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: https://www.sneakpeek.design/...
🧠 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 sh...
🧠 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...
🧠 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 exper...
🧠 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. ...
📢 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: https://youtu.be/8q4PEh8uSK8 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A KICKASS RESEARCH WORKSPACE FOR YOUR TEAM? Check out Personify - https://personifyhq.com/ 🤝 CONNECT WITH DANIEL SCRIVNER LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielscrivner/ Twitter - https:/...
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 SUTHAR LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/omsuthar/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/astr0mnaut Website - https://om.super.site/ CONNECT WITH ME LinkedIn - https...
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/CPnSHrk9e6U CONNECT WITH KYLE TURMAN LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyleturman/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/kyleturman Website - https://turman.co/ CONNECT WITH ME LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin...
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-DyMw CONNECT WITH BEN HUGGINS Linked...
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 SCHWEITZER LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/...
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...
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 Pl...
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 C...
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 CONNECT WITH MINDAUGAS PETRUTIS T...
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 Me...
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,...
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 design...
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/ CONNECT WITH RAN SEGALL Twitter - https://twitter.com/ransegall Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ransegall/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ran-segall-0b582a33/ CONNECT WITH ME LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 🫣 Sne...
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 CONNECT WITH MURAT MUTLU Twitter - https://twitter.com/mutlu82 LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/muratmutlu/ CONNECT WITH ME LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayne...
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/ CONNECT WITH PIETER & EMANUEL Twitter - https://twitter.com/pieteromvlee Twitter - https://twitter.com/emanuelsa CONNECT WITH ME LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com...
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. IN...
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 -...
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.s...
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/ CONNECT WITH JOHN ZERATSKY Twitter - https://twitter.com/jazer LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnzeratsky/ Website - h...
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 Ph...
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 ZHANG Twitter ...
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 KO Twitter - https://twitter.com/yogooglemeup LinkedIn - h...
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 YANG Twitter - https://twitter.com/ConnieCurious LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniejyang/ CONNECT WITH ME LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayne...
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/Ri...
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 w...
