9. Designing Products People Love with Chelsi Alise Cocking

What does a career in design look like? How do you build products that people love? Meet Chelsi Alise Cocking, a product designer at Dropbox in New York City. Born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, Chelsi moved to the U.S. to study computational media, an interdisciplinary degree focused on computer science, digital media, and design, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia. Through internships at Goldman Sachs and Apple and her classes on human-computer interaction (HCI), Chelsi learned about careers in design and how to build products for the people who use them. In this episode, we dive into what UI/UX (User Interface/User Experience) is, what a product designer does, career paths, skills for UX, resources for aspiring designers, and more! Mentioned in This Episode: "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman: bit.ly/3itIpOP Figma: figma.com Sketch: sketch.com Dropbox Design Community: dropbox.design Meetup: Meetup.com Ladies That UX NYC: meetup.com/Ladies-That-UX-NYC The Professional Association for Design (AIGA): aiga.org Processing: processing.org openFrameworks: openframeworks.cc Connect with Chelsi: LinkedIn: @chelsialise Twitter: @chelsi_alise Instagram: @chelsialise Follow Blossoming Technologist: Instagram: @blossoming_tech Twitter: @blossoming_tech LinkedIn: /blossoming-technologist