Design MBA

Joe Formica is the Founder of Bitesize UX, where he works every day to solve "need experience, to get experience" problem that prevents people from exploring new skills, roles, and careers in technology. He believes that learning as an adult should be exciting, fun, and rewarding - not daunting. Joe has taught UX Design at General Assembly in New York for six years as a Distinguished Faculty Member, and has created and taught MBA Entrepreneurship courses at Fordham University Business School. Through these roles, he has worked with thousands of designers-in-training to help them take the next steps in their career.


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• Attend live workshops or watch self-paced courses from Bitesize UX to learn design by creating real life projects which you can add to your portfolio!

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GUEST BIO
Matt ‘Mills’ Miller founded digital product design studio Ustwo with John Sinclair in 2004. In the 14 years since, Ustwo expanded to include an independent games studio and Ustwo adventure: a startup fund and incubator that supports early-stage startups and digital companies. The company’s driving ethos is to create meaningful products and services. Alongside designing products for the likes of Sky and Facebook, it developed Google DeepMind’s Streams app, which can be used to remotely monitor patients from hospitals, and created the phenomenally successful mobile and tablet game Monument Valley. Mills stepped away from his operational duties at Ustwo to head up adventure – which provides support, investment, and a workspace for startups at its London studio – in 2017.
 

PARTNER WITH MILLS:

• If you are a founder or early-stage startup raising capital give Mills a shout!
   

CONNECT WITH MILLS:

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LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):

• Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -
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GUEST BIO:
As a fresh business graduate, Alen Faljic joined the design agency IDEO Munich as a business designer. The world of design quickly fascinated him as he wasn’t familiar with user-centricity and the power of design. However, he soon started to notice the gap between the design and business communities. As someone working in the intersection of the two, he decided to explore deeper into the relationship between the two. Today, Alen is the founder and CEO of the d.MBA which helps designers gain business confidence. d.MBA has 300+ alumni students over 50+ countries and a 97% completion rate!
 

LEVEL UP YOUR BUSINESS SKILLS:

• Learn the business fundamentals and level up as a designer by taking part in the 6-week online part-time d.MBA course!
   

CONNECT WITH ALEN FALJIC:

• Connect with Alen Faljic on LinkedIn
• Gain business confidence on the go by listening to d.MBA podcast hosted by Alen Faljic
   

LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):

• Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -
  https://levelup.designmba.show/

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Morgane Peng is responsible for the design vision and strategy of Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking. She delivers united and meaningful experiences with her team across Societe Generale products for start-ups, corporates, and financial institutions.

Previously, Morgane adventured into various fields of consulting, financial markets, and tech. In her spare time, she’s a gamer at heart and works on an indie video game successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter. 
 

SUPPORT KORULDIA RPG GAME:

• Back Morgane's Indie RPG game Koruldia today and get early access! Yes, Morgane designed all the graphics in the game!!
   

CONNECT WITH MORGANE PENG:

• Follow Morgane Peng on Twitter
• Follow Morgane Peng on Medium
• Connect with Morgane Peng on LinkedIn
   

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• Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -
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Caleb Kingston is a serial entrepreneur and award winning designer. He runs his own agency, Brainspin where he’s spent the last decade designing cutting edge solutions for the healthcare industry and many startups. He’s also a YouTube star and online teacher at App Design Tips. 
 

LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN SKILLS:

• Level up your design skills by taking premier courses on Adobe XD, Figma at AppDesignTips.com
   

CONNECT WITH CALEB KINGSTON:

• Connect with Caleb Kingston on LinkedIn
• Watch Caleb Kingston's latest design tutorials on YouTube
   

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Luke Thomas is the founder of Friday, an asynchronous update platform that helps distributed teams stay connected. Previously, Luke was Head of Product at Crystal and has been working remotely since 2013. Outside of work, Luke enjoys hanging out with his family and he lives in Portland, Maine. If you ever visit, he will gladly show you around town.
 

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CONNECT WITH LUKE THOMAS:

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User Experience Designer and co-founder of Clearleft, Andy is a best selling tech author, curates the UX London and Leading Design conferences and helped set-up The Brighton Digital Festival. Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences like SXSW, Awwwards and The Next Web. He currently runs an online community of over 1,500 Heads, Directors and VPs of Design, and is a founding member of Adobe's Design Circle. Andy has appeared on both the Wired 100 and BIMA 100 lists, as well as winning agency of the year several times running. Never happier than when he's diving some remote tropical atoll, Andy is a qualified PADI dive instructor and retired shark wrangler.
 

ATTEND EVENTS CURATED BY ANDY BUDD:

• UX London
• SofaConf
• Leading Design Conference
   

CONNECT WITH ANDY BUDD:

• Follow Andy Budd on Twitter
• Connect with Andy Budd on LinkedIn
   

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• Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -
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Martin Ramsin grew up in Stockholm and developed a love of computers at an early age. His first job as a programming intern took him to San Francisco just as the internet bubble was about to burst. On moving to Berlin he became interested in creating products and decided to take up web development again and learned Ruby on Rails from free tutorials. On meeting Raffaela they founded CareerFoundry in order to help other people realize their potential.
 

BECOME A UX DESIGNER AND GET A JOB GUARANTEE 

• Change your career by attending the UX Design Program at Career Foundry and get 5% off the course price!
   

FUTURE PROOF YOURSELF BY LEARNING ABOUT VOICE DESIGN

• Prepare yourself for the future by learning about Voice User Interface(VUI) design at Career Foundry and get 5% off the course price!
   

CONNECT WITH MARTIN RAMSIN

• Connect with Martin Ramsin on LinkedIn
   

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• Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -
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GUEST BIO:
Abhinav Chhikara got his start in design in 2011 by designing iOS apps for freelance projects on oDesk. Prior to that he was an early employee & the Head of Design at Unacademy, an ed-tech startup that's now valued over $1.4B & has raised from global investors like SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Facebook, General Atlantic etc. After spending 2.5 years there, building the design team from scratch & helping build one of the biggest live learning platforms in the world, he realized that he wanted to fix the state of design education. So Abhinav quit his job to build 10kdesigners which enables the next generation of designers and product thinkers. 


JOIN THE DESIGN SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE

• Become a UI/UX Designer by attending the 10kdesigners masterclass!
   

CONNECT WITH ABHINAV CHHIKARA

• Connect with Abhinav Chhikara on LinkedIn
• Follow Abhinav Chhikara on Instagram
• Follow Abhinav Chhikara on Twitter
• Watch Abhinav Chhikara's latest design tutorials on YouTube
• Read the Amazon bestseller Pyjama Profits on freelancing by Abhinav Chhikara.
   

LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):

• Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -
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Craig Mod is a Japan-based author and photographer. His books include Kissa by Kissa, Koya Bound, and Art Space Tokyo. He is a MacDowell, VCCA, and Ragdale fellow. His writing and photography has appeared in Eater, The Atlantic, California Sunday Magazine, The New Yorker, and other publications. 
 

SUPPORT CRAIG MOD:

• Become a Special Projects Member and support Craig's creative work!
   

CONNECT WITH CRAIG MOD:

• Follow Craig Mod on Twitter
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• Sign up for Craig Mod's monthly newsletter 'Roden'
• Sign up for 'Ridgeline' - weekly newsletter on walking, Japan, literature, and photography
   

LEVEL UP YOUR DESIGN CAREER (FREE EMAIL COURSE):

• Learn 7 proven strategies in 7 days to grow in your design career -
  https://levelup.designmba.show/

🫣 Sneak Peek into Figma Files of top designers for FREE:

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