, Gauri realised that she is different from others. After her mother passed away, she was raised by her grandmother. As a child, she has always been effeminate and more inclined towards the female gender.

During one of her several visits to Mumbai’s red-light area Kamathipura, Gauri decided not to be a bystander and stepped in. She adopted Gayatri and is bringing her up as her own daughter. She had always wanted to be a mother – even if the world refuses to see her as such.

“I don’t feel special. I became a mother because of Gayatri and she is my pillar of strength. I did what every mother does, As I believe ‘Care has no Gender'” says Gauri.

Gauri Tai has decided to build a home for the children of sex workers called Aajicha Ghar – आजीचं घर, using her own patch of land, with the hope that given the right environment and coupled with love and support, these children can become anything they would want to be, instead of falling back to the cycle.

In real life, the idea for building a home for children did not crop up suddenly. A trip into the lanes of Kamathipura, Mumbai’s oldest red-light district, ended up in Gauri stumbling upon something that she would never quite forget

Instead of approaching others, She decided that she will build a home for these children. The thought helped her realize the aptness of the phrase, ‘charity begins at home!

Gauri’s connection with WordPress

Along with Collaborating with crowdfunding website Milaap, Gauri wanted to have her own online space for Aajicha Ghar – आजीचं घर which is built on WordPress, Gauri intends to raise funds through her website, towards providing a safe haven for the children. This could be their best shot at escaping the vicious circle their mothers have unfortunately been led to.

Gauri wants to help other children born to sex-workers. With her shelter ‘Aajicha Ghar – आजीचं घर‘ she wants to make a home and a new future for vulnerable children. It is also to be a place of refuge for other trans workers who are vulnerable to violence.

Topic: WordPress and LGBT

At WordCamp Nashik Tai, will share her WordPress story, on How publishing the website Aajicha Ghar – आजीचं घर on WordPress, helped her to raise funds for the noble cause!

Want to listen Gauri’s story, Make sure you book your seats here, before they are sold out!

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