i was applying for a design program lately and i was being asked what impact do you want to have
on the world and why i really don't know how to answer the question because i want
to do all those things but this question really triggered me i feel like i'm a person who really
want to make a big impact but i just didn't know what exactly is the impact that i want to make
so i spent months thinking about this question days and nights and i reflected on experience that
i had before i thought about what projects made me feel fulfilled what did i enjoy and what did i
absolutely hate and i think now i know the answer so please stay patient and listen to my story
first i would like to take you all the way back to the birth of the world wide web well do you still
remember the old days when the web is still in its baby form and everyone is excited about it talking
about how it's going to change everyone's life how it's going to make information accessible to
everyone at any time entrepreneurs putting .com at the end of any company name well i don't remember
because i was not born yet the only thing i know is that i cannot live without the
world wild web and i take it as granted however i also know that my grandmother suffers 10 years
from not being able to use the internet when i was still in the primary school my grandmother
asked me whether i can teach her how to use the internet and i said of course i tried several
times but it didn't work out each time i tried to teach my grandmother how to use a computer
she told me that oh my god she's just too stupid for it it's her fault that she didn't know english
and it's her fault that she couldn't remember each step it's really not because of her it's
more because of the nonsense interface and also for some reason it requires a chinese old lady
to use a english keyboard and that is the time when i realized that a technology that looks
so easy for me to use is a complete disaster for another audience that's different from me and
the technology that's built for everyone to access all information at any time it's really just built
for first people who are building the technology and second people who are rich and well educated and
third people without disability but things totally changed after 10 years i bought my grandmother an
ipad she could write chinese characters with her finger instead of typing it using english
and managed to taught my grandmother how to use an ipad within an hour compared to 10 years not being
able to use a computer an hour it's like nothing most importantly from that day on my grandmother
start to discover how to use the internet without even me teaching about it and even until today
my grandmother would still use an ipad to catch up with news to watch videos and also to video
chat with me every single day having an app have to entertain and to catch up with the world is
something that has dramatically changed her life and that is the time when i realized that damn
technology can change the world in a great way and that's also the time when i wanted
to become a ux designer because i want to make sure that technology are built for everyone
today people are building the web 3.0 and when i say people it's really still
students from stanford some software engineers in some wealthy investors
and i'm not saying that they are bad without them we might still not have the internet
but what i wish is that more designers become entrepreneurs and help to build the next big thing
ai blockchain 5g brain computer interface and now the NFT any of these can become the next big thing
but what i wish is that no matter what's the next big thing the tech is built for people not
just people in the silicon valley you see when we say that the nft can help so many artists
we mean that an nft can help the artist but what's really happening is that if you go
on the biggest nft platforms you can see that all these arts are not really from artists 99 of them
are from people who are interested in NFT as a technology and also people who want to try it out
and see if they can make a bunch of money because it's in the birth of the technology
and i wish that for any entrepreneur who are building things related to nft bring artists bring
people who we want to help and bring them in front of the technology so that they pull* the technology
forward instead of pushing the technology ahead of everything ahead of people you want to help this
is still the pattern to most of the technology that evolves today because it's rising so fast
and other things couldn't catch up but we can make it different and it's not that we should stop
attack from developing is that we shall pull more people that are not software engineers that are
not invested and that are not just focusing on the business side into the game and that
especially include ux designers where our job is to design the most accessible and easy experience
for everybody although the unfortunate truth is that most companies still only hire ux designers
that have 10 plus years of experience to finish the web page designs for their new feature
so what impact do i want to have on the world and why well no matter what i do either through ux
design or through making youtube videos or through building my own companies i will always make sure
to put lifes before tech to put experience before product and to put real impact before numbers
thanks for listening i'm Aliena professionally known as Elena and don't forget to subscribe
i have to end the video here because it's three o'clock here but it's the sunset time in seattle
it's getting so dark that's why i have to get so close to the window so that you can see my face
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