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Empathy Explorers Podcast#8: Moving from the Aviation Industry to UX - With Christian Korff (@ckorffux)In this episode Christian Korff joins the show to talk about his career path and the ability to change industries you work for. Christian worked for the Aviation Industry and eventually became a UX manager at E-Pages. You'll learn about the difficulties in the Aviation Industry and the important part of testing your software. We also talk about the ways he was able to use that knowledge in his current job. It's an exciting transformation and shows the possibilities of career paths you can take if you're open to it. We discuss the importance of (UX) designers within a...
2021-05-201h 20
Empathy Explorers Podcast#7: Growing a Creative Agency as a couple | Ashley Phillips & Miro LaFlaga (@sixcinquieme)In this episode Ashley Phillips and Miro LaFlaga join the show to talk about their creative journey. The couple started a creative agency years ago and we unravel the start and the steps it took to create Six Cinquieme (@sixcinquieme). Their character traits make a great combination as well as the foundation of their relationship. As a couple they have been able to grow the agency in numbers as well as exposure. They’ve been on an episode of The Futur, probably the biggest creative agency on social media, lead by Chris Do. We talk about how they got th...
2021-02-221h 17
Empathy Explorers Podcast#6 Full time remote work across the globe - With Shpetim Ujkani (@ShpetimUjkani)The sixth episode of the Empathy Explorers Podcast
This episode is all about remote work, productivity and mentoring. Shpetim Ujkani reached out to have a chat and here we are. Shpetim is a product designer who works remotely for Givery, a Japanese Company. He has been working remotely from Kosovo for almost 10 years now. In our conversation he shares how he connected with companies all over the world, and how he’s able to get a job full time at those companies. Full time remote work is not easy, there are cultural differences. Creating a system for yo...
2021-01-111h 14
Empathy Explorers Podcast#5 - Answering your questions!What are tips for people starting out in UX Design? How can you speed up your design process? What F1 race would you watch live?
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A lot of different questions. This episode is full of it. Last few weeks you were able to send in questions for me to answer. There was a lot of variety in the types of questions, but I was able to segment them in a few different categories. I also do some recommendations during the episode and those are all listed in the description, in case you're interested.
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2020-11-0635 min
Empathy Explorers Podcast#4: Learning from failures and growing a Twitter Community - With Doug Collins (@DougCollinsUX)In episode 004 Doug Collins joins the show. Doug is an UX Designer, worked at multiple companies across different roles, and once saw the importance of User Experience Design and completely dove into that. Doug shares how he got to that point. He had to learn a lot from the failures that crossed his path but found a way to keep going. Doug now has a big design community on Twitter (25.000 followers by the time of writing). We discuss what works for him on the platform, how he keeps his followers engaged in the conversation and how he grew such...
2020-09-111h 15Empathy Explorers Podcast#3: Coaching & Mentoring as a designer - With Helena Bukovac (@buttondujour)Welcome back! It's been a while but I'm happy to resume the Empathy Explorers podcast with a new episode. Helena Bukovac joins the conversation as we discuss topics that involve coaching and mentoring, business conferences, the importance of a passion project and much more. Helena lives in Croatia and is a teacher at Algebra University, coaches students on Springboard and Design Lab, while also working at an agency (Emondo). How she is able to manage all that, is one of the first questions that popped up. I share a stigma I have around business conferences and I hope Helena...
2020-08-051h 07Empathy Explorers Podcast#2: User Research & Design Systems - With Helena Zrinski (@ux.effects)In this episode I talk to a fellow designer and she is from Croatia. Helena Zrinski started her Instagram in October of last year and has seen quite a lot of growth in engagement. We cover the content she makes, what drives her to do Instagram posts and the Design Systems she reviews. Helena shares the books that gave her the best UX insights (psssh: She also has a couple of post about those books on here Instagram). An episode with some tips to start off your Instagram journey. Enjoy the episode!
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2020-05-261h 03
Empathy Explorers Podcast#1: Managing your time as a designer - With Anzor Abazov (@sevenxdesign)In this episode I have a pleasant conversation with a fellow UX Designer. His name is Anzor Abazov and he is from Russia. We cover a lot of different topics in this episode. Anzor had a post that went viral and I really want to dive deeper in what his thoughts were at that time and how to follow up on a viral post. We look at the differences between Russia and the Netherlands for the creative space and talk about his time management regarding freelance work, agency work and his last year in university.
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2020-04-261h 14