Design MBA

Tanner Christensen is a curious, multi-disciplinary design leader who is dedicated to helping designers and businesses find the best in each other. He's the founder at Shape.co and previously worked as Head or Design at Gem dot com. Before Gem, Tanner designed software for autonomous vehicles at Lyft, led design of the Atlassian mobile platform, and designed for 2.85 billion people at Facebook. He's a published author, prolific writer, indie app developer, angel investor, podcaster, and more. 

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ARE YOU LOOKING TO LEVEL UP YOUR INTERVIEWING SKILLS AS A DESIGNER?
Check out Shape - https://shape.co/

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• Twitter - https://twitter.com/tannerc
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tannerchristensen/
• Website - https://tannerchristensen.com/

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Femke Van Schoonhoven is a senior product designer at Wealthsimple though previously worked at Uber Eats on the merchant experience. Prior to that, she worked on the driver experience focusing on money and payments across the world. You can often find Femke creating videos on YouTube, hiking around Ontario or cycling. Femke currently lives in Toronto, Canada. 

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ARE YOU LOOKING TO JOIN A DESIGN COMMUNITY TO LEVEL UP?
Check out Femke's design community - https://www.femke.design/community

CONNECT WITH FEMKE

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/femkesvs
• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/femkedesign
• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/femkedotdesign/
• Website - https://www.femke.design/

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Benjamin Issenman aka Ben Issen is the founder of Supercreative, a website where he shares tools he creates for design solopreneurs. Based in Paris France, he started designing brands for online clients when he was 16. Now 25, he designs and builds digital tools (with freelancers he hires or other creators he collaborates with) for his audience of 15,000 people. 

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ARE YOU TO EARN A LIVING FROM YOUR CREATIVE WORK?
Check out Supercreative - https://www.supercreative.design/

CONNECT WITH BEN ISSEN

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/ben_issen
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/issenmann/
• Website - https://www.issenmann.me/

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John Zeratsky is a co-founder and general partner at Character, bestselling author of Sprint and Make Time, and former design partner at GV. Previously, John was a design leader for YouTube, Google Ads, and FeedBurner, which was acquired by Google in 2007. 

ARE YOU A FOUNDER LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH A DESIGN FOCUSED VC FIRM?
Check out Character - https://www.character.vc/

CONNECT WITH JOHN ZERATSKY

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/jazer
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnzeratsky/
• Website - https://johnzeratsky.com/

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Dan has been a creative director, designer, and developer since 1998. He has taught design systems and collaboration at public conferences, private client engagements, as higher education instruction, and on many podcasts and videos. Dan’s superpower is getting people excited, even when there’s challenging work ahead. Dan met his wife Emily when they were both in 5th grade. Together, they raise daughters Siddalee and Charlotte, yorkshire terrier Max, and mini sheepadoodle Matilda just outside Philadelphia, PA. 

IS YOUR TEAM LOOKING FOR DESIGN SYTEMS COACHING?
Hire SuperFriendly and experience digital transformation through design systems coaching and practice - https://superfriendly.com/ 

CONNECT WITH DAN MALL

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/danmall
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danmall/
• Website - https://danmall.me/

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Yitong Zhang is the cofounder of Vector DAO. Before that he spent almost four years at Coinbase where he had the privilege of designing and redesigning much of the consumer app as well as establishing the design system. He also tends to a beautiful vegetable garden. 

ARE YOU AN EXPERIENCED DESIGNER LOOKING TO WORK IN WEB3/CRYPTO?
Check out Vector DAO which is a collective of the top 1% of designers, brand experts, and creatives in crypto - https://vectordao.com/ 

CONNECT WITH YITONG ZHANG

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/zhayitong
• Website - https://www.zhayitong.com/

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Jessica Ko is the CEO and co-founder of Playbook.com, a visual cloud storage platform for designers. She was a designer for over 10 years at Google and Opendoor, and is now working to make it easier for freelancers and designers to share their assets with the world. 

LOOKING FOR A FILE STORAGE SOLUTION MADE FOR CREATIVES? 
Create a free account on Playbook and get free 100GB in hosting space - https://www.playbook.com/

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• Twitter - https://twitter.com/yogooglemeup
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kojessica/

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Connie Yang is a design leader with experience in consumer and fintech, and is currently the Head of Payments Design at Stripe. Previously, she led design at Coinbase and created products for platforms and global at Facebook. She enjoys asking questions and finding the bits of magic that surround us in everyday life. 

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• Twitter - https://twitter.com/ConnieCurious
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniejyang/

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Michael Riddering ("Ridd") is the founding designer at Maven and the creator of Figma Academy—a new online course that teaches advanced design tactics directly within Figma. He's been designing products every day for over a decade and is passionate about improving the way we learn online. 
 

LOOKING FOR ADVANCED LEVEL COURSE ON FIGMA?
Take your Figma skills to the next level by joining Figma Academy: https://www.figma.academy/

CONNECT WITH MICHAEL RIDDERING ("RIDD")

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/Ridderingand 
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelriddering/ 
• Website - https://www.ridd.design/ 

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Graeme wrote his first line of code aged 8, in 1992 on a Commodore 64, and built his first website in 1998. He's solved design problems for clients such as VW, Johnson and Johnson, the British Royal Family and the UK Government. His expertise spans many disciplines including user research, service design, UX / product design, and creative direction.Graeme began working full time in crypto in early 2018, when he joined Argent. He believes that crypto heralds the biggest shift in history for how we exchange value, and that it will have much more impact than the Internet. His goal is to solve the myriad of UX problems with decentralized ownership and self-sovereignty so that everyone benefits. 

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• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/graemeblackwood/
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/graemeblackwood

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