The Samelogic Podcast

James is a Lead UX designer at Edelman and is described as curious, driven, and compassionate. His passion for design and ability to find simple solutions to complex problems has defined his career. James has been a graphic & web designer for over 20 years. Applying that experience and passion to the UX field has challenged him in new and exciting ways. Learning to allow research to guide his...

Kelby Hertanu is a product designer at Asana, a work management solution that aims to help humanity thrive by enabling the world's teams to work together effortlessly; he is currently working on design systems. Before Asana, Kelby designed various products across different platforms and companies like Varo Bank and Temenos, which gave him the opportunity to practice end-to-end design for a variety...

Rotem is currently the VP of design at Monday.com, an open platform that democratizes the power of software so organizations can easily build work management tools and software applications to fit their every need.  She spent the last nine years at Monady.com, but before that, she worked at RED-ID.  Rotem speaks on how she got started in design, what she has learned over the years, and h...

Kadie is currently the Lead Product Designer at MVMNT, a free TMS platform for freight brokerages, where she is responsible for building a world-class design team. Before MVMNT, she worked as a Customer Experience and Design Consultant with numerous clients. Kadie has experience taking new products from ideation to launch, relying on her technical and creative background to build cross-collaborati...

Ayelet is a professional UX and product design lead with extensive experience in the technology industry. She has spent the past few years working in fast-paced start-ups, leading design teams to create impactful experiences for mobile and B2B SaaS products. She thoroughly understands the end-to-end design process, from research to delivery, and is well-versed in Agile methodologies and organizati...

Sean is a human-centered product designer hell-bent on solving as many problems as he can get his hands on. Having spent time at IDEO, McKinsey, Google, Visa, and now Digits, he has led cross-functional teams across many industries. From Apple Pay to Ferrari and Google Search, Sean has created products touched by billions of people using a simple process that can be applied to almost any problem....

Aditya is a Lead Designer at Yoomi Health, a healthcare startup that reimagines physical therapy using machine learning. He works on the digital experience of their platform Yoomi, aiming to gamify a patient's interaction with their therapist.   Prior to this, he worked at ThinkPlace as a Design Strategist to develop a digital ethics framework to help companies navigate ethical strategies for...

Yanos is a Nashville-based Product designer at Asurion. He has a background in sales and graphic design, amounting to 10 years of experience in customer digital communication.  As a human interaction designer, he honed my skills in paying strong attention to detail and design quality. Yonas is passionate about tech, design, and their abilities to better our world.  He firmly believes tha...

Matt is a Senior UX Designer at Jitterbit, an Integration Platform as a Service.  He started as a graphic designer 30 years ago but gradually transitioned to UX design, where he's been for the past decade.  He focuses on user experience design for enterprise software applications and enjoys the complexity and challenges that enterprise applications offer.

Justin Leonard is a Southern California native now living in Phoenix, AZ, working as a Principal UX Architect.  Over the past 15 years, he has helped companies build teams that understand their users, from early-stage startups to global brands.  As a consultant, he worked with companies such as H&R Block, Teleflora, Vegas.com, No Fear, and others to implement digital transformations...

Mahmoud is an experienced Product Manager with a strong track record of success in driving innovation and delivering results.  His professional skills and interests include problem-solving in design and code, building strategies and roadmaps, and managing cross-border teams.  He has had the opportunity to work with a range of startups across the globe and has gained valuable insights and...

Tracy Dai is currently a Senior Product Designer at LinkedIn, working on LinkedIn Marketing Solutions.  Before that, she was at Flexport, designing software that provides sustainability solutions for the global supply chain.  Before Flexport, Tracy worked at Adobe for four years, designing multiple different B2B SaaS products that empower marketers to perform better.  She studied ma...

Pancrazio is a Product management executive and serial entrepreneur that helps startup founders become investable through a compact and challenging focalization program. Pan is a passionate team builder. He likes achieving speed by empowering teams to take calculated risks through clarity, alignment, and trust. He's a tech guy who has shown the light of effective product management and is always p...

Magda is the Product Owner at OutSystems, which is a low-code platform.  Her work includes infusing AI on OutSystems IDE to guide and accelerate the developers that build OutSystems applications.  The most recent feature she worked on is using Language Understanding to automatically generate queries to fetch data from databases, making it easier for developers to perform complex queries....

Jake has a 16-year career in design. He has helped companies and teams deepen and broaden their UX practice capabilities. Jake also inspires and accelerates design innovation and grows and promotes the adoption of design best practices. Outside of work, you'll find him busy with his two fantastic boys, watching a movie, or settling into a good book.

Myra is the Principal Product Designer at Birdeye, where she has spent the last 5+ years helping local businesses manage their customer experience. In her time here, she had the pleasure of mentoring multiple designers, leading the creation and maintenance of their design systems, and creating and improving upon their product offerings.  Outside work, Myra enjoys spending time on different cr...

Skyler is responsible for improving the user experience across the Quantcast platform. He uses his diverse background in data visualization and robotics to make empathetic decisions for the user. A former career in the fast-paced advertising world with an experience in street art and skateboarding are some of the inspirations Skyler draws upon in his designs.

Raitis is a design facilitator on a mission to spark collaborative creativity. He has helped teams in the telecommunication, financial, and energy sectors shape digital services and internal workflows for over a decade. Currently at Toggl, mentoring, developing, and supporting the design team to help make time tracking and planning painless. His background is in participatory innovation, human-cen...

Casey is a UI/UX Designer at RingCentral, a provider of cloud-based communication and collaboration products and services for businesses. Before transitioning into UX, Casey headed information systems and technology for four years at a nonprofit organization supporting 800 ministries across Virginia. There she learned business technology administration and how a company's efficiency can be maximiz...

Romina is a Senior Product Designer at Dialpad, a cloud-based software communications company powered by AI. She is part of the Design Product team and is responsible for improving the user experience across various devices. Before working at Dialpad, she worked at Despegar, the leading company in booking hotels & flights, and PedidosYa, the leading app for delivery in Latinoamerica. She holds...

Uri Ashi is a senior product designer at Gong.io, the leading Revenue Intelligence platform, leveraging AI to go beyond traditional CRM and transform revenue teams. Besides that, Uri (pronounced Oori) is also a peace activist, a published author and illustrator, an award-winning animator, an entrepreneur (x2), a basso in a choir, a backing vocalist, and a guitar player in Gong’s band, a husband an...

Farheen has a background in engineering and worked at PayPal for many years before moving into Product Management at Zendesk. She currently leads Buying Experience, which is a part of the broader Growth and Monetization team. She is interested in anything related to growth and revenue drivers for a product, KPIs that matter vs. not, and solving complex business and technical problems. She is also...

We sat down with Zia Mohammad to chat about his life journey, the identities he's carried, and his career journey in product management. Zia is a Sr. Product Manager at AWS Quantum and holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience from The Ohio State University. Outside of work, Zia can be found reading about technology policy, globetrotting, or searching for the best dess...

Ebony was the former Vice President of Product for Forbes and started as a project manager and spent 6+ years there. Before joining Forbes, Ebony worked at ESPN, GLG, and NINE21. She spoke with us about working at Forbes and how she got started in Product. 

Yusuf is a Product Manager at Gartner, a leading research and advisory company. Yusuf works on Gartner's digital recommendations system, aiming to personalize users' interaction with Gartner. In his role, he develops and enhances product features that help surface the resources that are most relevant and of interest to the user based on the problem they're trying to solve, with minimal user effort...