Team Bermuda Triangle designs for Flood Victims in Remote UX Challenge

As we gear up for our next remote UX challenge, we wanted to speak with the last UX challenge winners: Team Bermuda Triangle. Jeseth Griffith, Mai Moua Vang, Victoria Chang, and Maria Stiller will take us through their process of their journey creating a WAZE integrated app to help flood victims gauge the severity of an emergency. The secret to their team's success for the remote UX challenge was chemistry. You can tune in and hear it in this fun-filled episode.

Building a UX Collective with Laura Williams and Keri F

This episode brings us close to home as we talk with founder Keri F and lead organizer Laura Williams of the UX Wizards. We learn about how the Wizards got their start and how the transition to meeting remotely lead to significant growth.This episode really captures so much of what UX Wizards embodies by learning more about the personalities behind such a unique collective.

Get in the Groove with Devon Frohne of Tonal

Get in the groove with Devon Frohne. A Senior Product Designer at Tonal, Devon shares his insights on working remotely, sourcing talent, and the challenge of creating physical products. We’ll explore the intersection of Industrial Design and UX - related to creating exercise products that use machine learning to adapt to user needs. We’ll also explore the changing landscape of the Bay Area tech scene and how commuting has morphed based on remote work during COVID-19. Don’t miss this episode!...

Solving Problems with Chimmy Kalu

“It was important for me to learn a little bit about research, and that’s why my next job had to have elements of UX Research.” Chimmy Kalu opens up about how she’s designed her UX career. She left her Master’s degree program at University College of London to join a mature design team at British Airways. She then went on to help Vogue Magazine unify their international web presence while on assignment for Condé Nast. Chimmy talks about accessibility, being a problem solver, the usability/aesthe...

Nabil Mir on Art and UX

“If you put some personality in there it will make it more memorable” In this episode we focus on Nabil Mir, an active UX wizard. Nabil organized the now legendary Figma party, Funeral for Bad UX, a collaborative design experience. Nabil shares stories of his artistic work in the art world of New York, where he created an interactive museum to teach kids about art history. He also talks about his user experience work with Dr. Lingo, where he helped make medical terminology accessible to everyday...

Val Head on Animation and UX Design

In the second episode of the UX Wizards Podcast, Val Head takes us through her journey in UX. In the second episode of the UX Wizards Podcast, we chat with Val Head, speaker, author, and design advocate at Adobe specializing in UX and UI animation. Val takes us through her journey in UX, from setting up websites for her friends' bands to learning code languages at night and taking Flash animation workshops to apply to web design capabilities. She’ll also give us the scoop on what a typical day a...

Samuel Harper's Journey into UX

Ana Hernandez on Bootcamps

Ana Hernandez shares her experience about the Springboard UX/UI intensive bootcamp. Her journey to ux starts as career counselor and student coordinator in university setting, to becoming a mother, and finally to embarking on a journey into UX. She uses her experience as a mother for inspiration for her first design project at Springboard. She also links her understanding of art history to a creative application of design thinking. Tune in to learn more and get to know Ana Hernandez!