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Sneak Peek into Figma files of top designers for FREE19 Jun 202400:01:17

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:

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Designing for AI24 Jan 202400:38:36

🧠 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW?

 1. Challenges of designing for AI

2. How to get a job as an AI Designer 

 

📢 WHY IS HENRY MODISETT A ROCKSTAR? 

Henry Modisett is the Head of Design at Perplexity AI. Previously he worked as a designer at Quora and Google.


⏱️ 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


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Design Exec Role Sneak Peek - Gordon Ching (Founder @ Design Executive Council)01 Mar 202300:40:08

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

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

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Leveling Up as a Founding Designer - Jared Erondu (VP of Design at Lattice)15 Feb 202300:53:27

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

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

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Becoming T-shaped Designer - Joshua Philippe (Head of Design @ Strike)31 Jan 202300:36:41

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

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

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Designing Authentic Relationships - Mindaugas Petrutis (CEO @ Coho)11 Dec 202200:38:50

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

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

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Becoming Design Partner at VC Firm - Jeff Veen (Design Partner @ True Ventures)27 Nov 202201:02:04

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

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

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How to Get Promoted as Designer - Lily Konings (Product Design Manager @ Instagram)07 Nov 202200:53:50

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

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/

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Breaking Into Design Ops - Adam Fry Pierce (Chief of Staff @ Google)18 Oct 202200:57:39

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

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

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

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Growing a Bootstrapped Design Business - Ran Segall (CEO @ Flux Academy)03 Oct 202200:33:37

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/

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Designer's Path to Becoming CEO - Murat Mutlu (CEO @ Marvel)19 Sep 202201:03:10

Murat 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

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Designing Company Culture - Pieter Omvlee & Emanuel Sa (Cofounders @ Sketch)07 Sep 202200:52:36

Pieter 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/

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Designing the Facebook Like Button14 Dec 202300:53:29

🧠 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, Read.cv, Pulley, Replit, Universe, Liveblocks, tldraw, Plain, and dozens more startups worldwide! 

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 
(00:00) Interview trailer 
(00:50) Who is Soleio Cuervo? (software designer turned investor) 
(1:23) How does a VC deal with FOMO? 
(3:09) VC shares their framework for deciding who to meet 
(6:25) How does a VC deal with an overwhelming amount of inbound requests? 
(9:15) Importance of being diplomatic when saying 'No' 
(10:37) Soleio Cuervo explains how he designed the iconic Facebook like button 
(17:08) Investing in Dropbox 
(19:23) Structuring your week based on initiatives 
(20:19) How Jayneil gatecrashed a VIP event in San Francisco 
(21:17) How Drew Houston closes candidates at Dropbox? 
(22:19) Why raise your own VC fund compared to joining Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz? 
(24:57) Investing your money into startups or raise a big VC fund? 
(28:46) Investing pre Series A in Figma 
(36:27) Why build relationship with a startup team over rushing to write a check? 
(37:38) Seeing the multiplayer demo for the first time from Evan Wallace at Figma 
(39:26) Investing in Framer's seed round 
(41:56) Why did Framer survive through the hard times and multiple pivots? 
(43:05) Investing Diagram's seed round (acquired by Figma) 
(45:49) Soleio gives Jayneil career advice 
(50:36) Why is Jayneil so excited about the research tool Ballpark? 

🤝 CONNECT WITH SOLEIO CUERVO

Twitter - https://twitter.com/soleio
Website - https://read.cv/soleio
 

🤙 CONNECT WITH JAYNEIL DALAL 

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

Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

📺 INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/hZ3Z2frAWvM


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When to Quit - Tanner Christensen (Founder @ Shape)23 Aug 202200:55:14

Tanner Christensen is a curious, multi-disciplinary design leader who is dedicated to helping designers and businesses find the best in each other. He's the founder at Shape.co and previously worked as Head or Design at Gem dot com. Before Gem, Tanner designed software for autonomous vehicles at Lyft, led design of the Atlassian mobile platform, and designed for 2.85 billion people at Facebook. He's a published author, prolific writer, indie app developer, angel investor, podcaster, and more. 

INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/1HPwcA0O4IY

ARE YOU LOOKING TO LEVEL UP YOUR INTERVIEWING SKILLS AS A DESIGNER?
Check out Shape - https://shape.co/

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Diversifying Your Income Sources - Femke (Senior Product Designer @ Wealthsimple)09 Aug 202200:47:01

Femke Van Schoonhoven is a senior product designer at Wealthsimple though previously worked at Uber Eats on the merchant experience. Prior to that, she worked on the driver experience focusing on money and payments across the world. You can often find Femke creating videos on YouTube, hiking around Ontario or cycling. Femke currently lives in Toronto, Canada. 

INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/XQ8HTc9ggTI

ARE YOU LOOKING TO JOIN A DESIGN COMMUNITY TO LEVEL UP?
Check out Femke's design community - https://www.femke.design/community

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Collaborating With Other Creatives - Ben Issen (Founder @ Supercreative)24 Jul 202200:51:01

Benjamin Issenman aka Ben Issen is the founder of Supercreative, a website where he shares tools he creates for design solopreneurs. Based in Paris France, he started designing brands for online clients when he was 16. Now 25, he designs and builds digital tools (with freelancers he hires or other creators he collaborates with) for his audience of 15,000 people. 

INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/by36qEPoJ1w

ARE YOU TO EARN A LIVING FROM YOUR CREATIVE WORK?
Check out Supercreative - https://www.supercreative.design/

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Starting a Venture Capital Firm - John Zeratsky (General Partner @ Character)10 Jul 202200:44:10

John Zeratsky is a co-founder and general partner at Character, bestselling author of Sprint and Make Time, and former design partner at GV. Previously, John was a design leader for YouTube, Google Ads, and FeedBurner, which was acquired by Google in 2007. 

ARE YOU A FOUNDER LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH A DESIGN FOCUSED VC FIRM?
Check out Character - https://www.character.vc/

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Choosing Impact Over Scale - Dan Mall (Founder @ SuperFriendly)26 Jun 202200:43:49

Dan has been a creative director, designer, and developer since 1998. He has taught design systems and collaboration at public conferences, private client engagements, as higher education instruction, and on many podcasts and videos. Dan’s superpower is getting people excited, even when there’s challenging work ahead. Dan met his wife Emily when they were both in 5th grade. Together, they raise daughters Siddalee and Charlotte, yorkshire terrier Max, and mini sheepadoodle Matilda just outside Philadelphia, PA. 

IS YOUR TEAM LOOKING FOR DESIGN SYTEMS COACHING?
Hire SuperFriendly and experience digital transformation through design systems coaching and practice - https://superfriendly.com/ 

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Becoming a Designer in Web3 - Yitong Zhang (Cofounder @ Vector DAO)19 Jun 202200:41:46

Yitong Zhang is the cofounder of Vector DAO. Before that he spent almost four years at Coinbase where he had the privilege of designing and redesigning much of the consumer app as well as establishing the design system. He also tends to a beautiful vegetable garden. 

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/ 

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Making of a Design Founder - Jessica Ko (Founder @ Playbook)30 May 202200:59:08

Jessica Ko is the CEO and co-founder of Playbook.com, a visual cloud storage platform for designers. She was a designer for over 10 years at Google and Opendoor, and is now working to make it easier for freelancers and designers to share their assets with the world. 

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/

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Making of a Design Manager - Connie Yang (Head of Payments Design @ Stripe)15 May 202200:58:50

Connie Yang is a design leader with experience in consumer and fintech, and is currently the Head of Payments Design at Stripe. Previously, she led design at Coinbase and created products for platforms and global at Facebook. She enjoys asking questions and finding the bits of magic that surround us in everyday life. 

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Designing a 6 Figure Figma Course - Michael Riddering (Founder @ Figma Academy)01 May 202200:53:17

Michael Riddering ("Ridd") is the founding designer at Maven and the creator of Figma Academy—a new online course that teaches advanced design tactics directly within Figma. He's been designing products every day for over a decade and is passionate about improving the way we learn online. 
 

LOOKING FOR ADVANCED LEVEL COURSE ON FIGMA?
Take your Figma skills to the next level by joining Figma Academy: https://www.figma.academy/

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Becoming a Designer in Crypto - Graeme Blackwood (Head of Design @ Argent)17 Apr 202200:55:43

Graeme wrote his first line of code aged 8, in 1992 on a Commodore 64, and built his first website in 1998. He's solved design problems for clients such as VW, Johnson and Johnson, the British Royal Family and the UK Government. His expertise spans many disciplines including user research, service design, UX / product design, and creative direction.Graeme began working full time in crypto in early 2018, when he joined Argent. He believes that crypto heralds the biggest shift in history for how we exchange value, and that it will have much more impact than the Internet. His goal is to solve the myriad of UX problems with decentralized ownership and self-sovereignty so that everyone benefits. 

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Transitioning from Design Manager to IC Designer29 Sep 202300:37:43

🧠 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 experiments and workshops.

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

Twitter - https://twitter.com/maheen_sohail

🤙 CONNECT WITH JAYNEIL DALAL 

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

Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

📺 INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/LXPKGTGvFrY?si=6pVqr9zENQkYso2Y


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Life of an Entrepreneur - Aashish Dalal (Founder @ Sunya One)05 Apr 202200:54:17

Aashish Dalal is the founder and former CEO of ParkWhiz. In 2008, Aashish created the company to simplify the parking experience by connecting drivers with an open parking space. Since then, ParkWhiz has become the nation's top booking platform, conducting millions of transactions on its apps, saving drivers time and money. Under his leadership, ParkWhiz has raised more than $50 million in funding and in May 2021 the company was acquired. 

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Marketing 101 for Creatives - Billy Broas (Marketing Coach)22 Mar 202200:48:48

Billy got into marketing in 2010, when he left his career to run his home beer brewing website. Since then, Billy has been the marketing brains behind some of the top online entrepreneurs and course creators. His clients include David Perell, Tiago Forte, Kimberly Snyder, and Ryan Deiss.

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/ 

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The Business of Design - Dave Huber (Design Practices Lead @ IBM)06 Mar 202200:48:09

Dave is a Design Practices Lead for IBM's Cloud and Cognitive Software division. He recently published a Business of Design field guide and worked with IBM's chief design officer to create business of design resources and workshops for their over 600 designers. 

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 

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Benefits of Publishing a Book - Mike Rohde (Founder @ Sketchnote Army)24 Feb 202200:52:30

Mike Rohde is a designer, teacher and illustrator with a passion for visualizing ideas and teaching people how to think visually and be more creative.

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

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Becoming the Head of Design - Samantha Berg (Head of Design @ Chime)07 Feb 202200:57:03

Samantha Berg is an award-winning design leader with nearly 15 years of experience envisioning, creating, and shipping next-generation consumer products. She leads and motivates teams with proven success across a variety of environments, including large-scale tech companies, mid-sized design consulting firms, and venture backed start-ups. She is passionate about building tight-knit high-performing teams and creating cultures of inclusion and equity. She's created and led women's groups at multiple organizations and regularly speaks at events in the design and fintech communities around how to design your career and how to create inclusive products that empower. 

INTERESTED IN JOINING THE CHIME DESIGN TEAM?
Learn more about the Chime design team - https://medium.com/life-at-chime/its-a-chimed-life-meet-sam-berg-our-head-of-design-9f0f9d75f460 

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Don't Monetize Your Side Hustle - Rob Hope (Founder @ One Page Love)23 Jan 202201:07:57

Rob Hope is a South African born web designer, developer and Maker who runs One Page Love, Email Love and Yo! After a decade freelancing, he finally took the leap to work on his side projects full time. When not building online he loves to surf, bird watch and listen to 90s punk rock. 

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/hottips/designmba 

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Designing A Decentralized Design Studio - Andrej Berlin (CEO @ Deep Work)11 Jan 202200:51:48

Andrej Berlin is the co-founder and CEO of Deep Work. He has been involved in the design of over 100 different products and services from open source teams, start-ups, enterprises and fortune 500 companies. He is an advocate for mental and physical health and considers work as an integral part of a meaningful life. 
 

WORK REMOTE ON PAID WEB3 PROJECTS

How to get started working at Deep Work: https://docs.deepwork.studio/deep-work-onboarding/quick-start-guide

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Selling Your Side Project - Amit Patel (Founder @ Experience Haus)26 Dec 202100:50:21

Amit Patel is a Toronto-born product designer/manager, now living in London, United Kingdom. He is the founder and currently Creative Director of Experience Haus, a digital skills training provider and consultancy. He has worked in product management and product design roles across many industries and in various sizes of companies, from startups (in sectors such as media, fin-tech and healthcare) to industry leading companies.  He has taught and designed courses covering UX Design, Product Design, Product Management, Design Thinking, Design in Social Innovation, Rapid Prototyping, and Entrepreneurship.
 

MAKE A REAL CAREER CHANGE TO UI/UX WITH REAL PROJECTS, CLIENTS

Check out the amazing, remote design courses offered by Experience Haus: https://experiencehaus.com/

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Making $100,000+ Selling Design Ebooks - Michal Malewicz (Founder @ HYPE4)20 Dec 202101:05:50

Michal Malewicz started designing back in 1999, initially for fun, gaming related projects. Back then a web designer was the person who both designed and coded the front-end, so he had to quickly learn to code too. He worked in a couple of agencies and in 2013 started his own design agency HYPE4. He also teaches design at SWPS University in Poland, speaks at conferences, surfs (Baltic sea can be quite fun) and skates in his free time. 
 

LEVELING UP YOUR UI SKILLS

Check out the most comprehensive and biggest ebook about User Interface Design: https://designingui.com/ 

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Overcoming Hustle Addiction - Rik Lomas (Founder @ SuperHi)05 Dec 202100:48:11

Rik Lomas is the founder and CEO of SuperHi, a company that helps creative people all over the world learn the skills they want to learn. Their mission is to provide the highest quality education as accessibly as possible. Over the last four years, SuperHi has taught tens of thousands of creative industry professionals in 90+ countries learn skills such as digital coding and design, and has grown to be a team spanning seven countries. He wrote the book Learn To Code Now and you may have watched one of his tutorials on the internet. He also recently featured as a Sour Patch Kid in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade and is way too old to be posting memes. 
 

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN LEARNING HOW TO CODE/DESIGN?

Check out the amazing yet affordable courses at SuperHi!

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Spatial Design is the Future31 Jul 202300:31:49

🧠 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 frameworks. 

🔥 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A FIGMA LIKE SOFTWARE BUT FOR 3D? 
Check out Bezi - https://www.bezi.com/

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

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

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📺 INTERVIEW VIDEO:
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Managing Side Projects - Brian Lovin (Staff Product Designer @ Github)14 Nov 202100:46:59

Brian Lovin is a designer, podcaster, writer, and software tinkerer. He is currently building native mobile apps at GitHub. Before GitHub, he co-founded Spectrum, a platform for large-scale communities to have better public conversations. Spectrum was acquired by GitHub in November, 2018. Before Spectrum he designed payments experiences at Facebook, working across Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram. He also co-host the Design Details Podcast, a weekly conversation about design process and culture. 

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Six Figures in Six Days - James Traf (Founder @ Super)31 Oct 202100:50:43

James Traf is a designer & entrepreneur, building simple digital products. Previously he co-founded Spoil (YC-backed startup, raised $500k) and is now building small, profitable internet products like Super a simple way to turn your Notion pages into fast, functional websites. He is forever distracted with side projects.
 

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Use Super to transform your Notion page into a kick ass landing page or website with slick templates!

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Breaking Into UX - Saptarshi Prakash (Senior Product Design Manager @ Swiggy)17 Oct 202100:53:00

Saptarshi Prakash aka "Sapta" is an engineer from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He chose Digital Experience Designing as his profession because problem-solving can go well beyond the limits of engineering. As a professional, he has worked with some of the well known startups of India like Housing.com, Zeta and many other big and small names around the world. Currently, he oversees consumer design at Swiggy, India’s largest food ordering and delivery platform. Sapta has given 50+ UX talks/workshops at various places including big names like Amazon, Grab, Shopee, Practo, IDC IIT Bombay, IIT Guwahati, NID Bangalore etc. 
 

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Brand Design Agency of One - JT Grauke (Founder @ Grauke Design)03 Oct 202100:54:07

JT Grauke is a Brand Designer with a BFA in musical theater. Through strategy & story, he helps clients align their goals with the goals of their customers. He is married to his best friend Kelsey and together they live life to the fullest raising their two little boys.

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.jtgrauke.com/ 
     

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Selling Design Agency to Twitter - Martin Ringlein (General Partner @ Adventure Fund)20 Sep 202100:45:25

Martin Ringlein is a serial entrepreneur and active investor. He is currently help run, Gather, a personal financial management fintech startup. Prior, Martin was Global Head of R&D at Eventbrite, where Martin joined pre-IPO through the acquisition of his start-up, nvite, in late 2016. Martin’s first company, nclud, a research and design consultancy, was acquired by Twitter pre-IPO where he went on to become their first Design Manager, helping build and lead the R&D team. Martin is also a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners and Adventure Fund where he invests in early and late-stage startups, such as A16Z, Uber, PayTM, Hyperloop One and Chime. 

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Improv Workshop for Designers - Mike Gorgone (UX Strategist @ Ernst & Young)06 Sep 202100:47:55

Mike discovered Improv when he lived in Chicago and started taking classes at Second City and iO (formerly improvOlympic). Improv taught Mike how to be present and more aware of the moment as well as how to listen and absorb information instead of just listening to respond. He also learned (and frequently witnessed) that a group can create more amazing and incredible work when collaborating together in a non-judgmental and supportive manner than any of those individuals could have created working alone. 

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Designing a Community - Preet Singh (Founder @ DesignX)23 Aug 202100:56:33

Preet is the founder of DesignX – one of the largest UX & design communities in North America, and the curator, founder and host of renowned design conferences such as Design Leadership Summit, Remote Design Week, 5 to 9 Conference and more. Over his design career spanning 10+ years, Preet has had the privilege of working with clients including corporates, and unicorns to early-stage startups – Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, Quicken Loans, Xero, TeamViewer, Teespring, Miami Ad School, Couchsurfing, and many more. From building a strong grassroots non-profit movement while in engineering school, to founding a t-shirt startup centred around social issues in India – community is at the heart of everything Preet works on.


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  • Join 5000+ designers & leaders and gain access to our global community, conference talks, and reports that you won’t find anywhere else:
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Building Future Design Leaders - Brian Sullivan (Founder @ Big Design Conference)09 Aug 202101:20:04

Brian Sullivan is the Director of Design Strategy for Sabre, where he applies user research and consumer insights with the latest technology to build new products for the travel industry. He is an expert in design thinking, user research, accessibility, usability, and innovation. Brian has led design thinking workshops with several Fortune 500 companies, actively participates in the user experience community, and founded the Big Design Conference, which has over 1,000 attendees each year from around the globe.

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Starting an Agency by Podcasting - Patrick Hill (Founder @ Squatchin)26 Jul 202100:54:45

Patrick is the founder of Squatchin, a creative problem-solving agency in San Antonio, Texas. He works with brands that desire to do a net good through people focused initiatives. Additionally, he's an advocate for creatives. Through the Master of One Network, he highlights creators and works to connect them and their work to others. And what's awesome about this guy is that the Master of One Community on Slack has more than 300+ members, he has conducted more than 400+ interviews, seen 400,000 downloads and now he's using this platform that he's built to give other people an opportunity to shine!

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  • Hire Squatchin! Squatchin is a full service digital agency. 
     

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  • Read Patrick Hill's favorite book 'Company of One' to start your agency of one!
     

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Self Employed vs Full Time Job - Vicki Tan (Principal Product Designer @ Spotify)11 Jul 202101:07:20

Vicki is a Principal Designer for Spotify Podcasts based in Stockholm. She is currently working on an illustrated book to make it easier to learn about cognitive bias. Previously, she was designing at Headspace, Lyft, and Google. She holds a degree in Behavioral Psychology from the University of California, San Diego.
 

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The Ultimate Guide for Investing in Startups as a Designer02 Jul 202300:43:05

📢 WHY IS DANIEL SCRIVNER A ROCKSTAR? Daniel is the Head of Design at Class Dojo and General Partner at VC firm Ligature. 
 

🔥 ARE YOU A FOUNDER LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH A DESIGN-FOCUSED VC FIRM? Check out Ligature - https://www.ligature.vc/ 


INTERVIEW VIDEO:
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ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A KICKASS RESEARCH WORKSPACE FOR YOUR TEAM? 
Check out Personify - https://personifyhq.com/

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Leveraging Day Job to Launch Side Hustle - Scotty Russell (Founder @ Perspective Collective)28 Jun 202100:37:25

Scotty Russell is an artist, designer, coach, podcaster, and speaker working under the name Perspective-Collective. He’s also an outer space, pizza loving cat dad, AND human dad based in Cedar Falls, Iowa. After 5.5 years working of building his creative side hustle outside his Corporate Cubicle, he made the full-time shift to Side Hustle Coach in January 2020. His mission is to help creatives blaze their own path to side hustle success outside their day job through his weekly Perspective Podcast, Side Hustler’s Coaching Program, and digital resources.
 

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Own Your Content - Scott Tolinski (Founder @ Level Up Tutorials)13 Jun 202101:00:49

Scott Tolinski is the creator of Level Up Tutorials where he has created thousands of free and premium web development tutorials. Scott also is the co-host of the popular web development podcast Syntax. In his free time Scott is a dedicated Bboy (breakdancer) & enjoys pushing himself athletically through dance, working out and snowboarding. He also enjoys green tea and Shaw Brothers Kung Fu movies.
 

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The Intrapreneur Playbook - Jason Kridner (Founder @ Beagleboard.org)01 Jun 202100:39:35

Jason Kridner has 30 years of experience in the embedded systems industry. As a 28-year veteran of Texas Instruments DSP and processor businesses, founder of the BeagleBoard.org project, and invited speaker at numerous industry events, Jason knows what it takes to build an embedded system from concept to volume production.
 

BUILD YOUR HARDWARE PROJECT WITH BEAGLEBOARD

  • Learn more about the Beagleboard and kickstart your open source hardware journey!
     

NEED TO BUILD A CUSTOM EMBEDDED SYSTEM? 

  • Whether you are a big business or a startup needing a custom embedded system hire  the expert Jason Kridner to bring your hardware idea  to life using Beagleboard computers.
     

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Starting a Hardware Design Agency - Heer Gandhi (Founder @ Dazzle Robotics)18 May 202101:24:00

Heer Gandhi is a hardware engineer and entrepreneur from Ahmedabad, India. He has a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications from Nirma University, Gujarat, India as well as a master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. After a small stint working at Apple, Cupertino on the iPhone in 2008, he ventured into startup roles as founder and first engineer at Invivomon Inc and Bossa Nova Robotics Corp, respectively. He is now a director and stakeholder at Dazzle Robotics Pvt. Ltd. based out of Gandhinagar, India where he manages product development and manufacturing for OEM clients.
 

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