Aug 3, 2017
In this episode, Aidan speaks with Interaction Designer Rita DeRaedt about rising to challenges, crafting a new onboarding sequence for Google Voice, taking risks, and much, much more.
A few highlights:
On getting coffee with Google co-founder Sergey
Brin, 2:44
"The other design interns and I
had this ongoing joke that we were going to get Larry and Sergey to
have a one-on-one with us . . . and because I wanted to make it
happen, I kind of volunteered myself."
On becoming a television presenter,
11:50
"If something's just intimidating enough, or
just scary enough, I have a tendency to throw myself into the
situation.”
On getting unstuck from sticky design
problems,12:52
“Call it imposter syndrome, but sometimes you don't want to ask
for feedback on something until it's perfect. It's about being a
little humble and knowing that for the sake of being productive,
happy, and not in a rut, [you do have to] loop in other designers
on the product.”