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Designer Sushi podcast is about the everyday life of a UX designer through the perspectives of two career switcher UX designers that have a shared lived experience in Japan. UX Design is a hot industry and popular among people that are looking to transition from their previous careers. But it also comes with struggles especially when you’re working in a different country. This show will give an insider look at our UX career where we discuss our wins, growth, and challenges as we navigate our ...
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8: UX Designer Hot Line Part 1 ft.Teresa Fong
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Happy New Year! あけましておめでとうございます！今年もよろしくお願いします 🥳。We hope 2024 will be a great year for you all! We would like to apologize for the extreme delay in our new episode as our life has been getting busy lately. But we have an exciting 2 part episode to kick off the new year! Our guest on this episode is the loveable Teresa Fong! Teresa is a senior produc…
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7: Being a Product Designer as a Nigerian in Canada ft. Mosope Adebowale
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Our content has been heavily focused on UX in Japan, however, some listeners have reached out to us because they were curious to know about the UX industry in Canada too, especially as a foreigner or newcomer! We invited, Mosope Adebowale, a very talented Product Designer at Meta located in Toronto, Canada. Mosope was born and raised in Lagos, Nige…
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6: Being an Entrepreneur as a UX Designer in Japan ft. Raphael Hodé
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Some UX mentors and educators recommend you freelance to gain experience for your first role when starting out as a UX Designer. But what if you want to do it full-time and even start your own company? Entrepreneurship and freelancing are one of the many career options you can pursue and it can be a very rewarding (or challenging) experience. We ta…
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5: Working in-house vs consulting vs digital agency as a UX Designer ft. Nicole Ha
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“To work at a product company you have to love the product. To work at an agency you have to love the process.” Have you ever wondered how many industries you could work in as a UX Designer? We have always wondered this ourselves and we’re here to discuss this with you all! And, to help us with this conversation, we have brought in our FIRST guest!…
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4: The gap between theory and practice in UX
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Welcome to Season 2 of Designer Sushi! First off, we’d like to make a huge apology to our listeners for the delay in releasing the new episodes. Life got in the way for both of us and Designer Sushi had to take a back seat. But now that 20% of 2023 has gone by, we really wanted to get the ball rolling to release more episodes for you! 🚀 This episod…
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New to Designer Sushi? Give a listen here to see what we all about!
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By Lori Chai & Mikah Razon
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3: Dealing with stress in the UX industry
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While we love our career and don’t regret the switch, we have been feeling stressed about the UX industry and want to share the stress we are dealing with to provide more transparency in our UX career. Some of the stress we talk about are: Trying to stay up-to-date with the tech industry trends Maintaining our UX portfolio while still working full-…
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2: Our experience with Japanese work culture
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Japanese work culture is a world wonder mainly when you live outside the country. Well, we are here to spill the tea on this topic in both our previous careers and as UX Designers! We share our experience of how we dealt with Japan’s work culture as foreigners while working in both Japanese and international companies. This was a fun topic as we id…
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To kick off our first episode, we discuss our journey in career switching into UX while working in Japan. Mikah talks about how being a software engineer and coding for car audio wasn’t fulfilling for her, and Lori shares that the travel industry wasn’t as glamorous for her. We both had the same desire to be creative and work in the tech industry. …
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Welcome to the launch of Designer Sushi! In our pilot episode, you can get to know us as hosts as we discuss our professional background and our current job in UX. We also talk about why we named our podcast “Designer Sushi” and why we have such a huge connection to Japan. You can also get a sneak peek at some of the plans and goals we have for thi…
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