Episode #35: Ran Segall We are super excited to have with us today the inspiring Ran Segall - a full stack designer, a creator, and a vlogger. Ran started out as a designer, working with startups to create great products & brands. For the past 5 years, his been freelancing with 3-5 clients at any given time, and also, he's been sharing his journey …

Episode #34: David Kadavy We are thrilled to have with us today the amazing David Kadavy - Bestselling author of The Heart to Start & Design For Hackers, a creative entrepreneur, and host of Love your Work Podcast. David started out as a curious web designer, working with startups and freelancing, he wanted to figure out a way to design smarter, fo…

Episode #33: Yasmine Evjen It is our pleasure to present to you the inspiring Yasmine Evjen (that's ev-Yan) - Design Advocate at Google, a storyteller and (previously) a Co-host at Material Podcast - a podcast all about Google and Android. Yasmine started out as a front-end developer and a web designer, doing freelance work, working in agencies tha…

Episode #32: Quincy Larson Today we had the pleasure of talking to Quincy Larson - Founder and educator at " freeCodeCamp", where you can learn to code completely for free. Quincy started out as a teacher and a developer, driven by the 'pay it forward' mentality, and helping others to succeed. He also has a background in journalism, which had him p…

Episode #31: Brad Frost We are honored to have with us today, the inspiring Brad Frost, Founder and inventor of the " Atomic Design" system. Brad started as a web designer, came out through the agency world, doing client work, started a shop, and eventually found himself also consulting for teams, doing workshops, writing a blog and hosting a podca…

Episode #30: Jason Ogle Our guest today is a fellow podcaster, the amazing Jason Ogle, Founder and host of UserDefenders.com podcast, where he creates and shares inspiring interviews with UX superheroes. Jason started as a designer and a developer in the 90s, and he believes in what's called "The Beginner's Mindset", which means that you're going t…

Episode #29: Noah Kagan Our guest today is the inspiring Noah Kagan, Founder, and Chief-Sumo at Sumo.com, AppSumo.com, and OkDork. Noah is a super successful entrepreneur, a marketing specialist and business consultant. Noah made his way from the marketing world. He started at Intel, was employee #30 at Facebook and #4 at Mint. Noah has a very open…

Episode #28: Samuel Hulick Our guest today is none other than Samuel Hulick, Founder of UserOnboard. Samuel started as a developer, and eventually found himself focusing on UX design and customer success. That led him to find that one crucial part of the experience that leads customers to succeed with any product: User Onboarding. From there, he on…

Episode #27: Maria Giudice It is our pleasure to present to you Maria Giudice, Former VP, Experience Design at Autodesk, founder of Hot studio and former Creative Director of product design at Facebook. Maria was the founder of Hot studio for over 15 years and then acquired by Facebook, where she was working as a creative director of product design…

Episode #26: Keenan Cummings Our guest today is the inspiring Keenan Cummings, Team Leader at Airbnb and former Co-founder/Creative Director of Days (acquired by Yahoo!) and the Designers Debate Club. Keenan started his career as a designer in NYC, working in brand agencies and doing print work, where he landed what he thought would be a dream proj…

Episode #25: Khoi Vinh Our guest today is none other than Khoi Vinh, Principal Designer at Adobe and former Design Director of The New York Times. Khoi is the founder of the popular blog, Subtraction.com and a true family man. He was born in South Vietnam and immigrated to the United States as a young boy. He attended Otis College of Art and Design…

Episode #24: Chris Coyier It is our pleasure to present to you Chris Coyier. Chris started his journey writing blogs he didn't enjoy, and eventually realized that his passion was actually in coding the blogs and crafting the CSS behind them. He eventually closed down all of his blogs except one, and CSS-Tricks was born. His blog is now one of the l…

Episode #23: Harry Roberts Today we had the pleasure of talking to Harry Roberts, the founder of the well-known blog, CSS Wizardry. Harry started his career as a web developer at a very young age and has become one of the world’s most well-known experts in CSS. He was named young developer of the year in 2014 by Net Magazine, and now runs workshops…

Today’s episode is what we like to call an in-between-a-sode. There are a few days left of the applications for our program, The Side Project Accelerator, so I wanted to quickly discuss one of the core philosophies we teach in the program - audience-driven product development. This is the methodology that Sagi and I developed and used to build Hack…

Episode #21: Rizwan Javaid Today we are joined by Rizwan Javaid, a member of The Side Project Accelerator. Rizwan is a UX designer who is passionate about transforming ideas into engaging and profitable digital solutions. He is based out of California and works on a variety of projects both for mobile and web. Rizwan is also a blogger and internati…

Episode #20: Kelsey Ruger With us today is Kelsey Ruger, a UX consultant based out of Houston, Texas. Kelsey is a professor, a designer, a developer, and pretty much a jack of all trades. We met and got to know Kelsey because he's also a member of The Side Project Accelerator. Kelsey has worked on web and mobile projects for Fortune 100 startups an…

Episode #19: David Okuniev Joining us today is the former musician turned designer, David Okuniev. He is the co-founder and joint CEO of Typeform, one of the hottest young startups out there. In this conversation, we discuss his journey from being a musician with a record deal to owning a design agency and eventually building a product that was tra…

Episode #18: Peter Nowell Our guest today is a super talented designer with an entrepreneurial fire burning in his veins. We are pleased to present to you Peter Nowell, a designer based in San Francisco. Currently, Peter is splitting his time between doing amazing endeavors, design work for high end clients, and running Sketch Master, his scaling p…

Episode #17: Matt Mullenweg In this episode we were joined by Matt Mullenweg, CEO of the multi-billion dollar company Automattic, which is responsible for some of the Internet's most well known products such as WordPress, Gravatar, Akismet, and WooCommerce. Matt is driven by the mission to allow anyone in the world to have a home on the internet wh…

Episode #16: Jason Zook Our guest today is one of the most creative entrepreneurs in the world. We present to you Jason Zook, a guy who made a radical shift ultimately deciding to leave his “beige world" once and for all and embark on one of the most colorful entrepreneurial journeys of our time. Jason started out by getting companies to pay him to…

Episode #15: Tal Perry This is the third episode of the second season of the Hacking UI podcast, 'Scaling a Side Project'. In this season we interview designers, developers, and creative entrepreneurs who built and scaled successful side projects that we admire. Today’s guest is a very special type of person. He’s not your regular entrepreneur and …

Episode #14: Jason Bacher & Brian Buirge This is the second episode of the second season of the Hacking UI podcast, 'Scaling a Side Project'. In this season we interview designers, developers, and creative entrepreneurs who built and scaled successful side projects that we admire. Today’s episode is one for the explicit books. So if you have sensit…

Episode #13: Bryn Jackson This is the first episode of the second season of the Hacking UI podcast, 'Scaling a Side Project'. In this season we interview designers, developers, and creative entrepreneurs who built and scaled successful side projects that we admire. Today we are excited to have Bryn Jackson on the show. Bryn is the co-founder of Spe…

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Find all show notes in here: http://hackingui.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/ Events in San Fransisco: Wednesday Aug 24th 2016: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-ui-micro-workshop-to-jump-start-your-personal-brand-tickets-27148005415 Thursday Aug 25th 2016: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-ui-scali…

Find all show notes in here: http://hackingui.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/ Events in San Fransisco: Wednesday Aug 24th 2016: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-ui-micro-workshop-to-jump-start-your-personal-brand-tickets-27148005415 Thursday Aug 25th 2016: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hacking-ui-scali…

Episode #9: Katie Dill This week on the podcast we had a great discussion with Katie Dill, the director of experience design at Airbnb, one of the few companies in the world that’s truly disrupting an industry. In this conversation we discuss managing designers as a design experiment, how craft and hustle go together, and why the user experience sh…

This week we were honored to sit down with Bob Baxley, Former Design Manager at Yahoo,Apple, and Pinterest . Find all the show notes at: http://hackingui.com/scaling-a-design-team/bob-baxley-cultural-differences-inside-companies Get the Hacking UI newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/Av Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner

This week we're super happy to have with us on the show Magera Moon - Product Design Manager at Etsy. Find all the show notes at: http://hackingui.com/scaling-a-design-team/scaling-a-design-team-ep-7-magera-moon Get the Hacking UI newsletter here: http://hackingui.com/sign-up/Av Sagi Shrieber & David Tintner

This is the read-out-loud of the Article found here: http://hackingui.com/product-hacking/side-projects/ In the following episode Sagi - Design Director, Hacking UI co-founder, and the founder of Israel's Pixel Perfect Magazine - shares his story & personal tips on the hows & whys of scaling side projects…

This week we’re thrilled to share with you our talk with Joel Califa - Product Design Lead at DigitalOcean, Founder of Design & Code, and Front-End Instructor at GA . With us on this call is Noam Liss, senior product designer at SimilarWeb. Find all the show notes at: http://hackingui.com/category/scaling-a-design-team/ Get the Hacking UI newslette…

This week we’re happy to share with you this talk we had with Emmet Connolly - Intercom's Product Design Director. Talking with Emmet was insightful, and we learned a lot about the way Intercom's design team works and scales. Find all the show notes at: http://hackingui.com/category/scaling-a-design-team/ Get the Hacking UI newsletter here: http://…

This week we’re coming at you from the Facebook Tel Aviv office, where we were lucky to meet up with Melissa Hajj. Melissa is the head of Facebook’s core growth design team, whose stated mission is connecting the next billion people to Facebook (no big deal). Shownotes and more here: http://hackingui.com/scaling-a-design-team/03-melissa-hajj/…

This November we teamed up with Design&Startups and launched a free product design panel event, discussing product team structures, responsibilities, and workflows. It was an amazing experience for me hosting the first ever Hacking UI event in San Francisco. The panelists were amazing and listening to what they had to say was super insightful! The …

In this episode we talked with the amazing Billy Kiely, VP Product of Invision. Billy was the first designer at Invision, and he scaled the company alongside Clark, the CEO, with design thinking as one of it’s core values. We talk about the structure of Invision’s product team, about how Billy made hiring decisions, what it’s like to work at Invisi…