Sneak Peek into Figma files of top designers for FREE
Here's the stellar lineup of companies and designers featured in Sneak Peek season 1:- Henry Modisett from Perplexity- Cecilia Uhr from Bezi- Dion Chooi from LottieFiles- Loren Baxter from Felt- Darshan Gajara from Hygraph- Charlota Kolář Blunárová from WE3
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Designing for AI
🧠 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW? 1. Challenges of designing for AI2. 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.⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) Interview trailer(01:39 )Why designers should not use Dribble for design inspiration?(5:08) What designers can learn from wine stewards? (6:14) Former Google employee reveals design process at Google (11:25) Why should designers learn to code? (16:41) Why handoff to engineering is faster when a designer knows how to code (18:54) Why Henry Modisett joined Perplexity AI as the founding designer? (21:47) What it's like to design for a billion users? 24:01 How to get a job as an AI designer? (28:38) How to deal with job rejections as a designer? (36:40) Reality of working in San Francisco as a Designer🤝 CONNECT WITH HENRY MODISETT Twitter -https://twitter.com/henrymodis LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/henrymodisett/🤙 CONNECT WITH JAYNEIL DALAL LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal📺 INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/4BH454Kw-90
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Designing the Facebook Like Button
🧠 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! ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS (00:00) Interview trailer (00:50) Who is Soleio Cuervo? (software designer turned investor) (1:23) How does a VC deal with FOMO? (3:09) VC shares their framework for deciding who to meet (6:25) How does a VC deal with an overwhelming amount of inbound requests? (9:15) Importance of being diplomatic when saying 'No' (10:37) Soleio Cuervo explains how he designed the iconic Facebook like button (17:08) Investing in Dropbox (19:23) Structuring your week based on initiatives (20:19) How Jayneil gatecrashed a VIP event in San Francisco (21:17) How Drew Houston closes candidates at Dropbox? (22:19) Why raise your own VC fund compared to joining Benchmark, Sequoia, or Andreessen Horowitz? (24:57) Investing your money into startups or raise a big VC fund? (28:46) Investing pre Series A in Figma (36:27) Why build relationship with a startup team over rushing to write a check? (37:38) Seeing the multiplayer demo for the first time from Evan Wallace at Figma (39:26) Investing in Framer's seed round (41:56) Why did Framer survive through the hard times and multiple pivots? (43:05) Investing Diagram's seed round (acquired by Figma) (45:49) Soleio gives Jayneil career advice (50:36) Why is Jayneil so excited about the research tool Ballpark? 🤝 CONNECT WITH SOLEIO CUERVOTwitter - https://twitter.com/soleioWebsite - 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
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Transitioning from Design Manager to IC Designer
🧠 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW?1. How to transition from a Design Manager to IC Designer 2. Why Design Managers make great IC designers📢 WHY IS MAHEEN SOHAIL A ROCKSTAR? Maheen Sohail is a Staff Product Design Lead at Meta focused on building Generative AI experiences. As a former Design manager, Maheen has experience managing large design teams building emerging technology products AR/VR/AI). Outside of work, you will find Maheen either surfing or running various storytelling experiments and workshops.🤝 CONNECT WITH MAHEEN SOHAILLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/maheensohail/Twitter - https://twitter.com/maheen_sohail🤙 CONNECT WITH JAYNEIL DALAL LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 📺 INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/LXPKGTGvFrY?si=6pVqr9zENQkYso2Y
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Spatial Design is the Future
🧠 WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS INTERVIEW?1. Why the future of product design is 3D and not 2D 2. How to find startup ideas while working at FAANG/MAMA 📢 WHY IS JULIAN PARK A ROCKSTAR? Julian Park is the co-founder and CEO at Bezi, a collaborative spatial design tool. Built on the web, Bezel enables design teams to easily turn concepts into 3D designs and interactive prototypes. Prior to Bezi, he was an engineering leader at Oculus heading key projects across VR multitasking and UI frameworks. 🔥 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A FIGMA LIKE SOFTWARE BUT FOR 3D? Check out Bezi - https://www.bezi.com/🤝 CONNECT WITH JULIAN PARK LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianjpark/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/julianparc 🤙 CONNECT WITH JAYNEIL DALAL LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayneil Twitter - https://twitter.com/jayneildalal 📺 INTERVIEW VIDEO:https://youtu.be/F8G3jgQjXzg
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