In this episode of Now and Next, Kimo sits down with Viktor, designer and founder of Design Rocket, for an open, reflective conversation about personal experiences, career moments, and lessons learned along the way.

This is not a “how-to” episode.
It’s a human conversation about work, identity, creativity, uncertainty, and growth — shared from lived experience.

😎 ABOUT THE GUEST

👱🏻‍♂️ Viktor
💻 Designer & Founder @ Design Rocket
X: https://x.com/viktoroddy
YouTube: @ViktorOddy

📝 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Now and Next, Kimo dives into:

• 00:00 - Intro preview
• 00:42 - Welcome to the episode
• 00:47 - Meet Viktor, founder of Design Rocket
• 01:08 - Moving from Ukraine to Italy and then Asia
• 03:42 - Viktor introduces himself
• 04:02 - How he got into design at a young age
• 04:36 - From graphic design to product design
• 05:01 - Building gaming communities and fake game concepts as a teenager
• 06:30 - His first professional design work
• 16:20 - A practical AI workflow for creating websites
• 24:17 - Motion sites, deliverables, and showing AI work to clients
• 29:32 - Why AI changes the design process
• 32:49 - Figma Make and AI-powered website creation
• 36:20 - How to stay thoughtful and useful while using AI
• 37:22 - Broader reflections beyond AI
• 42:02 - The Now and Next closing question
• 44:57 - Final thoughts and outro

Get ready for a mix of real stories, psychology, design thinking, and life lessons — all in a simple, human, easy-to-remember way.

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I had a very nice chat with Viktor Oddy, which you can watch or listen to in an upcoming episode of Now and Next.

😎 ABOUT THE GUEST

👱🏻‍♂️ Viktor 💻 Designer & Founder @ Design Rocket X: https://x.com/viktoroddy
YouTube: @ViktorOddy

Get ready for a mix of real stories, psychology, design thinking, and life lessons — all in a simple, human, easy-to-remember way.

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In this episode of Now and Next, Kimo sits down with Paulius Zutautas — Product Designer, Data Visualisation Designer, and Developer — for an open, reflective conversation about personal experiences, career moments, and lessons learned along the way.

This is not a “how-to” episode.
It’s a human conversation about work, identity, creativity, uncertainty, and growth — shared from lived experience.

😎 ABOUT THE GUEST

👱🏻‍♂️ Paulius Zutautas
💻 Design, Data & Code.
👉 LinkedIn | Paulius Žutautas | https://www.linkedin.com/in/zutautaspaulius

📝 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Now and Next, Kimo dives into:

• 00:00 – Welcome & setting the context
• 02:45 – Background and design journey
• 06:00 – Discovering design and data visualization
• 14:20 – Early work experiences and learning moments
• 20:15 – Design responsibility and quality
• 25:00 – Communication through data
• 36:55 – Function vs aesthetics in visualization
• 41:40 – Exploratory vs message-driven design
• 50:05 – Audience, context, and meaning
• 57:00 – AI, speed, and accountability
• 01:08:55 – Design systems and machine-readable design
• 01:18:10 – The design job market today
• 01:32:25 – Industry transition and uncertainty
• 01:42:55 – Human judgment, creativity, and AI
• 01:55:00 – Closing reflections

Get ready for a mix of real stories, psychology, design thinking, and life lessons — all in a simple, human, easy-to-remember way.

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