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Amanda Linden, Head of Design at Asana, shared some insights on the differences designing for enterprise vs. consumers, the challenges of designing for a product used by thousands daily, and building an effective team.

Tina Chen, Design Lead at Slack, has a long career designing for some of the webs most popular apps and services. In addition to Slack, she's worked for Google, Medium and Blogger. We asked her how she makes the tough design decisions and what sets winning products apart.

Katie Dill, Head of Experience Design at Airbnb, has been working hard to ensure AIrbnb's design reflects their mission to bring people together. She shared with us how they approach design decisions and how other members of the organization contribute to help them reach the right answers.

Brian Balfour, VP of Growth at Hubspot, has made a career out of studying what makes design effective and optimizing for conversion. We picked his brain about how to create design that spurs action and how to uncover keys to explosive growth.

Tim Van Damme has made a name for himself designing for companies like Gowalla, Instagram/Facebook and now Dropbox. We chatted with him about what it takes to build a strong team and what process delivers consistent results.

Geoff Koops and Mike Towber, members of the Rdio design team, talk about how music infuences their work, the pitfalls of designing for a wide range of users and keeping design simple.

Braden Kowitz, Design Partner at Google Ventures, talks about the relationship between design and engineering, how startups should view their products and putting yourself in the user's shoes.

CEO and Founder of Quibb, Sandi MacPherson joined us to share how she's connected with top tech influencers, built a vibrant and active community and highlights the opportunities for women in tech.

Legendary marketer, author and investor Guy Kawasaki came to ZURB to share his thoughts on how companies can change hearts, inspire minds and move people to action.

Illustrator and letterer Jessica Hische talks about her most memorable projects, managing a successful freelance career and finding meaningful work.

Randy Hunt, VP of Design of Design at Etsy walks us through the company's creative process, goals and challenges moving forward.

Wesley Yun, Lytro's Director of Design, talks about marrying digital and physical products into a unique user experience. He also shares his experiences on being a design leader.

Yahoo Principal Designer Marissa Louie talks about how we can put more emotion into our designs so we can surprise and delight our users.

UIE's Jared Spool on why colleges aren't producing adequate designers and what he's doing about it.

Author and entrepreneur Nir Eyal talks about how we can build habit-forming products and tap into the triggers that motivate users.

Bitcasa CEO Brian Taptich chats about where Zynga went wrong and what they did right. He also chats about how Bitcasa is making its mark in a crowded cloud-storage market.

Kiip CEO and Co-Founder Brian Wong chats about why impressions aren't a good metric and how moments are what we should be paying close attention to.

McAfee Chief Privacy Officer and VP Michelle Dennedy tells us what companies get wrong and how they can get better.

YouSendIt CEO Brad Garlinghouse tells us why companies shouldn't spread themselves thin like peanut butter and why startups should avoid the hype.

Stocktwits CEO and Co-Founder Howard Lindzon talks about why he passed on investing in Twitter early on and how he's revolutionizing they way we talk about stocks.

One Kings Lane CEO Doug Mack talks about why mobile matters for E-commerce and why you should have a device-centric strategy.

Twilio Co-Founder and CEO Jeff Lawson talks about revolutionizing the telecommunications industry and the challenges with scaling Twilio into a worldwide service.

Airbnb Co-Founder and Chief Product Designer Joe Gebbia talks about the challenges in taking the rental service from his apartment living room to a global audience.

Designer and entrepreneur Sahil Lavingia talks about how he dropped out of college to help design Pinterest's unique user interface and the lessons his learned from building his own products, like Gumroad.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, principals of Winklevoss Capital, tells us about their early beginnings as co-founders of ConnectU, what they thought about their story being told in "The Social Network," their opinion on the Facebook IPO and give us the scoop on their recently co-founded investment firm.

Twitter Co-Founder and former CEO Evan Williams, Ev to his friends and colleagues, tells us about revolutionizing the way we communicate on the Web with Blogger and Twitter, and again with his latest venture, Medium.

KISSmetrics CEO and Co-Founder Hiten Shah tells us about learning from his mistakes, going lean and finding the key risk in your product quickly.

Formspring CEO and Founder Ade Olonoh talks about how the social Q&A site got 10 million monthly users faster than Pinterest and how the site weathered a cyberbullying controversy.

Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood delves deep into the origins of the popular Q&A site, including taking the "evil" out of Experts Exchange and fixing the problems of other similar sites.

Tech evangelist and blogger Robert Scoble, of Rackspace and Scobleizer, why startups need to build their stories and how small philosophical differences can make or break a product.

Box.Com CEO and Founder Aaron Levie takes us through the early days of Box.com, how he got noted investor and Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban to invest in his company, and why he was scared to death of Google's long-rumored GDrive.

Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne talks about how cancer shaped how he planned his days, circumventing the conventional IPO system, and his friendship with investment guru Warren Buffett.

Dave McClure of 500startups got on his soapbox to talk about how he invests and what he looks for in entrepreneurs.

Ron Conway, the Godfather of Angel Investing, who has been called "the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley" got on his soapbox to share with us how he invests and what he looks for in his companies and entrepreneurs.

Two years and 15 million customers into developing their product, the Posterous team decided to scrap everything and start over from square one. Sachin Agarwal the founder of Posterous shared Posterous' setbacks, losses and wins, and reasoning behind many of the decisions made along the way.

Matt's was one of the most sincere, fun, laid back and brutally honest soapbox discussions we've had to date! He shared the story of his entrepreneurial journey, starting from when he disrupted the world of web design education with Sitepoint, at 14 years old, to the present, 13 years later, where he is successfully running two new businesses (99Designs and Flippa) and currently starting a fourth one (Learnable).

Kevin Hartz shared a number of great lessons from his extensive career building and launching hit startups.

Kevin reveals Wufoo's customer service strategy and the path from idea to SurveyMonkey's acquisition.

Matt discusses the growth of WordPress over the last eight years and the challenges he faced along the way.

Philip discusses the challenges he faced bringing his "unfundable" virtual world of Second Life to reality, and what he's doing now.

Tim sat down with us for a Q&A about his tactics for self promotion, building community, and productivity.

Irene Au (Google’s Head of UX) shares some juicy insights on the design process and decision making behind Google’s products.

Julie Zhuo (Facebook’s Design Manager) giving us the low down on how her team uses data to inform decisions.

In the 30 minutes we managed to discuss Tom’s dating life, how much of a doofus Tony Fadell (the guy who invented the iPod) was, driving Pets.com into a cliff, and of course how Pandora was started.

Peter left all of us with some great lessons learned for creating awesome mobile experiences.

The story behind how the original LinkedIn idea was conceived and how they eventually managed to break through to mainstream. Co-founder Konstantin Guericke’s soapbox left all of us with some key lessons we wanted to share.

Nate Bolt reveals some of his finding regarding remote UX research in a stylistic rap.

Luke mades a strong and valid case of why we should focus on designing for mobile vs. the desktop. Not only does he tell us why, he also focuses on how we should design for mobile.

Bill Scott discusses anti-patterns in UI and how Netflix was able to avoid them and build a rich user interaction.

Alex started off sharing how design works in a large open source community as well as the challenges which Mozilla has faced as a company.

Justin shared his story of how he came up with the idea of a 24/7 live broadcast, how he became an international celebrity, and the sharp turn Justin.tv had to make to shape the company into the successfully operating business it is today.