From time to time, former colleagues, friends, and people familiar with my passion for human-centered design invite me to give lectures or lead workshops.

A couple of years ago, thanks to such an invitation, I had the opportunity to speak to some of Russia’s most talented high school students at the “PROSTO” festival organized by Innopolis University.

It was an amazing experience and much more challenging than I had expected. The bar was set high, and the audience, as well as the format, were completely new to me. I rarely get the chance to talk about my work with high school students.

I tried to share insights on how to create meaningful things and emphasized that a lack of knowledge isn’t a problem but rather a great starting point.

The talk turned out to be quite long but, in my opinion, engaging. It was streamed on VK, and on the day of the festival, it was watched by 90,000 people.

Here’s the recording (in Russian):

And here’s the presentation in English (PDF)