DXP-007: Jon Myers

12/24/19 • 57 min

From Free Agent to Chief Design Officer

For our Double-O-Seventh episode, it is oh so appropriate to have Jon Myers as our guest. He's an international designer of mystery—living a jet-set life and assassinating design problems with expert marksmanship. We talk to Jon about his 20 years of design experience leading up to his current role as Chief Design Officer at Tokyo and Ho Chi Minh City based crypto trading platform Liquid.

You can find Jon at @JonMyers on Twitter and http://www.jonmyers.com/ You can learn more about Liquid at https://www.liquid.com/

00:17 - Intro
01:15 - Jon's Saigon Journey
02:17 - The Columbus Connection
02:43 - Jon's Design and Entrepreneurship Journey
05:16 - Digital Nomads, Lifestyle Business, Scalable Startups, Affiliate Marketing, Vietnam and a Medium Article
08:27 - American's Have an Unfair Advantage in Immigration and Global Citizenship
10:54 - World on Fire, Working for Yourself, Working for a Company, Abstraction Layers
15:04 - Introduction to The Liquid Crypto Platform
21:09 - Advice to be a Better Designer
24:31 - Smoking Shisha
26:07 - Exercise, Daily Routines, Productivity, Intermittent Fasting
28:42 - Distraction and Productivity
33:13 - What Does Jon Like Most About Living in Vietnam?
35:59 - Design vs Conducting
37:04 - Entertainment, Tourism, and Restaurants in Saigon
40:54 - Jon's Design Process
44:39 - Sketch (UI Design App)
45:54 - Game Design, New Platforms, and Gold Rushes
50:04 - Dynamite Circle
51:17 - Vitality in Online Communities
56:28 - Outro

Hashtags:

#liquid #crypto #design #ux #vietnam #shisha #digitalnomad #productivity #entrepreneurship #leadership #columbus #saigon #expatlife

This episode is also available as a video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/bJ072HFD7ns

From Free Agent to Chief Design Officer

You can find Jon at @JonMyers on Twitter and http://www.jonmyers.com/ You can learn more about Liquid at https://www.liquid.com/

00:17 - Intro
01:15 - Jon's Saigon Journey
02:17 - The Columbus Connection
02:43 - Jon's Design and Entrepreneurship Journey
05:16 - Digital Nomads, Lifestyle Business, Scalable Startups, Affiliate Marketing, Vietnam and a Medium Article
08:27 - American's Have an Unfair Advantage in Immigration and Global Citizenship
10:54 - World on Fire, Working for Yourself, Working for a Company, Abstraction Layers
15:04 - Introduction to The Liquid Crypto Platform
21:09 - Advice to be a Better Designer
24:31 - Smoking Shisha
26:07 - Exercise, Daily Routines, Productivity, Intermittent Fasting
28:42 - Distraction and Productivity
33:13 - What Does Jon Like Most About Living in Vietnam?
35:59 - Design vs Conducting
37:04 - Entertainment, Tourism, and Restaurants in Saigon
40:54 - Jon's Design Process
44:39 - Sketch (UI Design App)
45:54 - Game Design, New Platforms, and Gold Rushes
50:04 - Dynamite Circle
51:17 - Vitality in Online Communities
56:28 - Outro

Hashtags:

#liquid #crypto #design #ux #vietnam #shisha #digitalnomad #productivity #entrepreneurship #leadership #columbus #saigon #expatlife

This episode is also available as a video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/bJ072HFD7ns

Previous Episode

DXP-006: Tuan Le

Creative Leadership with The Lab's Tuan Le

Tuan Le is the founder of The Lab Saigon, a multidisciplinary design studio based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. We talk about his journey from ad agency copywriter to serial entrepreneur and how Tuan runs his design agency.

Tuan's Links:

00:27 - Intro
01:43 - What is The Lab Saigon? From Co-Working Cafe to Creative Agency
04:15 - Tuan's Long Route Back to Vietnam
05:33 - The New Vietnam
06:37 - We Don't Post About Our Failures
08:23 - Where Would Tuan Go If Not Saigon?
11:31 - Could You Work As An Employee Again?
13:22 - No Pinterest and Will Power
15:22 - Hands-on Design vs Design Direction and Trusting Your Staff
18:38 - Turn Over and Company Culture
20:47 - Crunch and Overtime in Creative Industries
23:15 - Crunch in The Videogame Industry
25:33 - Pitching in Ad Agencies
26:48 - Multidisciplinary Design Studio, Which Service is the Easiest?
29:59 - The Story of How The Lab Got Their First Big Client
30:48 - What Videogames is Tuan Playing?
33:08 - Video Production at The Lab
34:13 - Where is the Target Audience of The Lab's Clients?
35:06 - What Kind of Stuff Does Tuan Read?
35:50 - Just Because You're Not Famous Doesn't Mean You Are Not Interesting
38:05 - Naming Things and Blank Lounge
44:13 - Outro

Hashtags:

#design #interriordesign #branding #designagency #saigon #thelab #thelabsaigon #vietnam #LA #foodandbeverage #entrepreneurship #copywriting #designexchange #dxp #podcast

This episode is also available as a video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/XWc1PvIz_Uw

Next Episode

DXP-008: Christian Calderon

Gamejam's Hyper Casual Games

Christian Calderon is a mobile game executive and entrepreneur who recently co-founded his second hyper-casual game studio in Ho Chi Minh City. He's also an Advisory Board member at Ketchapp which was Acquired by Ubisoft.

We talk with Christian about living in Asia, his game industry journey, and some of the nitty-gritty of developing and monetizing mobile games.

This episode is also available to watch as a video on Youtube: https://youtu.be/GT6ZkPo1xKo

Christian's Links:

00:35 - Intro
01:28 - Christian's Vietnam Journey Thus Far, Travel in SEA
02:42 - Exploring a Country Through Its Cuisine
04:24 - Chris's Game Industry Experience, from Fan to Ceo
06:33 - Game Life Cycles - Hard Core Console vs Mobile
07:57 - What Keeps Christian in the Game Industry
09:50 - What's Gamejam working on?
11:49 - The New Mac Pro and Buggy Laptop Keyboards
17:38 - Master Class
25:44 - Eating Dogs and Cultural Experiences
28:15 - Cultural Differences when Crossing the Street in USA, Vietnam, Japan
33:57 - Breaking Rules in Games
36:50 - When Does Christian Decide to Continue Developing A Game and When To Kill A Game
39:35 - Increasing User Retention
41:43 - The State of the Mobile Game Industry in 2019/2020
45:24 - Monetization in Mobile Games
47:50 - State of the Art in Game Monetization
53:20 - Getting a Job in the Videogame Industry
58:19 - Outro