#7: Phil Kneer – UX Lead
Phil is a creative design and UX leader with broad and diverse experience working with startups, government agencies, and large enterprises. We talk about Phil’s journey to becoming a UX lead managing a team of 12. We discuss the importance of being authentic when presenting your work, the issue with over-designed resumes, the value of showing transferrable skills from previous careers, why illustrating projects solving real-world problems is more important than sleekly-designed imaginary ones, and a lot more takeaways about UX career.
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Phil KneerHost
Kirill Vechtomov
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