Design MBA (Jayneil Dalal)
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| 24 Apr 2023 | Mistakes First Time Design Managers Make - Kyle Turman (Director of Product Design @ Retool) | 00:53:16 | |
Kyle Turman is the the Director of Product Design at Retool and previously led design teams at Slack, Dropbox, and Etsy. He is a world wide web mad scientist who designs software work a bit better for people and tries to help people work a bit better together.
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| 03 Oct 2022 | Growing a Bootstrapped Design Business - Ran Segall (CEO @ Flux Academy) | 00:33:37 | |
Ran Segall is the founder and CEO of Flux Academy.
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| 31 Jul 2023 | Spatial Design is the Future | 00:31:49 | |
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| 17 Apr 2022 | Becoming a Designer in Crypto - Graeme Blackwood (Head of Design @ Argent) | 00:55:43 | |
Graeme wrote his first line of code aged 8, in 1992 on a Commodore 64, and built his first website in 1998. He's solved design problems for clients such as VW, Johnson and Johnson, the British Royal Family and the UK Government. His expertise spans many disciplines including user research, service design, UX / product design, and creative direction.Graeme began working full time in crypto in early 2018, when he joined Argent. He believes that crypto heralds the biggest shift in history for how we exchange value, and that it will have much more impact than the Internet. His goal is to solve the myriad of UX problems with decentralized ownership and self-sovereignty so that everyone benefits.
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| 28 Dec 2020 | Design Leaders Need Side Hustles - Morgane Peng (Design Director @ Société Générale) | 01:06:03 | |
Morgane Peng is responsible for the design vision and strategy of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking. She delivers united and meaningful experiences with her team across Societe Generale products for start-ups, corporates, and financial institutions. Previously, Morgane adventured into various fields of consulting, financial markets, and tech. In her spare time, she’s a gamer at heart and works on an indie video game successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter. SUPPORT KORULDIA RPG GAME:
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| 18 Oct 2022 | Breaking Into Design Ops - Adam Fry Pierce (Chief of Staff @ Google) | 00:57:39 | |
Adam Fry-Pierce is a career long community builder and design operator. He is currently the Chief of Staff at Google where he manages strategic programs for Google's UX leadership. Previously he was leading DesignOps at DocuSign, and involved in Design Education programs at InVision. Adam has a non-linear career and has had multiple businesses over the years: a conference company, a designops agency, a media company, and even a restaurant. He's also an active partner in one of the largest designops communities (if not the largest) in the world: The DesignOps Assembly.
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| 30 Nov 2020 | Designing Asynchronous Work Culture - Luke Thomas (CEO @ Friday.app) | 01:15:44 | |
Luke Thomas is the founder of Friday, an asynchronous update platform that helps distributed teams stay connected. Previously, Luke was Head of Product at Crystal and has been working remotely since 2013. Outside of work, Luke enjoys hanging out with his family and he lives in Portland, Maine. If you ever visit, he will gladly show you around town. INCREASE THE PRODUCTIVITY OF YOUR REMOTE TEAM
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| 12 Apr 2020 | Trailer | 00:01:15 | |
What is the Design MBA podcast about? Why did I start it? Most importantly, why the heck should you even listen to it?
For show notes please visit: www.designmba.show
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| 01 May 2022 | Designing a 6 Figure Figma Course - Michael Riddering (Founder @ Figma Academy) | 00:53:17 | |
Michael Riddering ("Ridd") is the founding designer at Maven and the creator of Figma Academy—a new online course that teaches advanced design tactics directly within Figma. He's been designing products every day for over a decade and is passionate about improving the way we learn online. LOOKING FOR ADVANCED LEVEL COURSE ON FIGMA?
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| 05 Oct 2020 | Investing Now to Buy Your Future Freedom - Craig Mod (Investor @ Figma, Designer Fund) | 00:58:38 | |
Craig Mod is a Japan-based author and photographer. His books include Kissa by Kissa, Koya Bound, and Art Space Tokyo. He is a MacDowell, VCCA, and Ragdale fellow. His writing and photography has appeared in Eater, The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, The New Yorker, and other publications. SUPPORT CRAIG MOD:
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| 31 Oct 2021 | Six Figures in Six Days - James Traf (Founder @ Super) | 00:50:43 | |
James Traf is a designer & entrepreneur, building simple digital products. Previously he co-founded Spoil (YC-backed startup, raised $500k) and is now building small, profitable internet products like Super a simple way to turn your Notion pages into fast, functional websites. He is forever distracted with side projects. TURN YOUR NOTION PAGES INTO WEBSITES WITHOUT CODING Use Super to transform your Notion page into a kick ass landing page or website with slick templates!
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| 10 Jul 2022 | Starting a Venture Capital Firm - John Zeratsky (General Partner @ Character) | 00:44:10 | |
John Zeratsky is a co-founder and general partner at Character, bestselling author of Sprint and Make Time, and former design partner at GV. Previously, John was a design leader for YouTube, Google Ads, and FeedBurner, which was acquired by Google in 2007.
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| 01 Mar 2023 | Design Exec Role Sneak Peek - Gordon Ching (Founder @ Design Executive Council) | 00:40:08 | |
Gordon Ching is the founder of Design Executive Council (DEC) building the network dedicated to advancing the design executive profession in Silicon Valley and beyond. Through the DEC, Gordon is partnering with chief design officers and design executives of the world’s most successful public companies and venture-backed startups to advance the relationship between design and business. Gordon was previously at Affirm, Fast, Synchrony, Apple and AIESEC International.
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| 10 Apr 2023 | Taking a Sabbatical - Ben Huggins (Design @ Retool) | 00:36:22 | |
Ben Huggins is a Product Designer at Retool. He’s spent his career applying fresh thinking to stale problems and he’s gotten the chance to do this with concepts like software development at Retool, HR at Humu, TV at YouTube and thermostats at Nest. He also serves on the board for the graduate UX program at Bentley University and spends free time exploring the mountains of California with his partner and 1-year old son.
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| 19 Jun 2022 | Becoming a Designer in Web3 - Yitong Zhang (Cofounder @ Vector DAO) | 00:41:46 | |
Yitong Zhang is the cofounder of Vector DAO. Before that he spent almost four years at Coinbase where he had the privilege of designing and redesigning much of the consumer app as well as establishing the design system. He also tends to a beautiful vegetable garden.
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| 24 May 2023 | Why Designers Need to Learn About Business | 00:35:45 | |
Om is a designer by profession and entrepreneur by aspiration. Today, he's the Director of Product design at DISQO by day and CEO, co-founder of Personify by night. ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A KICKASS RESEARCH WORKSPACE FOR YOUR TEAM?
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| 18 Apr 2021 | $37,700 Sketch Plugin - Seth Coelen (Founder @ UX Cabin) | 00:44:54 | |
Seth Coelen is the founder of the product design company UX Cabin. He is also the creator of Bootsketch, LayoutLab, and Pester. In between client work and projects he enjoys making design parody videos and tutorials on YouTube and Twitter. When he's not working he enjoys spending time with his wife, son, and daughter. CONNECT WITH SETH COELEN:
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| 23 Aug 2021 | Designing a Community - Preet Singh (Founder @ DesignX) | 00:56:33 | |
Preet is the founder of DesignX – one of the largest UX & design communities in North America, and the curator, founder and host of renowned design conferences such as Design Leadership Summit, Remote Design Week, 5 to 9 Conference and more. Over his design career spanning 10+ years, Preet has had the privilege of working with clients including corporates, and unicorns to early-stage startups – Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, Quicken Loans, Xero, TeamViewer, Teespring, Miami Ad School, Couchsurfing, and many more. From building a strong grassroots non-profit movement while in engineering school, to founding a t-shirt startup centred around social issues in India – community is at the heart of everything Preet works on.
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| 09 Aug 2021 | Building Future Design Leaders - Brian Sullivan (Founder @ Big Design Conference) | 01:20:04 | |
Brian Sullivan is the Director of Design Strategy for Sabre, where he applies user research and consumer insights with the latest technology to build new products for the travel industry. He is an expert in design thinking, user research, accessibility, usability, and innovation. Brian has led design thinking workshops with several Fortune 500 companies, actively participates in the user experience community, and founded the Big Design Conference, which has over 1,000 attendees each year from around the globe. NETWORK WITH DESIGNERS IN TEXAS:
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| 12 Aug 2020 | Overcoming Imposter Syndrome - Matt D Smith (CEO @ Shift Nudge) | 01:04:59 | |
Matt D. Smith is the owner and Design Director at Studio MDS, a small independent design studio in Athens, GA. He created the Float Label Pattern for digital input fields, the Contrast app for checking WCAG 2.0 color contrast ratios, and Flowkit for creating user flows inside your favorite design tool. He's currently working on an intensive interface design course called Shift Nudge.He's a proud father of four. TOPICS:
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| 28 Jun 2021 | Leveraging Day Job to Launch Side Hustle - Scotty Russell (Founder @ Perspective Collective) | 00:37:25 | |
Scotty Russell is an artist, designer, coach, podcaster, and speaker working under the name Perspective-Collective. He’s also an outer space, pizza loving cat dad, AND human dad based in Cedar Falls, Iowa. After 5.5 years working of building his creative side hustle outside his Corporate Cubicle, he made the full-time shift to Side Hustle Coach in January 2020. His mission is to help creatives blaze their own path to side hustle success outside their day job through his weekly Perspective Podcast, Side Hustler’s Coaching Program, and digital resources. LEVERAGE YOUR DAY JOB TO FUEL YOUR DREAM JOB:
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| 11 Jan 2021 | Starting a Design Venture - Alen Faljic (CEO @ d.MBA) | 00:52:53 | |
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| 11 Dec 2022 | Designing Authentic Relationships - Mindaugas Petrutis (CEO @ Coho) | 00:38:50 | |
Mindaugas Petrutis builds relationships, connects the dots between humans, systems, problems and simplifies complex ideas. Often mistaken for a designer. He is currently the CEO at Coho which is The Direct To Experience ™️ Learning Network for professional growth.
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| 19 Apr 2020 | Leverage Being a B+ Player - Stephen Olmstead (Chief of Staff @ InVision) | 00:46:51 | |
Stephen is currently the Chief of Staff for the office of the CEO at InVision App. Stephen was an early member of the team, helping scale the org from 30 to 850+ fully distributed team members over the past 5 years. He's passionate about digital product design, building organizational infrastructure, and engaging with his community. Previously Stephen helped build out InVision’s partnerships, corp dev, product management, product research teams. He’s based in Mesa, Arizona where he was born and raised and enjoys spending time with his wife of 11 years, and 3 amazing children. TOPICS:
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| 14 Nov 2021 | Managing Side Projects - Brian Lovin (Staff Product Designer @ Github) | 00:46:59 | |
Brian Lovin is a designer, podcaster, writer, and software tinkerer. He is currently building native mobile apps at GitHub. Before GitHub, he co-founded Spectrum, a platform for large-scale communities to have better public conversations. Spectrum was acquired by GitHub in November, 2018. Before Spectrum he designed payments experiences at Facebook, working across Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. He also co-host the Design Details Podcast, a weekly conversation about design process and culture. ARE YOU LOOKING TO GROW AS AN INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTOR? Visit Staff.design and learn how navigate the individual contributor design career path from interviews with successful designers LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE)
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| 05 Apr 2022 | Life of an Entrepreneur - Aashish Dalal (Founder @ Sunya One) | 00:54:17 | |
Aashish Dalal is the founder and former CEO of ParkWhiz. In 2008, Aashish created the company to simplify the parking experience by connecting drivers with an open parking space. Since then, ParkWhiz has become the nation's top booking platform, conducting millions of transactions on its apps, saving drivers time and money. Under his leadership, ParkWhiz has raised more than $50 million in funding and in May 2021 the company was acquired.
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| 20 Dec 2021 | Making $100,000+ Selling Design Ebooks - Michal Malewicz (Founder @ HYPE4) | 01:05:50 | |
Michal Malewicz started designing back in 1999, initially for fun, gaming related projects. Back then a web designer was the person who both designed and coded the front-end, so he had to quickly learn to code too. He worked in a couple of agencies and in 2013 started his own design agency HYPE4. He also teaches design at SWPS University in Poland, speaks at conferences, surfs (Baltic sea can be quite fun) and skates in his free time. LEVELING UP YOUR UI SKILLS Check out the most comprehensive and biggest ebook about User Interface Design: https://designingui.com/
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| 07 Feb 2022 | Becoming the Head of Design - Samantha Berg (Head of Design @ Chime) | 00:57:03 | |
Samantha Berg is an award-winning design leader with nearly 15 years of experience envisioning, creating, and shipping next-generation consumer products. She leads and motivates teams with proven success across a variety of environments, including large-scale tech companies, mid-sized design consulting firms, and venture backed start-ups. She is passionate about building tight-knit high-performing teams and creating cultures of inclusion and equity. She's created and led women's groups at multiple organizations and regularly speaks at events in the design and fintech communities around how to design your career and how to create inclusive products that empower.
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| 30 May 2022 | Making of a Design Founder - Jessica Ko (Founder @ Playbook) | 00:59:08 | |
Jessica Ko is the CEO and co-founder of Playbook.com, a visual cloud storage platform for designers. She was a designer for over 10 years at Google and Opendoor, and is now working to make it easier for freelancers and designers to share their assets with the world.
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| 24 Feb 2022 | Benefits of Publishing a Book - Mike Rohde (Founder @ Sketchnote Army) | 00:52:30 | |
Mike Rohde is a designer, teacher and illustrator with a passion for visualizing ideas and teaching people how to think visually and be more creative.
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| 15 May 2022 | Making of a Design Manager - Connie Yang (Head of Payments Design @ Stripe) | 00:58:50 | |
Connie Yang is a design leader with experience in consumer and fintech, and is currently the Head of Payments Design at Stripe. Previously, she led design at Coinbase and created products for platforms and global at Facebook. She enjoys asking questions and finding the bits of magic that surround us in everyday life.
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| 07 Nov 2022 | How to Get Promoted as Designer - Lily Konings (Product Design Manager @ Instagram) | 00:53:50 | |
Lily Konings is a Product Design Manager at Instagram with previous roles at Messenger, AngelList, and IBM Watson. She is also an avid startup advisor, helping founders build 0→1 products and scale their design team. Lily is passionate about helping people advance their career, most notably by writing her advice column newsletter called Welcome Designer and founding Lift Her Wealth, a not-for-profit conference teaching financial literacy to more than 4000 women. Currently, Lily lives in Oakland, CA with her partner and some plant babies.
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| 07 Sep 2020 | Designing A Social Movement - Felix Lee (Founder @ ADPList.org) | 00:41:21 | |
Felix is a Product Designer whose purpose is to constantly reinvent the way we experience the world around us and beyond by designing impactful products people love. He has worked with multiple global startups and is currently a full time Design Lead at Gotrade (YC S19). Felix previously co-founded Packdat which was acquired in 2018 and was the former Head of Product and Design at Passpod Indonesia.
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| 06 Mar 2022 | The Business of Design - Dave Huber (Design Practices Lead @ IBM) | 00:48:09 | |
Dave is a Design Practices Lead for IBM's Cloud and Cognitive Software division. He recently published a Business of Design field guide and worked with IBM's chief design officer to create business of design resources and workshops for their over 600 designers.
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| 23 Aug 2022 | When to Quit - Tanner Christensen (Founder @ Shape) | 00:55:14 | |
Tanner Christensen is a curious, multi-disciplinary design leader who is dedicated to helping designers and businesses find the best in each other. He's the founder at Shape.co and previously worked as Head or Design at Gem dot com. Before Gem, Tanner designed software for autonomous vehicles at Lyft, led design of the Atlassian mobile platform, and designed for 2.85 billion people at Facebook. He's a published author, prolific writer, indie app developer, angel investor, podcaster, and more.
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| 19 Oct 2020 | Future of Design Education - Abhinav Chhikara (Founder @ 10kdesigners.com) | 00:41:21 | |
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| 21 Sep 2020 | F**k 9-5 Jobs! - Punit Chawla (Founder @ DesignWings.in) | 01:04:22 | |
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| 14 Dec 2020 | $7,000/mo from Selling Figma, XD Courses - Caleb Kingston (Instructor @ Appdesigntips.com) | 00:44:19 | |
Caleb Kingston is a serial entrepreneur and award winning designer. He runs his own agency, Brainspin where he’s spent the last decade designing cutting edge solutions for the healthcare industry and many startups. He’s also a YouTube star and online teacher at App Design Tips. LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN SKILLS:
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| 29 Sep 2023 | Transitioning from Design Manager to IC Designer | 00:37:43 | |
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| 19 Sep 2022 | Designer's Path to Becoming CEO - Murat Mutlu (CEO @ Marvel) | 01:03:10 | |
Murat Mutlu is the cofounder & CEO of the design platform Marvel and research platform Ballpark.
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| 14 Dec 2023 | Designing the Facebook Like Button | 00:53:29 | |
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| 22 Mar 2022 | Marketing 101 for Creatives - Billy Broas (Marketing Coach) | 00:48:48 | |
Billy got into marketing in 2010, when he left his career to run his home beer brewing website. Since then, Billy has been the marketing brains behind some of the top online entrepreneurs and course creators. His clients include David Perell, Tiago Forte, Kimberly Snyder, and Ryan Deiss.
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| 11 Jul 2021 | Self Employed vs Full Time Job - Vicki Tan (Principal Product Designer @ Spotify) | 01:07:20 | |
Vicki is a Principal Designer for Spotify Podcasts based in Stockholm. She is currently working on an illustrated book to make it easier to learn about cognitive bias. Previously, she was designing at Headspace, Lyft, and Google. She holds a degree in Behavioral Psychology from the University of California, San Diego. CONNECT WITH VICKI TAN:
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| 07 Sep 2022 | Designing Company Culture - Pieter Omvlee & Emanuel Sa (Cofounders @ Sketch) | 00:52:36 | |
Pieter Omvlee & Emanuel Sa are cofounders of Sketch. By trade Pieter is a developer while Emanuel is a designer.
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| 26 Jul 2021 | Starting an Agency by Podcasting - Patrick Hill (Founder @ Squatchin) | 00:54:45 | |
Patrick is the founder of Squatchin, a creative problem-solving agency in San Antonio, Texas. He works with brands that desire to do a net good through people focused initiatives. Additionally, he's an advocate for creatives. Through the Master of One Network, he highlights creators and works to connect them and their work to others. And what's awesome about this guy is that the Master of One Community on Slack has more than 300+ members, he has conducted more than 400+ interviews, seen 400,000 downloads and now he's using this platform that he's built to give other people an opportunity to shine! LOOKING A CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING AGENCY PARTNER?
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| 02 Nov 2020 | Designing an Online Bootcamp - Martin Ramsin (CEO @ Career Foundry) | 00:49:42 | |
Martin Ramsin grew up in Stockholm and developed a love of computers at an early age. His first job as a programming intern took him to San Francisco just as the internet bubble was about to burst. On moving to Berlin he became interested in creating products and decided to take up web development again and learned Ruby on Rails from free tutorials. On meeting Raffaela they founded CareerFoundry in order to help other people realize their potential. BECOME A UX DESIGNER AND GET A JOB GUARANTEE
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| 19 Jun 2024 | Sneak Peek into Figma files of top designers for FREE | 00:01:17 | |
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| 03 May 2020 | Starting a Design Education Company - Ryan Rumsey (CEO @ Second Wave Dive) | 00:42:03 | |
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| 03 May 2021 | Doing Your Own Thing - Ekaterina Solomeina (Founder @ Future London Academy) | 01:08:46 | |
Ekaterina Solomeina – creative director, educator, TEDx speaker and founder of Future London Academy. For the past 15 years, she has worked with some of the greatest creative minds alive, including Michael Wolff (founder of Wolff Olins), Donatella Versace and companies like Coca-Cola, Sony, Mars, IBM, Microsoft, Samsung – helping to grow brands, developing design teams and create innovative products. She co-wrote a book about British Design and has built and Bauhaus 2.0 programme at Future London Academy – rethinking what education of the future should look like. Future London Academy’s radically different approach to learning attracted a lot of attention from the design industry and has been featured in It’s Nice That, Abduzeedo, Creative Boom, Inc, AIGA, Dexigner, and others. INVEST IN YOUR DESIGN CAREER:
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| 01 Jun 2021 | The Intrapreneur Playbook - Jason Kridner (Founder @ Beagleboard.org) | 00:39:35 | |
Jason Kridner has 30 years of experience in the embedded systems industry. As a 28-year veteran of Texas Instruments DSP and processor businesses, founder of the BeagleBoard.org project, and invited speaker at numerous industry events, Jason knows what it takes to build an embedded system from concept to volume production. BUILD YOUR HARDWARE PROJECT WITH BEAGLEBOARD
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| 13 Jun 2021 | Own Your Content - Scott Tolinski (Founder @ Level Up Tutorials) | 01:00:49 | |
Scott Tolinski is the creator of Level Up Tutorials where he has created thousands of free and premium web development tutorials. Scott also is the co-host of the popular web development podcast Syntax. In his free time Scott is a dedicated Bboy (breakdancer) & enjoys pushing himself athletically through dance, working out and snowboarding. He also enjoys green tea and Shaw Brothers Kung Fu movies. SUPPORT SCOTT TOLINSKI:
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| 18 May 2021 | Starting a Hardware Design Agency - Heer Gandhi (Founder @ Dazzle Robotics) | 01:24:00 | |
Heer Gandhi is a hardware engineer and entrepreneur from Ahmedabad, India. He has a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications from Nirma University, Gujarat, India as well as a master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. After a small stint working at Apple, Cupertino on the iPhone in 2008, he ventured into startup roles as founder and first engineer at Invivomon Inc and Bossa Nova Robotics Corp, respectively. He is now a director and stakeholder at Dazzle Robotics Pvt. Ltd. based out of Gandhinagar, India where he manages product development and manufacturing for OEM clients. WANT TO BRING YOUR HARDWARE IDEA TO LIFE?
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| 03 Oct 2021 | Brand Design Agency of One - JT Grauke (Founder @ Grauke Design) | 00:54:07 | |
JT Grauke is a Brand Designer with a BFA in musical theater. Through strategy & story, he helps clients align their goals with the goals of their customers. He is married to his best friend Kelsey and together they live life to the fullest raising their two little boys.
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| 17 Aug 2020 | Sweeping Floors to Building India's Best Design Studio - Anil Reddy (CEO @ Lollypop.Design) | 00:59:40 | |
Anil Reddy is an artist by heart, designer by soul and an entrepreneur by choice. Anil is the Founder and Design Director of Lollypop.Design, a research driven design studio that is restructuring the way consumers think about the digital experience. From two people working out of a garage, today, Lollypop is 130+ people strong with offices all over the world. Lollypop studio has impacted a billion lives via clients like Myntra, Swiggy etc. Lollypop has garnered national and international recognition as well as awards. TOPICS:
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| 06 Sep 2021 | Improv Workshop for Designers - Mike Gorgone (UX Strategist @ Ernst & Young) | 00:47:55 | |
Mike discovered Improv when he lived in Chicago and started taking classes at Second City and iO (formerly improvOlympic). Improv taught Mike how to be present and more aware of the moment as well as how to listen and absorb information instead of just listening to respond. He also learned (and frequently witnessed) that a group can create more amazing and incredible work when collaborating together in a non-judgmental and supportive manner than any of those individuals could have created working alone.
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| 08 Mar 2021 | Choose Opportunity Over Money - Sung Kim (Lead Designer @ Amazon) | 01:15:03 | |
Sung was ranked 51st on the list of "The 75 Best Designers In Technology" by Business Insider in 2013 and has received a number of recognitions from Innovation by Design Awards by Fast Company in 2016, WEBBY in 2017, and German Design Awards in 2018. Previously Sung has led UX/UI design efforts for Samsung MILK VR, Sam's Club mobile shopping app, 7-Eleven.com, FedEx Office workstations, Starbucks promo campaigns, (PRODUCT)RED website redesign, and Bud Light’s first mobile site. In 2013, Sung quit his full time job to pursue a passion project and started a company with $8K in his bank account. To fund the project, he moved into his parents' house, sold his car for $5K, raised $10K from a Kickstarter campaign, and worked 120 hours a week on a number of contract jobs. But after 3 years and $300K+ of development efforts, the project ended up failing. Sung is now a Lead Product Designers at Amazon and recently launched a new tire installation service that became #3 top selling service on Amazon in 3 weeks. CONNECT WITH SUNG KIM: LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):
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| 05 Dec 2021 | Overcoming Hustle Addiction - Rik Lomas (Founder @ SuperHi) | 00:48:11 | |
Rik Lomas is the founder and CEO of SuperHi, a company that helps creative people all over the world learn the skills they want to learn. Their mission is to provide the highest quality education as accessibly as possible. Over the last four years, SuperHi has taught tens of thousands of creative industry professionals in 90+ countries learn skills such as digital coding and design, and has grown to be a team spanning seven countries. He wrote the book Learn To Code Now and you may have watched one of his tutorials on the internet. He also recently featured as a Sour Patch Kid in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade and is way too old to be posting memes. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN LEARNING HOW TO CODE/DESIGN? Check out the amazing yet affordable courses at SuperHi!
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| 23 May 2020 | Sales 101 for Designers - Ryan Burke (ex SVP of Sales @ InVision) | 00:44:20 | |
GUEST BIO: Ryan is also an active angel investor, advisor to multiple early stage startups, and an expert on building remote teams and culture. He is a frequent speaker on scaling SaaS and managing remote teams.Ryan is currently based in London, but will be moving back to the Boston area where he also owns an oyster farm - Plimoth102s.com After helping InVision scale from 30 - 850 fully remote employees and to over $100M in ARR - making it one of the largest fully remote companies in the world. Ryan is now actively helping remote teams thrive in the new environment. From hiring, communication, culture and tooling, Ryan is helping companies build and manage fully distributed teams. https://www.ryanburkeremote.com/
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| 04 Jul 2020 | Cold Emailing Steve Jobs - Gary Gattis (CEO @ Hypergiant Galactic Systems) | 01:22:23 | |
Gary Gattis is a creative interdisciplinary leader guiding people and processes to improve our world. His specialties include growth, operations, and management. He has founded several companies at the intersection of technology and design, and led extremely diverse teams to success. He is currently CEO for Hypergiant Galactic Systems, focussed on integrating Artificial Intelligence with the commercialization of Space. Outside of work he can usually be found buried in a good sci-fi novel.
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| 11 Jan 2022 | Designing A Decentralized Design Studio - Andrej Berlin (CEO @ Deep Work) | 00:51:48 | |
Andrej Berlin is the co-founder and CEO of Deep Work. He has been involved in the design of over 100 different products and services from open source teams, start-ups, enterprises and fortune 500 companies. He is an advocate for mental and physical health and considers work as an integral part of a meaningful life. WORK REMOTE ON PAID WEB3 PROJECTS How to get started working at Deep Work: https://docs.deepwork.studio/deep-work-onboarding/quick-start-guide
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| 24 Jan 2021 | The Power of ADHD - Mills (Founder @ Ustwo, Monument Valley) | 00:50:51 | |
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| 31 Jul 2020 | Beginner's Guide to Podcasting - Tony Daussat (Host @ Liftoff podcast) | 01:09:19 | |
Tony Daussat is an award-winning designer currently working as a Lead Experience Design Strategist at Bottle Rocket Studios in Dallas, TX. He has worked with some of the world’s most exacting brands including: Hyatt, KFC, BaylorScott & White, Dave & Busters, Fiesta Restaurant Group, Caesars Entertainment, TripCase, FirstData, and Robert Half, to name a few. He has started and sold two online companies, and is currently the host of the Liftoff podcast, boasting listeners in 150 countries. He is a guest lecturer at Dallas Baptist University, and his public speaking includes Big Design, HOW Design Live etc. In his spare time, Tony enjoys renovating his home and spending time with his wife and two toddlers.
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| 24 Jan 2024 | Designing for AI | 00:38:36 | |
🧠 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW? 1. Challenges of designing for AI 2. How to get a job as an AI Designer
📢 WHY IS HENRY MODISETT A ROCKSTAR? Henry Modisett is the Head of Design at Perplexity AI. Previously he worked as a designer at Quora and Google.
Twitter -https://twitter.com/henrymodis LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrymodisett/ 🤙 CONNECT WITH JAYNEIL DALAL LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal
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| 09 Aug 2022 | Diversifying Your Income Sources - Femke (Senior Product Designer @ Wealthsimple) | 00:47:01 | |
Femke Van Schoonhoven is a senior product designer at Wealthsimple though previously worked at Uber Eats on the merchant experience. Prior to that, she worked on the driver experience focusing on money and payments across the world. You can often find Femke creating videos on YouTube, hiking around Ontario or cycling. Femke currently lives in Toronto, Canada.
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| 15 Feb 2023 | Leveling Up as a Founding Designer - Jared Erondu (VP of Design at Lattice) | 00:53:27 | |
Jared Erondu is a design & product leader, investor, and advisor. He's currently the GM of Performance and VP of Design at Lattice. Before Lattice, Jared led design at Teespring and was an early designer at both Obvious Corp and Omada Health. He's also founded two companies and consulted for others like Y Combinator, MIT Media Lab, Google, Front, and Greylock Partners. In his spare time, he likes to spin up projects that help further knowledge sharing in the design community, most notably Playbook and High Resolution.
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| 24 Aug 2020 | Designing Design Tools - Tom Giannattasio (CEO @ Cloverapp.co) | 00:41:55 | |
Tom has been building tools for the creative industry for nearly a decade. He's currently working on Clover – a notebook that allows creatives to work visually. Before that, he drove product design and strategy for InVision. He joined the InVision team via acquisition of his first startup – Macaw – which built responsive web design tools. Before that he designed tools for Apple and Oracle, was acquihired by Twitter, and helped MIT design and launch edX.
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| 02 Jul 2023 | The Ultimate Guide for Investing in Startups as a Designer | 00:43:05 | |
📢 WHY IS DANIEL SCRIVNER A ROCKSTAR? Daniel is the Head of Design at Class Dojo and General Partner at VC firm Ligature. 🔥 ARE YOU A FOUNDER LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH A DESIGN-FOCUSED VC FIRM? Check out Ligature - https://www.ligature.vc/
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A KICKASS RESEARCH WORKSPACE FOR YOUR TEAM? LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielscrivner/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/danielscrivner Website - https://www.danielscrivner.com/ CONNECT WITH ME
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| 27 Nov 2022 | Becoming Design Partner at VC Firm - Jeff Veen (Design Partner @ True Ventures) | 01:02:04 | |
Jeff Veen is design partner and head of platform at True Ventures. He brings his design and product experience, management skills of large-scale programs, and common sense knowledge of being a founder to the mission and initiatives of True’s Founder Platform. Jeff was the vice president of design at Adobe after the company acquired Typekit, the startup he co-founded and ran as CEO. Jeff was one of the founding partners of the user experience consulting group Adaptive Path. While there, he led Measure Map, which was acquired by Google.
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| 23 Jan 2022 | Don't Monetize Your Side Hustle - Rob Hope (Founder @ One Page Love) | 01:07:57 | |
Rob Hope is a South African born web designer, developer and Maker who runs One Page Love, Email Love and Yo! After a decade freelancing, he finally took the leap to work on his side projects full time. When not building online he loves to surf, bird watch and listen to 90s punk rock. Buy the Landing Page Hot Tips ebook which features 100 digestible lessons to implement into your Landing Pages. Use this link to get 40% off: https://robhope.gumroad.com/l/hottips/designmba
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| 12 Jun 2020 | Designing Conversations - Cassini Nazir (Design Professor @ UNT) | 00:51:59 | |
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| 20 Sep 2021 | Selling Design Agency to Twitter - Martin Ringlein (General Partner @ Adventure Fund) | 00:45:25 | |
Martin Ringlein is a serial entrepreneur and active investor. He is currently help run, Gather, a personal financial management fintech startup. Prior, Martin was Global Head of R&D at Eventbrite, where Martin joined pre-IPO through the acquisition of his start-up, nvite, in late 2016. Martin’s first company, nclud, a research and design consultancy, was acquired by Twitter pre-IPO where he went on to become their first Design Manager, helping build and lead the R&D team. Martin is also a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners and Adventure Fund where he invests in early and late-stage startups, such as A16Z, Uber, PayTM, Hyperloop One and Chime.
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| 07 Feb 2021 | Being a Solo Design Founder - Joe Formica (CEO @ Bitesize UX) | 00:47:07 | |
Joe Formica is the Founder of Bitesize UX, where he works every day to solve "need experience, to get experience" problem that prevents people from exploring new skills, roles, and careers in technology. He believes that learning as an adult should be exciting, fun, and rewarding - not daunting. Joe has taught UX Design at General Assembly in New York for six years as a Distinguished Faculty Member, and has created and taught MBA Entrepreneurship courses at Fordham University Business School. Through these roles, he has worked with thousands of designers-in-training to help them take the next steps in their career.
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| 16 Nov 2020 | Designing a Virtual Conference - Andy Budd (Founder @ SofaConf.com) | 01:11:19 | |
User Experience Designer and co-founder of Clearleft, Andy is a best selling tech author, curates the UX London and Leading Design conferences and helped set-up The Brighton Digital Festival. Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences like SXSW, Awwwards and The Next Web. He currently runs an online community of over 1,500 Heads, Directors and VPs of Design, and is a founding member of Adobe's Design Circle. Andy has appeared on both the Wired 100 and BIMA 100 lists, as well as winning agency of the year several times running. Never happier than when he's diving some remote tropical atoll, Andy is a qualified PADI dive instructor and retired shark wrangler. ATTEND EVENTS CURATED BY ANDY BUDD: CONNECT WITH ANDY BUDD: LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):
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| 05 Apr 2021 | Overcoming Assumed Constraints - Erik Reagan (Founder @ Focus Lab) | 01:08:46 | |
If you had asked the high school version of Erik what he would be doing for a career, you would have heard something like a rock star or studio producer. In college, Erik studied music with the intention of becoming an educator and following in his parents’ footsteps. His predilection for technology won the career battle though, and he moved on to start Focus Lab. Transitioning from musician to developer, to entrepreneur, Erik has a variety of interests these days. What ties them all together, though, is a hunger to learn how and why things work. When Erik isn’t at work, he’s probably chillin’ with his kids, his wife, his church, or a combination of the three. He's also enjoying the beginnings of a hobby in woodworking. If he’s not doing those things, there’s a really good chance he’s enjoying peace and quiet somewhere.
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| 21 Mar 2021 | Your Employer Isn't Your Personal Brand - Stephen Gates (SVP Design @ WW) | 00:48:39 | |
Stephen Gates is the SVP, Omni-channel product design at WW (formerly Weight Watchers). Previously, he was the Head Design Evangelist at InVision, working as a strategic partner to companies like Google, Amazon, The Home Depot, Bank of America, Facebook, Rolls Royce, American Express, Frog Design, WeWork, EY Partners, and many more to elevate the business impact of design through education, coaching, and thought leadership. His work has received over 150 international awards, his app design has been named as one of the World's 100 Greatest Apps, HOW Magazine named him #17 on the 100 of the most talented and influential creatives working today, Apple has featured his work in 10 keynotes and more. CONNECT WITH STEPHEN GATES:
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| 17 Oct 2021 | Breaking Into UX - Saptarshi Prakash (Senior Product Design Manager @ Swiggy) | 00:53:00 | |
Saptarshi Prakash aka "Sapta" is an engineer from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He chose Digital Experience Designing as his profession because problem-solving can go well beyond the limits of engineering. As a professional, he has worked with some of the well known startups of India like Housing.com, Zeta and many other big and small names around the world. Currently, he oversees consumer design at Swiggy, India’s largest food ordering and delivery platform. Sapta has given 50+ UX talks/workshops at various places including big names like Amazon, Grab, Shopee, Practo, IDC IIT Bombay, IIT Guwahati, NID Bangalore etc. CONNECT WITH SAPTARSHI PRAKASH (SAPTA)
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| 31 Jan 2023 | Becoming T-shaped Designer - Joshua Philippe (Head of Design @ Strike) | 00:36:41 | |
Joshua Philippe is the Head of Design at Strike, a service that leverages Bitcoin’s open payment network to offer users the first global peer-to-peer payments app and a novel bitcoin-native neobanking experience. He has spent a decade working with clients like Apple, Dolby, Chevrolet, Intel, Lincoln Jaguar Land Rover, Stanford Health, Steinway & Sons, Tiffany & Co., and Verizon to develop experiences that span both the digital and physical.
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| 24 Jul 2022 | Collaborating With Other Creatives - Ben Issen (Founder @ Supercreative) | 00:51:01 | |
Benjamin Issenman aka Ben Issen is the founder of Supercreative, a website where he shares tools he creates for design solopreneurs. Based in Paris France, he started designing brands for online clients when he was 16. Now 25, he designs and builds digital tools (with freelancers he hires or other creators he collaborates with) for his audience of 15,000 people.
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| 09 Mar 2023 | Transition from Graphic Design to UX - Colton Schweitzer, Ludovic Delmas (Cofounders at Kickass UX) | 00:47:16 | |
Colton Schweitzer and Ludovic Delmas are the cofounders of Kickass UX which helps creatives build a kickass UX skillset and supercharge their careers. Previously, Colton worked before in the enterprise design space while Ludovic was a senior designer at Smartsheet. ARE YOU LOOKING TO GROW YOUR UX SKILLS FASTER?
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| 26 Jun 2022 | Choosing Impact Over Scale - Dan Mall (Founder @ SuperFriendly) | 00:43:49 | |
Dan has been a creative director, designer, and developer since 1998. He has taught design systems and collaboration at public conferences, private client engagements, as higher education instruction, and on many podcasts and videos. Dan’s superpower is getting people excited, even when there’s challenging work ahead. Dan met his wife Emily when they were both in 5th grade. Together, they raise daughters Siddalee and Charlotte, yorkshire terrier Max, and mini sheepadoodle Matilda just outside Philadelphia, PA.
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| 21 Feb 2021 | Improving Decision Making Process - David Berens (Employee #10 @ Opendoor) | 00:51:52 | |
David Berens is hardwired to build. He has a strong passion for building successful businesses, developing human potential and creating healthy lifestyles. As an early employee at Opendoor (est. valuation $3.8B), he launched the first three markets, built out the sales and customer experience teams, and personally executed over 500 transactions generating $150M+ in company revenue. Over the last 10 years, he has supported companies which operate in real estate, financial technology, bio-technology, and manufacturing. He has multi-year experience with developing and executing go-to-market playbooks, building out sales and operations teams, conducting user research, assisting product development, company culture development, and company level strategy. David’s superpower is helping companies and individuals align their values with their vision, put the strategy into motion! CONNECT WITH DAVID BERENS:
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| 26 Dec 2021 | Selling Your Side Project - Amit Patel (Founder @ Experience Haus) | 00:50:21 | |
Amit Patel is a Toronto-born product designer/manager, now living in London, United Kingdom. He is the founder and currently Creative Director of Experience Haus, a digital skills training provider and consultancy. He has worked in product management and product design roles across many industries and in various sizes of companies, from startups (in sectors such as media, fin-tech and healthcare) to industry leading companies. He has taught and designed courses covering UX Design, Product Design, Product Management, Design Thinking, Design in Social Innovation, Rapid Prototyping, and Entrepreneurship. MAKE A REAL CAREER CHANGE TO UI/UX WITH REAL PROJECTS, CLIENTS Check out the amazing, remote design courses offered by Experience Haus: https://experiencehaus.com/
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