E02: How to navigate strange career paths and design the future - Izzie Colpitts-Campbell of Shopify
Some questions I ask:
- What are some of the challenges of combining technology with fashion? (4:05)
- What is a User Experience Lead and what do you do at Shopify? (17:43)
- How did you get your start as a Designer? (18:44)
- What does a typical day look like for a User Experience Lead at Shopify? (21:12)
- What are some challenges of designing for developers? (23:03)
- How do you figure out what to build or what not to build? (25:32)
- What does your prioritisation process look like? (27:12)
- Has there been a project that didn't go as planned? (30:13)
- What is some advice designers can use to understand technical limitations? (35:30)
- What is something you still struggle with even as a Lead Designer? (36:32)
- What is one of the best lessons you've learned as a designer? (44:17)
- What is one thing you absolutely could not live without? (47:50)
- What's something that you were told that has proved to be wrong? (51:34)
In this episode, you will learn:
- How Shopify applies User Experience Design (17:50)
- How working in community development can shape your design practise (20:27)
- What the work of a User Experience Lead Designer looks like on any given day (21:24)
- The benefit of assumption slams to the design process (28:23)
- Why design "plumbing and maintenance" work matters (36:47)
- How to take advantage of self-doubt or negative self-talk (38:37)
- How you can use pre-mortems to anticipate problems before they occur (40:31)
- Why feedback is crucial when you're trying new design tools and methods (45:58)
- Why curiosity is key to being a User Experience Designer (57:25)
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Shopify
- No meeting Wednesday
- Design pairing sessions
- Task completion rate
- Assumption slams
- Application programming interface (API)
- Pre-mortem
- Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
- Toronto Media Arts Centre
- Queensland Cursive (QCursive)
- Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Dames Making Games
- OCAD University
- Damage Camp
- Trello
- Make Change