Design MBA

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

Om is a designer by profession and entrepreneur by aspiration. Today, he's the Director of Product design at DISQO by day and CEO, co-founder of Personify by night.INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/asEjJAov3nU ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A KICKASS RESEARCH WORKSPACE FOR YOUR TEAM? Check out Personify - https://personifyhq.com/CONNECT WITH OM SUTHARLinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/omsuthar/Twitter - https://twitter.com/astr0mnautWebsite - https://om.super.site/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

Kyle Turman is the the Director of Product Design at Retool and previously led design teams at Slack, Dropbox, and Etsy. He is a world wide web mad scientist who designs software work a bit better for people and tries to help people work a bit better together.INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/CPnSHrk9e6UCONNECT WITH KYLE TURMANLinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyleturman/Twitter - https://twitter.com/kyleturmanWebsite - https://turman.co/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

Ben Huggins is a Product Designer at Retool. He's spent his career applying fresh thinking to stale problems and he's gotten the chance to do this with concepts like software development at Retool, HR at Humu, TV at YouTube and thermostats at Nest. He also serves on the board for the graduate UX program at Bentley University and spends free time exploring the mountains of California with his partner and 1-year old son. INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/grUjIw-DyMwCONNECT WITH BEN HUGGINSLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benhuggins/Twitter - https://twitter.com/bhugginsWebsite - https://www.hugg.in/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

Colton Schweitzer and Ludovic Delmas are the cofounders of Kickass UX which helps creatives build a kickass UX skillset and supercharge their careers. Previously, Colton worked before in the enterprise design space while Ludovic was a senior designer at Smartsheet. INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/KI8kcRcqAu8 ARE YOU LOOKING TO GROW YOUR UX SKILLS FASTER? Check out Kickass UX Newsletter - https://www.kickassux.com/ux-newsletter CONNECT WITH COLTON SCHWEITZERLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/coltonschweitzer/Twitter - https://twitter.com/colton_schweitzCONNECT WITH LUDOVIC DELMASLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ludovicdelmas/Twitter - https://twitter.com/LudovicDelmasCONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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/Hm10bL4VTTkCONNECT WITH GORDON CHINGLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordonching/Twitter - https://twitter.com/gordoncchingSubstack - https://gordonching.substack.com/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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-ICONNECT WITH JARED ERONDULinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erondu/Twitter - https://twitter.com/eronduCONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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-LkCONNECT WITH JOSHUA PHILIPPELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaphilippe/Twitter - https://twitter.com/shua_lippeCONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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-Dw8ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A HIGHLY CURATED DESIGN FELLOWSHIP TO ENERGIZE YOUR CAREER?Check out Coho Design Fellowship - https://www.joincoho.com/category/designCONNECT WITH MINDAUGAS PETRUTISTwitter - https://twitter.com/MindaugasLTWebsite - https://www.mindaugasp.com/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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/CeRkpEOrhWUCONNECT WITH JEFF VEENTwitter - https://twitter.com/veenLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyveen/Podcast - https://www.relay.fm/presentableCONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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/6TYK2Qk6sqwARE 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 KONINGSTwitter - https://twitter.com/lilykoningsLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilykonings/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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/Gj7zbrM0NFEARE YOU LOOKING TO JOIN A DEDICATED DESIGN OPS COMMUNITY? Check out DesignOps Assembly - https://designopsassembly.com/CONNECT WITH ADAM FRY PIERCETwitter - https://twitter.com/AdamFryPierceLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamfp/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

Ran Segall is the founder and CEO of Flux Academy.INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/1APN2MHdxnYARE YOU LOOKING TO LEARN THE ART & BUSINESS OF WEB DESIGN?Check out Flux Academy - https://www.flux-academy.com/CONNECT WITH RAN SEGALLTwitter - https://twitter.com/ransegallInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/ransegall/LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ran-segall-0b582a33/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

Murat Mutlu is the cofounder & CEO of the design platform Marvel and research platform Ballpark.INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/iXv4tqlL6vcARE YOU LOOKING TO JOIN A ROCKETSHIP STARTUP IN THE DESIGN SPACE?Check out Careers at Marvel - https://marvelapp.com/about-us#openpositionsCONNECT WITH MURAT MUTLUTwitter - https://twitter.com/mutlu82LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/muratmutlu/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

Pieter Omvlee & Emanuel Sa are cofounders of Sketch. By trade Pieter is a developer while Emanuel is a designer. INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/7SFix4Sakt8ARE YOU LOOKING TO JOIN A ROCKETSHIP STARTUP IN THE DESIGN SPACE?Check out Careers at Sketch - https://www.sketch.com/careers/CONNECT WITH PIETER & EMANUELTwitter - https://twitter.com/pieteromvleeTwitter - https://twitter.com/emanuelsaCONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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/1HPwcA0O4IYARE YOU LOOKING TO LEVEL UP YOUR INTERVIEWING SKILLS AS A DESIGNER?Check out Shape - https://shape.co/CONNECT WITH TANNER CHRISTENSENTwitter - https://twitter.com/tannercLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tannerchristensen/Website - https://tannerchristensen.com/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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/XQ8HTc9ggTIARE YOU LOOKING TO JOIN A DESIGN COMMUNITY TO LEVEL UP?Check out Femke's design community - https://www.femke.design/communityCONNECT WITH FEMKETwitter - https://twitter.com/femkesvsYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/femkedesignInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/femkedotdesign/Website - https://www.femke.design/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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. ARE YOU TO EARN A LIVING FROM YOUR CREATIVE WORK?Check out Supercreative - https://www.supercreative.design/CONNECT WITH BEN ISSENTwitter - https://twitter.com/ben_issenLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/issenmann/Website - https://www.issenmann.me/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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 VC - https://www.character.vc/CONNECT WITH JOHN ZERATSKYTwitter - https://twitter.com/jazerLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnzeratsky/Website - https://johnzeratsky.com/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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/ CONNECT WITH DAN MALLTwitter - https://twitter.com/danmallLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danmall/Website - https://danmall.me/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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/ CONNECT WITH YITONG ZHANGTwitter - https://twitter.com/zhayitongWebsite - https://www.zhayitong.com/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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/CONNECT WITH JESSICA KOTwitter - https://twitter.com/yogooglemeupLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kojessica/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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. CONNECT WITH CONNIE YANGTwitter - https://twitter.com/ConnieCuriousLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniejyang/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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/CONNECT WITH MICHAEL RIDDERING ("RIDD")Twitter - https://twitter.com/Ridderingand LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelriddering/ Website - https://www.ridd.design/ CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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. CONNECT WITH GRAEME BLACKWOODLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/graemeblackwood/Twitter - https://twitter.com/graemeblackwoodCONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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. CONNECT WITH AASHISH DALALLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aashishdalal/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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 PRODUCTSign up for free for Billy's battle tested Five Light Bulbs framework and find holes in your product messaging - https://fivelightbulbs.com/ CONNECT WITH BILLY BROASTwitter - https://twitter.com/BillyBroasWebsite - https://billybroas.com/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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 DESIGNRead Dave Huber's article to learn how to articulate the value of your design work - https://uxdesign.cc/the-business-of-design-fec915a60231 CONNECT WITH DAVE HUBERLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davehuberdesign/Medium - https://hue-bear.medium.com/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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/handbookCONNECT WITH MIKE ROHDEYoutube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MikeRohde Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rohdesign/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/rohdesign LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikerohde/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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 CONNECT WITH SAMANTHA BERGLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sberg75Medium - https://medium.com/@sberg75 CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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 PAGESBuy 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 CONNECT WITH ROB HOPEYouTube - https://www.youtube.com/robhope Twitter - https://twitter.com/robhope LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robhope/ Website - https://robhope.com/CONNECT WITH MELinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 

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 PROJECTSHow to get started working at Deep Work: https://docs.deepwork.studio/deep-work-onboarding/quick-start-guideCONNECT WITH ANDREJ BERLINFollow Andrej Berlin on TwitterFollow Andrej Berlin on LinkedInRead Andrej Berlin's thoughts on MediumCONNECT WITH MEFollow Jayneil Dalal on TwitterFollow Jayneil Dalal on LinkedIn

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, CLIENTSCheck out the amazing, remote design courses offered by Experience Haus: https://experiencehaus.com/CONNECT WITH AMIT PATELFollow Amit Patel on TwitterFollow Amit Patel on LinkedInRead Amit Patel's thoughts on his personal websiteCONNECT WITH MEFollow Jayneil Dalal on TwitterFollow Jayneil Dalal on LinkedIn

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 SKILLSCheck out the most comprehensive and biggest ebook about User Interface Design: https://designingui.com/ CONNECT WITH Michal MalewiczFollow Michal Malewicz on TwitterFollow Michal Malewicz on LinkedInFollow Michal Malewicz on MediumFollow Michal Malewicz on YouTube LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE)Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/

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!CONNECT WITH RIK LOMASFollow James Traf on TwitterConnect with Rik Lomas on LinkedInLEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE)Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/

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. ARE YOU LOOKING TO GROW AS AN INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTOR?Visit Staff.design and learn how navigate the individual contributor design career path  from interviews with successful designersCONNECT WITH BRIAN LOVINFollow Brian Lovin on TwitterRead about Brian Lovin's thoughts LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE)Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/

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. TURN YOUR NOTION PAGES INTO WEBSITES WITHOUT CODINGUse Super to transform your Notion page into a kick ass landing page or website with slick templates!CONNECT WITH JAMES TRAFFollow James Traf on TwitterFollow James Traf on InstagramFollow James Traf on DribbbleRead about James Traf's thoughts LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE)Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/

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.  CONNECT WITH SAPTARSHI PRAKASH (SAPTA)Connect with Saptarshi Prakash on LinkedInFollow Saptarshi Prakash on TwitterSubscribe to Saptarshi Prakash on YouTubeFollow Saptarshi Prakash on InstagramFollow Saptarshi Prakash on Dribbble LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE)Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/

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 NEEDSDoes 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/  CONNECT WITH JTConnect with JT Grauke on LinkedInFollow JT Grauke on InstagramFollow JT Grauke on Dribbble LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/

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. ARE YOU LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH SEASONED OPERATORS AND RAISE VENTURE CAPITAL?Check out Adventure Fund:https://www.adventure.fund/ CONNECT WITH MARTIN RINGLEIN:Connect with Martin Ringlein on LinkedInFollow Martin Ringlein on Twitter LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/

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. JOIN THE IMPROVUX COMMUNITY:Learn how to apply Improv skills to UX and supercharge your collaboration skills:https://improvinaction.com/projects/improvux/ CONNECT WITH MIKE GORGONE:Connect with Mike Gorgone on LinkedInFollow Mike Gorgone on TwitterIf you are a fan of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, listen to Mike's podcast: Hitchhikers and Appetizers LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/

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.JOIN THE DESIGNX COMMUNITY:Join 5000+ designers & leaders and gain access to our global community, conference talks, and reports that you won't find anywhere else:https://designx.community/ CONNECT WITH PREET SINGH:Connect with Preet Singh on LinkedInFollow Preet Singh on Twitter LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/

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.NETWORK WITH DESIGNERS IN TEXAS:Join the Dallas User Experience meetup group and network with fellow designers for freeAttend the Big Design Conference and grow in your career. Use the code "bigd15" to get a 15% discount CONNECT WITH BRIAN SULLIVAN:Connect with Brian Sullivan on LinkedInFollow Brian Sullivan on TwitterRead Brian Sullivan's book 'Design Studio Method and learn the process for creative problem solving LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/

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!LOOKING A CREATIVE PROBLEM  SOLVING AGENCY PARTNER?Hire Squatchin! Squatchin is a full service digital agency.  CONNECT WITH PATRICK HILL:Connect with  Patrick Hill on LinkedInJoin the Master of One network and connect with thousands of other creativesRead Patrick Hill's favorite book 'Company of One' to start your agency of one! LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/

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. CONNECT WITH VICKI TAN:Follow Vicki Tan on TwitterConnect with Vicki Tan on LinkedInRead Vicki Tan's favorite book 'Why are we Yelling' to learn the art of productive disagreement.  LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/

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.LEVERAGE YOUR DAY JOB TO FUEL YOUR DREAM JOB:Join 12 weeks of group transformative coaching from Scotty Russell to launch your side hustle. Sign up for the Side Hustle Coaching Program waitlist.CONNECT WITH SCOTTY  RUSSELL:Follow Scotty Russell on InstagramConnect with Scotty Russell on LinkedInStay updated with the latest episodes from Perspective Collective Podcast LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -https://levelup.designmba.show/