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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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ARE YOU LOOKING TO LEVEL UP YOUR INTERVIEWING SKILLS AS A DESIGNER?
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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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• Twitter - https://twitter.com/femkesvs
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/femkedesign
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/femkedotdesign/
• Website - https://www.femke.design/

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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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• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/issenmann/
• Website - https://www.issenmann.me/

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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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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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• Website - https://danmall.me/

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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. 

ARE YOU AN EXPERIENCED DESIGNER LOOKING TO WORK IN WEB3/CRYPTO?
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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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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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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. 
 

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• Website - https://www.ridd.design/ 

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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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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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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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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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Read Dave Huber's article to learn how to articulate the value of your design work - https://uxdesign.cc/the-business-of-design-fec915a60231 

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• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davehuberdesign/
• Medium - https://hue-bear.medium.com/

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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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• Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MikeRohde 
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• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikerohde/

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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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• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sberg75
• Medium - https://medium.com/@sberg75 

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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. 

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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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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.
 

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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. 
 

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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. 
 

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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. 

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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.
 

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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. 
 

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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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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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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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• If you are a fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, listen to Mike's podcast: Hitchhikers and Appetizers
   

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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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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.

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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!

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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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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.
 

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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.
 

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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!
 

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• Brene Brené - The Call to Courage (Netflix movie)
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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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GUEST BIO
Matt ‘Mills’ Miller founded digital product design studio Ustwo with John Sinclair in 2004. In the 14 years since, Ustwo expanded to include an independent games studio and Ustwo adventure: a startup fund and incubator that supports early-stage startups and digital companies. The company’s driving ethos is to create meaningful products and services. Alongside designing products for the likes of Sky and Facebook, it developed Google DeepMind’s Streams app, which can be used to remotely monitor patients from hospitals, and created the phenomenally successful mobile and tablet game Monument Valley. Mills stepped away from his operational duties at Ustwo to head up adventure – which provides support, investment, and a workspace for startups at its London studio – in 2017.
 

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GUEST BIO:
As a fresh business graduate, Alen Faljic joined the design agency IDEO Munich as a business designer. The world of design quickly fascinated him as he wasn’t familiar with user-centricity and the power of design. However, he soon started to notice the gap between the design and business communities. As someone working in the intersection of the two, he decided to explore deeper into the relationship between the two. Today, Alen is the founder and CEO of the d.MBA which helps designers gain business confidence. d.MBA has 300+ alumni students over 50+ countries and a 97% completion rate!
 

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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. 
 

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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. 
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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Abhinav Chhikara got his start in design in 2011 by designing iOS apps for freelance projects on oDesk. Prior to that he was an early employee & the Head of Design at Unacademy, an ed-tech startup that's now valued over $1.4B & has raised from global investors like SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Facebook, General Atlantic etc. After spending 2.5 years there, building the design team from scratch & helping build one of the biggest live learning platforms in the world, he realized that he wanted to fix the state of design education. So Abhinav quit his job to build 10kdesigners which enables the next generation of designers and product thinkers. 


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• Read the Amazon bestseller Pyjama Profits on freelancing by Abhinav Chhikara.
   

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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. 
 

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• Sign up for 'Ridgeline' - weekly newsletter on walking, Japan, literature, and photography
   

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GUEST BIO:
Punit Chawla is an avid Youtube design creator and wants to leave an impact on the world. 

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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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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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• Sign up for Clover - the all-in-one notebook for creatives!
   

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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:

• Anil Reddy opens up about his difficult childhood and discovering his artistic talents
• How Anil Reddy got his first job as a contract cleaner?
• What drives Anil Reddy to hustle?
• Anil Reddy talks about learning Tamil language just to get design contracts
• Anil Reddy recounts the magic moment of getting introduced to computers and going to New Zealand for masters!
• Anil Reddy shares the struggles he faced while completing his masters in New Zealand
• Why did Anil Reddy leave all the success in New Zealand behind to move back to India and start from scratch?
• Why did Anil Reddy name his design agency 'Lollipop'?
• Anil Reddy recalls the first few projects at Lollypop
• How involved is Anil Reddy in the day to day operations of Lollypop?
• Anil Reddy explains how Lollypop got acquired by Terralogic
• What Anil Reddy learn from his angel investor Dr Devi Shetty(CEO @ Narayana Health)?
• Does Anil Reddy have any regrets over not taking equity from his unicorn startup clients?
• Anil Reddy's advice for designers looking to make their mark
   

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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:

• 3:13: MDS's journey to getting a ripped physique
• 7:26: What drives MDS(Matt D Smith)?
• 10:45: Why does MDS prefer to operate as a Company of One?
• 16:10: Why did MDS decide to make video courses in the design education space?
• 19:34: MDS explains why he has to be picky and select projects that actually pay money
• 28:32: Why has MDS never had a full time job?
• 31:54: Would MDS consider working full time on creating design courses?
• 34:15: MDS describes the beta launch of his new course Shift Nudge
• 40:07: MDS gets real and talks about the overhead costs of producing a design course
• 43:46: How did MDS beta test the Shift Nudge idea before committing to it full time?
• 45:45: MDS explains how to covercome the fear of not having enough twitter followers, mailing list subscribers etc. to launch your idea!
• 50:07: MDS explains his process from start to finish for creating the Shift Nudge course
• 54:00: MDS  gives advise on how to overcome self doubt, imposter syndrome
• 56:45: MDS talks about collaborating with InVision to create a design course
   

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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.

TOPICS:

• 4:34: How did Tony Daussat get started with podcasting?
• 8:18: How does Tony Daussat come up with new questions to ask famous guests(eg: Chris Doe, Jared Spool) who have done hundreds of interviews?
• 10:49: Starting from contacting a guest to interviewing them - behind the scenes look at Tony Daussat's process
• 15:30: Tony Daussat shares stats for his podcast Experience Design!
• 18:34: Why did Tony Daussat decide to hire a podcast producer to edit his interviews?
• 21:27: Tony Daussat's podcast setup
• 26:58: Tony Daussat explains how to edit a podcast interview - don't try to remove all the "ums", "ahs" etc.
• 34:02: How does Tony Daussat deal with guests who have a terrible audio setup?
• 35:57: Jayneil Dalal opens up about his biggest screwup in his podcasting journey
• 43:54: How does Tony Daussat wing his podcast interviews?
• 49:38: Tony Daussat reveals the secret to being a great interviewer
• 54:03: How does Tony Daussat plan to monetise the podcast?
• 56:45: Shocking news: Tony Daussat will be sunsetting the Expereince Design podcast!
   

CONNECT WITH TONY DAUSSAT:

• Connect with Tony Daussat on LinkedIn
• Follow Tony Daussat on Instagram
• Listen to the Liftoff podcast
• If you are a designer looking to break into the UX world and get a job, check out Tony Daussat's HiredUX course!!
   

TONY DAUSSAT'S PODCAST GEAR:

• Rode Podcaster microphone
• Rode PSA-1 microphone boom arm
   

JAYNEIL DALAL'S PODCAST GEAR:

• Samson Q2U Dynamic microphone
• Bose NC 700 noise cancelling headphones
• Microphone pop filter
• Caseling podcast kit to store all the podcast equipment
• Squadcast for recording the podcast interviews
• Simplecast for hosting and distributing the podcast
• Auphonic for cleaning up the audio automatically
• Descript for editing the podcast interviews
   

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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.

TOPICS:

• 2:13: Gary Gattis's experience watching a space rocket launch
• 5:36: How did Gary Gattis design his own college curriculum at UT Austin?
• 10:25: How Gary Gattis got his first job in the industry by cold calling the CEO 30 times?
• 14:55: Why Gary Gattis believes in designing his own luck?
• 20:54: Gary Gattis explains the benefits of hanging out with folks from different generations
• 26:18: Gary Gattis' foray into the gaming world and running the Star Wars Galaxies game at Sony
• 37:40: Gary Gattis explains the process behind designing a game
• 41:01: Gary Gattis's journey of starting Spacetime Studios
• 50:14: What happened after Gary Gattis sent a cold email to Steve Jobs?
• 57:10: Gary Gattis & team raise venture captial from Insight Venture Partners
• 1:00:05: Why was Gary Gattis thinking of selling the company?
• 1:10:10: How Gary Gattis leveraged his network to discover the next big thing to work on and joined Hypergiant!

CONNECT GARY GATTIS:

• Connect with Gary Gattis on LinkedIn
   

MORE COOL STUFF TO CHECK OUT:

• StrengthsFinders 2.0 (Book)
• Hypergiant (Startup)
• Spacetime Studios (Company)
   

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GUEST BIO:
Cassini Nazir is a designer of conversations, curriculum, and interfaces. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of North Texas where he teaches class in design thinking. Prior to joining UNT, he taught interaction design at UT Dallas. He recently served as Designer-in-Residence for the SMU Masters in Design and Innovation program. Previously, he was Director of Design and Research for the ArtSciLab, a transdisciplinary research lab helping the arts, science, and technology communities by pursuing initiatives of societal urgency and cultural timeliness. Cassini holds bachelor’s degrees in English Literature and Economics as well as an MFA in Arts and Technology. 

TOPICS:

• 2:10: How does Cassini Nazir never get angry?
• 5:40: Mechanical vs Biological mindset when dealing with people
• 7:15: Why are some coworkers pain in the a** at work but great to have a beer with?
• 9:23: Conception of time in Madagascar
• 10:59: How to be present in the moment during a conversation?
• 12:58: How does Cassini Nazir overcome networking FOMO at a meetup event?
• 14:54: How does Cassini Nazir teach the art of design conversations to his students?
• 22:05: What is Cassini Nazir's approach to dealing with difficult people?
• 32:53: Cassini Nazir gives advise on how to collaborate with a**holes
• 36:34: Cassini Nazir's book recommendations for designers
• 41:19: Why does Jayneil Dalal track the people he meets in an excel sheet?
• 44:49: Cassini Nazir explains how to find your Cardinal North as a designer
   

CONNECT CASSINI NAZIR:

• Follow Cassini Nazir on Twitter
• Connect with Cassini Nazir on LinkedIn
   

MORE COOL STUFF TO CHECK OUT:

• Collaborating with the enemy (Book)
• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Book)
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Book)
   

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GUEST BIO:
Ryan Burke is an experienced senior sales and business development executive, specializing in scaling early stage companies and driving enterprise level sales. Most recently, Ryan was the Senior Vice President of International for InVision, the leading design collaboration platform used by 4 million people worldwide and 100% of Fortune 100 companies. 

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

CONSULT WITH  RYAN BURKE TO SCALE YOUR REMOTE ORGANIZATION

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/

TOPICS:

• 2:41: What led Ryan Burke to pursue a career in sales?
• 5:32: Ryan Burke's earliest experience with sales
• 6:21: What does Ryan teach his kids about sales?
• 7:53: How is sales in the design space different from other fields?
• 11:56: Examples from InVision Sales Playbook
• 15:27: Ryan Burke explains "It's not about closing deals but giving value as a salesperson"
• 18:59: What does Ryan Burke look for in a salesperson?
• 21:16: Deep dive into Ryan Burke's mind when is closing a deal
• 23:07: How Jayneil got an intro to the venture capitalist Vas Natarajan at Accel Partners?
• 25:06: Design recruiters please stop spamming designers with the same copy & paste messages on LinkedIn!
• 28:12: Why designers struggle to sell within an organization?
• 30:29: Ryan Burke's book recommendations for designers
• 31:59: Ryan Burke's favorite failures
• 33:20: Ryan Burke's angel investing deal flow
• 35:26: How does Ryan Burke work with young founders?
• 36:47: Ryan Burke's pet peeves while evaluating new opportunities
• 38:31: Ryan Burke's advice to designers who want to become better at selling
   

CONNECT WITH RYAN BURKE:

• Follow Ryan Burke on Twitter
• Connect with Ryan Burke on LinkedIn
   

MORE COOL STUFF TO CHECK OUT:

• The Power Of Moments (Book)
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Book)
   

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GUEST BIO:
Ryan Rumsey is the CEO and founder of Second Wave Dive, where he develops boutique leadership programs for professionals in the digital product and services industries. Second Wave Dive has worked with product, design, and executive leaders from companies like Google, IBM, Lyft, Workday, ConsenSys, Autodesk, and ANZ. Ryan has a hybrid background in interaction design, front-end development, and product management. Previously he led digital product innovation and transformation at Apple, Electronic Arts, USAA, and Nestlé. His life experiences include working on a farm and acting in a Staind music video. Ryan is a dad, partner, and massive fan of the Liverpool Football Club.
 

TOPICS:

• 2:23: Getting hold of a conference room at a co-working space - the struggle is real!
• 3:04: Ryan shares the power of 'Yes And' improv method which he picked up during his time in Hollywood
• 5:31: Ryan's shares his secret to overcoming the lure of job titles and benefits to go do your own thing!
• 7:23: How does a designer go about doing their own thing?
• 8:37: Did Ryan have clients lined up before he started Second Wave Dive?
• 10:26: Inception of the 'Business Thinking Intensive' Course
• 11:46: Business Thinking Intensive elevator pitch
• 13:04: How has Ryan flipped the traditional classroom learning model?
• 15:01: Issues with traditional online learning courses
• 16:55: Time blocking - Ryan's magic weapon to thriving as a one man army!
• 19:30: Prioritizing family over work
• 21:19: Why everyone needs to have a Career Manifesto
• 22:07: How does one self assess their progress in career and personal aspects of life?
• 26:21: Why individuals can work faster than organizations? [Hint: gravity]
• 27:33: How did Ryan get an opportunity to write a book with InVision?
• 29:42: Why  Ryan decided to offer his book for free?
• 30:37: Jayneil getting advice from Ryan on leaving AT&T to pursue his passions
• 33:15: What does Ryan stand for?
   

CONNECT WITH RYAN RUMSEY:

• Follow Ryan Rumsey on Twitter
• Connect with Ryan Rumsey on LinkedIn
• Check out Ryan Rumsey's personal website
   

MORE COOL STUFF TO CHECK OUT:

• Download the  Business Thinking for Designers  ebook for free!!
• Level up your design career by taking the amazing courses at Second Wave Dive!
   

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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:

• 2:17: Stephen's home office set up in a trailer
• 4:40: Work-life balance
• 11:40: Social interactions in a remote job
• 15:10: How to have private/sensitive conversations in a remote world?
• 19:47: How to have difficult conversations in a remote first world?
• 22:57: How to deliver candid brutal feedback?
• 29:39: Stephen's journey of breaking into InVision
• 38:01: Why being a B+ player is an underrated superpower
   

CONNECT WITH STEPHEN OLMSTEAD:

• Follow Stephen Olmstead on Twitter
• Connect with Stephen Olmstead on LinkedIn
   

MORE COOL STUFF TO CHECK OUT:

• Radical Candor(Book)
• Learn more about InVision
   

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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 To learn how to become a design entrepreneur, please visit my blog: www.blog.designmba.show Connect with me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE: https://www.sneakpeek.design/