Series 1 Airbnb Lead:

• “Not many people know design is more than what you see.” 因为她认为设计是解决问题和考虑到最终用户。通过合作和迭代是实现目的一种toolkit。比如一些App的界面包括颜色和按键。Strategy和人与人之间的合作。这些都算是设计的一个广义的范畴。
• “How to convince non-designer to understand your low fidelity ideas”.  在这种情况下，设计师可以传达这样的方式能“low risks and fast”. “用一些具体的原型和用户场景去聊。 在投入更多的时间和精力前，确定我们的想法idea是有价值的，真的能去帮助用户和满足他们的需求。
• “How Airbnb thinks about the implications of its UX in the real world ” Airbnb 设计师的职位叫experience design，她们都做UI和UX。Airbnb会去pair两个设计skill 不同的设计师，这样能最大程度上帮助两个人互相学习。Pixel perfect很重要，但是pixel perfect 怎么去transfer time and place也是非常重要的。Context of the use.
• Storytelling in Airbnb through prototype, user journey, storyboard ( user’s challenging, gain empathy, identify themselves). 她举了例子来说明storytelling的重要性。比如在开会的时候，设计师想介绍新的功能和设计理念。每个听众会参照自己的一些经验去理解。最终一群人很难去达成一个共识。但是如果在介绍的时候，设计师引入一个用户真实的故事并且带有场景性。这样大家都能去想象，用户在什么样的场合，什么样的时间点和如何去与新功能去互动。这样的表达方式能更快速的让团队更快的明白设计师的想要推崇产品想法。
• The design is a problem-solving process.
• “Only Designer in the team, how do you convince value of design”. —- See process, help them to see the value of user research, storyboarding of the user journey.

Series 2 Uber:

• The design is a team working and ownership of the idea.( taking some good and make it better).
• Communicate and sell your design internal.” Tailor message to the audience”. 每次聊设计的时候，根据听众的背景和知识面，说迎合他们期待值的说法。即使是同样的设计，在不同的presentation的场合，侧重点也要有所不同。同时想想，自己在寻找什么样的feedbacks.
• 他认为现在一些原型工具比如invision，marvel和framer有一定自己的局限性，如果有些设计师能contribute code就更能提高工作效率。
• 对年轻设计师的建议：Be ok and open mind，不要怕犯错误。设计师需要去适应新环境。
• 虽然作为公司唯一设计师很challenging，但是能变的更加独立和积极主动去学习东西并且学会合作。
• Convince Other non-designer 不同designer的专业术语。用other good business case study to convince

Series 4 Ebay:

1. Balance Data and Intuition: 1). What is available data 2). How it related the decision being made.
2. 怎么决定职业的发展方向：1). 你想解决什么问题 2). 一起合作和工作的人, 要在工作环境里待得很开心
3. The role of the designer: bring customer and understand them. Finding opportunity
4. Data-Driven to measure result.
5. Conversational UI ( beyond traditional UI interface)

Series 5:

• Hiring the first designer:  1).这个唯一的设计师要非常喜欢设计，能反思value of company and people. 2). Define the role of design putting into the culture and company (who report and design team dynamic).
• 现在很多设计师缺失的skills： 只关注设计相关的事情，不太关系其他的话题和行业。care outside of the design. Really understand what the business wants to reach, build understanding and trust
• What are you looking for a designer at Facebook: 1). really good at visual 2).Interaction skills, user flow 3). Product sense, articulate product and user need 4). Everyone has to code and contribute the launch

Series 7 Design Sprint： 

• Being Great Designer: 不仅仅是定义自己为设计师和工作人员，而是去思考如果我是老板或者程序员，我会做什么样的决定和选择。Putting yourself in the driver seat
• In the design sprint, 设计师必须知道在一个节奏很快的流程中，应该优先什么。

Series 8 John Made: 

• 他主要讨论了三种不同类型的设计师：Classical designer, design thinking, competition designer( competition software and hardware, involve data)第三种是硅谷现在定义的设计师和所需要的人才
• 人总要先做些不喜欢的事情 去换取做喜欢事情的资格。you need to do sth you do not like to pay the life bill. If you pay the bill, you can do sth you want to do
• 他说人的一生分为4个Quater。人过了一定的时间，身体机能跟不上。就不能再工作和学习去提高自己了。所以人学习和提高自己的时间是前面两个阶段。
• Great designer care business, he or she will be successful.

Series 9 Spotify VP：

• Define data, Data comes with many format and size ( Big data like AB testing, small data like usability testing) Data just information about your user and customer. So you know what is a constraint of data.
• How designer approach data: Data is a bund of the number. 作为设计师不要去害怕去理解数据，要去深挖数据背后用户行为
• The relationship between data and designer like a conversation. Think Data is a language that the customer talk with us ( designer). If you did sth to improve user’s experience, you can use data to measure the result.
• She defines three-terms: Data-driven（你知道自己在寻求什么样的结果和让数据去回答）, Data-inform ( you want to get some indicator from data, one of input) and Data-aware( 设计师工作的方式决定了我们收集什么样的数据）
• How designer start to try data? 1). Read some articles how other designers try in their company, to practice thinking 2). Talk with the customer and validate hypothesis
• 在录用设计师的时候看重他们什么：1) Basic Design skills 2).curious business and data
• How young designer to spend their time: 1).doing the work and solve all kind different the problem with the better result. 2). self-training and practice skills in design. 3). More mature stage, then consider connecting with other disciplines

Series 10 Facebook VP:

• “Thinking about less personal own experience at Fb, think about the challenging people around the world is facing”.
• How designer use data in the design process? : Understand the area you are working, start to think about data in the early stage of design process.

Series 14: Google Material Lead

• What are the things the Google designer look for: 1). How do you get into design? Want to get a sense of that personal story. What’s the passion to drive them to pursue this careers? 2). Communication and collaboration 3). Design challenging, how they break problem.
• The problem to avoid in the interview: Do not treat user’ problem into designer’ s problem
• What’s kind of skills missing: Motion Design, Connecting with researchers, Voice

Series 15 Citi Design Lead

• One thing about design clear to you and do not clear to other: Design has the power to influence business and product. The contribution the company wants is creativity. Creativity is problem-solving. And the design is a visual expression of that solution. So many designers only focus on making.  People who can think who can lead who understand business will succeed.
• The pattern in Design Process to lead great outcome: 1) . How to put my idea out a group. From different perspective 2). Willingness and hunter to fail and fast. 3). Empathy

Series 16 IDEO:

•  The design is toolkit and mindset.
• Innovation, Fresh ideas with implementation
• Tell a story related to that person. Speak the language that they value

Series 17 Instagram

• Strong Designer: Product Sense ( Product Thinking),  Sense of craft ( Caring about details), Balance between solving the problem and solving it well, prototyping skills, ability to take feedbacks and adjust, pitch ideas.

Series 23 Design Recruiter 

• What makes you move to a new company:  really have a thoughtful consideration. Why I am leaving because of money or boss? or I am not passionate about the actual work. Maybe I am in the wrong role? What can overcome?

今天我的OPT开始了,我也知道job-seeking这种事情，有运气也有能力的成分在这里。每天的生活除了努力学习和做作品集以外，我并没有放弃这项选择。

周一的时候去了Coach的NY office面试了，这好像是第一次在纽约去很好的公司on-site. 能有这么好的机会去interview，这也算对我一直以来的努力的肯定。Office在10 Hudson Yard，一楼的decoration非常的华丽和现代派。真不愧是老牌的fashion company. 自从来了纽约以后，只要高档一点的地方，内心深处就会有点小激动，按耐不住的新鲜感和好奇感。老实话，从湖南一个小地方走到这里，坚持了好久也付出了好久。在一楼等待的时候，会感叹好久，人努力的意义真是创造无数奇迹。不一会，Recruiter就来了，他领着我去了14楼，电梯间偶遇他一个同事。他们谈笑风生的样子很社会很职场的感觉，不知道有一天我也会不会成长这样的自信满满。