Saurabh Srivastava is a seasoned User-Centered Innovation Manager, Design Strategist and Mixed Method Researcher with over ten years of experience. Over the length of his professional career, He has played a vital role in over 15 user-centred innovation technologies, authored 40+ peer-reviewed research publications and holds 15+ filed/granted Patents. Saurabh presently works as Lead Researcher for Google Pay, focussing on Growth and Monetization. He was responsible for Growth and Partnerships Research in an earlier project. Before Google, he worked as a Senior Scientist and Research Manager in Conduent Labs India and HCI research in IBM Research. He has also been named "Innovators under 35" (MIT TR 35 under 35) by MIT Tech Review for 2015. 
In this episode, Saurabh shared his journey into design, sharing his experiences working for many research labs. We also discussed the way of approach to innovation along with classification and patterns in innovation. We shed some light on how being a designer its an added advantage to be an innovator.
Takeaways: What are innovations, What are various types and patterns in innovation, Principles and Process of innovation
Books recommended by Saurabh Srivastava.
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions
 Zero to One: Notes on Start-Ups, or How to Build the Future
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
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