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Editorial I feel incredibly proud to launch the inaugural issue of ImaginXP’s biannual Design Journal. The prime objective of the design journal is to provide insights into the world of Design, Design Thinking, User Experience Design and related topics. This journal is a platform to showcase some inspiring work, experiences and portfolios. It focuses on the views, findings, and knowledge of our students, academicians, and professionals in the design domain. The prevailing circumstances are not only impacting global businesses but also the social scape. The process of digital transformation has suddenly accelerated against the backdrop of challenges of lockdown and social distancing. The enterprises are transforming to satisfy the needs of the changing consumer behaviours by linking with them virtually and the needs of the employees working from home by skilling, upskilling and stand reskilling. The need for hyper-personalisation of learning experience assumes great importance in the era of business disruptions and unfortunate laying off employees or placing them on the bench. History bears testimony that reskilling has been one of the most exercised options during business disruptions/slowdowns globally. What needs to be understood by individuals and organisations is that they cannot delay their learning needs to evolve and meet the requirements of the changing times. It gives me a sense of pride and satisfaction that team ImaginXP displayed remarkable agility in adopting and migrating to the digital platform. The team strived to provide a continuous and uninterrupted learning experience to our students in various programs in our partnering universities/ urban learning centres. Our corporate partners trusted us with opportunities to create new programs for their employees to meet their training needs in this new normal. I want to place my appreciation for the editorial board to have conceived and created this inaugural issue and contribute to sharing the learnings in these challenging times and am sanguine that this issue will turn out to be readers' delight. I would encourage all readers to contribute with their experiences and creativity in the upcoming issues. We at ImaginXP, are dedicated to the cause of empowering our youth and workforce by creating an ecosystem for knowledge and innovations armed with skills of the 21st century to propel our nation and society to the centre stage of global order. Warm Regards, Prof. Col. Shishir Kumar Director General ImaginXP