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3 elements to prepare to get your first product design job

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Elva , Product Designer at GovTech Edu 5/ Co-found a company is probably the least common approach. This is how Randy the Head of Design Strategy at Kraken started his design career, “I got into what we now call product design back in 2006. That’s how my path began.” Pretty cool.

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A creative’s guide on starting a company

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I met him and his partner John Boiler first at a meeting for Xbox, a client his agency 72andsunny and AKQA that I was working for shared from 2005 or 2006 for multiple years. And after you do, be willing to take on freelance work to keep going. In return, I asked him about starting a company. Their agency was 20 or 30 people back then.

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