DXP-007: Jon Myers

Design Exchange with Thomas Grové

From Free Agent to Chief Design Officer

For our Double-O-Seventh episode, it is oh so appropriate to have Jon Myers as our guest. He's an international designer of mystery—living a jet-set life and assassinating design problems with expert marksmanship. We talk to Jon about his 20 years of design experience leading up to his current role as Chief Design Officer at Tokyo and Ho Chi Minh City based crypto trading platform Liquid.

You can find Jon at @JonMyers on Twitter and http://www.jonmyers.com/ You can learn more about Liquid at https://www.liquid.com/

Table of Contents:

• 00:17 - Intro
• 01:15 - Jon's Saigon Journey
• 02:17 - The Columbus Connection
• 02:43 - Jon's Design and Entrepreneurship Journey
• 05:16 - Digital Nomads, Lifestyle Business, Scalable Startups, Affiliate Marketing, Vietnam and a Medium Article
• 08:27 - American's Have an Unfair Advantage in Immigration and Global Citizenship
• 10:54 - World on Fire, Working for Yourself, Working for a Company, Abstraction Layers
• 15:04 - Introduction to The Liquid Crypto Platform
• 21:09 - Advice to be a Better Designer
• 24:31 - Smoking Shisha
• 26:07 - Exercise, Daily Routines, Productivity, Intermittent Fasting
• 28:42 - Distraction and Productivity
• 33:13 - What Does Jon Like Most About Living in Vietnam?
• 35:59 - Design vs Conducting
• 37:04 - Entertainment, Tourism, and Restaurants in Saigon
• 40:54 - Jon's Design Process
• 44:39 - Sketch (UI Design App)
• 45:54 - Game Design, New Platforms, and Gold Rushes
• 50:04 - Dynamite Circle
• 51:17 - Vitality in Online Communities
• 56:28 - Outro

Hashtags:

#liquid #crypto #design #ux #vietnam #shisha #digitalnomad #productivity #entrepreneurship #leadership #columbus #saigon #expatlife

This episode is also available as a video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/bJ072HFD7ns