Episode 6
This episode will be a little different as we’re now on the road and also receiving our first phone guest!
Our first stop is at Shopify’s Ottawa offices where we’re joined by Shaun Illingworth a 1987 Faculty of Arts alumnus who is a UX/CX Lead at Shopify and an experienced Managing Director and new technology/innovation strategist and by Leia Atkinson, a 2015 alumna from the Faculty of Social Sciences who is now a senior researcher at Shopify.
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2:00- How did you end up in a High-Tech company with your background? 5:30- What is Shopify exactly? 7:30- Is your work a real interdisciplinary process? 12:50- When you collaborate are you all sharing the same language? 19:18- What are you looking for in people at Shopify? 20:30- How different is it to develop a product for an international market? 22:00- How do you define UX Design? 29:00- What are the time scales for a typical project? 30:33- What helped you the most from your university experience in getting where you are? 37:40- What types of internships does Shopify offer students?
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