Fail Faster

Li Zeng is the Senior Product Designer at Carta, She is a Silicon Valley based designer and entrepreneur. She creates end-to-end digital experience. Currently, Li is a product design lead at Carta. Prior to Silicon Valley, Li taught design at the college level. She co-created a series of children's books called Little Launchers, and hosted a podcast called Spark Creators to empower creators & entrepreneurs of all ages. Right now, she is working on a visual group card project called FunKudo.

Andy Vitale, Executive Vice President of Design at Rocket Companies, the nation's #1 mortgage lender, joins us in this episode. He leads a team focused on transforming the mortgage lending experience for millions of people who want to buy or refinance a home, along with professional partners across the lending and real estate spectrum. An international keynote speaker, Andy is known for authentic, inspiring talks on design leadership, design maturity and responsible design. In this episode Andy touches upon a lot of these concepts to illustrate how design can be a differentiator in creating meaningful experiences. There is a lot packed in this short episode you don't want to miss :)

Here is an insightful conversation with Greg Nudelman, Head of Design & Senior Director at Logic Monitor, who is committed to expanding what's possible for businesses by advancing their technology by creating new ways for them to grow. Greg loves leading UX teams that create the "When can I buy this?" experience for their customers. In this episode, he shares some golden rules and fresh perspectives to leverage innovative AI/ML tools and what AI can bring to UX. Asking the right question and picking the right use case has a ton of bearing on Value creation for any business.

Carter Reue is Senior Director at Coupa, a cloud platform service provider for business spend management (BSM), empowering companies around the world with the visibility and control they need to spend smarter and safer. Carter shares great results-driven management leadership techniques focused on making an impact on the technical and operational aspects of large-scale projects. He shares how his Military career gave him an edge to execute and transform mission-critical project outcomes. Carter also shares some practical tips for career growth and finding the right fit for your skill.

Director in product development who loves to create products that help solve customers' pain points. In over 14 years of technology experience, I have taken different challenges in software development, from SDE, QA to Product Director, I have transitioned into a product leader role. I love taking challenges and finding satisfaction by creating simpler solutions for complex customer problems. In my current role at Amex, I am designing the Acquisition and onboarding experience for Personal Checking, Personal Savings and Personal Loans.

Alvin Cho, Vice President of Engineering and Product, Digital Innovation & Transformation at Fiserv, a leading global technology provider serving the financial services industry powerfully. Alvin shares how he made some early but strong successes happen at Fiserv by launching a phenomenal developer studio product in 9 months. He started his project by creating meaningful connections first with the people in his team. Together they created a new language, set milestones, and provided exciting sneak peeks to the stakeholders with a servant leadership mindset keeping everyone informed before they ask for updates. Alvin, makes big projects happen by breaking things into simpler digestible steps for his team. This is a great example of how to keep work fun while achieving big goals.

Jeffrey Moore, is the Chief Product Security Officer at Staples who is focused on bringing the security at Staples up a notch by being a key partner and advocate to the business. He shares the importance of investing in the right team where every member feels part of the organization and brings their best to be most effective. Jeff talks about the benefits of bringing security by design to every product, Jeff also has a message for all of us to be nice to the people who handle security at your organization as these guys are under a lot of stress managing multiple networks, operating systems, business demands everyday and keeping the organization protected.

Sindre is a design leader at Ticketmaster. Having spent the last 12 years in various industries, Sindre has focused his career on using design as a problem-solving tool, building and enabling design teams, and consulting with SaaS businesses to support growth and scale with intuitively designed platforms. He currently enjoys working on B2B software for creating, managing, and reporting around live events."