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What is UX?

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The show dedicated to inspiring, educating, and motivating UX designers both new and seasoned. Guests share their UX journey, career, and industry experience.

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S6E10 An interview with Natalia Vargas, Director of Product Design for Cariloop

October 26, 2022 04:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MB

Natalia is a design leader from La Paz, Bolivia and now works in Dallas, Texas as Director of Product Design for Cariloop, a caregiver support company focused on relieving the stress and anxiety felt by all caregivers. After interning at advertising agencies she fell in love with the interaction design portions of campaigns and quickly transitioned into the world of user experience. She’s had the great fortune of working with some exciting brands, most notably Verizon, 7-Eleven, Animal Suppl...

S6E9 How to find job opportunities with Meesh Lin, Product Designer at Okta

September 29, 2022 04:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MB

Meesh Lin began designing and launching websites at age eight by learning from her self-taught web designer mother. She's had an unconventional path to design—having freelanced, contracted, and designed-in house for start-ups and public companies over the last 6+ years. Today, Meesh is designing Okta's first consumer product. Inspired by her design journey, she discovered a deep passion for mentorship and helping aspiring designers and technologists break into tech. Also, having worked alon...

S6E8 AI, and what it means for the future of design with Peter Szalontay

September 07, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MB

Peter Szalontay is the DataGoat/CEO at DataMilk, it is a team of data science and UX experts on a mission to empower eCommerce brands to build AI-powered UX on the level of Big Tech. DataMilk’s Smart UX suite enables fast, fluid, and predictive digital experiences that boost user engagement and gross profit. In this episode, we talked about: How Artificial Intelligence will impact UX Design What is AI software called “DALL-E” Peter’s career at Google Peter on creating businesses out of ...

S6E7 An interview with Alicia Warren, Product Design Director for IT Products at Rippling

August 24, 2022 04:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MB

Alicia is a Product Design Director for IT Products at Rippling - the platform that frees smart people to work on hard problems! She has been a designer across industries, including higher education, academia, insurance, pharmacy, e-commerce, and technology, and is an Adjunct Instructor at Columbia College, where she focuses on how to prepare for moving from college to what your life as a designer will be like. She co-organizes the Ladies that UX Chicago meetup, where she brings conversation...

S6E6 An Interview with Erick Arias, Sr. Product Designer at Meta (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.)

August 03, 2022 05:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MB

Erick Arias is an Experienced Product Designer with a demonstrated history of transforming the way enterprises build software. He is currently the Sr. Product Designer at Meta (formerly known as Facebook, Inc.) In this episode, we talked about: Erick’s advice and tips with portfolio reviews How did Erick get into design Where did Erick grow up and the story of his upbringing  Erick’s first job as a designer Erick’s mentorship at ADPlist Links: erickarias.com https://adplist.org/ment...

S6E5 An interview with Nima H. K., Design Director at First Republic

July 14, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MB

Nima H. K. graduated from York/Sheridan Program in Design, and is a passionate storyteller obsessed with user experience and telling the right story at the right time. Currently a design director in San Francisco, and just recently designed and built a SaaS product from scratch. He has 16+ years of experience working as a freelancer, at design agencies, and startups. He is happy to share his findings throughout this journey to inspire other designers. In this episode, we talked about: Buil...

S6E5 An interview with Nima H.K, Design Director at First Republic

July 14, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes - 29 MB

Nima HK graduated from York University/Sheridan join the design program in 2010, Nima is a passionate storyteller obsessed with user experience and telling the right story at the right time. Currently a design director in San Francisco, and just recently designed and built a SaaS product from scratch. He has 16+ years of experience working as a freelancer, at design agencies, and startups. He is happy to share his findings throughout this journey to inspire other designers. In this episode,...

S6E4 An interview with Glen Lipka, Product Design Leader

July 07, 2022 06:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MB

Glen Lipka is a product leader who has created innovative products for B2B companies since 1995. Previously, he was the first employee at Marketo, best in class marketing automation software acquired by Adobe and helped guide the company through IPO up to 1000 employees in 9 years. He holds several patents in design innovations. In this episode, we talked about: What is the definition of design for Glen? How does Glen think about design? Glen on being the first employee at Marketo His j...

S6E3 An interview with Ari Krzyzek, Co-founder and chief creative officer of Chykalophia

June 15, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MB

Ari Krzyzek is the Co-founder and chief creative officer of Chykalophia (read: see-ka-lo-fia), she helps Femtech DTC and women-led companies craft a brand that delights their customers beyond a pretty design, delivers no-brainer user experience, and gets them the clarity they need to for their business to thrive online. She has over 10 years of branding and design experience, a certified brand strategist, and UX expert. She has transformed businesses' visions into a tangible form that helps...

S6E2 An interview with Erik Kennedy, Designer & CEO at Learn UI Design

June 08, 2022 04:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MB

Erik Kennedy is the creator of Learn UI Design and Learn UX Design. He’s also a freelance UX/UI designer based in Seattle, WA. He has also spoken in the US and abroad at businesses, meetups, and universities (like UC Berkeley, Yale, and UW). His design writing has been read by over a million people. In this episode, we talked about: How Erik got into teaching design Erik’s design tips Erik enumerates and explains 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI Erik’s UI and UX courses for students Er...

S6E1 An interview with Jeany Ngo, Co-Founder at Kairos

April 27, 2022 04:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MB

Jeany Ngo is the co-founder at Kairos, which provides the tools for anyone to create, publish and sell NFTs without touching a single line of code. She blends her love of visual storytelling with thoughtful understanding of user behavior. 10+ years in product, UX/UI, and visual design comes from working at Brex, Airbnb, LinkedIn and consulting for design agencies and startups. Clients include Figma, Ueno, TM, Crunchyroll, Tempo Fitness, Handshake, Safari Riot, Yembo Inc, GoInsurance, Eleven ...

S5E10 An Interview with Marissa Louie, Sr. Director of Design at Pandora and SiriusXM

April 20, 2022 04:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MB

Marissa Louie is the Director of UX Design at SiriusXM Pandora, she leads a design organization that thoughtfully creates experiences for 100m+ users. She also serves as the Chairwoman of Animoodles, and runs Designers Club and Designers Guild. Previously, she was a design leader at Apple, Expedia, Ness, and Yahoo. It brings her joy to design delightful products, drive innovative visions with billion dollar results, and help others achieve their full creative potential. In this episode, w...

S5E9 An Interview with Pawel Bak, Lead Product Designer, Manager at AbbVie

April 13, 2022 04:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MB

Pawel Bak is a strategic and passionate product/service designer with 12+ years of experience designing for mobile, wearables and IoT devices. Designs and helps develop high-performing design solutions and engaging customer experiences which drive business goals and user satisfaction for well-known brands. An innovative and hard-working leader who is both strong on ideation and implementation, as well as on enabling global agile teams to succeed. Mentors designers and manages established or ...

S5E8 An Interview with Sarah Higgins, Experience Designer at Patagonia

March 30, 2022 04:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MB

Sarah is currently the Experience Designer at Patagonia. She also worked with Google, Pinterest and Nike, leading strategy and UX in a highly collaborative work environment. Mentored junior staff. Participated in the hiring process, project casting and scoping. She makes experiences by orchestrating cross-disciplinary teams of designers, writers, developers and content creators. Her passion and curiosity about people and how we interact with the world around us drive her to continuously exp...

S5E7 An Interview with Katie Swindler, Innovation Design Strategist at AllState, author

March 16, 2022 04:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MB

Katie Swindler is a human-centered design strategist with 15 years of experience. Originally educated as a theatre director, her creative approach combines storytelling and technology, emotion and utility to enable brands to connect deeply with consumers and fulfill real human needs. Author of the book Life & Death Design, published by Rosenfeld Media in January 2022, which looks at what life-saving technology can teach us about designing for the human stress response. She’s an experienced ...

S5E6 An Interview with Nicole Torgersen, Vice President of Design at Dialpad

March 09, 2022 07:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MB

Nicole Torgersen is Vice President of Design at Dialpad. She’s been working in digital design since the late '90s working with a range of industries including cloud collab and storage at Dropbox, retail at Gap, and recruiting at Monster Worldwide. A Design craftsperson by trade, Nicole has been a leader most of her career, building teams by way of leveraging empathy and vulnerability in the balance to find business impact while mentoring individuals. In this episode, we talked about: Nicol...

S5E5 An Interview with Ryan Tauss, Ex-Associate Director of Product Design at Tide Cleaners

February 23, 2022 05:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MB

Ryan Tauss is the leading product design for Tide Cleaners. The past almost 4 years, along with a talented crew have greenfield an entire suite of applications that help run operations, customer service, and improve the guest experience making laundry as convenient as just using your thumb. Before that, he worked at America's largest church, Life.Church. It was at this time in his career he made a switch from graphic design to product design. He went from art directing and brand creation to ...

S5E4 How Google Designs for the Next Billion Users with Sumier Phalake

February 16, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MB

Sumier Phalake is Head of Design, Next Billion Users at Google, which focuses on products that bring connectivity to users in emerging markets. He has over 15 years of experience across both consumer and enterprise products. Episode highlights: What is “Next Billion Users” (Google) and how it benefits people? Files by Google - file management that helps mobile freeing up space Files by Google success and its million users around the world Sumier cited more of their products Sumier on w...

S5E3 An Interview with Tessa Rodes, Senior Design Manager at IBM

February 09, 2022 05:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MB

Tessa Rodes joined the very first cohort of IBM Design Bootcamp in 2013, and since then has seen the design organization and company grow and evolve into a truly design-led system. She has reviewed 100s of portfolio applications in the 8.5 years of IBM Design, and has strong opinions about both what makes a great portfolio and what NOT to bother with. She launched the initial version of the product IBM Cloud and has worked to ensure quality, consistency and differentiating features ever sinc...

S5E2 An Interview with Ryan Hudson-Peralta, Staff Product Designer at RocketMortgage

February 02, 2022 14:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MB

Ryan has spoken all over the world at schools, and organizations sharing his story and inspiring others to live their dreams. Ryan is a father, husband, mentor, motivational speaker, and designer. His current role, leading product design at Rocket Homes. He is an experienced User Interface Designer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in App Design, User Experience (UX), E-commerce, and Leadership. In this episode, we talked about: Motivationa...

S5E1 An Interview with Jared Spool

January 26, 2022 07:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MB

Jared Spool is the founding principal of User Interface Engineering (UIE), a research, training, and consulting firm that specializes in website and product usability, He is also the Maker of Awesomeness at @CenterCentre/@UIE. Helping designers everywhere help their organizations deliver well-designed products and services.  In this episode, we talked about: How did Jared started his business Center Centre-UIE More about running a successful 30 year old company Jared’s early design resea...

S4E10 An Interview with Michaela Mucha, Creative Advertising Manager at The Walt Disney Studios

January 19, 2022 05:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MB

Michaela Mucha is an award-winning designer, art director, & matcha-drinker currently making fun things (virtually!) at The Walt Disney Studios. Michaela is a first generation Mexican–Filipina–American with over a decade of experience in graphic design. She is a design nerd at heart, and is currently at The Walt Disney Studios where she delivers best-in-class advertising campaigns for theatrical record-breaking box office hits and Disney+ streaming movies and series from Pixar, Disney, and 2...

S4E9 An Interview with John Yesko, Senior Director, Head of User Experience & Service Design At Walgreens

January 12, 2022 06:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MB

John Yesko is a veteran experience design, creative, and digital business leader; now Head of User Experience and Service Design at Walgreens. Responsible for the digital experience on Walgreens websites, consumer mobile apps, and in-store retail interfaces - as well as team member-facing digital. He also leads the Omni-Channel Service Design practice, with the mission of improving customer and employee experience across their ~9500 stores. John's specialties include Information architectur...

S4E8 An Interview with Jesse Gaskin, HCD and Patient Experience Lead, Kaiser Permanente Northern California

December 23, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MB

Jesse Gaskin serves as a Co-Program Director for the Design Leaders Council of The Conference Board. In addition to his work with The Conference Board, Jesse is a patient experience and human-centered design lead at Kaiser Permanente who specializes in using human-centered design to develop and launch new care experiences. His hybrid background in design thinking and business enables him to develop products and services that solve real customer needs while balancing organizational capabiliti...

S4E7 An Interview with Jane Portman, Cofounder of UserList and Host of UIBreakfast podcast

December 16, 2021 05:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MB

Jane Portman is a UI/UX consultant specializing in web application design, founder of UI Breakfast and Userlist. At Userlist, Jane's goal is to provide flawless onboarding and engagement for SaaS companies through a simple customer messaging platform. Jane has also been running UI Breakfast Podcast since 2014. In this episode, we talked about: How did Jane get into design? Software design and Saas Products Life as UI/UX consultant Productized Consulting Jane’s workflow and process in ...

S4E6 Interview with Ana Lara, Lead UX Designer at Cisco, Sr UX Manager at T-Mobile

December 08, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MB

Ana Lara is an award-winning app product and strategic designer with more than ten years of experience. She has worked with different clients such as Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and Hilton. She was one of the earliest UX team members at T-Mobile, where she led and transformed one of their most important apps into an award-winning mobile experience. Later she transitioned to lead a team of strategists building omnichannel end-to-end customer journeys, seeking user-centric solutions to their pain po...

S4E5 Interview with Jesse Showalter, Full-Stack Designer and Content Creator

December 01, 2021 05:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MB

Jesse Showalter is a Fullstack Designer, Mentor, & Content Creator on a mission to help every creative make an impact on the world.  Jesse has a Youtube Channel with over 200k+ subscribers and counting! The channel shares Digital Design & Web Development videos each week focusing on tools, techniques, projects, and more to help creative people make amazing things. If you're an aspiring Web Designer, UI Designer, or Front-End Developer who is interested in creating awesome things in pixels a...

S4E4 Interview with Mike Heitzke, Lead Product Designer, CarMax Asurion on Management, Design Ops, Mental Health

November 24, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MB

Mike Heitzke is a perpetual hobbyist. Competitive powerlifter, three-pedal car enthusiast, tinkerer and watch collector. He served within the logistics space at CarMax as a Lead Product Designer. In this episode, we talked about: MIke’s role at CarMax Design Operations and management Serving internal partners  CarMax Experience in managing designers The first failure in leadership Mental Health Life as a competitive powerlifter First design job from Craigslist Links and Resources: ...

S4E4 Interview with Mike Heitzke, Lead Product Designer, CarMax Asurion on Management, Design Ops, Mental Health

November 24, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MB

Mike Heitzke is a perpetual hobbyist. Competitive powerlifter, three-pedal car enthusiast, tinkerer and watch collector. He served within the logistics space at CarMax as a Lead Product Designer. In this episode, we talked about: MIke’s role at CarMax Design Operations and management Serving internal partners  CarMax Experience in managing designers The first failure in leadership Mental Health Life as a competitive powerlifter First design job from Craigslist Links and Resources: ...

S4E3 An Interview with Nico Li, Senior User Experience Design Lead, Innovation and Design at Zebra Technologies

November 17, 2021 05:00 - 52 minutes - 36.2 MB

Nico Li is a UX / Product Designer who has been around for a while. Currently, he is residing with the Zebra Technologies Innovation and Design team and spending quite some time incubating new digital solutions. In this episode, we talked about: Nico Li’s role in Zebra Technologies What is Zebra Technologies and how it serves people Hardware and software solutions Zebra Technologies’ stage gating process Company’s general approach Alignment and design evangelism How Nico got into des...

S4E2 An Interview with Morten Winther, Sr Staff UX Designer at Volkswagen Group of America Innovation and Engineering Center

November 10, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MB

Morten Winther is a lead UX designer originally from Denmark but now in the Bay Area. He approaches design strategically and strives to ensure the future doesn't turn into a Sci-Fi dystopia. Morten's worked as a UX consultant and collaborated with organizations like Amazon, Absolut Vodka, and the Danish government, and he's currently shaping the future of mobility at Volkswagen Group Innovation. In this episode, we talked about: Things to consider to become a sustainable lead design compan...

S4E1 Interview with Jamie Dihiansan, Lead Designer at Basecamp

October 27, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 51 MB

Jamie Dihiansan is currently a Lead Designer at Basecamp primarily focused on the Android and iOS mobile apps for Basecamp (Project Management software) and HEY (Personal and Company Email service). He's been at Basecamp for over 13 years. He has 20+ years experience designing for the Web, including 7 years at Crate and Barrel building up their Internet Graphics department--designing and producing solutions for crateandbarrel.com and cb2.com. Prior to his work at Crate and Barrel he worked a...

S3E10 Interview with Caitlin Steele, Experience Design Manager at Trello Mobile, Atlassian, Design Manager at lululemon, Designer at MasterClass

October 20, 2021 04:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MB

Caitlin Steele is a user-centered design and engineering expert focused on design operations. As a founding team member at MasterClass, she helped take the startup from an idea through Series C on the way to being a multi-billion-dollar company. Currently, she enables design and engineering teams to deliver exceptional native mobile experiences for Trello. In this episode, we talked about: How Caitlin got into design Why did she choose UX in particular? Helping people with mobility Ear...

S3E9 An Interview with Design Strategist, Harsh Wardhan, D-Ford and Google

September 29, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MB

Harsh Wardhan is a design thinking thought leader, who uses his human-centered design skills and his design strategy expertise to help companies build future strategies rooted in deep human insights that deliver business value. In his ten years of practice in the design industry, he has collaborated with organizations across different sectors like automotive, healthcare, hospitality, fin-tech, and architecture. In this episode, we talked about: How did Harsh get into design Harsh cites so...

S3E8 An Interview with Shay Howe, Senior Vice President of Platform Strategy, ActiveCampaign

September 22, 2021 04:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MB

Shay Howe is the Vice President of Platform Strategy at ActiveCampaign, where he leads platform experience and ecosystem, strategic partnerships, and product, front-end, and communication design. He works to make the customer a hero, helping them create ideal customer experiences through intuitive products, marketing, and integrations. Prior to ActiveCampaign, Shay was Vice President of Product at Belly and Yello, where he was responsible for product strategy and design. He has previously l...

S3E7 An Interview with Kevin Hsieh on automotive UI/UX at Tesla, Lucid Motors, and Faraday Future

September 15, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MB

Kevin Hsieh is a product design leader with 15+ years of experience under my belt. I have shipped countless products at companies both large and small. He has 5 patents and enjoys complex problem solving, collaboration, and creative thinking to take projects from concept to completion. Creating stunning and innovative designs, that are user-centric is his passion. He is currently the Director Of Product Design at Sonder. In this episode, we talked about: How did Kevin get into design? Ho...

S3E6 Designing for Health-tech, an interview with Director of Product Design at Teladoc, Jen Byyny

September 01, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MB

Jen Byyny is a leader in tech/product design with over 17 years of experience. She has over 7 years of design leadership experience and 10+ years of hands-on professional design experience focused on software/Saas, analytics and media experiences for business and consumer audiences with strong management experience, design-thinking methodologies, design system knowledge, user research and product insights, plus a love for innovation through storytelling and design. She had led teams focused ...

S3E5 Designing for Financial Services and the Aerospace Industry. An Interview with Brittany Schlenk

August 11, 2021 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MB

Brittany Schlenk is currently the Assistant Director of Design & UX at The Hartford. In her current role, she helps oversee and manage the Middle & Large Commercial portfolio. She works heavily in the business-to-business space and focuses primarily on underwriters, agents, and account managers as her main users. Prior to joining The Hartford, she used to work in the aerospace industry at Collins Aerospace and Raytheon Technologies. In addition to her career, she had received her Master of C...

S3E4 Teaching over 200,000 UX Students. An interview with UX consultant and coach Joe Natoli

August 04, 2021 04:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MB

Joe Natoli is a UX consultant, author and speaker. Everything he does is born from three decades of consulting with and training the product development teams of some of the world’s largest organizations. He has taught over 200,000 students through his online courses and is a regular keynote speaker and lecturer at events across the globe. He recently launched a new online school, the UX 365 Academy, where he publishes online courses, training videos, ebooks and more every month, at learn.gi...

S3E3 From Redbox, to SteelSeries, Weta, to starting her own company, an interview with Reina O'Meara

July 28, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MB

Reina O’Meara is an award-winning UX/Graphic Designer who has helped define brands for both Fortune 500 companies and small startups. She has worked for companies such as Weta Workshop, Redbox, and Steelseries. She is currently the Brand Director of Comfort Eats. In this episode, we talked about: Reina’s role in Comfort Eats Her accomplishments in Redbox and show she got started in the company All about Redbox and her designing ticketing kiosk project Awarded a design patent Understand...

S3E2 An interview with Felix Lee, Co-founder of ADPList, a global design mentorship platform

July 21, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MB

Felix Lee is a designer and tech entrepreneur based in Singapore. He is the Co-Founder of ADPList, one of the world’s largest mentoring platforms for designers. He had previously founded Packdat, which was acquired in 2018; led design at Gotrade (YC S19) and was the Head of Product & Design at Passpod Indonesia ($YELO). Felix previously notably consulted for Eatsy.co, Capture App, Knowledgehook, and several global startups. He's known for his thoughts and works in product design & startups; ...

S3E1 Designing for Emotions with Proxyclick Product Designer, Eirini Kasti

July 14, 2021 04:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MB

Eirini Kasti is a User Experience Expert focused on design for emotions. She has created experiences for the airline, financial, education, energy or transportation industries, from the biggest European companies like KLM or ING Bank to pioneering start-ups and scale-ups. Currently, she is a Senior Product Designer at Proxyclick, a European scale-up in the facility management sector.  Besides design, she is passionate about physical and mental health, self-improvement and connection with na...

S2E10 Interview with User Defenders Podcast Host and Early Myspace designer, Jason Ogle

July 07, 2021 04:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MB

Jason Ogle has been designing for Tim Berners-Lee’s “World Wide Web” via CRT monitors, 2400bps modems, and 216 colors since 1996. He is also a highly innovative and strategic design leader who is passionate about the user defender. He is an influential podcaster who uses the enchanting magic of audio to inspire and equip an audience of hungry and ambitious designers. His podcast “The User Defender Podcast” is an avenue to inspire, enlighten and entertain people passionate about making a dif...

S2E9 Yelp's First Designer, an Interview with Michael Ernst

June 30, 2021 04:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MB

Michael Ernst is a multidisciplinary designer and cross-functional manager who works with executive teams to drive customer loyalty in business and convert them to results. He has 20 years of experience as a product designer, creative director, brand designer, and illustrator for various companies in the tech industry. He started his journey with Yelp in 2004. He became the lead designer and designed Yelp’s overall brand identity. In 2009, Michael led the UX design on a product that grew fr...

S2E5 An interview with Koji Pereira, Head of Design, Lyft Business and Head of Design at Google Curator Team

June 23, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MB

Koji Pereira is the Head of Design for Lyft Business. He creates products for organizations, companies, healthcare systems for employees, collaborators, and patients.  Koji grew up in a poor family of five siblings, one mother, and had no father figure. He was the first among all siblings to have studied for college. For a college program, Koji took up Fine Arts, which soon led him to Graphic Design. Over the years, he helped build many products from 0-1, elevating designers to the strategy...

S2E8 An interview with Koji Pereira, Head of Design, Lyft Business and Head of Design at Google Curator Team

June 23, 2021 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MB

Koji Pereira is the Head of Design for Lyft Business. He creates products for organizations, companies, healthcare systems for employees, collaborators to get rides for their employees. Koji grew up in a poor family of five siblings, one mother, and had no father figure. He was the first among all of his siblings to go to have studied for college. For a college program, Koji took up Fine Arts, which soon led him to Graphic Design.  Since then, he has worked in Google and led Design for Fil...

S2E4 Getting Paid to Be a Streaming Creative Designer. An interview with Adobe XD Evangelist Howard Pinsky

June 15, 2021 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB

Howard Pinksy is the Senior XD Evangelist at Adobe and creates educational videos for Adobe. He shares UI/UX knowledge and experiences with the design community through video, live streams, at creative events, focusing on the process Adobe XD application.  His journey first started in 2006, when YouTube was just a new website. Howard first started posting Photoshop videos, and immediately, his videos took off, became a YouTube partner, and his hobby became a career. Today, Howard has a You...

S2E7 Getting Paid to Be a Streaming Creative Designer. An interview with Adobe XD Evangelist Howard Pinsky

June 15, 2021 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB

Howard Pinksy is the Senior XD Evangelist at Adobe and creates educational videos for Adobe. He shares UI/UX knowledge and experiences with the design community through video, live streams, at creative events, focusing on the process Adobe XD application.  His journey first started in 2006, when YouTube was just a new website. Howard first started posting Photoshop videos, and immediately, his videos took off, became a YouTube partner, and his hobby became a career. Today, Howard has a You...

An interview with James Helms, VP of Design and Product, Intuit Platform

June 08, 2021 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MB

James Helms is the Vice President of design a product at Intuit. A global technology platform that helps the customers and communities we serve overcome their financial challenges. He is a graduate of the Visual Communications program at the University of Delaware. Today, James has been with Intuit for 7 years now. Performing and delivering strategic Identity and Financial data experiences for Quickbooks, Turbo Tax, and Mint. He’s passionate about creating and improving design teams, coach...

S2E6 An interview with James Helms, VP of Design and Product, Intuit Platform

June 08, 2021 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MB

James Helms is the Vice President of design a product at Intuit. A global technology platform that helps the customers and communities we serve overcome their financial challenges. He is a graduate of the Visual Communications program at the University of Delaware. Today, James has been with Intuit for 7 years now. Performing and delivering strategic Identity and Financial data experiences for Quickbooks, Turbo Tax, and Mint. He’s passionate about creating and improving design teams, coach...

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