Uploaded December 2021 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago
Balancing Life and Career is a critical skill that people miss out on, it's never easy to do it all. Thalita talks about how we can find the right spot to find the balance to avoid the FOMO around these instances.
About our guest, Thalita. She's a Principal Product Designer at Adidas Runtastic. With a multitude of interests and creative pursuits, she feels UX design has the possibility to blend her passions for design, technology, and business, with her deep curiosity for human behavior.
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🔑 Resources mentioned by Thalita:
• Basics of UX Design — Theory & Foundation from Open Courses
• Put things to practice — Create projects for friends, people, volunteer
• Connecting with people in the industry
• Mentorship from platforms like ADPList
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Balancing Life and Career is a critical skill that people miss out on, it's never easy to do it all. Thalita talks about how we can find the right spot to find the balance to avoid the FOMO around these instances.
About our guest, Thalita. She's a Principal Product Designer at Adidas Runtastic. With a multitude of interests and creative pursuits, she feels UX design has the possibility to blend her passions for design, technology, and business, with her deep curiosity for human behavior.
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https://www.whiteboard.fm/
🔮 This podcast is part of the 10kdesigners Network
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🔑 Resources mentioned by Thalita:
• Basics of UX Design — Theory & Foundation from Open Courses
• Put things to practice — Create projects for friends, people, volunteer
• Connecting with people in the industry
• Mentorship from platforms like ADPList
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🎙️ Listen on
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/2WqW23aOsygZudWiQtGfmT
• Google Podcast: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xNjEzNzUwYy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw
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In this episode, we speak to Antonio Song. He is currently working as a Product Designer at LinkedIn. He is an undergrad from Carnegie Mellon University in Human Computer Interaction and has previously interned at LinkedIn and Paypal. He has also been a part of Iris Rover, an independent Lunar Rover project funded by NASA. #design #linkedin
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0:00 How did you get started in Design?
3:00 How did you get your first design internship?
6:47 How do you approach companies for jobs and internships?
10:00 How do you prepare for interviews and what is your strategy?
17:38 Hashtag Reshare project at LinkedIn
22:03 Zoom project
33:49 What are the differences in workings and team structure at Paypal, Venmo and LinkedIn?
39:19 LinkedIn Hiring process
43:21 About the HCI program at Carnegie Mellon University
45:46 Iris Rover project at CMU
1:00:25 How do you manage to work on such versatile projects?
1:05:00 What are your future plans?
1:08:25 Top 3 learnings from your design journey
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King Sidharth explains how to make product-level decisions based on data metrics. #design #product
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Headout: https://www.headout.com/careers
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Aboli shares the challenges she faced when starting off as a designer in healthcare and what her day to day life looks like. #healthcare #industrialdesign
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Cura technologies: https://www.cura.tech/
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Sneha explains her work profile as the Creative Lead at Unacademy. This includes project walkthroughs of Unacademys brand book and the first 360 marketing campaign done by the team. #branding #campaign
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📖 Unacademy branding and brand book: http://snehasanks.com/work/unacademy-brand
📺 🎬 Unacademys first 360 marketing campaign: http://snehasanks.com/work/unacademy-lets-crack-it
Snehas website: http://snehasanks.com/
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NID Admissions: http://admissions.nid.edu/NIDA2020/Default.aspx
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