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Brighten your day – learn about user experience, design, products, gaming and technology. With entertaining and funny chat that goes off on unexpected tangents about life, everyday pain points and hilarious solutions. 80% random, 20% user experience (UX) and user interfaces (UI)* Your hosts Mark, Nick and Paul discuss a different subject around design, UX, UI, business and technology, with the occasional special guest thrown in for good measure. Ironically as Henry Ford almost definitely did ...
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UX Wizards Podcast

Gandalf Winterwhisk

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UX Wizards Podcast is for creatives of all levels who want to learn more about the paths that led them to UX. We interview designers, researchers, entrepreneurs, students, and design enthusiasts about their background, interests, and education (informal or otherwise!) Join us as we will explore their stories, passions, and any advice that they would like to share with other designers. Our show is produced by Keri F, Grace Lee, Chirag Ghube, James Naito and Nolan Stewart. New episodes on Frid ...
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The Overlap

Elle Trost & Alex Trost

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The Overlap is a podcast that explores the intersection of Design and Front End Development. On the show, we discuss all things design and development in a fun and easy-to-listen-to way. Some topics we cover are typography, React, productivity, focus, designing for print, freelancing tips, and much more.
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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/…
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This episode we are joined by Kayvon Touran Cofounder and CEO of Zal.ai. We discuss his time in Ed-tech and dive into how it led to the founding of Zal.ai. In addition, we explore talk about how palette informs creativity. Learn more about the exciting things that Zal.ai is doing herePar Gandalf Winterwhisk
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Have you ever wondered how product managers turn chaos into a symphony? Our latest episode, featuring the perspicacious Simon Berry who shines a light on the crucial role these maestros play in harmonizing user needs with project realities. From the stormy beginnings of a product's life to its standing ovation in the market, we chat about everythin…
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🧠 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 d…
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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 extrao…
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Today we are joined by Santiago Zindel Mundet Cruz, the director of The Roux Institute Founder Residency in Portland Maine. We dive into the program, the work designers contribute to the success of the companies and the exciting companies in the program. Spoiler alert, the designers in the program are called design wizards!…
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In this episode of "Faster Horses," the hosts, Paul and Mark, delve into the world of AI and UX. They discuss how AI has become increasingly prevalent in various industries and platforms, with a particular focus on social media. Paul shares their experience in creating their own AI tool, GhostPosts.ai, with the aims to assist users in generating be…
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Max Blum and Nolan Stewart talk creativity, personal marketing when looking for a job, design inspiration, and more. You can reach out to Max at uxeverything.us.Andy Goldsworthy https://youtu.be/sngXz55b4bc?si=PrQwioPEe7M_vWHi Peter Tarka: https://petertarka.com/personal-work A Book Apart: https://abookapart.com/ Design is Storytelling: https://ell…
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🧠 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 desi…
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Atul Khola and Chirag Ghube discuss UX design, the importance of good storytelling, favorite design tools and not reading books. Additionally: learning the rules to break the rules, creating exceptional designs, and using feedback on Twitter to gauge user sentiment. Atul and Chirag explore how attached a designer should be to their designs, and the…
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Grace Kew and Keri chat about getting started in UX. Grace is a UX Designer looking for her first job. How do you get your first UX job? What do you do when 2,000 other applicants have already applied for that Junior UX Designer job? Grace Kew's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gracekew/Par Gandalf Winterwhisk
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Lucy Kent is a Senior Product Designer. She reveals her top tips for organizing Figma files and projects to maximize efficiency. Lucy also brews up wisdom on transitioning into UX, building workplace connections, crafting startup design systems, and more. Take this podcast potion and level up your skills pronto! Lucy's Portfolio: https://www.lucyke…
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🧠 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 desig…
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Nolan Stewart is the Head of Design at Eskuad. He is an incredibly talented UX Designer and an amazing visual artist! Listen to this episode to learn more about UX at startups. Follow Nolan: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nolan-stewart-117b5b8a/ Let us know what you think: Google Form: https://forms.gle/uK8wwxksqSL5NmVu6 Follow us: Be a Wiza…
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Jess Chan is a Visual Designer at Nvidia with 10 years of experience. We talk about her creative process, Figma tips, advice for new grads entering the industry, and much more! Feedback: Google Form: https://forms.gle/uK8wwxksqSL5NmVu6 Links: Contrast: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/748533339900865323/Contrast EightShapes Specs: https://www…
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📢 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? Che…
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Avi Dwivedi is the founder of XRDI with more than 10 year of experience in Immersive tech. Join us in an conversation about the current state of Immersive Tech, Apple Vision Pro, and how to enter this industry! LINKS https://chat.whatsapp.com/Fy9OY7VxeMIEdqsCjQRhTI https://www.youtube.com/@XRDItv https://in.linkedin.com/in/avidwivedi https://youtu.…
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Cathy Beaton is an Associate Professor at RIT, NY. She talks about being a deaf professor and academic and about D/deaf and Hard of Hearing accessibility, generative AI, and a few of her projects. Stick through to the end for bonus content!!! TRANSCRIPT https://podcasts.musixmatch.com/podcast/ux-wizards/episode/01H2P7FXHRE7H09KTNQRSJCV1T LINKS Link…
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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 Linke…
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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://…
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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 ex…
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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…
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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 rela…
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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, a…
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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 & So…
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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 DE…
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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 sta…
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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 Des…
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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…
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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.lin…
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It seems that people are very often confusing a Design System with a component library. The differences are nuanced, drawing the line between those two will be hard, and there’s no right or wrong — but maybe this story might help us understand those differences a little bit better, and maybe it will help us understand the effort it takes to build a…
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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 Lin…
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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/pie…
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Design systems have become a key part of user experience, design and development, but what should it consist of? We have a good old poke around, question atomic design, figure out audiences and how to effectively communicate what the core concept of design systems are, why we use them and is Brad Frost right. Should print and digital guidelines fit…
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So what’s the difference between design language and tone of voice? Where are the boundaries between the tone of voice and design language, and who leads the strategy of these? Are they interchangeable? In literature, the Tone of Voice refers to the author’s feelings towards the subject, as expressed through the writing itself. Writing for the web …
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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, an…
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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 Toron…
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In this episode we talk to Scot Whitney, Podcast Host – The All4Inclusion Pod, an advocate for inclusion and wheelchair user looking to help others see society's boundaries. Find him on Linkedin, https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottjwhitney/ Scott founded All4inclusion with their amazing philosophy: “We believe everyone is born equal and every person …
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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 …
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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 - htt…
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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 th…
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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 DA…
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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 Pl…
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