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About event 📣 Adplist Coffee Hours is a weekly Q&A show where design mentors answer questions in a much more detailed and personal format. We get deep! Hop on with the mentors and ask your design-related questions.

About Mentor 🎙️ Stephen Gates has over 20 years experience creating the strategy, concepting and design for award-winning integrated global advertising campaigns, building multiple global Fortune 500 brands and innovative digital experiences. As a leader, he has 15+ years of experience creating multiple agencies and client-side purpose-driven, idea led, world-class teams with cultures that foster innovation and leadership.

Currently Chief Design Evangelist at Invision. Formerly Global Head of Design at Citi. Stephen also hosts a consistent and enlightening podcast called The Crazy One.

ADPL Coffee Hours with Stephen Gates

About event 📣 Adplist Coffee Hours is a biweekly Q&A show where design mentors answer questions in a much more detailed and personal format. We get deep! Hop on with the mentors and ask your design-related questions.

Portfolio Edition 🎉 Mentor review your portfolio for 5-10mins and everyone can hop in to listen; it will be a round-robin style. A fun and personal way for you to get feedback in a community mentoring format.

About Our Mentors 🎙️ 👉 William Ntim is a Senior UX Designer at The Home Depot. He has spent nearly a decade leading, creating and launching design solutions at small to large-sized corporations including HostGator, Farouk Systems, Ellie Mae, Cornell University, Zurvita and BoomWriter. William is a critical thinker with a frontend development background, a founder, speaker and coach. In his downtime, he enjoys writing, mentoring designers on best practices and the realities of a UX practitioner.

👉 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.

Coffee Hours: Portfolio Edition with William Ntim and Kasey Randall

Portfolio Edition 🎉 Mentors will review your portfolio for 5-10mins and everyone can hop in to listen; it will be a round-robin style. A fun and personal way for you to get feedback in a community mentoring format.

About Our Mentors 🎙️ 👉 Mel is a product designer at Dropbox based in San Francisco, California 🇺🇸. Prior to joining Dropbox, Mel led teams working with companies such as: Playstation, the NBA, Dreamworks, and Strava. She also spends time mentoring and coaching designers on negotiating for the compensation they deserve. Outside of work, she enjoys watching copious amounts of anime and riding her bike off-road.

👉 Jill Quek is currently a Senior Product Designer at Automattic 🇸🇬. She has close to a decade of design experience, from designing business software at Zendesk, to working with clients like Cartier, Dean and Deluca, and Comme des Garçons. She strives to create work that feels easy, intuitive, and delightful.

Coffee Hours: Portfolio Edition with Jill Quek and Mel Sweet

About Our Mentors 🎙️ 👉 Johnnie Gomez Alzaga is a Senior Brand Designer at Webflow 🇺🇸. You can find him advocating for Webflow, building websites, and working on their brand across all channels of communication.

👉 Jacob Hernandez is a Product Designer at LinkedIn 🇺🇸. He is currently building experiences that help create a safe & more inclusive talent marketplace on LinkedIn.

Coffee Hours: Portfolio Edition with Johnnie and Jacob

About the Event 📣 ADPList After Hours is a monthly panel discussion where mentors share their views about the culture, mindset, and all radical issues designers are facing right now. We talk without any formality and diplomacy. You hear it as it feels like.

About our Mentor Panelist 🎙️ 👉 Jacob Hernandez 🇺🇸 - Product Designer, LinkedIn 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobhernandez/

👉 Kasey Randall 🇺🇸 - Senior Interaction Designer, SiriusXM 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamkaseyrandall/

👉 Mel Sweet 🇺🇸 - Product Designer, Dropbox 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-sweet/

👉 Stephen Gates 🇺🇸 - Head Design Evangelist at InVision 

The Uncensored 😬 Edition #1 : Uphill Battle In The Design Industry Let's be real - year 2020 has not been quite the friend. In fact, one could easily refer this year to be a year of the Pandora's box. A lot has happened since January 2020. We are closer to 2021 than 2019 and the remaining days in 2020 have left us feeling disappointed and rejected on so many levels.

We will go deep, we will try to explore all options, and perhaps come up with a better working solution to these problems to prepare ourselves for post-pandemic recovery.

Please join us as we flip to the first chapter of these 'raw and spicy🔥' conversations with our Mentors.

After Hours: The Uncensored Edition #1 - Uphill battle in the design industry

Adplist Coffee Hours is a biweekly Q&A show where design mentors answer questions in a much more detailed and personal format. We get deep! Hop on with the mentors and ask your design-related questions.

Mentors will review your portfolio for 5-10mins and everyone can hop in to listen; it will be a round-robin style. A fun and personal way for you to get feedback in a community mentoring format.

👉 Lily is a product designer at Facebook based in San Francisco. Prior to Facebook, Lily was at AngelList, IBM Watson Health, and a handful of startups.

👉Nicolas is a product designer and team lead. Currently, he is a Staff Product Designer at Okta. He was born and raised in Mexico City and moved to the Bay Area in 2015 to collaborate with amazing companies such as The Human Diagnosis Project, Bohlin Cywinksi Jackson, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

👉 Farai is a UX designer, manager, conference organizer, and speaker living in Canada. He is currently a UX Lead at Shopify and the founder of Pixel Up. He was born in Zimbabwe and was originally going to be doctor. He’s spent the last 14 years helping design and build products and teams in the UK, South Africa and Canada.

ADPList Coffee Hours: Portfolio Edition #5

ADPList After Hours 🍸 is a monthly panel discussion where mentors share their views about the culture, mindset, and all radical issues designers are facing right now. We talk without any formality and diplomacy. You hear it as it feels like - uncensored.

In our second episode of Uncensored Edition, we have 

, an Emmy award-winning designer, director, CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and the founder of The Futur - 

We will talk about what designers go through daily from participating in design disasters to yearning to have a mentor who can provide better feedback. Should designers walk away with dignity or simply burn bridges when stakeholders just won't listen? We will talk raw and have some honest conversations as to bridging the gap between our creative and analytical side and all the fifty shades that are in between while designing our 'Most Desirable Product'. Chris shares with all of us, what design leadership actually means to him — without any diplomacy.

The famous Toronto-based duo, Baobab Cherry by Donné Roberts and Yukiko Tsutsui. Baobab Cherry is a combination of Japanese and Malagasy music. Donné, born in Madagascar, is a two-time winner and three-time nominee of the Juno Award, and Yukiko is a singer-songwriter from Japan - baobabcherry.com

Please join us as we flip to the second chapter of a 'raw and spicy🔥' conversation with Chris Do.

https://www.linkedin.com/company/adplist-org

After Hours: Fifty Shades of Creativity with Chris Do

ADPList Coffee Hours is a biweekly Q&A show where design mentors answer questions in a much more detailed and personal format. We get deep! Hop on with the mentors and ask your design-related questions.

👉 Prianka is a product design manager at Pinterest focusing on business growth, guidance, and monetization strategies. Fun fact: I roast my own coffee ☕️

👉 Mark is a design talent recruitment and talent strategist with nearly 10 years experience building design teams in tech consulting, digital agencies and product companies. I've recruited across all types of UX, visual and product design and research including creating and delivering junior designer and intern programmes. Fun Fact: I got married in a lighthouse 🌊

👉 Yan is a HCI & Accessibility Certified UX/HX Designer, speaker and mentor who’ve been in the industry for over 2 decades, started in agencies, eventually moving to client side, held every possible position over the years across both agencies and startups. Fun Fact: Fluent in 3 languages, worked across 5 different countries on 3 different continents 🌍

Coffee Hours: Portfolio Edition with Prianka, Mark & Yan

It is a round-robin style where mentors take turns reviewing portfolios submitted by the audience for 10-15mins and concluded with a short Q&A. Are you ready for this design critique session where we can all learn from each other's work and reflect on our own? We are!

 is a Human-Centered Design specialist with a focus in Service Design, Design Thinking, and Design Strategy. She has worked for Walt Disney and Universal Studios theme parks designing hotel and entertainment experiences before moving on to both commercial and federal consulting.

Fun Fact 🐬🐴: Stephanie can make amazing animal imitations- dolphin and horse are her best

 is a British multi-disciplinary design leader, with his work featured in publications worldwide across multiple industries. Currently, he heads up Design at Werlabs, a preventative healthcare company.

Fun Fact 💍🚢: About 10 years ago, he travelled to Vietnam to ride a motorbike along the coast of Vietnam after watching Top Gear. It was actually on this trip where he met his fiancé Jennifer (who’s Swedish) in Ha long bay on a boat called “the jolly roger”!

 has spent almost 30 years designing in all forms and working for clients from multi-million-dollar firms to startups, from independent publishers to international recording artists, from mom-and-pop shops to one of the largest ad agencies in the world. Cami is also a national speaker, a transformational coach, a design strategist, an author, and a good-juju spreader based in the Kansas City area.

Fun facts 🙋‍♀️🌲: Cami has over 52,000 people linked in her family tree (maybe you're related?)

Coffee Hours #7: Portfolio Edition with Bhu, Steph & Cami

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? 🙋‍♀️🙋🏻‍♂️

The Uncensored Edition #3: Wonder Women Joining Forces 🏆

Where are the women in design leadership?

According to the 2019 Design Census conducted by AIGA and Google, 53.5% of designers are women. However, only 11% of them are in leadership roles.

The tech industry is notorious for gender imbalance — the design world needs more female leaders! How do we empower more female designers to purse leadership opportunities? Let's work together to better support the career and personal growth of female designers in our workplaces. Let's unlock our leadership strengths together and continue to inspire others along the way!

 - Executive Director of Strategy and HCD at andculture

Steph is a Human-Centered Design specialist with a focus in Service Design, Design Thinking, and Design Strategy. She has worked for Walt Disney and Universal Studios theme parks designing hotel and entertainment experiences before moving on to both commercial and federal consulting. She recently accepted a new role as Executive Director of Strategy and HCD for and culture and currently resides in Washington, D.C.

Fun Fact: Stephanie can make amazing animal imitations - dolphin and horse are her best.

https://www.adplist.org/mentors/stephanie-krell

Bronwen is previously based in London as a digital designer with 8 years of experience working for established London based design agencies and independent clients. She is now based in Melbourne, Australia and working as the Head of Design for Prime Motive. Her role as a female design leader is to build up and mentor a generation of great women designers. She aims to level the playing field through collaborative and progressive thinking, and taking on the varied challenges that our industry brings to us.

Fun Fact: For a number of years, Bronwen used to be able to ride a unicycle.

https://www.adplist.org/mentors/bronwen-rees

 - Creative Director at Denny Mountain Media

Kelly's super power is the care of creative teams, building healthy design studios that scale and helping designers do their best work. She is passionate about fostering talent and creating clear paths for development and leadership.

Fun Fact: She loves motorcycles and she rides a Harley Davidson Sportster 883.

https://www.adplist.org/mentors/kelly-anderson

Menaka works at PropertyGuru Group based in Singapore, as the product design lead for their smart home financing tools and services. She enjoys speaking at design events and mentoring aspiring UX designers.

Fun Fact: She is a huge fan of medical TV dramas, movies and documentaries.

https://www.adplist.org/mentors/menaka-chandrasekhar

Yuan is a leadership coach for creative professionals. She excels at supporting women of color creatives to play bigger in career and life. Most recently, Yuan was an experience design lead at Airbnb. She created a successful mentorship program for women in design in 2018 and later scaled it to benefit 500+ teammates.

Fun Fact: She is a fan of salsa dancing and used to perform as a member of the oldest latin dance team in SF.

https://www.adplist.org/mentors/yuan-wang

After Hours: Wonder Women Joining Forces

ADPList Coffee Hours Portfolio Edition is where design mentors answer questions in a much more detailed and personal format. We get deep! Hop on with the mentors and ask your design-related questions.

 🇨🇦 - Senior Product Designer at ESL Library

Anastacia is originally from Russia, currently living in the beautiful Canada. She has a bachelor’s in Communications and master’s in Mobile interface design. She started as a marketing designer back in 2011, then transitioned to digital and fell in love with product design. She's designed interfaces for all types of companies – design studios, startups and enterprises.

 She's participated in sports show that was shown on national television, her record was holding the plank position for 15 minutes, beating her opponent on the 9th minute 💪

https://www.adplist.org/mentors/anastacia-grig

Roger is originally from Hangzhou, China. His passion for design brought him to the east coast of the US for advanced study. He completed his master’s degree in Industrial Design with honour. In the past 7 years after school, he's designed apps, medical devices, and educational software. He teaches sketching at MIT, volunteers with the Boston Public Schools, and writes about 

 He met Emma Watson at a CVS checkout line and chatted with her about which classes they want to take in fall semester 🎩

https://www.adplist.org/mentors/roger-zhu

 🇺🇸 - Senior Product Designer at Square

Soren Iverson is a product designer with a background in art direction and motion design. Prior to Square, he built digital products in the entertainment, fintech, IoT, nonprofit, and telecommunications sector.

 He toured in Bulgaria and Turkey playing trombone in high school 🎼

https://www.adplist.org/mentors/soren-iverson

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.

ADPList Coffee Hours #8: Portfolio Edition with Anastacia, Roger & Soren

Over the last 20 years, Joe has been building creative teams while working in both print design and UX/UI. He has done digital transformations for companies like American Express, MasterCard as well as built design systems for Saks Fifth Ave.

He did standup comedy when he was 17 for a couple of years 🎤

https://www.adplist.org/mentors/joe-cahill

Rania works at the intersection of design, business and technology and has won multiple awards recognizing her as one of the best in digital and tech. She’s a global keynote/TEDx speaker, guest lecturer, and industry mentor. One of her missions is to bridge the gap between design and business, and empower more women into the world of design & technology.

 She completed her under 30 bucket list - 6 months before she turned 30 - which included skydiving, her first tattoo and visiting New York (where she now lives) 🪂

ADPList Coffee Hours #9: Portfolio Edition with Joe & Rania

ADPList After Hours is a monthly panel discussion where mentors share their views and personal 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?

your questions, mentors will answer them!

The Uncensored Edition #4: Designers' Entitlement 🥃

As a Bootcamp grad, do you feel entitled that you deserve a job immediately after completing the courses without putting in further time, effort, and work? Were you taught that if you have A/B/C in your portfolio that you will be offered a job sooner or later? Are you a checklist designer? What does a checklist designer even mean? Are Senior Designers entitled to jobs more so than Junior Designers then? What other "false" entitlement do we have as designers?

 / 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 🐾

Aakanksha works at Cruise where she designs for On-Road tools and Autonomous Food Delivery experience. Before that, she was at Uber where she designed various support, safety, and engagement features.

Fun Fact: She can play a few tunes on a bagpipe 

Frank is a co-owner and publisher of Boxes and Arrows, as well as a Design Director at USAA in San Antonio, TX. He found a home at USAA where he continues to grow as a design leader and stay involved with the design community through creative work, mentoring, and speaking engagements.

Fun Fact: He designs socks and has a new design in the works for early 2021 

Vicky is a Senior Product Designer at LinkedIn, where she designed and shipped the hiring product for users from small businesses. She deeply believes in people first, and her strengths include user-centric product strategy, problem-solving, and delivering design solutions at scale. Previously, she graduated from Georgia Tech with a Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction.

Fun Fact: She learned piano for 6 years but she still sings out of tune 

 / Experience Designer at Electronic Arts

Vancouver based designer and mentor often found at midnight screenings of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or belting out Disney hits to a small crowd of people at neighborhood karaoke bars. Zack is also a Pisces and chatty AF.

*This event is for matured audiences. 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.

ADPList After Hours #4: Designers' Entitlement

Join us as we invite the biggest community leaders, Wonsulting, and Design Buddies.

2020 has been a ride of a lifetime and we are only 20 days away from a new year 🦄. As our year-end event, we'll discuss our takeaways from this crazy, and memorable year. Beyond this, key lessons that can help us prepare stronger together for 2021 - achieving our most ambitious goals.

✨ Join us as we engage in conversations recapping 2020 and preparing for 2021!

Design Lead at Gotrade (YC S19) & Co-founder at ADPList

Felix is an entrepreneur and design leader who believes in constantly reinventing the way we experience the world and beyond. He has worked with global startups from Y Combinator, Antler, and more raising over $30M in 2 years from an early stage. He is featured on Vulcan Post, Straits Time, TODAY, Tech in Asia, Teenage Magazine, and more.

 Manager, Product Strategy, & Analytics at Lucid / COO at Wonsulting

Jerry is an ex-Senior Strategy & Operations Manager at Google and current Manager, Product Strategy at Lucid. He is from Torrance, California and graduated summa cum laude from Babson College. After graduating, Jerry was hired as the youngest analyst in his organization by being promoted multiple times in 2 years to his current position. Outside of work, Jerry partners with universities & organizations (170+ to date) to help others land into their dream careers. He's amassed 83,000+ followers and has reached 15M+ professionals.

Jonathan is the CEO/Founder of Wonsulting, which mission is to “turn underdogs into winners”. He's also worked in the Strategy and Operations team at Snap, Google, and Cisco coming from a non-target school/non-traditional background. He works on many initiatives, providing advice and words of wisdom on LinkedIn and through speaking engagements. In total, he has led 170+ workshops in 9 different countries including the Mena ICT Forum in Jordan, Resume/Personal Branding at Cisco, LinkedIn Strategy & Operations Offsite, Great Place To Work, Talks at Google, TEDx, and more. He's amassed 78,000+ followers on LinkedIn in 8 months as well as 15+ million impressions yearly on his content.

- Product Designer at Electronic Arts / Co-founder at Designer Buddies

Grace is a Designer at Electronic Arts and the Founder & Design Lead of the Design Buddies community. She is also a Computer Science & Engineering student at Santa Clara University. Outside of design and community building, she has her own art business and creates content for social media and her 

This event is for mature audience. Viewer discretion is advised.

ADPList Community Special 2020: Giving Voice

A round-robin style where mentors take turns reviewing portfolios submitted by the audience for 10-15mins and concluded with a short Q&A. Are you ready for this design review session where we can all learn from each other's work and reflect on our own? We are!

👉  James Robinson 🇺🇸 - Product Design Lead at Eight Sleep

James is an interdisciplinary product designer, entrepreneur, and mentor currently leading design for new products at Proxy, a series-B startup building the future of adaptive environments and digital identity. He also leads partnerships here at ADPList and rebrands for-good non-profits with Good Measure, a new kind of nomadic agency.

The Boston chief of police once handed me a megaphone and asked me to help calm a crowd of thousands of people in the middle of a hurricane 

https://www.adplist.org/mentors/james-robinson

👉Jacalin Ding 🇦🇺 - Lead UXD Instructor & Consultant at General Assembly

Jacalin is a multi-disciplinary creative problem solver, a business designer, an educator, a mentor and a social entrepreneur. Currently she is leading design for a travel startup Hotelr, across brand, product design and validating MVP and product strategy.

At age 24, I was hit by a bus but miraculously survived from a coma after 4 days 🚐

 https://www.adplist.org/mentors/jacalin-ding

ADPList Coffee Hours: Portfolio Edition #10

Announcement Event by ADPList Co-Founders

Since we started the journey, access to mentorships has exploded across the world. The success of this community is a reflection of your willingness to open up.

On 14 January 2021, we want to take that to the next level together with all of our community mentors and designers.

Wish we could say more ✨. See you there.

read community letter by Co-Founder, Felix Lee

ADPList Open Event

ADPList Genius Hours: Career Success Edition is where design mentors come together to provide tips and insights into the how-to's of approaching job search and building a successful career.

How to use LinkedIn effectively as a Designer — Are you currently looking for a new job or want to improve your online brand presence? If so, come learn more about how LinkedIn can help improve your personal career goals. This presentation will teach you about the different products within LinkedIn and how to make the most out of your career search. During the event, speakers from LinkedIn’s Design team will discuss how to effectively build a profile, how to use LinkedIn for networking, and how to effectively apply for jobs.

Ying (she/her) is a UX and product designer at Honeywell. She kicked off her career creating digital solutions for Fortune 500 clients before transitioning to enterprise UX to tackle B2B product challenges. In addition to being an ADPList mentor, she's also the co-organizer of 

, a design community focused on career growth, community learning, and building relationships among diverse women and non-binary folx.

Fun fact: In her previous life, Ying broadcasted smooth jams through the airwaves of Atlanta as a radio DJ 🎧

— Associate Product Designer at LinkedIn

Brandon is an Associate Product Designer at LinkedIn in San Francisco, California launching new experiences related to Pages and Marketplaces. He recently graduated from the School of Interactive Art + Technology at SFU in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada) and has a background in Contemporary Arts and Art History from the University of British Columbia. As a first-generation student and child of refugees, he cares deeply about making design, tech, and professional development more accessible to those historically underserved.

Fun Fact: Because I graduated during the pandemic, my friends and I held our commencement ceremony on Animal Crossing 🎓

Kristine is a Design Manager at LinkedIn, leading a team of designers to create the best customer experience for the Pages product. She has been at LinkedIn for 4 years. Prior to her current position, Kristine was a consultant at Deloitte Digital for 5+ years working with different Fortune 500 companies on building mobile and web products. She takes a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses the fields of design, business, and technology. Outside of her daily work, Kristine enjoys mentoring and coaching aspiring UX designers and students.

Fun Fact: Pre-COVID, Kristine really enjoyed to travel and I’ve been to over 55 countries across 6 continents (Antarctica is the last one left) ✈️

 — Senior User Experience Designer at LinkedIn

Vicky is a Senior Product Designer at LinkedIn, where she designed and shipped the hiring product for users from small business. She deeply believes in people first, and her strengths include user-centric product strategy, problem-solving, and delivering design solution at scale. Previously, she graduated from Georgia Tech with a Master degree in Human Computer Interaction.

Fun Fact: I learned piano for 6 years but I still sing out of tune 

ADPList Genius Hours #1: How To Use LinkedIn Effectively As A Designer

ADPList Genius Hours: Deep Dive Edition is conversations and insights delving into our most difficult inner workings so that we creative people can heal, grow, and eventually become our best selves

What do you really want, and how will you get there?

Attendees will discover and record what their big, juicy life goals are, gain perspective on what they've accomplished thus far, map out baby steps for progress toward their goals, and grow confidence for the future

Previously based in London as a digital designer with 8 years of experience working for established London based design agencies and independent clients. I am now based in Melbourne, Australia, and am Head of Design for Prime Motive. My role as a female design leader is to build up and mentor a generation of great women designers. I aim to level the playing field through collaborative and progressive thinking and taking on the varied challenges that our industry brings to us.

Fun fact: For a number of years, she used to be able to ride a unicycle.

 — Self-employed Transformational Coach

As a recovering graphic designer, Cami has had 30 years of design experience and has worked with all types of organizations: from academia to agencies, from startups to international non-profit corporations. Cami is now a transformational coach specifically for creatives, a national speaker, and an author based in the Kansas City area. She's probably best-known for her good juju, spreading it wherever she goes.

Fun Fact: She has the honorific (and somewhat silly) title of Lady and can be referred to as Lady Cami Travis-Groves, but no curtseying or bowing is necessary.

ADPList Genius Hours #2: Desire, Perspective, and Baby Steps

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? 🙋‍♀️ 🙋🏻‍♂️

The Uncensored Edition #5: Owning Your Unique Story

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.

 -Senior Interaction Designer at SiriusXM

https://www.adplist.org/mentors/kasey-randall

Brian has been practicing design for 20 years working in advertising, at design agencies and startups. He's had the privilege of being an integral part of helping organizations transition from being ops and/or sales driven to product and design lead for the last 7 years. When he's not on the job, you’ll usually find him cooking up a storm in the kitchen, catching up on his (never ending) gaming backlog, or mixing up some deep house on his turntables.

Fun Fact: He's eaten his way across 25+ countries, taking the roads less travelled ✈️

- Senior Product Designer at Optimize.Health

Matthew is a Product Designer, Podcast Host, Photographer, and Entrepreneur based in Seattle, WA.

Fun fact: One of his photographic prints is displayed at The Embassy Row Hotel in Washington, D.C. 📷

NeYane's earliest connection with design was a desire to make beautiful spaces and cars. While that’s evolved over time, she's been pleasantly surprised to contribute her creativity to the tech space, creating solutions for a range of industries including healthcare, food, retail, finance, cars, and now musical instruments. Beyond being a design professional, she's a movie and television lover, a serious tea drinker, and a bit of an unapologetic book hoarder.

Fun Fact: She's secretly an amazing whistler. She's always whistling way too hard and loudly to her favorite songs. It's honestly one of her favorite things about working from home 😙

Tulika is a graphic designer based in Singapore with extensive experience within both agency and in-house design & marketing teams. At Studio Giraffe, she works with clients of all sizes and from a variety of industries: sustainability, insurance, recruitment, FMCG, software, fintech, travel management, F&B, health & wellness, and more.

Fun fact: Tulika is a Harry Potter super fan and never misses an annual summer reread of the series 🤓

After Hours #5: Owning Your Unique Story 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZQLg0uZf6Q

Join us as our mentors share their experiences, personal stories, and the positive impacts they bring to the design industry.

Fun fact: She's secretly an amazing whistler. She's always whistling way too hard and loudly to her favorite songs. It's honestly one of her favorite things about working from home.

 — Freelance Designer at Aarianna Designs

Aarianna is a Harlem native who deeply values community. She places positivity and kindness over everything. She's a firm believer in practicing joy, empathy, and abundance mindset.

Fun Fact: She speaks intermediate Japanese.

 — Founder & Creative Director at Perception Works

Brandon is a self-taught product designer and entrepreneur with ADHD & Learning Disability superpowers. He was born in Washington DC and now lives in Hyattsville MD. He is always in loved with Visual Arts Department and his journey started in middle school when his favorite Art Teacher taught him how to use imagination to create amazing art from printing, sculpturing, and paper mache. He has signed up for online courses to expand his knowledge on design theories and learn to focus more on accessibility and user-first design.

Fun Fact: He loves to cook different interesting vegan food.

 — User Experience Designer at KPMG Canada

Mosope is a user experience designer who is fascinated by the relationship between human interaction and technology. Much of his work has been dedicated to designing better user experiences for products. His long-term goal is to make technology easy to use and accessible to everyone. When Mosope is not designing, you can find him drumming, watching anime and exploring around the country.

Fun Fact: Everyone seems to get his age wrong, he must have found the elixir of youth