81 episodes
Design MBA Jayneil Dalal
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Design MBA is an interview series with design leaders and design entrepreneurs hosted by Jayneil Dalal.
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Designing for AI
🧠 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW?
1. Challenges of designing for AI
2. How to get a job as an AI Designer
📢 WHY IS HENRY MODISETT A ROCKSTAR?
Henry Modisett is the Head of Design at Perplexity AI. Previously he worked as a designer at Quora and Google.
🤝 CONNECT WITH HENRY MODISETT
Twitter -https://twitter.com/henrymodis
LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrymodisett/?originalSubdomain=ca
🤙 CONNECT WITH JAYNEIL DALAL
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil
Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal
📺 INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/4BH454Kw-90 -
Designing the Facebook Like Button
🧠 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW?
1. How the iconic Facebook like button was designed?
2. How a designer invested early in startups like Figma, Framer and Diagram?
📢 WHY IS SOLEIO CUERVO A ROCKSTAR?
Soleio Cuervo is a software designer turned investor. He led early design efforts at Facebook, Messenger, then Dropbox. Now he invests in extraordinary software startups and helps them win through great design. He is a proud backer of Figma, Framer, Vercel, Vanta, Perplexity, Synthesia, Read.cv, Pulley, Replit, Universe, Liveblocks, tldraw, Plain, and dozens more startups worldwide!
🤝 CONNECT WITH SOLEIO CUERVO
Twitter - https://twitter.com/soleio
Website - https://read.cv/soleio
🤙 CONNECT WITH JAYNEIL DALAL
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil
Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal
📺 INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/hZ3Z2frAWvM -
Transitioning from Design Manager to IC Designer
My guest today is Maheen Sohail who recently switched from Design Manager to Senior Designer role at Meta.
In this episode, we discuss the following:
- Interview trailer
- Who is Maheen Sohail (Senior Designer at Meta)?
- How to deal with layoffs as a designer?
- What does a Design Manager do when her entire team gets shut down?
- How does a Design Manager say goodbye to their team when it's time to leave the company?
- How does a Design Manager not lose touch with their craft?
- How to manage senior designers as a first time Design Manager?
- Why should a designer consider becoming a Design Manager?
- How does becoming a Design Manager make you more empathetic?
- How does a Design Manager resolve conflict between designer and engineer?
- Why is becoming a Design Manager so hard?
- Should a Design Manager share frequent updates about their work with the team?
- Is switching from Design Manager to IC seamless?
- Switching frequenty between management and IC roles as a designer
- Do Design Managers need to be design tool experts?
- Why designers should not become managers early in their career?
- Designers sharing their favorite Bollywood movies
Interview Video: https://youtu.be/LXPKGTGvFrY?si=6pVqr9zENQkYso2Y
Connect with me on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil -
Spatial Design is the Future
My guest today is Julian Park who is the CEO at Bezi, a collaborative spatial design tool.
In this episode, we discuss the following:
00:34 Why I'm interviewing Julian Park (CEO at Bezi)
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 Bezi?
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:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil -
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:
www.designmba.show -
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:
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.