Natalia is a design leader from La Paz, Bolivia and now works in Dallas, Texas as Director of Product Design for Cariloop, a caregiver support company focused on relieving the stress and anxiety felt by all caregivers. After interning at advertising agencies she fell in love with the interaction design portions of campaigns and quickly transitioned into the world of user experience. She’s had the great fortune of working with some exciting brands, most notably Verizon, 7-Eleven, Animal Supply Company, Coca-Cola and Qdoba, before ultimately adopting the mission of helping caregivers. Natalia is a strong believer in thoughtful design, and intentional storytelling, and works hard to bring empathy, emotion and quality to products.

In this episode, we talked about:

• What is Cariloop?
• Natalia’s role at Cariloop
• How Cariloop serves people
• Transforming customer’s journey
• Natalia’s background and how did she get into design
• Natalia’s advice on people who are struggling to become a better designer
• Natalia as an artist
• What do expect if you will try Cariloop’s services

Links:

https://cariloop.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/cariloop/

Connect with Natalia

Meesh Lin began designing and launching websites at age eight by learning from her self-taught web designer mother. She's had an unconventional path to design—having freelanced, contracted, and designed-in house for start-ups and public companies over the last 6+ years. Today, Meesh is designing Okta's first consumer product.

Inspired by her design journey, she discovered a deep passion for mentorship and helping aspiring designers and technologists break into tech. Also, having worked alongside so many different people and personalities on global remote teams, Meesh has mastered the art of leveraging soft skills to build authentic relationships at work, which lead to effective cross-functional collaboration and happier teams.

Meesh mentors for ADPList, Co.Lab, and First Round Fast Track. She also provides design advice for early-stage start-ups. Prior to Okta, Meesh designed at Lilt, 15Five, Reddit, eBay, and Gigster.

In this episode, we talked about:

• What is Okta?
• How did Meesh learn design from her mom
• How to find opportunities as new designers
• Pay gaps
• How to advocate for yourself
• How to get people to engage more in a meeting
• Meesh’s first job and her challenges
• From archaeologist to designer

Links:

https://meesh.design/

https://twitter.com/meesh_lin

https://www.instagram.com/meesh.lin/

Peter Szalontay is the DataGoat/CEO at DataMilk, it is a team of data science and UX experts on a mission to empower eCommerce brands to build AI-powered UX on the level of Big Tech. DataMilk’s Smart UX suite enables fast, fluid, and predictive digital experiences that boost user engagement and gross profit.

In this episode, we talked about:

• How Artificial Intelligence will impact UX Design
• What is AI software called “DALL-E”
• Peter’s career at Google
• Peter on creating businesses out of AI applications
• What UX means to “DataMilk”

Links:

Connect with Peter

https://www.datamilk.ai/