78 episodes
Design MBA Jayneil Dalal
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4.9 • 38 Ratings
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Design MBA is a real life MBA for designers. You will learn how to launch a side hustle and level up your design career from interviews with rockstar designers. I'm your host Jayneil Dalal.
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Spatial Design is the Future
My guest today is Julian Park who is the CEO at Bezel, a collaborative spatial design tool.
In this episode, we discuss the following:
00:34 Why I'm interviewing Julian Park (CEO at Bezel)
1:41 Why Spatial Design is the future of the UX Design industry?
4:13 Why Apple priced the Vision Pro headset so high?
5:15 Why designers should become early adopters of spatial design?
8:34 Learnings from working at Facebook Oculus as an engineer
9:25 Why join the Meta Oculus team over WhatsApp or Instagram?
11:00 Why quit Meta to start a 3D design tool company Bezel?
14:15 Finding startup ideas while working at FAANG/MAMA
15:03 Why you shouldn't pitch your startup idea as an employee to Meta leadership?
15:56 How to build trust with your startup cofounders?
17:36 How to divide responsibilities among startup cofounders?
18:48 Learnings from Figma's startup journey
22:33 How many hours does a startup CEO work?
24:47 How to avoid burnout as startup CEO?
26:15 How to level up as a startup CEO?
28:21 Advice for entrepreneurs working at FAANG/MAMA
30:09 How to escape the golden handcuffs at FAANG and quit?
Interview Video: https://youtu.be/F8G3jgQjXzg
Connect with me on LinkedIn:
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The Ultimate Guide for Investing in Startups as a Designer
My guest today is DANIEL SCRIVNER who is the General Partner at Ligature VC
In this episode, we discuss the following:
- Why I'm interviewing @daniel-scrivner (General Partner at Ligature VC)?
How to run a VC fund alongside your day job?
How to hyper-focus at work?
Why invest in Venture Capital as an asset class?
Why do Venture Capitalists need to differentiate themselves?
Why start a VC fund instead of passive investing in top-tier VC firms?
Why raise a VC fund instead of angel investing?
What should be the expected returns for a VC fund?
How to get access to a great deal flow as a VC?
Investing at the seed round in Notion
What are the benefits of having operator LPs in a VC fund?
Is the Design VC space getting crowded?
How to invest in startups if you have no clout or access?
Interview Video: https://youtu.be/8q4PEh8uSK8
For show notes, guest bio, and more, please visit:
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Why Designers Need to Learn About Business
My guests today is Om Suthar who is the Director of Product Design at DISQO.
In this episode, we discuss the following:
- Why I'm interviewing Om Suthar (Director of Product Design at DISQO)
- Why is it important to control your burn rate as a startup founder?
- What is Founder Market fit?
- Startup Founder shares lessons learned from failing to raise funding from venture capitalists
- Should you tell your employer about the startup you are doing on the side?
- How to manage your startup and day job simultaneously?
- How to Build Your Second Brain?
- Startup horror stories from a first time founder
- How to trust people and manage expectations?
- How to evaluate different career opportunities?
- Why do companies want to hire design entrepreneurs?
- How does being an entrepreneur help a designer collaborate better with product partners?
- Why should designers learn about how a business operates?
- How can designers/researchers effectively present research findings to C-level executives?
- What are the benefits for a designer to learn about the business side of things?
- Why you should not quit your job to pursue an idea/startup?
- How to set a career goal correctly?
Interview Video: https://youtu.be/asEjJAov3nU
For show notes, guest bio, and more, please visit:
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Mistakes First Time Design Managers Make - Kyle Turman (Director of Product Design @ Retool)
My guests today is Kyle Turman who is the the Director of Product Design at Retool and previously led design teams at Slack, Dropbox, and Etsy.
Interview Video: https://youtu.be/CPnSHrk9e6U
In this episode, we discuss the following:
- Why I'm interviewing Kyle Turman
- Why is it hard for IC designers to switch into a design manager role?
- What changes when you become a design manager from an IC designer?
- Imposter Syndrome being a first time Design Manager
- How do you measure output as a design manager?
- How does a Design Manager track their progress?
- Importance of focusing on business impact as a Design Manager
- Why should a Design Manager pay attention to the existing company culture?
- Why you should not micro manage your direct reports as a Design Manager?
- Should you give feedback to your Design Manager if they are micromanaging you?
- What are the long term impacts of not delegating work?
- Why do you have to motivate your direct reports as a Design Manager?
- How do you motivate designers at a company?
- How to figure out what motivates designers on your team?
- Why you should encourage your direct reports to double down on their strenghts as a Design Manager?
- How do you grow as a Design Manager?
- Asking for help from stakeholders as a Design Manager
- How to be productive as a Design Manager?
For show notes, guest bio, and more, please visit:
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Taking a Sabbatical - Ben Huggins (Design @ Retool)
My guests today is Ben Huggins who is a Product Designer at Retool.
Interview Video: https://youtu.be/grUjIw-DyMw
In this episode, we discuss the following:
- Why I am interviewing Ben Higgins?
- Why take a career break as a designer?
- Biggest fear when it comes to taking a career break
- What do you need structure during a career break?
- What to do during your time off?
- What Jayneil Dalal learned from taking a sabbatical?
- How to figure out what you want in your next design job?
- Why you should not be a design manager?
- Lessons learned from searching for a new design job
- How to apply the concept of prototyping in your life?
- Why you should have a full time job if you want to pursue side projects?
- Advise for designers who are thinking about taking a sabbatical
- How to explain a career break on your resume to a recruiter?
For show notes, guest bio, and more, please visit:
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Transition from Graphic Design to UX - Colton Schweitzer, Ludovic Delmas (Cofounders at Kickass UX)
My guests today areColton Schweitzer and Ludovic Delmas are the cofounders of Kickass UX which helps creatives build a kickass UX skillset and supercharge their careers.
Interview Video: https://youtu.be/KI8kcRcqAu8
In this episode, we discuss the following:
- Why I am interviewing the Kickass UX founders?
- Does UX design pay more than graphic design?
- Are there more UX design jobs than graphic design jobs?
- What are the challenges faced by graphic designers when entering the UX field?
- How is the graphic design process different from the UX process?
- Do UX Designers have to worry about the UI when working at a company?
- Why graphic designers struggle with communicating functionality?
- Biggest issue with design portfolios from novice designers
- What is the biggest problem with UX bootcamps?
- How can design students make their design portfolios stand out?
- How is working in UX different than graphic design?
For show notes, guest bio, and more, please visit:
www.designmba.show
Customer Reviews
Listening as I work
Jayneil is clearly a designer at heart. He’s curious, smart, and perceptive. This is the kind of podcast I could listen to all day as I work. Can’t wait to hear more.
Feedback
This is a well-named podcast and addresses an open opportunity within the Design field to introduce and educate on business-related topics. Suggestion: it would be helpful to provide more detail on the angle for the topic of each episode in the episode descriptions rather than a bio of the person being interviewed. I care less about that than understanding if I will learn anything from the time I spend listening to the episode. Seeing bullet points of sun-topics and/or questions the episode answers in the description would give me that information and context in order to decide which episodes to listen to and whether or not to invest my time in listening. Second to that is the experience and qualifications of the person being interviewed or covering those bullet points.
Informative and engaging at the same time.
This podcast is my favourite by now, I started listening to this even while working out, it is really informative and super fun and engaging at the same time.
This is the platform where you need to stop and check it out at once and I can guarantee you will fall into love with this.