Design MBA

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/  

🧠 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 design inspiration? (5:08) What designers c...

🧠 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...

🧠 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...

🧠 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,...

📢 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?  Check out Personify - https://personifyhq.co...

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/ Twi...

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:/...

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 partn...

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 - htt...

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 p...

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...

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 experien...

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 ou...

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...

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-prof...

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 agen...

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...

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/ CO...

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...

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, and designed for 2.85 billion people at Facebook. He...

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 Toronto, Canada.  INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/XQ8...

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 15,000 people.  INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/...

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 - https://www.character.vc/ CONNECT WITH JOHN ZERATSKY...

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 they were both in 5th grade. Together, they raise da...