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Colton Schweitzer on Kickass UX Dec 04, 2023

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In this episode Colton Schweitzer, co-founder of Kickass UX and Lee-Sean Huang, senior director of learning and programs at AIGA talk about:

How Banksy inspired Colton to get into graphic design
How creating a board game introduced Colton to UX and landed him a job
The differences between a design bootcamp and a college degree program
How to identify and address common gaps in UX design education
How recent design graduates can make their portfolios stand out and some hope for current UX job seekers
What makes the Kickass UX program different and how graduates of the program have found success
Why graphic designers should learn UX even if they aren’t planning a career pivot
How can designers overcome subjectivity when dealing with stakeholders
What are the “Treasure Map” and “Kung Fu Master” metaphors for the UX process and how do they make you a more powerful designer with a “why skillset”
How Colton applies UX principles to designing the pedagogy and business model for his venture, Kickass UX
And more!

Use code AIGA75 for $75 off your first month of Kickass UX's UX/UI Expert course

AIGA's Design Futures research referenced in the episode

Colton's cartoon alter ego, ⁠Kitty AF⁠ recently released a holiday book How the Cat Ruined Christmas

Irish Bouzouki clip by PhotoCapeBreton via Pixabay

This is the final episode of 2023. Happy holidays! See you next year.

Maigen Thomas on career changes and starting a new design job Nov 09, 2023

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Maigen Thomas is a senior UX designer, career switcher, and "Maven of Mentoring" for fellow UI/UX bootcamp graduates. In this episode, Maigen and Lee-Sean discuss leveraging life experiences into design, what to do in the first 30 days of a new job to set yourself up for success, gamification, and more!

Maigen's Real World Experience Workshop: https://maigenux.gumroad.com/l/real-world-exp-workshop

Octalysis Prime: https://join.octalysisprime.com

Pentagram 50 at the 2023 AIGA Design Conference Oct 28, 2023

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Debbie Millman interviews Pentagram partners Emily Oberman, Giorgia Lupi, Marina Willer, Natasha Jen, and Paula Scher. Recorded LIVE at the 2023 AIGA Design Conference in New York City!

Clip: Steven Steiner on Designer Archetypes Sep 27, 2023

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What is your designer archetype? Are you a generalist, strategist, researcher, architect, artist, author, or design operations person? How does knowing your archetype help you progress in your career? We discuss these archetypes and more in the full episode of the AIGA Design Podcast with Steven Steiner: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/episodes/Steven-Steiner-on-designer-archetypes--career-coaching--and-communicating-your-value-e29h0h4

Steven Steiner is a Career Coach for Designers who helps them get what they want next with the right levels of industry knowledge, rigor, and moral support.

Steven Steiner on designer archetypes, career coaching, and communicating your value Sep 20, 2023

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Steven Steiner is a Career Coach for Designers who helps them get what they want next with the right levels of industry knowledge, rigor, and moral support.

Steven’s career achievements include 15+ years as an award-winning designer, manager, and educator. He’s held roles in-house, start-up, and agency teams for international and regional brands where he delivered results for TV, kiosk, responsive web, and mobile experiences.

Now, he wants to help YOU reach YOUR career goals.

Visit careercoachfordesigners.com to learn more about how Steven can help you right now and join the Career Community for Designers that he hosts on Slack.

Connect with Steven on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevensteiner/

FEED SWAP: Yellow Glitter, Collective Change and Community-Centered Design with Lee-Sean Huang Aug 22, 2023

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FEED SWAP: Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA's director of design content and learning, recently appeared on Steven Wakabayashi's Yellow Glitter Podcast to talk about collective change, community-centered design, his midlife career crisis, and more.

Listen/subscribe to the Yellow Glitter Podcast: https://yellowglitterpodcast.com/podcast/42-collective-change-and-community-centered-design-with-lee-sean-huang/

Stay tuned for new original episodes of the AIGA Design Podcast in September 2023.

Join us for the AIGA Design Conference in New York City, October 12-14. Get your tickets before the price increase on September 7. We will sell out. Online streaming tickets are also available. https://www.aiga.org/design/aiga-design-conference

Learning with Ritesh Gupta, Useful School Jul 20, 2023

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We are back for a special summer special edition of the podcast. We are catching up with Ritesh Gupta, founder of Useful School, which offers 12-week online pay-what-you-can classes in product design, branding, decolonization, and financial wellness aimed at beginner and advanced creatives of color. Applications to the Useful School fall cohort are due August 18, 2023. Learn more: https://www.usefulschool.com/

Listen to our original 2022 interview with Ritesh here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/episodes/Design-Adjacent-with-Ritesh-Gupta--Founder-of-the-Useful-School-on-re-visioning-design-education--radical-changes--impact-of-design--and-finding-a-coach-e1jt5if

Check out AIGA's professional development and learning opportunities on our website: https://www.aiga.org/professional-development/aiga-passport-to-learning

From the Archives: Matt Groening at the 2002 AIGA Design Conference Apr 04, 2023

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In this episode, we present a clip of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, speaking at the 2002 AIGA Design Conference in Washington DC. This footage has not been seen or heard publicly for over 20 years. Groening shares a story he had never told before, explains why he values design conferences, gives advice to fellow illustrators, reveals the namesake of Homer Simpson, and divulges some of the things the Fox Network censored from his shows.

Watch the video version of this podcast on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/814432149/f56404d0b2

Connect in person with your design community at the 2023 AIGA Design Conference, October 12-14 in New York City. Prepare to get inspired and re-energized while learning in community from designers at the cutting edge of today's hot topics. https://www.aiga.org/design/aiga-design-conference

Rodrigo Canales and Michael Bierut on Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders Feb 15, 2023

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“If you want to be a truly effective designer, you need to make sure that whatever it is that you’re designing is also designed to reside within a broader and more complex organization…and is not just solving for the problem that you are analyzing, which is what designers are excellent at.” - Rodrigo Canales

Rodrigo Canales, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management, and Michael Bierut, Partner at Pentagram discuss the challenges that designers face as we advance as leaders in our careers and how the Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders program equips design leaders to address those challenges.

Join us for our Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders open house on Thursday, February 16 at 3 pm Eastern. RSVP: https://my.aiga.org/event-details?id=04831ca3-ba96-ed11-a81b-000d3a000cf9

And learn more about the program here: https://www.aiga.org/professional-development/business-perspectives-for-creative-leaders

Hugh Dubberly on design as finding balance in systems and why problem solving is not enough Feb 09, 2023

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"Thinking of design as problem-solving is an improvement over thinking of design as art, but as we move into a world of systems, the idea of solving a problem may be replaced by the idea of finding balance in a system..."

This clip from Hugh Dubberly is from a never-before-released interview conducted in 2019 at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Hugh will be teaching a workshop on Generative AI for Designers with Shelley Evenson, managing director of Song at the AIGA Executive Leadership Summit (Alexandria, VA, March 12-14, 2023).

Learn more and sign up for the AIGA Executive Leadership Summit: https://www.aiga.org/design/design-conferences/aiga-executive-leadership-summit

More about Hugh: http://www.dubberly.com/about

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