Design MBA

Brian Lovin is a designer, podcaster, writer, and software tinkerer. He is currently building native mobile apps at GitHub. Before GitHub, he co-founded Spectrum, a platform for large-scale communiti…

James Traf is a designer & entrepreneur, building simple digital products. Previously he co-founded Spoil (YC-backed startup, raised $500k) and is now building small, profitable internet products lik…

Saptarshi Prakash aka "Sapta" is an engineer from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He chose Digital Experience Designing as his profession because problem-solving can go well be…

JT Grauke is a Brand Designer with a BFA in musical theater. Through strategy & story, he helps clients align their goals with the goals of their customers. He is married to his best friend Kelsey an…

Martin Ringlein is a serial entrepreneur and active investor. He is currently help run, Gather, a personal financial management fintech startup. Prior, Martin was Global Head of R&D at Eventbrite, wh…

Mike discovered Improv when he lived in Chicago and started taking classes at Second City and iO (formerly improvOlympic). Improv taught Mike how to be present and more aware of the moment as well as…

Preet is the founder of DesignX – one of the largest UX & design communities in North America, and the curator, founder and host of renowned design conferences such as Design Leadership Summit, Remot…

Brian Sullivan is the Director of Design Strategy for Sabre, where he applies user research and consumer insights with the latest technology to build new products for the travel industry. He is an ex…

Patrick is the founder of Squatchin, a creative problem-solving agency in San Antonio, Texas. He works with brands that desire to do a net good through people focused initiatives. Additionally, he's …

Vicki is a Principal Designer for Spotify Podcasts based in Stockholm. She is currently working on an illustrated book to make it easier to learn about cognitive bias. Previously, she was designing a…

Scotty Russell is an artist, designer, coach, podcaster, and speaker working under the name Perspective-Collective. He’s also an outer space, pizza loving cat dad, AND human dad based in Cedar Falls,…

Scott Tolinski is the creator of Level Up Tutorials where he has created thousands of free and premium web development tutorials. Scott also is the co-host of the popular web development podcast Synt…

Jason Kridner has 30 years of experience in the embedded systems industry. As a 28-year veteran of Texas Instruments DSP and processor businesses, founder of the BeagleBoard.org project, and invited …

Heer Gandhi is a hardware engineer and entrepreneur from Ahmedabad, India. He has a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communications from Nirma University, Gujarat, India as well as a master's deg…

Ekaterina Solomeina – creative director, educator, TEDx speaker and founder of Future London Academy. For the past 15 years, she has worked with some of the greatest creative minds alive, including M…

Seth Coelen is the founder of the product design company UX Cabin. He is also the creator of Bootsketch, LayoutLab, and Pester. In between client work and projects he enjoys making design parody vide…

If you had asked the high school version of Erik what he would be doing for a career, you would have heard something like a rock star or studio producer. In college, Erik studied music with the inten…

Stephen Gates is the SVP, Omni-channel product design at WW (formerly Weight Watchers). Previously, he was the Head Design Evangelist at InVision, working as a strategic partner to companies like Goo…

Sung was ranked 51st on the list of "The 75 Best Designers In Technology" by Business Insider in 2013 and has received a number of recognitions from Innovation by Design Awards by Fast Company in 201…

David Berens is hardwired to build. He has a strong passion for building successful businesses, developing human potential and creating healthy lifestyles. As an early employee at Opendoor (est. valu…