Sana Rao was born in India, educated at the School of Visual Arts in NYC and spent 4 years at Twitter designing a bunch of the mobile experience we use today.
She's now Interim Head of Experience at Deliveroo, working out how to support the designers, researchers and content writers on their journey with the company as it grows.
Sana has taken huge risks, experienced twitter abuse, seen companies successfully improve diversity and has a fascinating story of her career to date. She's also a great friend and really interesting person!
Sana's links:
Sana on twitter: https://twitter.com/sanarao
Redesigning the content research and design org on Medium: https://medium.com/deliveroo-design/redesigning-the-content-research-design-org-50a204425b5c
Course materials from SVA: https://postindustrialdesign.school/#resources
SVA: http://www.sva.edu
Sponsor: Progression (har har)
This episode is sponsored by Progression, because why the hell not. Get your waitlist spot at progressionapp.com (we're going into Beta now so many more invites coming soon)
(A real sponsor will be back next episode)
Me and progression:
twitter.com/jonnyburch
progressionapp.com
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#26 Brian Lovin (Github, Spectrum, Design Details) on the rise of the senior IC
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#20: Irene Au (Khosla Ventures, Google) on scaling design teams and practices, scaling yourself and finding your why
#19: Ryan Carson (CEO, Treehouse) on a winding journey to training 100,000 new software engineers
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#17 Kara DeFrias on changing careers, curing cancer and being a sponsor
#16 Dave Malouf on Design Ops and the power of speaking on stage
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