Design MBA

🧠 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.

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🧠 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 bac...

🧠 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 f...

🧠 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...

📢 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
 

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Check out Personify - https://personifyhq.com/

🤝 CONNECT WITH DANIEL SCRIVNER

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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
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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 - http...

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. 

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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 

CON...

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, Synchron...

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 furth...

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 ...

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....

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 ...

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 li...

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 res...

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

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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:...

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 - htt...