After Hours #6: Design Challenges During Interviews
About the event 📣
ADPList After Hours is a monthly panel discussion where mentors share their views and person experiences on everything that designers can and may face throughout their careers. We talk with no formality and diplomacy. Who else is ready for some 'raw and spicy' talks? 🙋♀️ 🙋🏻♂️
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The Uncensored Edition #6: Design Challenges during Interviews
Have you ever struggled to make yourself stand out from hundreds of other job applicants? As designers, how can we better utilized our soft skills to land a design gig and succeed in our career? Join us as we chat about how to own your unique story to communicate your capabilities and passion and leverage your soft skills to build a successful career.
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ADPList Host 🎉
🇺🇸 Kasey Randall -Senior Interaction Designer at SiriusXM
Kasey Randall is currently a Senior Interaction Designer at SiriusXM. Over the years Kasey's helped craft and elevate digital products through the transformative power of design and technology. He strives to bring ideas into reality, solve challenging problems, and create delightful, data-informed user experiences with an iterative, human-centered process.
Fun Fact: He loves anything with mint and he has an 8-year-old pug mix named Dobby 🐾
Profile: https://www.adplist.org/mentors/kasey-randall
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Mentor Panelists 🎙️
🇺🇸 Jorel Saguinsin - Creative Director at Securly
Jorel is passionate about the whole integration of user-centered innovation, technical insight, and systems thinking into a design-driven product development process and sees this as the best way to create meaningful products that resonate with customers and improve their lives. His mantra “people first, technology second” has been the driving force in his career. As a leader, he thinks it's important that his door is always open — to embrace everyone’s individual perspective, personality, style and abilities. Outside of work, he loves to travel, photography and cook!
Fun Fact: His name “Jorel” was taken from the father of Superman. 🤣
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🇺🇸 Natashia Tjandra - Sr Manager, Product Design at EA
Natashia is a Sr Manager of Product Design with broad experience at the intersection of design, data, technology, and marketing. Her career has led her through different disciplines in Design: designing typefaces, creating 360 ad campaigns for prestigious global brands, co-running her own boutique design agency, and leading design teams in the #1 global consulting firm. Currently at EA, she’s humanizing technology and the workplace while building cross-functional design teams and developing sustainable processes. Her passion has brought her to design mentorship, and leadership in diversity and inclusion.
Fun Fact: She’s a proud typenerd, and shares truths and positivity in beautifully designed three words. Check out @3wordtruth in Instagram.
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🇸🇬 Jonathan Yap - Senior Lead Product Design at WeWork
Jonathan is a product designer, storyteller, and community connector. From shipping global products, to facilitating co-creation, to research on the ground, there’s always a great story to tell. He brings them together through design, research, data, strategy, and tech. Over the past decade, He has learnt to scale impact through people by designing relationships and mentorship. Jonathanʻs passion is in the community, and finds satisfaction in connecting people. He shares a lot by nature because good knowledge is worth sharing. Host and volunteer for UXSG, mentoring on ADP list, and creator of Design Pay Transparency.
Fun fact: Learnt how to pronounce Eyjafjallajokul better than he can spell it because he was once stranded by it.
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🇺🇸 Maggie Pena - UX Designer at Hy-Vee
Maggie is a User Experience Designer (with research experience) who enjoys building end-to-end digital experiences and help foster design communities such as Design Buddies. She has 4 years of experience working with B2B, B2C products in the Retail/E-Commerce, FinTech, and AgroScience industry
Fun fact: She used to play the drums a couple of years ago and hopes to jump back into playing again in the future
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This event is for mature audience. Viewer discretion is advised.
Disclaimer: By participating in this event, you consent to interviews, photography, audio recording, video recording and its/their release to be used for purposes that ADPList team deems fit to use. You release the ADPList staff and all persons involved from any liability connected with the taking, recording, digitizing, or publication of interviews, photographs, images, audio and/or video recordings.
