Design MBA

Scotty Russell is an artist, designer, coach, podcaster, and speaker working under the name Perspective-Collective. He’s also an outer space, pizza loving cat dad, AND human dad based in Cedar Falls, Iowa. After 5.5 years working of building his creative side hustle outside his Corporate Cubicle, he made the full-time shift to Side Hustle Coach in January 2020 . His mission is to help creatives bl...

Scott Tolinski is the creator of Level Up Tutorials where he has created thousands of free and premium web development tutorials. Scott also is the co-host of the popular web development podcast Syntax. In his free time Scott is a dedicated Bboy (breakdancer) & enjoys pushing himself athletically through dance, working out and snowboarding. He also enjoys green tea and Shaw Brothers Kung Fu movies...

Jason Kridner has 30 years of experience in the embedded systems industry. As a 28-year veteran of Texas Instruments DSP and processor businesses, founder of the BeagleBoard.org project, and invited speaker at numerous industry events, Jason knows what it takes to build an embedded system from concept to volume production.   BUILD YOUR HARDWARE PROJECT WITH BEAGLEBOARD Learn more about the Beagleb...

Heer Gandhi is a hardware engineer and entrepreneur from Ahmedabad, India. He has a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications from Nirma University, Gujarat, India as well as a master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. After a small stint working at Apple, Cupertino on the iPhone in 2008, he ventured into startup roles as fou...

Ekaterina Solomeina – creative director, educator, TEDx speaker and founder of Future London Academy. For the past 15 years, she has worked with some of the greatest creative minds alive, including Michael Wolff (founder of Wolff Olins), Donatella Versace and companies like Coca-Cola, Sony, Mars, IBM, Microsoft, Samsung – helping to grow brands, developing design teams and create innovative produc...

Seth Coelen is the founder of the product design company UX Cabin . He is also the creator of Bootsketch , LayoutLab , and Pester . In between client work and projects he enjoys making design parody videos and tutorials on YouTube and Twitter. When he's not working he enjoys spending time with his wife, son, and daughter.   CONNECT WITH SETH COELEN: Connect with Seth Coelen on LinkedIn Follow Seth...

If you had asked the high school version of Erik what he would be doing for a career, you would have heard something like a rock star or studio producer. In college, Erik studied music with the intention of becoming an educator and following in his parents’ footsteps. His predilection for technology won the career battle though, and he moved on to start Focus Lab . Transitioning from musician to d...

Stephen Gates is the SVP, Omni-channel product design at WW (formerly Weight Watchers). Previously, he was the Head Design Evangelist at InVision, working as a strategic partner to companies like Google, Amazon, The Home Depot, Bank of America, Facebook, Rolls Royce, American Express, Frog Design, WeWork, EY Partners, and many more to elevate the business impact of design through education, coachi...

Sung was ranked 51st on the list of "The 75 Best Designers In Technology" by Business Insider in 2013 and has received a number of recognitions from Innovation by Design Awards by Fast Company in 2016, WEBBY in 2017, and German Design Awards in 2018. Previously Sung has led UX/UI design efforts for Samsung MILK VR, Sam's Club mobile shopping app, 7-Eleven.com, FedEx Office workstations, Starbucks...

David Berens is hardwired to build. He has a strong passion for building successful businesses, developing human potential and creating healthy lifestyles. As an early employee at Opendoor (est. valuation $3.8B), he launched the first three markets, built out the sales and customer experience teams, and personally executed over 500 transactions generating $150M+ in company revenue. Over the last 1...

Joe Formica is the Founder of Bitesize UX, where he works every day to solve "need experience, to get experience" problem that prevents people from exploring new skills, roles, and careers in technology. He believes that learning as an adult should be exciting, fun, and rewarding - not daunting. Joe has taught UX Design at General Assembly in New York for six years as a Distinguished Faculty Membe...

Watch the video version of this interview on YouTube   GUEST BIO Matt ‘Mills’ Miller founded digital product design studio Ustwo with John Sinclair in 2004. In the 14 years since, Ustwo expanded to include an independent games studio and Ustwo adventure: a startup fund and incubator that supports early-stage startups and digital companies. The company’s driving ethos is to create meaningful produc...

Watch the video version of this interview on YouTube GUEST BIO: As a fresh business graduate, Alen Faljic joined the design agency IDEO Munich as a business designer. The world of design quickly fascinated him as he wasn’t familiar with user-centricity and the power of design. However, he soon started to notice the gap between the design and business communities. As someone working in the intersec...

Morgane Peng is responsible for the design vision and strategy of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking. She delivers united and meaningful experiences with her team across Societe Generale products for start-ups, corporates, and financial institutions. Previously, Morgane adventured into various fields of consulting, financial markets, and tech. In her spare time, she’s a gamer at heart...

Caleb Kingston is a serial entrepreneur and award winning designer. He runs his own agency, Brainspin where he’s spent the last decade designing cutting edge solutions for the healthcare industry and many startups. He’s also a YouTube star and online teacher at App Design Tips.    LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN SKILLS: Level up your design skills by taking premier courses on Adobe XD, Figma at AppDesignTips...

Luke Thomas is the founder of Friday, an asynchronous update platform that helps distributed teams stay connected. Previously, Luke was Head of Product at Crystal and has been working remotely since 2013. Outside of work, Luke enjoys hanging out with his family and he lives in Portland, Maine. If you ever visit, he will gladly show you around town.   INCREASE THE PRODUCTIVITY OF YOUR REMOTE TEAM S...

User Experience Designer and co-founder of Clearleft, Andy is a best selling tech author, curates the UX London and Leading Design conferences and helped set-up The Brighton Digital Festival. Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences like SXSW, Awwwards and The Next Web. He currently runs an online community of over 1,500 Heads, Directors and VPs of Design, and is a founding member of...

Martin Ramsin grew up in Stockholm and developed a love of computers at an early age. His first job as a programming intern took him to San Francisco just as the internet bubble was about to burst. On moving to Berlin he became interested in creating products and decided to take up web development again and learned Ruby on Rails from free tutorials. On meeting Raffaela they founded CareerFoundry i...

Watch the video version of this interview on YouTube   GUEST BIO: Abhinav Chhikara got his start in design in 2011 by designing iOS apps for freelance projects on oDesk. Prior to that he was an early employee & the Head of Design at Unacademy, an ed-tech startup that's now valued over $1.4B & has raised from global investors like SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Facebook, General Atlantic etc. After spe...

Craig Mod is a Japan-based author and photographer. His books include Kissa by Kissa, Koya Bound, and Art Space Tokyo. He is a MacDowell, VCCA, and Ragdale fellow. His writing and photography has appeared in Eater, The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, The New Yorker, and other publications.    SUPPORT CRAIG MOD: Become a Special Projects Member and support Craig's creative work!   CONNECT WIT...

Watch the video version of this interview on YouTube GUEST BIO: Punit Chawla is an avid Youtube design creator and wants to leave an impact on the world.  JOIN INDIA'S MOST AFFORDABLE DESIGN SCHOOL: Level up your UX/UI skills and by joining DesignWings.in   CONNECT WITH PUNIT CHAWLA: Connect with Punit Chawla on LinkedIn Follow Punit Chawla on Instagram Watch Punit Chawla's latest design tutorials...

Felix is a Product Designer whose purpose is to constantly reinvent the way we experience the world around us and beyond by designing impactful products people love. He has worked with multiple global startups and is currently a full time Design Lead at Gotrade (YC S19). Felix previously co-founded Packdat which was acquired in 2018 and was the former Head of Product and Design at Passpod Indonesi...

Tom has been building tools for the creative industry for nearly a decade. He's currently working on Clover – a notebook that allows creatives to work visually. Before that, he drove product design and strategy for InVision. He joined the InVision team via acquisition of his first startup – Macaw – which built responsive web design tools. Before that he designed tools for Apple and Oracle, was acq...

Anil Reddy is an artist by heart, designer by soul and an entrepreneur by choice. Anil is the Founder and Design Director of Lollypop. Design, a research driven design studio that is restructuring the way consumers think about the digital experience. From two people working out of a garage, today, Lollypop is 130+ people strong with offices all over the world. Lollypop studio has impacted a billio...

Matt D. Smith is the owner and Design Director at  Studio MDS , a small independent design studio in Athens, GA. He created the  Float Label Pattern for digital input fields, the Contrast app for checking WCAG 2.0 color contrast ratios, and Flowkit for creating user flows inside your favorite design tool. He's currently working on an intensive interface design course called Shift Nudge .He's a pro...