This week we speak with Servando Sanchez, Creative Director at Regex, SEO talks about SEO, web design, and what it takes to be a self-made designer in our industry. We also looked at his early beginnings with MySpace and how that grew into a real job.  About the hosts Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes. Ryan Warrender is Web Product Part ..read more

James is the Founder and Chief Designer of Known Unknown, a global design community. James is a brand design and marketing aficionado. As former VP of Global Design for The Coca-Cola Company, James has spoken at 200+ events in 30 countries about design, brand strategy, entrepreneurship and company culture. Those also happen to be 4 of the most requested topics to discuss on Design Huddle. At Coca-Cola, James led Design Thinking, Brand Design execution of 40+ identities, designed the Coca-Cola One Brand Strategy implemented in 200+ markets and led partnerships with Disney, Marvel, Google and St ..read more

Facebook has gone all Meta, but what does this mean for the company and how does its brand connect Facebook's other products? Listen to this episode to learn more.  https://www.inputmag.com/culture/facebooks-new-name-is-meta About the hosts Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes. Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google ..read more

This week we are covering the Apple launch event, the good, the bad and the downright silly. We also ask if a $19 polish cloth is a branding marvel or just plain ridiculous.  About the hosts Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, and various fidelities of annotated wireframes. Ryan Warrender is Web Product Partnerships Manager at Google. Ryan has over ten years of experience working in P ..read more

In this episode, we look at super apps, which is an app that includes many functions all rolled into one—for example, having your streaming service, food delivery, and payments app collected together. Some popular ones include China's WeChat and AliPay, India's Paytm, Singapore's Grab, Indonesia's GoTo, Vietnam's Zalo, and South Korea's Kakao. But why haven't they been popular in the West, and what can app developers do to promote their success? About the hosts Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews ..read more

This week Ryan and Mustafa look at UX portfolios and take a look at some of the best of 2021. They also cover tips on what to focus on and how you can scale your skillset.  Top 21 UX Designer Portfolio Websites in 2021 https://www.casestudy.club/journal/ux-designer-portfolio Sites reviewed http://www.jonathanpatterson.com/ http://lifeofpai.com/ https://www.kysondana.com/ https://www.lizvwells.com/ About the hosts Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing do ..read more

The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Developed at GV, it’s a “greatest hits” of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more—packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use. See the GV site for more details: https://www.gv.com/sprint/ About the hosts Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas ..read more

This week we cover tips and tricks on excellent UX design CVs, looking at some brilliant examples of a designer who designed their resume to look like Spotify when applying for a job there. We cover customization, format and also go into things to look for in a job interview. About the hosts Mustafa Kurtuldu is a UX lead on install-ability on Chrome and Design Advocate at Google. His skills include user research, interviews, surveys, usability reviews, producing documentation including personas, site maps, user journeys and flows, as well as various fidelities of annotated wireframes. Ryan War ..read more

David Martin is obsessed with websites. Making them functional. Making them beautiful. Making them fast. But most importantly, making them profitable for the people who run them. After nearly a decade building online businesses for others, he founded UXHACKS - a consultancy that builds and optimizes websites to maximize their traffic's potential and explode conversions. Having worked as a web designer, full-stack developer, and director of user experience in the past, he now shares his expertise on website best practices with his clients and on his YouTube channel where he streams ev ..read more

On this episode we bring back one of our favorite guests - Melinda Livsey. As the founder and brand strategist of Marks and Maker, Melinda unites over ten years of professional design experience with a penchant for thoughtful customer service. Melinda’s experience with notable names like Oakley, Paramount Pictures, and Loot Crate, coupled with her passion for creative thinkers and entrepreneurs, creates the perfect cocktail of impeccable workmanship, exceptional brands, and happy clientele. Not only is Melinda a rockstar entrepreneur she is the works for for The Futur as a Co-host on the Proce ..read more