UX Career with Kirill V

Monica is a UX Researcher @ Amazon. Monica talks about her career journey in research. We touch on the challenges she faced doing remote studies during COVID and what it really takes to be a researcher. She shares her favourite research methods, tips for those new to research, and advice for designers on working well with researchers.  We also dive into how to convince people that research is cruc...

Anthony is an award-winning Product Designer @ Amazon, author, educator, inventor, and mentor. Anthony talks about his career journey and experience in creating board games. We discuss UX bootcamps, thoughts on AI's role in UX, job search strategies, and portfolio and resume tips. To wrap it up Anthony shares his experience writing his first book “The Art and Science of UX Design”. Enjoy 🤙 Ep...

Kirk and Suzanne are creative leaders and co-founders of Design Unicorn, an agency on a mission to empower designers and agencies to harness the transformative potential of AI. They share their career stories and their new venture - Design Unicorn - where they share the latest AI developments specifically in relation to the Design world. Obviously, we discuss AI and its impact on the future of the...

Jacco is a UX Design Manager @ Elsevier, a large IT services company creating solutions for researchers and healthcare professionals. Jacco shares his career story and how he transitioned into UX leadership, the difference between management and leadership and skills you should be working on to grow in this direction. Also, we discuss the challenges of UX managers, AI and the future of UX design....

Mukul is an AR/VR Designer @ Amazon. Mukul shares his career story and getting into the world of augmented and virtual reality, inventing new interaction patterns and the challenge of not having common patterns to rely on, prototyping tools for AR and VR experiences, the future of VR applications, metaverse, how to get into AR/VR design world as a designer, and much more. Enjoy 🤙 Episode Links :...

Sofia is a Learning Experience Designer at Amazon in India. Sofia shares her career journey and the transition from a non-tech job as a classroom teacher to a tech job as an instructional designer. We talk about learning experience designers and skills they need and the design process they use. Also, Sofia shares the challenges of designing for international audiences, tips for keeping audiences e...

Fernando is a UX Design Manager @ Volvo Cars in Sweden. Fernando shares his career journey and transition from a designer to a manager. We discuss the challenges of touch UI in cars, autonomous driving, and the joy of the driving experience. Also, Fernando talks about what it means to be a manager, gives job search advice during tough market times, tips on presenting to leadership, and much more....

Amy is a UX Manager @ Canonical, the developer and publisher of the most popular Linux platform Ubuntu. Amy shares her career story and how she transitioned into UX from engineering, work culture differences between Thailand and Germany, learning to say no, experience working in an early stage startup, transitioning from senior UX designer to a UX manager, remote work culture, resume and interview...

Bahar Espiritu is a senior UX Designer @ Amazon (at the time of the recording). Bahar shares her career story and how she transitioned into UX from hardware engineering, learning about inclusive design at Disney, diversity of work cultures and communication style, being yourself, clearly articulating your impact in interviews and portfolios, designing for automation, and much more. Enjoy 🤙 Episod...

Dacheng Cheng is a senior Front-End Engineer @ Amazon. Dacheng shares his career and entrepreneurial journey, insights from the enterprise UX, and computer literacy in different generations. Also, we discuss the current AI tools' potential and problems, and how Designers should be collaborating with Engineers. In addition, we talk about the mere-exposure effect, building trust with and without...

Paul Bryant is a senior UX Designer @ Amazon. Paul shares his career journey, work culture differences between USA and Europe, and teaching empathy. Also, we discuss behavioural psychology, AI future, and learning new tools. In addition, we talk about the ageism, understanding your natural talents, and much more. Enjoy 👍 Episode Links: Paul’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pauljbryant/ Pau...

Stéphanie Walter is a UX Researcher & Designer specializing in enterprise UX and mobile. Stéphanie shares her career journey, the pros and cons of designing for enterprise, and cultural differences at work. She talks about experimenting with AI tools and their shortcomings. Also, Stéphanie shares advice on tapping into the hidden job market, why she chose PDF format for her portfolio, and much...

Mitch Clements is a Mentor, Speaker, and UX Manager @ SimpleNexus. Mitch shares his career journey, switching from an Android engineer to UX. He shares what a personal brand means for an employee, and how you can influence change in a company. Also, we talk about networking by helping design communities, actionable job search advice, and much more. Enjoy 👍 Episode Links : Mitch’s Linkedin: https:...

Blake Fisher is Product Leader and Product Ops Evangelist Blake shares his journey, switching careers from journalism to product, and the nature of Product ops. Also, we discuss how AI will impact Product Manager jobs, how designers should partner with product managers, what influences roadmap prioritization, and much more. Enjoy 🤙 Episode Links : Blake’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebl...

Brad Clark is the Director of Talent Acquisition @ Article. Brad shares his career journey and entrepreneurial endeavours. We discuss the biggest challenges in the recruitment industry, how companies should look at the employment gaps, the t-shirt sizing secret to filling jobs, resume tips, using hustle to stand out from others, interesting thoughts on UX bootcamps, and much more. Enjoy 🤙 Episode...

Sarah Donaldson is the Lead Product Designer @ Fullscript. Sarah shares how she got into the industry by accident, what is the difference between an intermediate and a senior designer, and what you can do to start positioning yourself as one. We also talk about what makes recruiters ignore candidates just because of their job application, and Sarah’s expectations of a portfolio, resume, interviewi...

Josh is a freelance UX designer from Vancouver, Canada. Josh talks about his career journey and how he transitioned from engineering to UX. He speaks to the differences between working as a consultant and as a permanent employee. Also, we discuss the challenges of building a community, and also the benefits they can bring. In addition, Josh gives valuable advice on starting out and some tips to in...

Rachel is a Senior UX Designer, currently working at a FAANG company. We talk about how Rachel got into the UX field, how her education in Chemistry and Business helped her gain skills that made her a better designer, the love of complexity working with internal tools and a ton of constraints, why it is important to be authentic to your true self, tailoring your resume to the job you want, what po...

Nick is a Senior User Researcher. We talk about his origin story and the aha moment when he was watching users not being able to figure out how to use their product, differences working on internal and external products, his key takeaways from a 10-year-long career, one of the biggest challenges for researchers - how to manage stakeholders and some strategies how you can do it better, portfolios a...

Christopher Behr is the Design Lead @ Impala, a remote-first B2B startup in the travel industry. We talk about Chris’s journey in the Design industry and some key takeaways. We discuss the pros and cons of hiring generalists and specialists and why so many companies look for unicorns. Also, Chris shares what kind of side projects he finds more valuable in a portfolio, gives some tips on how to des...

Ashish is the Head of Product @ Visualping, a website change monitoring service for businesses and also people. Ashish shares how he got into Product from consulting and Project Management, and educates me on job titles and roles in the Product Management world. We also talk about the art of influencing and building trust with stakeholders and leadership, and what framework Ashish used to get buy-...

David is a Senior Technical Recruiter helping tech companies find candidates. We talk about his story of getting into the industry, how recruitment agencies work, the advantages and disadvantages of working with a recruiter, why they are being vague with some opportunities and why candidates are being ghosted, tips on optimizing your resume and LinkedIn profile, and many more insights from the lif...

Irina is the Product Design Manager @ Clio, a Vancouver-based tech company in the legal space. We talk about her journey from journalism to design leadership, the valuable experiences from previous careers, what she is looking for in resumes and portfolios, and how you should tell the story for a project. We also discuss the case study structure, why you should start it by framing the problem, and...

Stan is the Director of Experience Design @ Domain 7, a design agency in Vancouver, Canada. We talk about his journey in design, how he transitioned to the management role, how to stand out, the value of previous experiences when switching careers, tips on portfolios and resumes, and the future of collaboration between product designers and product managers. Stan also shares the team structure, de...

This is a continuation of my conversation with Janos. We talk about the future of accessibility as a practice, the assistive technologies, and the role of accessibility specialists. Also, we discuss the most common objections from the business side and how he handles them. Janos on Linkedin Janos on Twitter AODA - Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act W3C: The Business Case for Digital...