Today we caught up with Morgan Knutson, a co-founder and designer at Shift, notable for his previous work at Dropbox and Google. In this episode we talk about what it takes to get hired as a designer, Morgan's background, working at Google, and how to get things done as a designer.

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Morgan on the Web:

• Website
• Dribbble
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Shift

Show Notes:

2:00 - Introductions

• Shift
• Bring a Trailer
• Gentry Underwood
• Shift jobs

11:00 - Getting hired

• Getting Things Done
• Dan Eden
• Marshall Bock
• Miro

16:00 - Background

• Downhill Battle
• OpenCongress
• Genius
• Google Photos
• Andy Hertzfeld
• Noah Levin