Design MBA
118 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -Design MBA is an interview series with design leaders and design entrepreneurs hosted by Jayneil Dalal.
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Designing for AI
January 24, 2024 15:28 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MB🧠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. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) Interview trailer (01:39 )Why designers should not use Dribble for design inspiration? (5:08) What designers can learn from wine stewards? (6:14) Former Google employee reveals design process at Google...
Designing the Facebook Like Button
December 14, 2023 21:55 - 53 minutes - 49 MB🧠WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW? 1. How the iconic Facebook like button was designed? 2. How a designer invested early in startups like Figma, Framer and Diagram? 📢 WHY IS SOLEIO CUERVO A ROCKSTAR? Soleio Cuervo is a software designer turned investor. He led early design efforts at Facebook, Messenger, then Dropbox. Now he invests in extraordinary software startups and helps them win through great design. He is a proud backer of Figma, Framer, Vercel, Vanta, Perplexity, Synthesia...
Transitioning from Design Manager to IC Designer
September 29, 2023 13:41 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MB🧠WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW? 1. How to transition from a Design Manager to IC Designer 2. Why Design Managers make great IC designers 📢 WHY IS MAHEEN SOHAIL A ROCKSTAR? Maheen Sohail is a Staff Product Design Lead at Meta focused on building Generative AI experiences. As a former Design manager, Maheen has experience managing large design teams building emerging technology products AR/VR/AI). Outside of work, you will find Maheen either surfing or running various storytelling ...
Spatial Design is the Future
July 31, 2023 05:17 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MB🧠WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW? 1. Why the future of product design is 3D and not 2D 2. How to find startup ideas while working at FAANG/MAMA 📢 WHY IS JULIAN PARK A ROCKSTAR? Julian Park is the co-founder and CEO at Bezi, a collaborative spatial design tool. Built on the web, Bezel enables design teams to easily turn concepts into 3D designs and interactive prototypes. Prior to Bezi, he was an engineering leader at Oculus heading key projects across VR multitasking and UI framew...
The Ultimate Guide for Investing in Startups as a Designer
July 02, 2023 03:00 - 43 minutes - 39.4 MB📢 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/ INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/8q4PEh8uSK8  ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A KICKASS RESEARCH WORKSPACE FOR YOUR TEAM? Check out Personify - https://personifyhq.com/ 🤝 CONNECT WITH DANIEL SCRIVNER LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielscrivner/ Tw...
Why Designers Need to Learn About Business
May 24, 2023 19:46 - 35 minutes - 32.7 MBOm 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. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/asEjJAov3nU  ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A KICKASS RESEARCH WORKSPACE FOR YOUR TEAM? Check out Personify - https://personifyhq.com/ CONNECT WITH OM SUTHAR LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/omsuthar/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/astr0mnaut Website - https://om.super.site/ CONNECT WITH ME Li...
Mistakes First Time Design Managers Make - Kyle Turman (Director of Product Design @ Retool)
April 24, 2023 14:33 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBKyle 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. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/CPnSHrk9e6U CONNECT WITH KYLE TURMAN LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyleturman/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/kyleturman Website - https://turman.co/ CONNECT WITH ME LinkedIn - https://ww...
Taking a Sabbatical - Ben Huggins (Design @ Retool)
April 10, 2023 04:21 - 36 minutes - 33.3 MBBen 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. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/grUjIw-DyMw CONNECT WITH BEN HUGGINS...
Transition from Graphic Design to UX - Colton Schweitzer, Ludovic Delmas (Cofounders at Kickass UX)
March 09, 2023 01:48 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBColton 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. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/KI8kcRcqAu8  ARE YOU LOOKING TO GROW YOUR UX SKILLS FASTER? Check out Kickass UX Newsletter - https://www.kickassux.com/ux-newsletter CONNECT WITH COLTON SCHWEITZER LinkedIn - https://www....
Design Exec Role Sneak Peek - Gordon Ching (Founder @ Design Executive Council)
March 01, 2023 18:55 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBGordon 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. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https:/...
Leveling Up as a Founding Designer - Jared Erondu (VP of Design at Lattice)
February 15, 2023 02:56 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBJared 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 Pl...
Becoming T-shaped Designer - Joshua Philippe (Head of Design @ Strike)
January 31, 2023 00:26 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBJoshua 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. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Xxd5NJ37-Lk CON...
Designing Authentic Relationships - Mindaugas Petrutis (CEO @ Coho)
December 11, 2022 15:15 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBMindaugas 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. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/wgIaGMa-Dw8 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A HIGHLY CURATED DESIGN FELLOWSHIP TO ENERGIZE YOUR CAREER? Check out Coho Design Fellowship - https://www.joincoho.com/category/design CONNECT WITH MINDAUGAS PE...
Becoming Design Partner at VC Firm - Jeff Veen (Design Partner @ True Ventures)
November 27, 2022 20:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBJeff 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 le...
How to Get Promoted as Designer - Lily Konings (Product Design Manager @ Instagram)
November 07, 2022 13:44 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MBLily 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 Oakl...
Breaking Into Design Ops - Adam Fry Pierce (Chief of Staff @ Google)
October 18, 2022 15:36 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBAdam 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 de...
Growing a Bootstrapped Design Business - Ran Segall (CEO @ Flux Academy)
October 03, 2022 02:51 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBRan Segall is the founder and CEO of Flux Academy. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/1APN2MHdxnY ARE YOU LOOKING TO LEARN THE ART & BUSINESS OF WEB DESIGN? Check out Flux Academy - https://www.flux-academy.com/ CONNECT WITH RAN SEGALL Twitter - https://twitter.com/ransegall Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ransegall/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ran-segall-0b582a33/ CONNECT WITH ME LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneilda...
Designer's Path to Becoming CEO - Murat Mutlu (CEO @Marvel)
September 19, 2022 03:44 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBMurat Mutlu is the cofounder & CEO of the design platform Marvel and research platform Ballpark. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/iXv4tqlL6vc ARE YOU LOOKING TO JOIN A ROCKETSHIP STARTUP IN THE DESIGN SPACE? Check out Careers at Marvel - https://marvelapp.com/about-us#openpositions CONNECT WITH MURAT MUTLU Twitter - https://twitter.com/mutlu82 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/muratmutlu/ CONNECT WITH ME LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter....
Designer's Path to Becoming CEO - Murat Mutlu (CEO @ Marvel)
September 19, 2022 03:44 - 1 hour - 57.8 MBMurat Mutlu is the cofounder & CEO of the design platform Marvel and research platform Ballpark. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/iXv4tqlL6vc ARE YOU LOOKING TO JOIN A ROCKETSHIP STARTUP IN THE DESIGN SPACE? Check out Careers at Marvel - https://marvelapp.com/about-us#openpositions CONNECT WITH MURAT MUTLU Twitter - https://twitter.com/mutlu82 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/muratmutlu/ CONNECT WITH ME LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter....
Designing Company Culture - Pieter Omvlee & Emanuel Sa (Cofounders @ Sketch)
September 07, 2022 21:09 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBPieter Omvlee & Emanuel Sa are cofounders of Sketch. By trade Pieter is a developer while Emanuel is a designer. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/7SFix4Sakt8 ARE YOU LOOKING TO JOIN A ROCKETSHIP STARTUP IN THE DESIGN SPACE? Check out Careers at Sketch - https://www.sketch.com/careers/ CONNECT WITH PIETER & EMANUEL Twitter - https://twitter.com/pieteromvlee Twitter - https://twitter.com/emanuelsa CONNECT WITH ME LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitt...
When to Quit - Tanner Christensen (Founder @ Shape)
August 23, 2022 00:26 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBTanner 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...
Diversifying Your Income Sources - Femke (Senior Product Designer @ Wealthsimple)
August 09, 2022 04:34 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBFemke 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. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/XQ8HTc9ggTI ARE YOU LOOKING TO JOIN A DESIGN COMMUNITY TO LEVEL UP? Check out Femke's design comm...
Collaborating With Other Creatives - Ben Issen (Founder @ Supercreative)
July 24, 2022 21:00 - 51 minutes - 46.7 MBBenjamin 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. INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/by36qEPoJ1w ARE YOU TO EARN A LIVING FROM YOUR CREATIVE WORK? Check out Supercreative - https:...
Starting a Venture Capital Firm - John Zeratsky (General Partner @ Character)
July 10, 2022 20:00 - 44 minutes - 101 MBJohn 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. ARE YOU A FOUNDER LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH A DESIGN FOCUSED VC FIRM? Check out Character - https://www.character.vc/ CONNECT WITH JOHN ZERATSKY Twitter - https://twitter.com/jazer LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnzeratsky/ W...
Choosing Impact Over Scale - Dan Mall (Founder @ SuperFriendly)
June 26, 2022 21:00 - 43 minutes - 100 MBDan 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 outsid...
Becoming a Designer in Web3 - Yitong Zhang (Cofounder @ Vector DAO)
June 19, 2022 19:00 - 41 minutes - 95.6 MBYitong 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. ARE YOU AN EXPERIENCED DESIGNER LOOKING TO WORK IN WEB3/CRYPTO? Check out Vector DAO which is a collective of the top 1% of designers, brand experts, and creatives in crypto - https://vectordao.com/ CONNECT WITH YITONG ZHANG ...
Making of a Design Founder - Jessica Ko (Founder @ Playbook)
May 30, 2022 22:00 - 59 minutes - 135 MBJessica 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. LOOKING FOR A FILE STORAGE SOLUTION MADE FOR CREATIVES? Create a free account on Playbook and get free 100GB in hosting space - https://www.playbook.com/ CONNECT WITH JESSICA KO Twitter - https://twitter.com/yogooglemeup Li...
Making of a Design Manager - Connie Yang (Head of Payments Design @ Stripe)
May 15, 2022 19:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBConnie 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. CONNECT WITH CONNIE YANG Twitter - https://twitter.com/ConnieCurious LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniejyang/ CONNECT WITH ME LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.co...
Designing a 6 Figure Figma Course - Michael Riddering (Founder @ Figma Academy)
May 01, 2022 19:00 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBMichael 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? Take your Figma skills to the next level by joining Figma Academy: https://www.figma.academy/ CONNECT WITH MICHAEL RIDDERING ("RIDD") Twitter - https://twit...
Becoming a Designer in Crypto - Graeme Blackwood (Head of Design @ Argent)
April 17, 2022 19:00 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MBGraeme 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 h...
Life of an Entrepreneur - Aashish Dalal (Founder @ Sunya One)
April 05, 2022 01:56 - 54 minutes - 49.8 MBAashish 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. CONNECT WITH AASHISH DALAL LinkedIn - https://www....
Marketing 101 for Creatives - Billy Broas (Marketing Coach)
March 22, 2022 00:34 - 48 minutes - 44.7 MBBilly 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. LEARN HOW TO GET MORE PROSPECTS TO SAY YES TO YOUR PRODUCT Sign up for free for Billy's battle tested Five Light Bulbs framework and find holes in your product messaging - https://fivelightbulbs.com/Â CONN...
The Business of Design - Dave Huber (Design Practices Lead @ IBM)
March 06, 2022 19:23 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBDave 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. LEARN MORE ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF DESIGN Read Dave Huber's article to learn how to articulate the value of your design work - https://uxdesign.cc/the-business-of-design-fec915a60231 CONNECT WITH DAVE HUBER LinkedIn - https://www.l...
Benefits of Publishing a Book - Mike Rohde (Founder @ Sketchnote Army)
February 24, 2022 04:24 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBMike Rohde is a designer, teacher and illustrator with a passion for visualizing ideas and teaching people how to think visually and be more creative. INTERESTED IN TAKING VISUAL NOTES? Buy the best selling Sketchnote Handbook and learn how to incorporate sketch noting techniques into your note-taking process regardless of your artistic abilities - https://rohdesign.com/handbook CONNECT WITH MIKE ROHDE Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MikeRohde Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/r...
Becoming the Head of Design - Samantha Berg (Head of Design @ Chime)
February 07, 2022 17:47 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBSamantha 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 mu...
Don't Monetize Your Side Hustle - Rob Hope (Founder @ One Page Love)
January 23, 2022 19:19 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBRob 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. STRENGTHEN YOUR LANDING PAGES 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/hotti...
Designing A Decentralized Design Studio - Andrej Berlin (CEO @ Deep Work)
January 11, 2022 05:55 - 51 minutes - 47.5 MBAndrej 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 CONNECT WITH ANDREJ BERLIN Fo...
Selling Your Side Project - Amit Patel (Founder @ Experience Haus)
December 26, 2021 05:03 - 50 minutes - 46.1 MBAmit 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 D...
Making $100,000+ Selling Design Ebooks - Michal Malewicz (Founder @ HYPE4)
December 20, 2021 06:38 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBMichal 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 compre...
Overcoming Hustle Addiction - Rik Lomas (Founder @ SuperHi)
December 05, 2021 20:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBRik 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 watc...
Overcoming Hustle Mania - Rik Lomas (Founder @ SuperHi)
December 05, 2021 20:00 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBRik 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 watc...
Managing Side Projects - Brian Lovin (Staff Product Designer @ Github)
November 14, 2021 20:00 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBBrian 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 proc...
Six Figures in Six Days - James Traf (Founder @ Super)
October 31, 2021 19:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBJames 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. Â 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! CONNECT WITH J...
Breaking Into UX - Saptarshi Prakash (Senior Product Design Manager @ Swiggy)
October 17, 2021 19:00 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MBSaptarshi 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 h...
Brand Design Agency of One - JT Grauke (Founder @ Grauke Design)
October 03, 2021 20:49 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBJT 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. HIRE JT FOR YOUR BRANDING NEEDS Does your brand struggle to tell a story? Do you have an idea but don't know anything about branding? Get in touch with JT right away and he will solve your branding problems: https://www.jtg...
Selling Design Agency to Twitter - Martin Ringlein (General Partner @ Adventure Fund)
September 20, 2021 16:25 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBMartin 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 Ve...
Improv Workshop for Designers - Mike Gorgone (UX Strategist @ Ernst & Young)
September 06, 2021 02:24 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBMike 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 wo...
Designing a Community - Preet Singh (Founder @ DesignX)
August 23, 2021 02:54 - 56 minutes - 51.8 MBPreet 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, Couchsurf...
Building Future Design Leaders - Brian Sullivan (Founder @ Big Design Conference)
August 09, 2021 18:03 - 1 hour - 73.3 MBBrian 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 fro...
Starting an Agency by Podcasting - Patrick Hill (Founder @ Squatchin)
July 26, 2021 00:21 - 54 minutes - 50.2 MBPatrick 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,...