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Dylan Mullins is a design leader with an impressive global client rosters. He spoke to Path Unbound about creative leadership, hiring, what can mid-level designers do to move up to leadership positions and how to advocate for the value of design in a business environment.

Silvia Script is a veteran design educator. She is a user interface and experience designer. Graduated from prestigious design schools, Silvia has over a decade of experience working for top design agencies. She shared her wisdom for students who did not graduate from such schools and how they can still stand out. She also shared her incredible wisdom as a design educator, a resourceful designer and a self-dubbed "French toast aficionado".

Dingding Hu is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning illustrator based in New York City. Originally from China, she studied illustration at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) before becoming a full-time freelance illustrator. The way she got started in her illustration career is unexpected. She shared what worked for her and how sticking to her passion and not being strayed by the current trend created a name for herself.

Amy Lima is an emerging UI UX designer with an outstanding portfolio. She went above and beyond in preparing for her portfolio while still in design bootcamps. She also showed off her personality unapologetically in her website and proposed innovative redesign to existing popular apps. Learn from her experience as a recent bootcamp grad on how you can easily prepare for your portfolio when there is nothing to show yet.

Samuel Kang is a multi-talented designer. He currently works at Microsoft as a UX designer, but he also codes, paints, illustrates and design beautiful graphics. His portfolio site is truly one of a kind and he has some great advice for designers trying to stand out with their portfolio. 

Nithya Asokan is a UX designer at Amazon, who self-identify as a CX professional as well. We spoke to Nithya about her career path, discussed how she designed for emergencies and how CX affects businesses.