Design MBA

Tanner Christensen is a curious, multi-disciplinary design leader who is dedicated to helping designers and businesses find the best in each other. He's the founder at Shape.co and previously worked as Head or Design at Gem dot com. Before Gem, Tanner designed software for autonomous vehicles at Lyft, led design of the Atlassian mobile platform, and designed for 2.85 billion people at Facebook. He's a published author, prolific writer, indie app developer, angel investor, podcaster, and more.
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ARE YOU LOOKING TO LEVEL UP YOUR INTERVIEWING SKILLS AS A DESIGNER?
Check out Shape - https://shape.co/
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• Website - https://tannerchristensen.com/

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Benjamin Issenman aka Ben Issen is the founder of Supercreative, a website where he shares tools he creates for design solopreneurs. Based in Paris France, he started designing brands for online clients when he was 16. Now 25, he designs and builds digital tools (with freelancers he hires or other creators he collaborates with) for his audience of 15,000 people.
INTERVIEW VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/by36qEPoJ1w
ARE YOU TO EARN A LIVING FROM YOUR CREATIVE WORK?
Check out Supercreative - https://www.supercreative.design/
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• Website - https://www.issenmann.me/

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Connie Yang is a design leader with experience in consumer and fintech, and is currently the Head of Payments Design at Stripe. Previously, she led design at Coinbase and created products for platforms and global at Facebook. She enjoys asking questions and finding the bits of magic that surround us in everyday life.
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• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniejyang/

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Dan has been a creative director, designer, and developer since 1998. He has taught design systems and collaboration at public conferences, private client engagements, as higher education instruction, and on many podcasts and videos. Dan’s superpower is getting people excited, even when there’s challenging work ahead. Dan met his wife Emily when they were both in 5th grade. Together, they raise daughters Siddalee and Charlotte, yorkshire terrier Max, and mini sheepadoodle Matilda just outside Philadelphia, PA.
IS YOUR TEAM LOOKING FOR DESIGN SYTEMS COACHING?
Hire SuperFriendly and experience digital transformation through design systems coaching and practice - https://superfriendly.com/
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• Website - https://danmall.me/

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Yitong Zhang is the cofounder of Vector DAO. Before that he spent almost four years at Coinbase where he had the privilege of designing and redesigning much of the consumer app as well as establishing the design system. He also tends to a beautiful vegetable garden.
ARE YOU AN EXPERIENCED DESIGNER LOOKING TO WORK IN WEB3/CRYPTO?
Check out Vector DAO which is a collective of the top 1% of designers, brand experts, and creatives in crypto - https://vectordao.com/
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• Twitter - https://twitter.com/zhayitong
• Website - https://www.zhayitong.com/

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