Best Brian Lovin Podcasts (2024)

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Andy McMillan: It's About People 1:01:34

10d ago1:01:34

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Andy is a creative director, designer, and event producer. He is most well known for XOXO and Build Conference. He also recently started a non-alcoholic craft brewery called Heck.We spoke about the events that he's created, and how he went from event production to non-alcoholic beverages. Most notably, Andy's career has run parallel to the evolutio…

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Gabriel Valdivia: Filling The Design Void 1:04:18

1M ago1:04:18

1:04:18

Gabriel Valdivia is a product designer, and currently an independent fractional design leader. He partners with founders as their design leadership counterpart while embedding with engineering teams to execute and iterate towards product/market fit.We talked about the rise of the model of fractional design leadership, the current issues tech teams …

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Cat Noone: Responsibility to Your Craft 58:18

1M ago58:18

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Cat Noone is a product designer turned founder, and now CEO of Stark, a startup streamlining accessibility compliance for software teams.We talked about her path from designer to business leader, the mistakes made along the way, and how she keeps a high bar for craft of the product and of decision making.…

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Aaron Carambula: Breaking Down Barriers 1:04:18

3M ago1:04:18

1:04:18

In the inaugural episode of 2024, Aaron and I explore three compelling topics. First, we discuss the qualities of our most effective cross-functional partners and partnerships. Then, we delve into the significance of designers considering their work in the context it lives in, and focusing on the impact it can have. And finally, we share insights o…

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Majd Taby & Jasper Hauser: No Modes 1:05:48

4M ago1:05:48

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Majd and Jasper are the co-founders of Darkroom, a photo and video editor for iPhone, iPad and Mac.In this episode we go through the whole history of Darkroom, how they think about the product in the context of the competitive landscape, and how they look at evolving the product going forward.By Majd Taby, Maykel Loomans, Jasper Hauser

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Brian Lovin & Ryan Nystrom: Surrounded by People Doing Interesting Work 1:15:25

4M ago1:15:25

1:15:25

Brian Lovin and Ryan Nystrom are the co-founders of Campsite, a tool for product teams to communicate with increased signal, rich institutional knowledge, and reduced noise.We talked about the lessons they have learned from starting the company, but also about their past lessons and experiences that inform the way they approach building Campsite. W…

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Noah Levin: A Tool That Creates Tools 1:20:36

4M ago1:20:36

1:20:36

Noah is a designer and design leader who is currently the VP of Design at Figma. In our conversation, we talked about his path into design from high school, to Carnegie Mellon, to Google, and discovered some great anecdotes and stories along the way.Beyond that, we talked about his experience at Figma, about hiring and growing teams, and about some…

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Josh Harris: Exceeding Expectations in Unexpected Ways 1:21:53

5M ago1:21:53

1:21:53

Josh is the founder of The Bon Vivants and owner of Trick Dog, a legendary bar in San Francisco that has very recently been crowned Industry Icon by Punch.We talked about the creation of Trick Dog, the context in which Trick Dog was founded, and the lessons from it's first decade. We talked about his 20 year sobriety, how he looks at the low-ABV, n…

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464: AI Grab Bag 34:27

5M ago34:27

34:27

This week, we talk about Open AI's GPTs-as-apps strategy, FigJam's AI tools, and our dreams for a future Jarvis-like experience. The Sidebar: The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to bonus content going forward! Sign up at patreon.com/designdetails. Latest VIP Pa…

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Chantal Jandard: Useful and Non-Evil 1:12:10

5M ago1:12:10

1:12:10

Chantal is a designer and design leader. She currently leads a part of the design team at Autodesk related to construction products.We talked about her early years on the internet in her parent’s basement, how she went in to design, and found her role at PlanGrid. We talked about Autodesk’s acquisition of PlanGrid and how they eventually merged the…

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Om Malik: The Joy of the Creative Input 54:24

5M ago54:24

54:24

Om is a former journalist, Partner Emeritus at True Ventures, and—in my words—a true internet OG. He was one of the first serious tech bloggers, and founder of Gigaom.We spoke about the current state of technology from both of our perspectives, and he shared where he believes the puck is going. We also went deeply into the topic of photography and …

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Om Malik: Bumper Sticker Gurus 1:00:54

6M ago1:00:54

1:00:54

Om is a former journalist, Partner Emeritus at True Ventures, and—in my words—a true internet OG. He was one of the first serious tech bloggers, and founder of Gigaom.We spoke about the current state of technology from both of our perspectives, and he shared where he believes the puck is going. We also went deeply into the topic of photography and …

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Vicki Tan: Happy Accidents 59:32

6M ago59:32

59:32

Vicki is a designer, author and creative. She’s worked at companies like Google, Headspace, Lyft and Spotify, and is now writing and designing an illustrated book with the goal of making people aware of their biases.We talked about her path from Research Coordinator to Designer, the lessons she learned in her various roles, how she’s managed her ca…

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463: Design Medley, Vol. 1 34:13

6M ago34:13

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This week, we talk about the delicate art of using animation in interface design, how to use button sizes, and managing margins in type styles. The Sidebar: The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to bonus content going forward! Sign up at patreon.com/designdetails…

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Jasper Hauser: Bananas Stuff 55:46

6M ago55:46

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Jasper is a designer, entrepreneur and fellow dutchman. He’s most notably known for his roles at Sofa, Facebook and Darkroom.We talked about how he started with design, the Sofa team being acquired by Facebook, and the growth he experienced at Facebook. We then dug into his time after Facebook, as a co-founder of Darkroom, and various other venture…

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Amy Snook: Books Are Not a Secret 1:03:56

6M ago1:03:56

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Amy is the founder of Parea, a startup that is taking a modern approach to book publishing. Before founding Parea, she was various comms, marketing and ops roles at companies like Haus, Glossier and SeatGeek.We walked through her career, and she shared some fantastic insights around brand, operations, and the publishing industry.…

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Coleen Baik: Asking the Dumb Questions 47:06

7M ago47:06

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Coleen is a designer and multidisciplinary artist. She is currently the founding designer at Braintrust, a new enterprise-grade stack for building AI products.We talked about impostor syndrome, the early days of Twitter Design, her experience helping early-stage startups at Sequoia, and what she looks forward to in her new role.…

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462: Refactoring a Design System 47:33

7M ago47:33

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This week, Marshall breaks down his process, tips, and tricks to redesign a design system in Figma. The Sidebar: The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to bonus content going forward! Sign up at patreon.com/designdetails. Latest VIP Patrons: Adam Noffsinger Raffi …

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Nathan Sharp & Ryan Olson: A Big, Beautiful Retrospective 54:21

8M ago54:21

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Nathan and Ryan are the co-founders of Retro, a mobile app that offers a new way to share photos and videos with a close group of your friends.We talked about the origin story of how they met, how they ended up founding their startup together, how they look at the social media landscape, and what they hope to achieve with their company and product.…

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Behzod Sirjani: Personal Trainer for Your Organization 1:01:17

8M ago1:01:17

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Behzod is a researcher, consultant, and advisor who focuses on helping organizations and teams make better decisions. We talked about his career path from being a TA to his formative roles at Facebook and Slack, and how he’s evolved his consulting practice to support leaders at companies of all sizes. At the end, he shared some of his thoughts on h…

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Frankie Gaw: Fun Little Side Quests 49:41

8M ago49:41

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Frankie is a former digital product designer turned food writer and photographer. He’s the author of First Generation: Recipes from My Taiwanese American Home and founder of the food blog Little Fat Boy.We talked about his path, from studying industrial design to unexpectedly landing a job as a digital product designer, and from there taking a side…

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Alex Cornell & George Kedenburg III: Zoom in Real Life 1:36:39

8M ago1:36:39

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Alex and George are two very talented designers with very complementary skillsets whose paths intersected at Facebook.We sat down to talk about design, careers, technology, and all the things.By George Kedenburg III, Alex Cornell

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Annie Fryman: I Didn't Sleep Much 1:08:40

8M ago1:08:40

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Annie studied architecture, and after a few years as a practicioner pivoted to tackle the laws that govern our built environment, and the systems that shape it. Most notably, she was a policy staffer for California State Senator Scott Wiener during his first term in office where she was responsible for some of the biggest state housing bills in rec…

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Rachel Lee: Double Black Diamond 42:19

9M ago42:19

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Rachel is a designer and creative who currently works on the ride-hailing experience at Cruise.We discussed her path from double majoring in Psychology and Sociology to hustling her way into a design career. We covered her experience as a first-generation immigrant and how she deals with her ambition, and the expectations she puts on herself.…

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Geoff Teehan: Canon DocuColor 1632 1:10:31

9M ago1:10:31

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Geoff is a designer, design leader and was one of the founders and partners at Teehan+Lax.We talked about his early career, got a glimpse into the founding of Teehan+Lax, and the rationale behind entertaining an acquisition. We spoke about design leadership and the lessons he learned while leading various teams at Facebook, and we sprinkled in many…

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461: Config and WWDC 2023 1:08:06

9M ago1:08:06

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This week, we supply some cold (but thoughtful!) takes on everything released during last month's WWDC and Config 2023. The Sidebar: The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to bonus content going forward! Sign up at patreon.com/designdetails. Latest VIP Patrons: Cy…

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Bryn & Sarah Jackson: Rawdogging a Squid 1:00:33

9M ago1:00:33

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For over a decade, Bryn and Sarah have been entrepreneurs and in creative or operating roles. However, the place where they truly feel at home is around food and building community.In this conversation we talk about their paths, and we get a candid, personal account of the challenges they’ve faced. We end by learning more about how things are going…

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Michelle Morrison & Madelin Woods: Creative Friendship 59:35

9M ago59:35

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Michelle and Madelin have enjoyed a long creative friendship. They overlapped at various different companies and collaborated on an equal amount of creative ventures.In this conversation, we talked about their creative connection, we shared our thoughts on strong collaborative relationships and remote work, and we got to hear some interesting stori…

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Cameron Koczon: Spider-Man With the Venom Suit 1:00:22

10M ago1:00:22

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Cameron is the founder and CEO of Fictive Kin, and co-creator of Brooklyn Beta and Kinference.Cameron has had a significant impact on a pocket of the technology and design industry. We talked about the state of technology, the state of design within those technology businesses, and many more other things.…

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Maya Gold Patterson: Fairy God Dad 53:38

10M ago53:38

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Maya is a digital product designer and design leader. She is currently the VP of Design at Riverside.We discussed her career path and dug into the lessons she learned from her time at Facebook and Twitter. We spoke about her attraction to the audio medium and how it is to work remotely across ten timezones.…

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Joshua Dickens: Big in Japan 1:14:20

10M ago1:14:20

1:14:20

Josh is a digital product designer and prototyper, currently working at Humane.We talked about a ton of things. We went in depth about his extended periods of time spent at Apple and Instagram. Weaved into this, he shared how he thinks about prototyping, and how he draws the relationship between his acting education and design.…

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Hans Peter Brøndmo: Arctic Guerilla Warfare 1:23:38

10M ago1:23:38

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Hans Peter is a serial entrepreneur, technologist and photographer. Most recently, he led Everyday Robots at Alphabet.We talked about the experiences he gained from the companies he founded, his time at Nokia during the rise of the iPhone, and his reflections on leading robotics at Alphabet.Towards the end of our conversation, we talked about our m…

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460: Arc Boosts ft. Gabriel Valdivia 1:01:21

11M ago1:01:21

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This week, we dissect the recently-launched Arc Boosts to try and understand what they're for and where they're going. The Sidebar: The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to bonus content going forward! Sign up at patreon.com/designdetails. Main Topic: This week, …

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Kim Bost: Finding Our Way 47:57

11M ago47:57

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Kim is a designer and leader with a very colorful track record including past roles at well-known companies like The New York Times, Etsy, and Dropbox. She is currently part of the Experience Design leadership team at Netflix.We covered a lot of topics, including burn-out, management styles, values alignment with your team and your employer, our sh…

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Aaron Carambula: Reducing Future Trash 1:05:17

11M ago1:05:17

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Aaron is one of those great individuals who is both a great designer, as well as a fabulous leader. He recently joined eBay as their VP of Design, where he continues his quest to bring re-commerce to the masses.We talked about his path into design, from his days in service design to realizing he wanted to go in-house, and eventually ending up havin…

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Didier Hilhorst: Mediocre at Best 1:04:32

11M ago1:04:32

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Didier studied to be an economist before making a pivot into design. Since then, he has been a design lead at Flipboard and led a large part of the Uber design team. Most recently, he co-founded a fintech company in Paris called Bloks.We spoke about the genesis of his career path and the big lessons that he’s learned along the way. Some of the nota…

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459: What Is Humane? 47:27

11M ago47:27

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This week, we talk about Humane's latest product demo and what we think it means for the future of AI-powered personal devices. The Sidebar: The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to bonus content going forward! Sign up at patreon.com/designdetails. Latest VIP Pat…

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Mia Blume: Goofy-looking Cacti 54:56

11M ago54:56

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Mia Blume is an entrepreneur, design leader, and leadership coach. She is the founder and CEO of learning & development company DesignDept, and the founder and host of the design leadership conference Within. We discussed her career and how she went from service design to in-house to starting her companies. We spoke about how she guides and support…

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Jessica Hische: Feeding the Beast 55:37

12M ago55:37

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Jessica is a lettering artist and author who has created custom lettering artwork for established brands, films, classic books, postage stamps, and so much more. She’s traveled the world speaking at creative conferences and colleges and has befriended innumerable internet strangers while navigating the depths of social media.Most recently, she wrot…

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Michael Sharon: Creative Monkeys 1:01:55

12M ago1:01:55

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Michael is an entrepreneur, investor, and product person. He is currently the co-founder and CEO at Taika, making beverages that fuel creativity. He was Facebook's first mobile product hire and subsequently led their mobile product development and strategy—including the company's pivot to mobile—for more than five years.We talked about his path fro…

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Matthew Buchanan: Growing Slowly 38:16

1y ago38:16

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Matthew is a designer, entrepreneur and a co-founder of Letterboxd, a social media site for film discussion and discovery. We talked about his path, how he bootstrapped and incubated Letterboxd, and how he has approached leading the company, and evolving the product, in the decade-plus that it has been around.…

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458: How Do You Simplify a UI? 40:18

1y ago40:18

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This week, we share non-obvious tips and tricks for simplifying a UI. The Sidebar: The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to bonus content going forward! Sign up at patreon.com/designdetails. Latest VIP Patrons: Anmol Kumar ANDREI REPIN Conor Boylan Ruslan A Andre…

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Haraldur Thorleifsson: Live at Kinference 31:59

1y ago31:59

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I’m excited to bring you a conversation with Haraldur Thorleifsson, or Halli, for short. I met up with Halli at Kinference in Brooklyn, and he was gracious enough to give me some of his time. We recorded this in the venue during the conference happy hour, so please bear with us as there’s going to be a lot of noise.Halli is an entrepreneur, creativ…

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Hazel Jennings: Tools, Not Rules 58:59

1y ago58:59

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Hazel is a writer and designer who works on design systems and product architecture. Right now, she’s building the design systems practice at Duolingo. She was the founding member of Instagram’s first content design team, and later, their first design systems team.Our conversation covers where her career started, and how she found her passion in a …

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Andrea Mignolo: The Winding Path 1:06:51

1y ago1:06:51

1:06:51

Andrea is a designer, leader, and executive coach working with unconventional leaders and teams.She has a compelling story about her winding career, from various startup roles, to finding her way to Interaction Design and executive leadership. Throughout our conversation we reflect on the industry, and the relationship between design and coaching.…

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Dan Rubin: Sketching in Public 1:13:15

1y ago1:13:15

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Dan is a designer, creative director and photographer based in London. He has had a fascinating story so far, from the early days of the world wide web, to being part of the early blogging scene, to becoming a prolific photographer. We talked about his path towards design and the creative field, how he found his way onto the internet, and how he al…

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457: How to Find Focus 25:20

1y ago25:20

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This week, we talk about finding focus when there are infinite things to learn to become a better designer. The Sidebar: The Sidebar is an exclusive weekly segment for our Patreon supporters. You can subscribe starting at $1 per month for access to bonus content going forward! Sign up at patreon.com/designdetails. Latest VIP Patrons: Jack Slocum Om…

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Everett Katigbak: Pounding the Pavement 1:00:01

1y ago1:00:01

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Everett is a multi-talented creative who is currently on the publishing team at Stripe as the executive producer of films and brand content for Stripe Press and Works in Progress.We talked about his path from East LA to the Bay Area and spoke about some of our shared formative experiences from reflections on our time at Facebook in the early 2010s.…

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Linda Eliasen: Bricks and Mortar 1:02:11

1y ago1:02:11

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Linda is a designer, creative director, and as her website says: 'Your friend in design.'Her story starts in small-town Georgia, and since she has had an illustrious career, from being a designer at companies like Mailchimp and Dropbox, to her time as an Art Director at UENO, and most recently leadership roles at Help Scout and Mux.Linda shared som…

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Vika: Twelve Dropdowns in a Row 1:14:42

1y ago1:14:42

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Vika is a designer and co-founder of Super. In our conversation, we discussed the challenges and lessons from her early career and some of the values and wisdom she likes to share with others now.Most notably, we covered her experience as one of the foundational Product Designers in Facebook's New York office and how she and her co-founder Lindsay …

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