#31 - AR/VR Design, Prototyping, and Metaverse | Mukul Agarwal

#35 - UX Researcher’s Life, Communication Skills, and Teamwork | Monica Chan

Monica is a UX Researcher @ Amazon.

Monica talks about her career journey in research. We touch on the challenges she faced doing remote studies during COVID and what it really takes to be a researcher. She shares her favourite research methods, tips for those new to research, and advice for designers on working well with researchers.

We also dive into how to convince people that research is crucial for their projects and talk about whether AI could ever take over a researcher's job.

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Episode Links:

• Monica’s website: https://monicamchan.wixsite.com/portfolio
• Monica’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicamchan/
• Monica on ADPList: https://adplist.org/mentors/monica-chan
• Monica’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/monicamxchan

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#34 - Career Switching, Writing a Book, and Creating Board Games | Anthony Conta

Anthony is an award-winning Product Designer @ Amazon, author, educator, inventor, and mentor.

Anthony talks about his career journey and experience in creating board games. We discuss UX bootcamps, thoughts on AI's role in UX, job search strategies, and portfolio and resume tips. To wrap it up Anthony shares his experience writing his first book “The Art and Science of UX Design”.

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Episode Links:

• Anthony’s website: https://www.anthonyconta.com/ 
• Anthony’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyconta/ 
• Anthony’s Medium: https://medium.com/@anthony.conta 
• Anthony’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/anthony_conta 
• Anthony’s book: peachpit.com/uxdesignsbs

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#33 - What AI Means For The Future of Design | Kirk Clyne & Suzanne Reeves

Kirk and Suzanne are creative leaders and co-founders of Design Unicorn, an agency on a mission to empower designers and agencies to harness the transformative potential of AI.

They share their career stories and their new venture - Design Unicorn - where they share the latest AI developments specifically in relation to the Design world. Obviously, we discuss AI and its impact on the future of the Design profession, and whether AI could understand psychology and be creative. Also, we discuss the risks of companies over-optimizing for conversion rates and ROI, how you can use ChatGPT to prepare for job interviews, and much more.

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Episode Links:

• Kirk’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirk-clyne/ 
• Suzanne’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suzanne-michele-reeves/ 
• Design Unicorn: https://www.designunicorn.ai/

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Outline:

• (0:00) - Preview
• (0:56) - Introduction
• (3:31) - Suzanne’s career story
• (12:30) - Kirk’s career story

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#32 - UX Management, Asking Good Questions, and AI Impact | Jacco Otten

Jacco is a UX Design Manager @ Elsevier, a large IT services company creating solutions for researchers and healthcare professionals.

Jacco shares his career story and how he transitioned into UX leadership, the difference between management and leadership and skills you should be working on to grow in this direction. Also, we discuss the challenges of UX managers, AI and the future of UX design. In addition, Jacco shares resume, interviewing, and networking advice for UX design candidates, and much more.

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• Jacco’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjotten/

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Outline:

• (0:00) - Preview
• (0:35) - Introduction
• (1:33) - Jacco’s career story

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#31 - AR/VR Design, Prototyping, and Metaverse | Mukul Agarwal

Mukul is an AR/VR Designer @ Amazon.

Mukul shares his career story and getting into the world of augmented and virtual reality, inventing new interaction patterns and the challenge of not having common patterns to rely on, prototyping tools for AR and VR experiences, the future of VR applications, metaverse, how to get into AR/VR design world as a designer, and much more.

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Episode Links:

• Mukul’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agarwal-mukul/
• Mukul’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/mukulagarwalXR
• Unity tutorials: https://learn.unity.com/
• Unreal tutorials: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/learn?state=%2F5.2%2Fen-US%2Fsamples-and-tutorials-for-unreal-engine%2F 

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• Podcast website: ⁠https://podcast.kirillv.com⁠
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• Spotify: ⁠https://spoti.fi/3RukfVO⁠
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Outline:

• (0:00) - Preview
• (0:36) - Introduction
• (1:17) - Mukul’s career story

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