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EP119 with Alex Skougarevskaya

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Show Notes

In this episode, we spoke with Alex Skougarevskaya, Design Manager for Atlassian Design System.

Alex has had just about every job title designer can have, from her start as a 'graphics monkey' to a 'speck' in the big world of Advertising before the Global Financial Crisis. She's been a web, visual, graphic and interactive designer before moving her way over to Atlassian.

We spoke to Alex in the lead up to her talk at NoBs conference where she'll be talking about the Atlassian Design System, so we spoke a bit about working with teams around the world to her new adventure moving to San Francisco.

We spoke about getting things done, which is what Streamtime does for us! If you don't already use Streamtime give it a go for free over at https://streamtime.net/adr2020

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