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🧠 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW? 1. Challenges of designing for AI 2. How to get a job as an AI Designer 📢 WHY IS HENRY MODISETT A ROCKSTAR? Henry Modisett is the Head of Design at Perplexity AI. Previously he worked as a designer at Quora and Google. 🤝 CONNECT WITH HENRY MODISETT Twitter -https://twitter.com/henrymodis LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrymodisett/?originalSubdomain=ca 🤙 CONNECT WITH JAYNEIL DALAL LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 📺 INTERVIEW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/4BH454Kw-90

🧠 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW? 1. How the iconic Facebook like button was designed?  2. How a designer invested early in startups like Figma, Framer and Diagram?  📢 WHY IS SOLEIO CUERVO A ROCKSTAR?  Soleio Cuervo is a software designer turned investor. He led early design efforts at Facebook, Messenger, then Dropbox. Now he invests in extraordinary software startups and helps them win through great design. He is a proud backer of Figma, Framer, Vercel, Vanta, Perplexity, Synthesia, Read.cv, Pulley, Replit, Universe, Liveblocks, tldraw, Plain, and dozens more startups worldwide!  🤝 CONNECT WITH SOLEIO CUERVO Twitter - https://twitter.com/soleio Website - https://read.cv/soleio 🤙 CONNECT WITH JAYNEIL DALAL LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal  📺 INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/hZ3Z2frAWvM

My guest today is Maheen Sohail who recently switched from Design Manager to Senior Designer role at Meta. In this episode, we discuss the following: - Interview trailer - Who is Maheen Sohail (Senior Designer at Meta)? - How to deal with layoffs as a designer? - What does a Design Manager do when her entire team gets shut down? - How does a Design Manager say goodbye to their team when it's time to leave the company? - How does a Design Manager not lose touch with their craft? - How to manage senior designers as a first time Design Manager? - Why should a designer consider becoming a Design Manager? - How does becoming a Design Manager make you more empathetic? - How does a Design Manager resolve conflict between designer and engineer? - Why is becoming a Design Manager so hard? - Should a Design Manager share frequent updates about their work with the team? - Is switching from Design Manager to IC seamless? - Switching frequenty between management and IC roles as a designer - Do Design Managers need to be design tool experts? - Why designers should not become managers early in their career? - Designers sharing their favorite Bollywood movies  Interview Video: https://youtu.be/LXPKGTGvFrY?si=6pVqr9zENQkYso2Y Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil 

My guest today is Julian Park who is the CEO at Bezi, a collaborative spatial design tool. In this episode, we discuss the following: 00:34 Why I'm interviewing Julian Park (CEO at Bezi) 1:41 Why Spatial Design is the future of the UX Design industry? 4:13 Why Apple priced the Vision Pro headset so high? 5:15 Why designers should become early adopters of spatial design? 8:34 Learnings from working at Facebook Oculus as an engineer 9:25 Why join the Meta Oculus team over WhatsApp or Instagram? 11:00 Why quit Meta to start a 3D design tool company Bezi? 14:15 Finding startup ideas while working at FAANG/MAMA 15:03 Why you shouldn't pitch your startup idea as an employee to Meta leadership? 15:56 How to build trust with your startup cofounders? 17:36 How to divide responsibilities among startup cofounders? 18:48 Learnings from Figma's startup journey 22:33 How many hours does a startup CEO work? 24:47 How to avoid burnout as startup CEO? 26:15 How to level up as a startup CEO? 28:21 Advice for entrepreneurs working at FAANG/MAMA 30:09 How to escape the golden handcuffs at FAANG and quit? Interview Video: https://youtu.be/F8G3jgQjXzg Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil