Caitlin Steele is a user-centered design and engineering expert focused on design operations. As a founding team member at MasterClass, she helped take the startup from an idea through Series C on the way to being a multi-billion-dollar company. Currently, she enables design and engineering teams to deliver exceptional native mobile experiences for Trello. In this episode, we talked about: How Caitlin got into design Why did she choose UX in particular? Helping people with mobility Early days at...
Oct 20, 2021•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Harsh Wardhan is a design thinking thought leader, who uses his human-centered design skills and his design strategy expertise to help companies build future strategies rooted in deep human insights that deliver business value. In his ten years of practice in the design industry, he has collaborated with organizations across different sectors like automotive, healthcare, hospitality, fin-tech, and architecture. In this episode, we talked about: How did Harsh get into design Harsh cites some of h...
Sep 29, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shay Howe is the Vice President of Platform Strategy at ActiveCampaign, where he leads platform experience and ecosystem, strategic partnerships, and product, front-end, and communication design. He works to make the customer a hero, helping them create ideal customer experiences through intuitive products, marketing, and integrations. Prior to ActiveCampaign, Shay was Vice President of Product at Belly and Yello, where he was responsible for product strategy and design. He has previously led pr...
Sep 22, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Kevin Hsieh is a product design leader with 15+ years of experience under my belt. I have shipped countless products at companies both large and small. He has 5 patents and enjoys complex problem solving, collaboration, and creative thinking to take projects from concept to completion. Creating stunning and innovative designs, that are user-centric is his passion. He is currently the Director Of Product Design at Sonder. In this episode, we talked about: How did Kevin get into design? How did he...
Sep 15, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jen Byyny is a leader in tech/product design with over 17 years of experience. She has over 7 years of design leadership experience and 10+ years of hands-on professional design experience focused on software/Saas, analytics and media experiences for business and consumer audiences with strong management experience, design-thinking methodologies, design system knowledge, user research and product insights, plus a love for innovation through storytelling and design. She had led teams focused on p...
Sep 01, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brittany Schlenk is currently the Assistant Director of Design & UX at The Hartford. In her current role, she helps oversee and manage the Middle & Large Commercial portfolio. She works heavily in the business-to-business space and focuses primarily on underwriters, agents, and account managers as her main users. Prior to joining The Hartford, she used to work in the aerospace industry at Collins Aerospace and Raytheon Technologies. In addition to her career, she had received her Master ...
Aug 11, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Joe Natoli is a UX consultant, author and speaker. Everything he does is born from three decades of consulting with and training the product development teams of some of the world’s largest organizations. He has taught over 200,000 students through his online courses and is a regular keynote speaker and lecturer at events across the globe. He recently launched a new online school, the UX 365 Academy, where he publishes online courses, training videos, ebooks and more every month, at learn.givego...
Aug 04, 2021•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Reina O’Meara is an award-winning UX/Graphic Designer who has helped define brands for both Fortune 500 companies and small startups. She has worked for companies such as Weta Workshop, Redbox, and Steelseries. She is currently the Brand Director of Comfort Eats. In this episode, we talked about: Reina’s role in Comfort Eats Her accomplishments in Redbox and show she got started in the company All about Redbox and her designing ticketing kiosk project Awarded a design patent Understanding user-t...
Jul 28, 2021•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Felix Lee is a designer and tech entrepreneur based in Singapore. He is the Co-Founder of ADPList, one of the world’s largest mentoring platforms for designers. He had previously founded Packdat, which was acquired in 2018; led design at Gotrade (YC S19) and was the Head of Product & Design at Passpod Indonesia ($YELO). Felix previously notably consulted for Eatsy.co, Capture App, Knowledgehook, and several global startups. He's known for his thoughts and works in product design & s...
Jul 21, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Eirini Kasti is a User Experience Expert focused on design for emotions. She has created experiences for the airline, financial, education, energy or transportation industries, from the biggest European companies like KLM or ING Bank to pioneering start-ups and scale-ups. Currently, she is a Senior Product Designer at Proxyclick, a European scale-up in the facility management sector. Besides design, she is passionate about physical and mental health, self-improvement and connection with nature. ...
Jul 14, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jason Ogle has been designing for Tim Berners-Lee’s “World Wide Web” via CRT monitors, 2400bps modems, and 216 colors since 1996. He is also a highly innovative and strategic design leader who is passionate about the user defender. He is an influential podcaster who uses the enchanting magic of audio to inspire and equip an audience of hungry and ambitious designers. His podcast “The User Defender Podcast” is an avenue to inspire, enlighten and entertain people passionate about making a differen...
Jul 07, 2021•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast Michael Ernst is a multidisciplinary designer and cross-functional manager who works with executive teams to drive customer loyalty in business and convert them to results. He has 20 years of experience as a product designer, creative director, brand designer, and illustrator for various companies in the tech industry. He started his journey with Yelp in 2004. He became the lead designer and designed Yelp’s overall brand identity. In 2009, Michael led the UX design on a product that grew from an...
Jun 30, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Koji Pereira is the Head of Design for Lyft Business. He creates products for organizations, companies, healthcare systems for employees, collaborators to get rides for their employees. Koji grew up in a poor family of five siblings, one mother, and had no father figure. He was the first among all of his siblings to go to have studied for college. For a college program, Koji took up Fine Arts, which soon led him to Graphic Design. Since then, he has worked in Google and led Design for Files by G...
Jun 23, 2021•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast Howard Pinksy is the Senior XD Evangelist at Adobe and creates educational videos for Adobe. He shares UI/UX knowledge and experiences with the design community through video, live streams, at creative events, focusing on the process Adobe XD application. His journey first started in 2006, when YouTube was just a new website. Howard first started posting Photoshop videos, and immediately, his videos took off, became a YouTube partner, and his hobby became a career. Today, Howard has a Youtube ch...
Jun 15, 2021•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast James Helms is the Vice President of design a product at Intuit. A global technology platform that helps the customers and communities we serve overcome their financial challenges. He is a graduate of the Visual Communications program at the University of Delaware. Today, James has been with Intuit for 7 years now. Performing and delivering strategic Identity and Financial data experiences for Quickbooks, Turbo Tax, and Mint. He’s passionate about creating and improving design teams, coaching de...
Jun 08, 2021•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Sarkis Buniatyan is the founder of Meraki Ventures, Mirai Biotechnology, and more. He is an entrepreneur by day and a product designer by night. Sarkis creates hyper-realistic prototypes, develops MVPs, turns them into successful products, and teaches makers how to launch their vision. He invests in the 1% of ideas that can challenge the status quo through Meraki Ventures and restores Earth’s natural balance through Mirai Biotechnology by developing hyprobiotics that transform the way food is ma...
Jun 02, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast JJ Moi has been raised most of his life in Thailand and did his undergrad in industrial design there, majored in furniture design. Then back to San Francisco to do his masters in data visualization and worked as a UX designer for the past decade, mostly in startups, but also had a fair share in the public sector. Currently, he is working as VC design partner at Prime Movers Lab investing and working with startups that create breakthroughs in science that impact billions of lives such as in the a...
May 26, 2021•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Isabela Freire is a Luso-Brazilian digital designer & art director driven by technology and art. She is currently the Design Team Leader at Arduino, the world’s leading open-source hardware and software ecosystem. The Company offers a range of software tools, hardware platforms and documentation enabling almost anybody to be creative with technology. Isabela believes in design as a lifestyle. Episode highlights: Isabela’s background Some of the most impressive stats of Arduino Big companies ...
May 19, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Premika is the UX Lead at GovTech Singapore, one of her primary goals is crafting ‘moments of delight' through innovative and user-focused customer experience design. This is achieved by solving complex problems through user research, expert analysis, prototyping and iterative collaborative design with users and stakeholders. In this episode, we talked about: GovTech in Singapore and how it serves people Number of UX designers in GovTech Who do they serve/design? GovTech on designing web ap...
May 12, 2021•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast Christina Brodbeck was one of the earliest team members at the start of YouTube, she was the company’s first designer and the lead designer for YouTube mobile. In her last two years at YouTube, she led UX Design for YouTube Mobile and was responsible for creating an interface that brought YouTube to cell phones. Her passion for innovation in education led her to work on and launch YouTube EDU as a 20% side project while at the company. She was the co-founder of TheIceBreak, a Q&A service to ...
May 05, 2021•38 min•Transcript available on Metacast Doug Collins is a User Experience expert that has lent his talents to companies in the financial, education, government, gaming, and sports entertainment industries. When he’s not working his day job as a User Experience Designer, he can be found hiking, cooking, coding, or writing about any of the above on his personal blog. In this episode, we talked about: His role in Western Union Design systems and process flow in Western Union The design tool that they are using How B2B side of things are ...
Apr 28, 2021•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast Justin Dauer is the Vice President of design at the Bswift Company- a CVS Health company. He is also the author of the book "Cultivating a Creative Culture". He is from the lifelong land of Chicago and studied visual communications in the Art Institute of Chicago. While Justin was studying at the university, he decided to study more into the digital landscape. He taught himself how to code by reading a few books and doing web projects to enhance his skill. Because of his never-ending c...
Apr 21, 2021•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Fonz has a creative eye for design. He was born in Brooklyn, New York- one of the most design-centric places on the planet. The beautiful architectural designs exposed Fonz to art and culture. Initially, he wanted to take up architecture but ended up studying computer science. During his senior year of college, his university opened up a digital aquarium- which fascinated him with all the multimedia equipment, resources, and software. Since then, he self-taught himself how to design, and from th...
Apr 14, 2021•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast Woman power; Michelle Tucker’s life in the tech industry. Welcome once again everyone to the Ux Podcast show. As always, Pek Pongpaet is the host for the show and he is joined up by Michelle Ha Tucker as the guest of this show today. Michelle's Bio Michelle Tucker is the director of design at Sidewalk Labs. She is also well known to be actively involved in arts and design education and served on the board of the Hyde Park Art Center and not to mention that she spends a year reimagining desi...
Apr 07, 2021•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jay Demetillo, a designer that strives for greatness. Jay works as a designer at Grab. He has also worked for the likes of Twitter, Yahoo, and Pinterest. Just to top it off, Jay was an adjunct professor at CCA in San Francisco. Jay currently teaches design innovation at New Campus. Highlights from the episode: · Jay speaks of how he switched teams and now belongs to the safety team which he says he considers to be much more interesting. · Pek subjects Jay to the question of how it was, growing u...
Mar 24, 2021•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Catch up with Malea Gadoury, the female designer Leading exemplary. Hello people and welcome to yet another UX episode. In this episode, our host for the show, Pek Pongpaet introduces his guest, he says he's very happy to be synced up with his lovely guest for this episode in Malea Gadoury. Who is Malea Gadoury? Malea Gadoury is a stylish hardworking woman who is the Co-Founder at ILK. She grew up in the suburbs of Montreal in Canada and she was also previously head of design for Wonderscho...
Mar 17, 2021•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nor Sanavongsay, a senior product designer that stands tall. Who is Nor Sanavongsay? Nor Sanavongsay is a senior product designer currently working at Workday. The reason why he stands tall in his field is that he tells stories through interactions with storyboards, visual designs, and prototypes. Nor also runs a nonprofit publishing company that mainly focuses on helping southeast Asians tell their stories. Highlights from the episode: Nor says that he read a lot of comic books growing up and h...
Mar 09, 2021•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast Who is Prakan Nisarat? A little bit more insight into his life, you'll learn that Prakan Nisarat has a bachelor's degree in graphic design and a master's in marketing communications, as well as an MBA. I know, it sounds a lot right, But that’s his thing. Prakarn started as a traditional graphic designer in advertising in Chicago. Currently, his recent project is working at Lululemon to improve the app and omnichannel experience. Episode highlights: Despite Nisarat’s English being ...
Mar 03, 2021•42 min•Transcript available on Metacast Andrew Falcon talks about his experience at Fjord and how things are going, particularly at Accenture. Andrew explains his first day at the studio and how his team thinks extraordinary to grow the organization. Andrew and Pek speak about the role of Fjord in today's world, how Fjord expanded from 200 to 1400 employees. He explains different ways to treat the employees to get better out of them. How his team manages the problems faced by the organization early on and how they cope with them....
Feb 24, 2021•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast I would love to introduce you all to our guest – Talin Wadsworth. He has been working for Adobe for over 10 years and has so much knowledge to share with us. Talin currently designs creative tools for Adobe and is the co-conspirator behind Adobe XD. He uses research, iterative design, prototyping and storytelling to create the best end-to-end experiences for all Adobe users. For more information about Talin, check out his LinkedIn profile. You will be able to know all about his achievements and ...
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