S1-E6 - On the Road Shopify, Interdisciplinarity and International Markets with Shaun Illingworth and Leia Atkinson

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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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