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Sabrina Majeed was a design manager at Buzzfeed in NYC until she quit her job last summer to travel around the world with her partner. Before Buzzfeed, she designed apps for Venmo, Miso, and Intuit. Now, Sabrina lives in Bangkok and is working on her latest project The InnBox, a weekly newsletter on unique places to stay around the world that’s no more than $300/night. In this episode, we talked about her choice of moving to Bangkok after New York City, her year of travel in SE Asia, and her ah-ha moments along the way.
On this episode, Matt, Andy, and Kristy are joined by new contributor Sabrina Majeed to discuss what it means to be senior in any field. Find out what potential employers think of your years of experience and what it means to be a mature designer. Links Discussed On Being a Senior Engineer Buzzfeed Slack Bill O'Reilly Kate Arnonwitz Hire Sabrina
Matt and Andy are joined by Kristy Tillman and new contributor Cap Watkins to discuss design management. We learn about some of the traits of bad managers and discuss how to advocate for design within an organization. Should design work be diversified and spread throughout a company, or is specialization valuabale? Links The Seed of this EpisodeSoceity of GrownupsSkunk WorksManaging Humans by Michael LoppGeorge CostanzaSabrina MajeedIDEO“Stand-Up”Design ThinkingSonic Drive-InHigh-Resolution PodcastThink Wrong“Head Count”“Growth Marketing”Jared Spool’s Tweet about Everyone being DesignersFollow-up Thread to Jared Spool’s TweetBuzzFeed SolidTechnological SingularityLifestyle Business
Digital consumption UX is the theme for this episode. Co-hosts Marek Pawlowski and Alex Guest discuss examples and extract design principles. Sabrina Majeed, a design manager at Buzzfeed, talks to Marek in an in-depth interview about how she's designed for content consumption throughout her career. We finish with a user story about subscription surfing for sports TV and Gameboy usage in a surprising demographic. Show notes with links to everything mentioned can be found at mobileuserexperience.com in the podcast section.
Sabrina talks about her journeys as a Product Designer, the differences of San Francisco & NY, and her process as a Manager.
We had a chat with Sabrina Majeed, product design manager at Buzzfeed. A great soul with many interesting things to say. – One of the reasons I joined Buzzfeed is cuz I think they're really good at highlighting voices that people don't hear from normally so I like designing products, I like help elevate those voices even further.