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 DALAL LinkedIn - https://www.linkedi...
Apr 05, 2022•54 min•Ep. 52
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 PRODUCT Sign up for free for Billy's battle tested Five Light Bulbs framework and find holes in your product messaging - https://fivelightbulbs.com/ CONNECT WIT...
Mar 22, 2022•49 min•Ep. 51
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 DESIGN Read 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 HUBER LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.c...
Mar 06, 2022•48 min•Ep. 50
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/handbook CONNECT WITH MIKE ROHDE Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MikeRohde Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/rohdesign/...
Feb 24, 2022•53 min•Ep. 49
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 multip...
Feb 07, 2022•57 min•Ep. 48
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 PAGES Buy 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/desi...
Jan 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 47
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 PROJECTS How to get started working at Deep Work: https://docs.deepwork.studio/deep-work-onboarding/quick-start-guide CONNECT WITH ANDREJ BERLIN Follow Andrej...
Jan 11, 2022•52 min•Ep. 46
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...
Dec 26, 2021•50 min•Ep. 45
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 SKILLS Check out the most comprehensive a...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 44
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 ...
Dec 05, 2021•48 min•Ep. 43
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 ...
Nov 14, 2021•47 min•Ep. 42
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 CODING Use Super to transform your Notion page into a kick ass landing page or website with slick templates! CONNECT WITH JAMES ...
Oct 31, 2021•51 min•Ep. 41
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 g...
Oct 17, 2021•53 min•Ep. 40
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 NEEDS Does 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.jtgra...
Oct 03, 2021•54 min•Ep. 39
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 ...
Sep 20, 2021•45 min•Ep. 38
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 workin...
Sep 06, 2021•48 min•Ep. 37
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, Couchsurf...
Aug 23, 2021•57 min•Ep. 36
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 ar...
Aug 09, 2021•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 35
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 ...
Jul 26, 2021•55 min•Ep. 34
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 Twitter Connect with Vicki Tan on LinkedIn Read Vicki Tan's favorite book ' Why are we Yelling ' to learn the art of productive disagree...
Jul 11, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 33
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 Podca...
Jun 28, 2021•37 min•Ep. 32
Scott Tolinski is the creator of Level Up Tutorials where he has created thousands of free and premium web development tutorials. Scott also is the co-host of the popular web development podcast Syntax. In his free time Scott is a dedicated Bboy (breakdancer) & enjoys pushing himself athletically through dance, working out and snowboarding. He also enjoys green tea and Shaw Brothers Kung Fu movies. SUPPORT SCOTT TOLINSKI: Level Up your design and dev skills by buying premium courses from Lev...
Jun 13, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 31
Jason Kridner has 30 years of experience in the embedded systems industry. As a 28-year veteran of Texas Instruments DSP and processor businesses, founder of the BeagleBoard.org project, and invited speaker at numerous industry events, Jason knows what it takes to build an embedded system from concept to volume production. BUILD YOUR HARDWARE PROJECT WITH BEAGLEBOARD Learn more about the Beagleboard and kickstart your open source hardware journey! NEED TO BUILD A CUSTOM EMBEDDED SYSTEM? Whether ...
Jun 01, 2021•40 min•Ep. 30
Heer Gandhi is a hardware engineer and entrepreneur from Ahmedabad, India. He has a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications from Nirma University, Gujarat, India as well as a master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. After a small stint working at Apple, Cupertino on the iPhone in 2008, he ventured into startup roles as founder and first engineer at Invivomon Inc and Bossa Nova Robotics Corp, respectively. He is now a dir...
May 18, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 29
Ekaterina Solomeina – creative director, educator, TEDx speaker and founder of Future London Academy. For the past 15 years, she has worked with some of the greatest creative minds alive, including Michael Wolff (founder of Wolff Olins), Donatella Versace and companies like Coca-Cola, Sony, Mars, IBM, Microsoft, Samsung – helping to grow brands, developing design teams and create innovative products. She co-wrote a book about British Design and has built and Bauhaus 2.0 programme at Future Londo...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 28
Seth Coelen is the founder of the product design company UX Cabin . He is also the creator of Bootsketch , LayoutLab , and Pester . In between client work and projects he enjoys making design parody videos and tutorials on YouTube and Twitter. When he's not working he enjoys spending time with his wife, son, and daughter. CONNECT WITH SETH COELEN: Connect with Seth Coelen on LinkedIn Follow Seth Coelen on Twitter Read Seth Coelen's articles . LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE): Lear...
Apr 18, 2021•45 min•Ep. 27
If you had asked the high school version of Erik what he would be doing for a career, you would have heard something like a rock star or studio producer. In college, Erik studied music with the intention of becoming an educator and following in his parents’ footsteps. His predilection for technology won the career battle though, and he moved on to start Focus Lab . Transitioning from musician to developer, to entrepreneur, Erik has a variety of interests these days. What ties them all together, ...
Apr 05, 2021•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 25
Stephen Gates is the SVP, Omni-channel product design at WW (formerly Weight Watchers). Previously, he was the Head Design Evangelist at InVision, working as a strategic partner to companies like Google, Amazon, The Home Depot, Bank of America, Facebook, Rolls Royce, American Express, Frog Design, WeWork, EY Partners, and many more to elevate the business impact of design through education, coaching, and thought leadership. His work has received over 150 international awards, his app design has ...
Mar 21, 2021•49 min•Ep. 24
Sung was ranked 51st on the list of "The 75 Best Designers In Technology" by Business Insider in 2013 and has received a number of recognitions from Innovation by Design Awards by Fast Company in 2016, WEBBY in 2017, and German Design Awards in 2018. Previously Sung has led UX/UI design efforts for Samsung MILK VR, Sam's Club mobile shopping app, 7-Eleven.com, FedEx Office workstations, Starbucks promo campaigns, (PRODUCT)RED website redesign, and Bud Light’s first mobile site. In 2013, Sung qui...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 23
David Berens is hardwired to build. He has a strong passion for building successful businesses, developing human potential and creating healthy lifestyles. As an early employee at Opendoor (est. valuation $3.8B), he launched the first three markets, built out the sales and customer experience teams, and personally executed over 500 transactions generating $150M+ in company revenue. Over the last 10 years, he has supported companies which operate in real estate, financial technology, bio-technolo...
Feb 21, 2021•52 min•Ep. 22
