A very caffeine dependent 29 year old life form who manages a TikTok, Podcast, a family, and a full time job . Always deeply interested in others goals towards improving their own lives and diving deep into how they view life. David began his podcast in 2019 about sobriety and has continued on into other passions with learning about how to grow on social media, developing art skills, and learning about people and what story it is that they want to share with the world.
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UX Cake is helping you become more effective in your UX work and career. Join host Leigh Allen-Arredondo as she speaks with leaders in the field from around the globe, bringing you practical advice to get the best outcomes for your work, your users, and your career in UX. Our guests include well-known leaders like Don Norman and Indi Young, as well as many less globally-known voices with fantastic insights to share, like disability designer & activist Liz Jackson, agile coach & UX champion S ...
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We help junior to mid-level executives navigate the challenges of rising the career ladder (or labyrinth depending on the school of thought).
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Expressing love and gratitude to my listeners and anyone else out there who is struggling. I reference 988 the suicide hotline number for anyone in need. Please reach out. I also am excited to share more details on my views with mental health, comic books, hobbies and more. Follow me with my social media handle throughout major platforms: @davidjsh…
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I hope you are all doing fine this evening and wanted to reintroduce my podcast to the world and look at interviewing and growing again creatively. If you would like to be on my podcast please feel free to reach me on IG: @davidjsherwin
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Shaping Design Careers, featuring Jason Mesut
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Do you want your career to be sustainable and aligned with what truly matters to you? Designing a holistic career that embraces every part of who we are can be a complex and meaningful challenge. This week Leigh and guest Jason Mesut have a captivating discussion about the significance of aligning personal values with work and finding meaning in on…
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David Bell│Analyse Why Everyone is Successful and from there Create
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David shared with me exactly how he built the brand and he was very detailed about how some of his 'not so great' life experiences shaped his future success. In the interview we talked about - Why being a person of your word, makes the biggest difference in business and in life - Exactly what it takes to build a business when you have no money to s…
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Systems Thinking for Designers, featuring Sheryl Cababa & Leigh Allen-Arredondo
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In this episode, we chat with Sheryl Cababa, Chief Strategy Officer at Substantial and author of "Closing the Loop: Systems Thinking for Designers." She introduces the concept of systems thinking, which is a way to consider the broader implications of design decisions. By examining the entire problem and understanding the interconnections between v…
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The Quiet Leader: Strategies for Introverts with Tim Yeo
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This episode is about quiet leadership - how you can be an authentic leader even if you don’t have the loudest voice in the room. We’re joined by Tim Yeo, a design leader and speaker who helps introverts have an impact and influence without having to pretend to be extroverts. Tim is the brain behind The Quiet Achiever, where he coaches introverts t…
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In this podcast, we're going to dive deep into what ChatGPT is, how it works, and most importantly, what it means for the future of technology and humanity. We'll explore the incredible things ChatGPT can do, from generating creative writing to providing answers to complex questions. We'll also talk about the implications of this technology, both t…
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I’m this episode I open up on effective self help tips
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Adding Strategic Value to Tactical Work with Laura Barboza
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Are you a UX practitioner who's frustrated with feeling like you lack agency in your work? Or maybe you're someone who wants to take their UX game to the next level by incorporating strategic outcomes into your tactical deliverables? You’re not alone! Listen (or watch) on… This week I’m joined by my long-time friend, colleague, and UX Strategy expe…
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(Best of) On Recovering and Reinvention: Navigating Career Changes with John Maeda
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With so many people facing changes in their work and careers right now, navigating the complex and turbulent waters of layoffs, org changes, and economic adjustments can be incredibly challenging. My guest today is renowned design leader and author John Maeda - who is no stranger to career shifts and changes. In this inspiring episode, John shares …
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Unleashing Your Best Work Through Healthy Conflict and Feedback with Billie Mandel
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Do you want to unlock your creative potential and foster innovation? We know that collaboration and communication are vital to producing outstanding work, but what you might not know is that the foundation of that is healthy conflict. Without it, we can't achieve our creative best. On this episode, we welcome Billie Mandel, a seasoned expert in des…
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Do More With Less: The Power of a Strategic Mindset
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If you're in UX, you've likely heard the question, "How can we do more with less?" especially during any economic squeeze. Many companies are cutting back on resources and downsizing teams, while still expecting the same results. Some common approaches are to argue the value of UX, or simply say "no" to requests due to lack of resources. But there’…
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Making Space For Meaning and Success with Tutti Taygerly
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As human beings, it is embedded in us to seek purpose in everything we do. We want to do meaningful work that affects other people or pursue the passion within us. But many people wonder, is it too much to ask for an opportunity to work on something valuable? In today's episode, we are joined by Tutti Taygerly, a Leadership Coach, speaker, and auth…
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Beyond Titles: The Real Meaning of Leadership
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Join host Leigh Allen-Arredondo for this UX Cake Pop - short and sweet when you just want a bite of UX Cake! In this UX Cake Pop, I’m sharing my experience with the true meaning of leadership, which is not about having a specific job title or position of authority, but about inspiring and guiding others towards a shared goal. Anyone can be a leader…
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In this episode I’m talking with Ryan Rumsey about feeling like an outsider in design, the very human need to belong, and some of the affects that feeling like an outsider can create in our lives and in our careers. Find out how we’ve overcome feeling like outsiders, and what we’ve done to find community. My guest Ryan Rumsey is author of Business …
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Irene Ng, CEO of Dataswift │How To Negotiate At Work
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In this episode of The Mentors Edition, she is going to share with us: - How to negotiate, whilst being authentic and without losing sight of your goal - The power of play, creativity and gamification when it comes to work and problem solving -How to not overthink change Take a breath. She is a force to be reckoned with. Find us: Website: www.thein…
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Tanya Pratt, VP Oracle Hospitality│Why you don't always need a career plan
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Watch here >>> Whether you're a planner and your plans were thrust out the window by life's happenings or you're the 'flying on the seat of your pants' sort - this podcast episode is for you! Find us: Website: www.theinfluentialme.com Instagram: @theinfluentialme Facebook: @theinfluentialmeBy Michelle
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Building Design Teams That Scale with Anjali Deswandikar
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A business can only grow as much as its people. That is why it is important to build teams with the knowledge that each of them is a key member who will eventually become a senior as you grow. In this episode, Leigh Allen-Arredondo interviews Anjali Deswandikar, the Design Director at Terralogic, Inc. and Design Team Lead at Lollypop Design, about …
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Anjana Srinivasan │How to stay in the same company and get multiple promotions
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Watch the episode here! Let's be honest staying in one organisation is the harder route, there is nowhere to hide, and simultaneously a battle to not become 'office furniture.' In this podcast episode, Anjana Srinivasan, Managing Director for Wealth Transformation Programme in HSBC UK, shows us how she did it. In fact, she even got promoted between…
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Designing For Accessibility With Chimmy Kalu
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Accessibility needs to be the gold standard for everything. If you have the power to make things more accessible and inclusive, strive for that. You are actually leaving money on the table if you don't design with accessibility in mind. There are billions of persons with disabilities, and companies need to consult them. If you're a small company, t…
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Designing With Developers - Abhishek Nayak
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Great digital products don't just happen. They're the result of a strong designer-developer relationship. That is because the two groups bring different but complementary skill sets. By understanding and respecting each other's strengths, the designer and developer can work together to create user-friendly and technically sound products. In this ep…
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Claire Sherwin, VP HR Director Technology, Finastra│Take Calculated Risks and Get Ahead
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Watch the episode here> As a hiring manager in the tech space, working in one of the fastest growing companies in the country, Claire shares exactly what you need to do to get noticed by tech companies. That's not all though, here's what I found out from her and what you can learn: - Why impressing your peers is more important than impressing your …
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Level up with UX Strategy In this episode of UX Cake Podcast, we discuss how you can create a UX strategy for better outcomes for your users, and the products or services you help create. There are many different perceptions about what UX Strategy actually is. My guest Jaime Levy - who wrote the book "UX Strategy" - defines as the intersection betw…
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Apiramy Jeyarajah, UK Wholesale Head, Aviva Investors │The Employer-Employee Expectations
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Are you and your manager on the same page? If not, then this mentor is about to help you perfect that potentially tricky relationship. She's a fear-proofed thought leader who pushed past racial and gender barriers to carve out a successful career , in male dominated departments, in some of the largest financial institutions in our country. You cann…
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Scaling UX Research : Democratization 2.0
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Scaling user research, means doing more, doing more research, and doing more with user research, through democratization, or enablement. Democratization in UX, is a topic of controversy, yet this episode is a conversation and not My an argument debate. I think partially because the term democratization and the concept of democratization really has …
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In this episode of the UX Cake podcast, we’re bringing you lots of great information about UX writing as a specialty within UX. In this special Ask Me Anything format we cover some of the most useful soft skills for a career in UX writing, hard skills that are transferable from other industries, ideas on how to upskill your UX writing, finding a me…
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Show Me What It Means - with Thomas Watkins
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This episode is all about creating meaning from data, and making it easy for your audience to understand by making it visual. We can apply the same principles we use to design dashboards to presentations - whether you’re communicating design concepts (and the data-driven decisions behind your design) or user research findings. I had such a great ti…
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Dax Grant, CEO Global Transform │Motherhood is Leadership
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Watch the episode here!!! Dax Grant former CIO, Global Operations of HSBC, who is also an experienced CEO and COO, but the titles she values most are daughter, wife and mother. Dax talks us through, - The five characteristics she knows will lead to your success - Why there is no shame in motherhood at work and how you can transform it into an asset…
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Increasing our influence also increases the impact our work can have. This is especially important in user experience design and research… when not everyone we work with may have the same user obsession as we do, so it sometimes takes extra effort to see the impact we want. Often the UX folks are not the ultimate authority in the room, or on a proj…
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Nilema Bhakta-Jones,GCC Kantar Media │Disruption and Worthiness at Work
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She’s been a Solicitor, Barrister, CEO, COO, and now she’s the Group General Counsel for Kantar Media. a woman who refused to let obstacles define her journey, and in this podcast she talks about the following. How lockdown reshaped her ideas of work and family. The number 1, single most important key to her success. How consistently she maintained…
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Challenging Assumptions to Transform Results
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No doubt you're practicing challenging assumptions in your user-centered work already -- identifying what you think you know (or assume) about users' beliefs and actions, and finding out if those assumptions are true, or what else is true. What if you take that same approach towards the people you work with, and in your own career? The result can b…
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