Guest

Velta Azizah Destiana is an Interaction Designer at PigeonLine and User Experience (UX) Engineer at Toptal who is based in Dubai. Previously, she also has experiences as a Software Engineer and User Interface (UI) Architect. Velta graduated from University of Queensland with a degree in Computer Science and specialization in User Experience Design.

Description

In this episode, we chatted with Velta Azizah Destiana, an Interaction Designer at PigeonLine and User Experience (UX) Engineer at Toptal. We talked about her job as an Interaction Designer and UX Engineer and all the cool projects that she’s working on. We also discussed about what’s accessibility and why it’s important to her experiences in working remotely from Dubai.

Segments

02:28 - Velta’s introduction

03:30 - Learning about UX in college

05:54 - How she got interested in UX

08:48 - What teams she interacts with as an interaction designer

11:36 - Skills needed

13:08 - Workflow or process

14:20 - Current projects

16:35 - Tools that are used daily

18:27 - Challenges as an interaction designer

20:30 - What is accessibility and why it’s important?

25:25 - If we want to have a career in the same field, what do we need to prepare?

27:15 - Experience in getting her first UX job

28:23 - Communities that Velta joined and the benefits

30:00 - Experience working in four different countries

32:56 - Working remotely

39:24 - Working through Toptal

44:54 - Messages for listeners

Transcript