Design MBA – Details, episodes & analysis

Here's the stellar lineup of companies and designers featured in Sneak Peek season 1:

- Henry Modisett from Perplexity
- Cecilia Uhr from Bezi
- Dion Chooi from LottieFiles
- Loren Baxter from Felt
- Darshan Gajara from Hygraph
- Charlota Kolář Blunárová from WE3

🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE:

https://www.sneakpeek.design/
 

🧠 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 
(11:25) Why should designers learn to code? 
(16:41) Why handoff to engineering is faster when a designer knows how to code 
(18:54) Why Henry Modisett joined Perplexity AI as the founding designer? 
(21:47) What it's like to design for a billion users? 24:01 How to get a job as an AI designer? 
(28:38) How to deal with job rejections as a designer? 
(36:40) Reality of working in San Francisco as a Designer

🤝 CONNECT WITH HENRY MODISETT 

Twitter -https://twitter.com/henrymodis

 LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrymodisett/

🤙 CONNECT WITH JAYNEIL DALAL 

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil 

Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal

📺 INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/4BH454Kw-90

🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE:

https://www.sneakpeek.design/
 

Gordon Ching is the founder of Design Executive Council (DEC) building the network dedicated to advancing the design executive profession in Silicon Valley and beyond. Through the DEC, Gordon is partnering with chief design officers and design executives of the world’s most successful public companies and venture-backed startups to advance the relationship between design and business. Gordon was previously at Affirm, Fast, Synchrony, Apple and AIESEC International. 

INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/Hm10bL4VTTk

CONNECT WITH GORDON CHING

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordonching/
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/gordoncching
• Substack - https://gordonching.substack.com/

CONNECT WITH ME

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil 
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE:

https://www.sneakpeek.design/
 

Jared Erondu is a design & product leader, investor, and advisor. He's currently the GM of Performance and VP of Design at Lattice. Before Lattice, Jared led design at Teespring and was an early designer at both Obvious Corp and Omada Health. He's also founded two companies and consulted for others like Y Combinator, MIT Media Lab, Google, Front, and Greylock Partners. In his spare time, he likes to spin up projects that help further knowledge sharing in the design community, most notably Playbook and High Resolution. 

INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/MfrwNIJ19-I

CONNECT WITH JARED ERONDU

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erondu/
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/erondu

CONNECT WITH ME

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil 
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE:

https://www.sneakpeek.design/
 

Joshua Philippe is the Head of Design at Strike, a service that leverages Bitcoin’s open payment network to offer users the first global peer-to-peer payments app and a novel bitcoin-native neobanking experience. He has spent a decade working with clients like Apple, Dolby, Chevrolet, Intel, Lincoln Jaguar Land Rover, Stanford Health, Steinway & Sons, Tiffany & Co., and Verizon to develop experiences that span both the digital and physical.

INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/Xxd5NJ37-Lk

CONNECT WITH JOSHUA PHILIPPE

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaphilippe/
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/shua_lippe

CONNECT WITH ME

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil 
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE:

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Mindaugas Petrutis builds relationships, connects the dots between humans, systems, problems and simplifies complex ideas. Often mistaken for a designer. He is currently the CEO at Coho which is The Direct To Experience ™️ Learning Network for professional growth. 

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 PETRUTIS

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/MindaugasLT
• Website - https://www.mindaugasp.com/

CONNECT WITH ME

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil 
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE:

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Jeff Veen is design partner and head of platform at True Ventures. He brings his design and product experience, management skills of large-scale programs, and common sense knowledge of being a founder to the mission and initiatives of True’s Founder Platform. Jeff was the vice president of design at Adobe after the company acquired Typekit, the startup he co-founded and ran as CEO. Jeff was one of the founding partners of the user experience consulting group Adaptive Path. While there, he led Measure Map, which was acquired by Google. 

INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/CeRkpEOrhWU

CONNECT WITH JEFF VEEN

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/veen
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyveen/
• Podcast - https://www.relay.fm/presentable

CONNECT WITH ME

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil 
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE:

https://www.sneakpeek.design/
 

Lily Konings is a Product Design Manager at Instagram with previous roles at Messenger, AngelList, and IBM Watson. She is also an avid startup advisor, helping founders build 0→1 products and scale their design team. Lily is passionate about helping people advance their career, most notably by writing her advice column newsletter called Welcome Designer and founding Lift Her Wealth, a not-for-profit conference teaching financial literacy to more than 4000 women. Currently, Lily lives in Oakland, CA with her partner and some plant babies. 

INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/6TYK2Qk6sqw

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A KILLER NEWSLETTER FOCUSED ON BUILDING A CAREER IN DESIGN?
Check out Lily Konings' newsletter - https://lilykonings.substack.com/

CONNECT WITH LILY KONINGS

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/lilykonings
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilykonings/

CONNECT WITH ME

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil 
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE:

https://www.sneakpeek.design/
 

Adam Fry-Pierce is a career long community builder and design operator. He is currently the Chief of Staff at Google where he manages strategic programs for Google's UX leadership. Previously he was leading DesignOps at DocuSign, and involved in Design Education programs at InVision. Adam has a non-linear career and has had multiple businesses over the years: a conference company, a designops agency, a media company, and even a restaurant. He's also an active partner in one of the largest designops communities (if not the largest) in the world: The DesignOps Assembly. 

INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/Gj7zbrM0NFE

ARE YOU LOOKING TO JOIN A DEDICATED DESIGN OPS COMMUNITY? 
Check out DesignOps Assembly - https://designopsassembly.com/

CONNECT WITH ADAM FRY PIERCE

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/AdamFryPierce
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamfp/

CONNECT WITH ME

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil 
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE:

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Ran 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/jayneildalal 

🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE:

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