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Amy Parker is the Executive Design Director at Woods Creative. Amy runs Woods’ Portland, Maine studio where she leads creative strategy, ideation, and digital design to make communication solutions, digital products, and visual languages for brands. Amy works in tandem with her research partner, Chris Bransfield, to conduct primary one-on-one interviews for design and Human Experience/User Experience research to gain insight, understand nuanced problems, ask questions, and uncover findings to identify form, content and functional needs. Amy’s current clients hire her for her design work, insights into how visual design elevates products for the people using them, and energetic approach towards solving challenging business problems with design. A few notable clients Amy has worked with are; Pegasystems, Daily Table, EVERSANA, University of St. Gallen, 240 Strings, John Hancock, SPACE Gallery, Material Wise (Podcast), Bank of America, Noble Biomaterials, Cessna, New Balance, Puma, and Rising Bear Foods. Amy holds a BFA from the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk and serves on the board of directors with AIGA Boston.
Amy Parker's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amyparkerdesign/
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Wood's Creative Website: http://www.woodscreative.co/
 
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Joanna Mahoney, an in-house graphic designer at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. For the majority of 2020, she and her team worked hard to produce meaningful digital content for Museum members and visitors to engage with from the comfort of their homes. Mahoney is also known for her impressive talents in motion graphics, illustration, and hand-lettering art. Before completing her master's degree in Graphic Design at Suffolk University, Mahoney earned her undergraduate degree in Theater Studies at Emerson College, where she learned the ins and outs of designing the set and prop pieces for theater and film. Her creative journey is certainly full of twists and turns and is super exciting.
We had a fun conversation not only catching up as a mini Suffolk alumni reunion, but discussing her design journey of becoming a leader in inspiring women, particularly young female creatives to break the wage gap, be open to talking about their “imposter syndrome” struggles, and be brave to pursue their leadership positions with confidence and joy in the creative field. Throughout this talk, you will also discover her grassroots Valkyrie mentorship campaign, her #100dayproject on Instagram, her passion for theater, and her other beautiful artworks.
Joanna Mahoney's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joamahoney/
Joanna Mahoney's Portfolio: https://www.joannamahoney.com/
 
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For this week's episode, we are pleased to welcome Aneesh Borah to our show. Born and raised in India, Aneesh Borah has completed his study in the U.S., and now he is a UX/UI and Graphic Designer currently working for Pegasystems. To him, great design is all about its functionality where it can contribute to a greater good. His confidence and design thinking help shape his understanding about creativity in a thoughtful execution plan and research strategy. During our talk, you will learn about Aneesh’s Creative Huddle, a design community that he founded, and his belief in delivering creative services to make the world a better place.
This is also our last episode for Season 1. What a ride for us! With much gratitude, we thank all our guests for sharing their incredible journeys and stories. We also want to thank you, our listeners, very much for supporting us and giving us a listen. We hope that you enjoy our talks, find some helpful tips to apply to your design career, and get inspired to be problem solvers in the world. If you have any comments or feedback on our show, please feel free to drop us some thoughts. Stay safe, and we’ll see you in the next season.Disclaimer:
In the last couple of months, we have continued to interview guests and we had been saving it up until the time is right. It appears the time is right now to share this with the world! We are so excited! 
In late 2019, the @pixelperfecttalk team had been planning on starting this podcast where we interviewed creatives about how they learn from their mistakes and how it helped with their success. But then the pandemic hit, and we created this Instagram account with the following podcast.
 
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Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts + Spotify — Season 1: Pixel Perfect with Aneesh Borah

Guest Description:
Our guest for this week is Nicole D’Ambrosio. Nicole currently holds a Color Designer title at NOBULL, athletic footwear, apparel, and accessory brand. With the love for colors and being active, she has followed her dream to become a designer in the industrial and product design field, especially in the sports industry. Nicole has also acquired UX/UI design knowledge that gives her an insight into users' or clients’ minds when designing for them. Throughout our conversation, Nicole shares her passion for the product design industry, her communication skills that are crucial for designers to develop, and thoughts on disciplines and self-care to sustain a busy workweek.Disclaimer:
In the last couple of months, we have continued to interview guests and we had been saving it up until the time is right. It appears the time is right now to share this with the world! We are so excited! 
In late 2019, the @pixelperfecttalk team had been planning on starting this podcast where we interviewed creatives about how they learn from their mistakes and how it helped with their success. But then the pandemic hit, and we created this Instagram account with the following podcast.
Social Media Links:
Visit us at pixelperfect.blog
Follow us @pixelperfecttalk on Instagram
Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts + Spotify — Season 1: Pixel Perfect with Nicole D’Ambrosio

Guest Description:
Erik Weikert is currently an Associate Creative Director at Pilot Studio, a creative agency focuses on bringing engaging strategies across branding, product, and marketing for a spectrum of client industries. Besides, he co-founded Bay State Design Shop, a New England design community (300+ members) where designers can ask questions, share thoughts, and offer constructive critiques on anything design-related. Throughout our conversation, Erik shares how vital it is to learn about the clients and their industries in the design process, to take a step back to look at designs and to have an open-minded perspective to solve problems.
 
Disclaimer:
In the last couple of months, we have continued to interview guests and we had been saving it up until the time is right. It appears the time is right now to share this with the world! We are so excited! 
In late 2019, the @pixelperfecttalk team had been planning on starting this podcast where we interviewed creatives about how they learn from their mistakes and how it helped with their success. But then the pandemic hit, and we created this Instagram account with the following podcast.
 
Social Media Links:
Visit us at pixelperfect.blog
Follow us @pixelperfecttalk on Instagram

Guest Description:
Every designer knows how challenging it is when first starting out their creative journey whether as a freelancer or a team member of an organization. Cody Johnston, a UX/UI designer, a branding expert, and a creative director, shares his experience and valuable lessons he has learned along the way in this guest episode. Our conversation ignites when Cody describes his design process that taps on many facets including solving problems for clients takes a collaborative effort by listening to them more rather than having the spotlight on designers themselves. Another point we love about this episode is that Cody believes design is an act of contribution to others' well-being. A very insightful and dazzling conversation that we hope you'll enjoy.
 
Disclaimer:
In the last couple of months, we have continued to interview guests and we had been saving it up until the time is right. It appears the time is right now to share this with the world! We are so excited! 
In late 2019, the @pixelperfecttalk team had been planning on starting this podcast where we interviewed creatives about how they learn from their mistakes and how it helped with their success. But then the pandemic hit, and we created this Instagram account with the following podcast.
 
Social Media Links:
Visit us at pixelperfect.blog
Follow us @pixelperfecttalk on Instagram