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Google's Austin Knight: Why Understanding Economics Is Important for Designers

Design Meets Business
Design Meets Business
Episode • Aug 31, 2020 • 1h 5m

Austin is a designer at Google and previously the first UX Designer at HubSpot. We talk about the importance of economics as a designer, why the change to distributed teams is inevitable, and why understanding the value systems of a company you're interviewing for is important before saying ‘yes’ to an offer.

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