Episodes
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#35 - UX Researcher’s Life, Communication Skills, and Teamwork | Monica Chan
Monica is a UX Researcher @ Amazon. Monica talks about her career journey in research. We touch on the challenges she faced doing remote studies during COVID and what it really takes to be a researcher. She shares her favourite research methods, tips for those new to research, and advice for...
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#34 - Career Switching, Writing a Book, and Creating Board Games | Anthony Conta
Anthony is an award-winning Product Designer @ Amazon, author, educator, inventor, and mentor. Anthony talks about his career journey and experience in creating board games. We discuss UX bootcamps, thoughts on AI's role in UX, job search strategies, and portfolio and resume tips. To wrap it up...
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#33 - What AI Means For The Future of Design | Kirk Clyne & Suzanne Reeves
Kirk and Suzanne are creative leaders and co-founders of Design Unicorn, an agency on a mission to empower designers and agencies to harness the transformative potential of AI. They share their career stories and their new venture - Design Unicorn - where they share the latest AI developments...
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#32 - UX Management, Asking Good Questions, and AI Impact | Jacco Otten
Jacco is a UX Design Manager @ Elsevier, a large IT services company creating solutions for researchers and healthcare professionals. Jacco shares his career story and how he transitioned into UX leadership, the difference between management and leadership and skills you should be working on to...
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#31 - AR/VR Design, Prototyping, and Metaverse | Mukul Agarwal
Mukul is an AR/VR Designer @ Amazon. Mukul shares his career story and getting into the world of augmented and virtual reality, inventing new interaction patterns and the challenge of not having common patterns to rely on, prototyping tools for AR and VR experiences, the future of VR…
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#30 - Instructional Design, Internationalization, and Engagement | Sofia Caroline
Sofia is a Learning Experience Designer at Amazon in India. Sofia shares her career journey and the transition from a non-tech job as a classroom teacher to a tech job as an instructional designer. We talk about learning experience designers and skills they need and the design process they use....
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#29 - Touch UI, Management, and Presenting to Leaders | Fernando Sánchez-Ulloa
Fernando is a UX Design Manager @ Volvo Cars in Sweden. Fernando shares his career journey and transition from a designer to a manager. We discuss the challenges of touch UI in cars, autonomous driving, and the joy of the driving experience. Also, Fernando talks about what it means to be a…
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#28 - UX Manager’s Job, Relevance, and Working Remote | Amy Pattanasethanon
Amy is a UX Manager @ Canonical, the developer and publisher of the most popular Linux platform Ubuntu. Amy shares her career story and how she transitioned into UX from engineering, work culture differences between Thailand and Germany, learning to say no, experience working in an early stage...
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#27 - Design for Automation, Ethics, and Personal Brand | Bahar Espiritu
Bahar Espiritu is a senior UX Designer @ Amazon (at the time of the recording). Bahar shares her career story and how she transitioned into UX from hardware engineering, learning about inclusive design at Disney, diversity of work cultures and communication style, being yourself, clearly...
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#26 - Collaboration Secrets, Building Trust, and AI Problems | Dacheng Cheng
Dacheng Cheng is a senior Front-End Engineer @ Amazon. Dacheng shares his career and entrepreneurial journey, insights from the enterprise UX, and computer literacy in different generations. Also, we discuss the current AI tools' potential and problems, and how Designers should be collaborating...
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#25: Mistakes We Make, Knowing Yourself, and Ageism | Paul Bryant
Paul Bryant is a senior UX Designer @ Amazon. Paul shares his career journey, work culture differences between USA and Europe, and teaching empathy. Also, we discuss behavioural psychology, AI future, and learning new tools. In addition, we talk about the ageism, understanding your natural…
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#24 - Enterprise UX, AI Shortcomings, and Hidden Jobs | Stéphanie Walter
Stéphanie Walter is a UX Researcher & Designer specializing in enterprise UX and mobile. Stéphanie shares her career journey, the pros and cons of designing for enterprise, and cultural differences at work. She talks about experimenting with AI tools and their shortcomings. Also, Stéphanie shares...
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#23 - Personal Brand, Networking, and Being Proactive | Mitchell Clements
Mitch Clements is a Mentor, Speaker, and UX Manager @ SimpleNexus. Mitch shares his career journey, switching from an Android engineer to UX. He shares what a personal brand means for an employee, and how you can influence change in a company. Also, we talk about networking by helping design...
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#22 - Prioritization, Collaboration, and AI Impact | Blake Fisher
Blake Fisher is Product Leader and Product Ops Evangelist Blake shares his journey, switching careers from journalism to product, and the nature of Product ops. Also, we discuss how AI will impact Product Manager jobs, how designers should partner with product managers, what influences roadmap...
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#21 - Hustling, Resume Advice, and UX Bootcamps | Brad Clark
Brad Clark is the Director of Talent Acquisition @ Article. Brad shares his career journey and entrepreneurial endeavours. We discuss the biggest challenges in the recruitment industry, how companies should look at the employment gaps, the t-shirt sizing secret to filling jobs, resume tips, using...
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#19 - Imposter Syndrome, Senior Designer, and DesignOps | Sarah Donaldson
Sarah Donaldson is the Lead Product Designer @ Fullscript. Sarah shares how she got into the industry by accident, what is the difference between an intermediate and a senior designer, and what you can do to start positioning yourself as one. We also talk about what makes recruiters ignore...
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#18 - Contracting, Building Community, and Making Opportunity | Josh Loh
Josh is a freelance UX designer from Vancouver, Canada. Josh talks about his career journey and how he transitioned from engineering to UX. He speaks to the differences between working as a consultant and as a permanent employee. Also, we discuss the challenges of building a community, and also…
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#15 – Being Authentic, Portfolio Red Flags, and Resume Advice | Rachel Krebs
Rachel is a Senior UX Designer, currently working at a FAANG company. We talk about how Rachel got into the UX field, how her education in Chemistry and Business helped her gain skills that made her a better designer, the love of complexity working with internal tools and a ton of constraints…
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#14 – Researcher's Life, and Managing Stakeholders | Nick Koveshnikov
Nick is a Senior User Researcher. We talk about his origin story and the aha moment when he was watching users not being able to figure out how to use their product, differences working on internal and external products, his key takeaways from a 10-year-long career, one of the biggest challenges...
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#17 – Side Projects, Hiring Generalists, and Resumes | Christopher Behr
Christopher Behr is the Design Lead @ Impala, a remote-first B2B startup in the travel industry. We talk about Chris’s journey in the Design industry and some key takeaways. We discuss the pros and cons of hiring generalists and specialists and why so many companies look for unicorns. Also, Chris...
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#16 – Building Trust, Influence, and Context-switching | Ashish Gurung
Ashish is the Head of Product @ Visualping, a website change monitoring service for businesses and also people. Ashish shares how he got into Product from consulting and Project Management, and educates me on job titles and roles in the Product Management world. We also talk about the art of...
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#13 – Candidate Ghosting, LinkedIn Profile Tips, and Resume Advice | David Fitzgerald
David is a Senior Technical Recruiter helping tech companies find candidates. We talk about his story of getting into the industry, how recruitment agencies work, the advantages and disadvantages of working with a recruiter, why they are being vague with some opportunities and why candidates are...
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#12 – Framing The Problem, Case Study Structure, and Resume Advice | Irina Belova
Irina is the Product Design Manager @ Clio, a Vancouver-based tech company in the legal space. We talk about her journey from journalism to design leadership, the valuable experiences from previous careers, what she is looking for in resumes and portfolios, and how you should tell the story for a...
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#11 – Switching Careers, Future of Collaboration, and Portfolio Tips | Stanley Lai
Stan is the Director of Experience Design @ Domain 7, a design agency in Vancouver, Canada. We talk about his journey in design, how he transitioned to the management role, how to stand out, the value of previous experiences when switching careers, tips on portfolios and resumes, and the future…
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#10: Janos Sitar, Certified Web Accessibility Specialist, Part 2 – Thoughts on the future of accessibility practice, assistive technologies, the role of accessibility specialist, handling objections..
This is a continuation of my conversation with Janos. We talk about the future of accessibility as a practice, the assistive technologies, and the role of accessibility specialists. Also, we discuss the most common objections from the business side and how he handles them. Janos on Linkedin Janos...
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#9 – Inclusive Design, Accessibility Tools and Design Tips | Janos Sitar Part 1
Janos is an experienced certified web accessibility specialist who spent the last 5 years driving accessibility efforts in a large financial institution. We talk about his story of getting into the field, why inclusive design is important, how you can start learning the basics, the challenges of...
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#8: Rabiya Samji, Head of UX – Advice on showing your personality as a candidate, the value of being a curious person, tips on adding better case studies to your portfolio, designing for emotions...
Rabiya is an experienced leader who has led several design teams and hired many designers. We talk about her journey starting from kinesiology to becoming a Head of UX at a digital product agency, the importance of showing your personality as a candidate, the value of being a curious person, tips...
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#7: Phil Kneer, UX Lead – Advice on being authentic when presenting work, the issue with over-designed resumes, the value of showing transferrable skills from previous careers, real-world problems...
Phil is a creative design and UX leader with broad and diverse experience working with startups, government agencies, and large enterprises. We talk about Phil’s journey to becoming a UX lead managing a team of 12. We discuss the importance of being authentic when presenting your work, the issue...
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#6: Sarah McVean, Lead Design Instructor – Advice on building relationships on social media, volunteering and partnering with others to work on projects for your portfolio, case studies priorities...
Sarah is a senior UX professional with a lot of experience in designing products, managing teams, and now teaching a UX course. We talk about building relationships on social media, volunteering and partnering with other people to work on projects for your portfolio, what you should show in the...
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#5: Andy Liu, Agency Founder and Design Hiring Manager – Advice on understanding your strengths and passions and highlighting them in your resume, the future of the profession and learning mindset...
Andy shares his story from getting curious about UX design to launching his own design boutique agency Futureform. We talk about having an open mind to working on different kinds of products across diverse industries and problem spaces, understanding your strengths and passions and highlighting...
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#4: Vince Kwok, Director of UX and Design – Thoughts differences between skills needed for a manager and for an individual contributor, the importance of believing in yourself, and resume red flags...
Vince has more than 15 years of experience building products and managing design teams for brands like Costco, Walmart, Air Canada, Staples, and more. Vince talks about his origin story and how he become a design director. We discuss the differences between skills needed for a manager and for an...
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#3: Jaybe Allanson, Product Design Manager – Advice on how to stand out from others and the mistakes he sees in applications and portfolios, what hiring managers find important and how they think...
Jaybe is a senior design leader with over 25 years of experience building products and services and leading teams. This is an episode from the “Q&A With Design Managers” series. Jaybe shares his story of becoming a design leader and gives advice on how to stand out from others and the common...
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#2: Mark Wilson, Director of UX – Advice on how to stand out from others, what makes a good portfolio and resume, the future of the UX design job, switching careers, and a lot more.
Mark is a UX practitioner with over 10 years of experience and is currently working as a UX director at a digital innovation studio. This is an episode from the “Q&A with Design Managers” series. Mark shares his story, his thoughts on how to stand out from others and his 15-page resume, what…
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#1: Joyce Logan, Digital UX Manager – Advice on how to stand out from others, what makes a good portfolio and resume, the future of the UX design profession, the pros and cons of UX bootcamps..
Joyce is a senior UX professional with more than 10 years of experience across different industries. This is an episode from the “Q&A with Design Managers” series. Joyce shares her thoughts on how to stand out from others, what makes a good portfolio and resume, the future of the UX design...