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Omar Abdul-Rahim
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Nov 1, 2018

Venmo Design Concept: Payment Flow, Bill Splitting, and Nearby Users

Venmo. Ubiquitous among young adults everywhere, this app has streamlined payment more than any service since PayPal first launched. In my day-to-day, I use Venmo as a way to split meal costs with my friends, as an expense reimbursement tool for the staff of the fashion and arts publication that…

UX

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Venmo Design Concept: Payment Flow, Bill Splitting, and Nearby Users
Venmo Design Concept: Payment Flow, Bill Splitting, and Nearby Users
UX

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Published in Students Who Design

·Sep 17, 2018

Students Who Design: Vivian Zhang

In this episode, we speak with Vivian Zhang. Vivian is a student at Wellesley College. She has design experience all over the world, from a design agency in Hong Kong to her current co-op at Palantir in New York. We dive deep into her diverse professional background. We talked about…

Hong Kong

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Students Who Design: Vivian Zhang
Students Who Design: Vivian Zhang
Hong Kong

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Published in Students Who Design

·Sep 16, 2018

Students Who Design: Fisher Adelakin

In this episode, we meet with Fisher Adelakin (fisher). Fisher is a student at Purdue and has worked at a panoply of tech companies, with his most recent stint being at Slack. We discussed his perspective being black in tech, his influences growing up in Nigeria, and much more. …

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Students Who Design: Fisher Adelakin
Students Who Design: Fisher Adelakin

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Published in Students Who Design

·Sep 15, 2018

Students Who Design: Genesia Ting

In this episode, we are speaking with Genesia Ting. This young — and I mean young — designer recently graduated from UC Davis, has made a name for herself winning hackathons across the country, and has been most recently practicing design in the very hot civic tech space. We had…

Civictech

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Students Who Design: Genesia Ting
Students Who Design: Genesia Ting
Civictech

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Published in Students Who Design

·Sep 14, 2018

Students Who Design: Jason Yuan

In this episode, we meet with Jason Yuan. If you haven’t already seen his Apple Music redesign, we strongly suggest you do because it’s truly phenomenal. With over 47,000 claps on Medium, this article shows just how good a student design case study can be. Just a little required reading…

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Students Who Design: Jason Yuan
Students Who Design: Jason Yuan

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Published in Students Who Design

·Sep 13, 2018

Season Two

Back with a vengeance — Nine months ago, Students Who Design released a 16-episode mega-season loaded with insider info for students looking to break into the design industry. Tomorrow, we are releasing a second season. This time around, we’ve opted to produce something a little more digestible — a miniseason of sorts. In this season…

Eat More Comics

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Season Two
Season Two
Eat More Comics

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Published in Students Who Design

·Apr 29, 2018

Episode 16: Sahil Khoja, Cornell University

Instagram, Facebook, Intuit, Dangle — In our final episode, we are joined by none other than the co-host of this series, Sahil Khoja. We discuss his journey into product design and the resulting learnings, the Students Who Design project, and so much more. Sahil studies Information Science at Cornell University. He has previously held…

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Episode 16: Sahil Khoja, Cornell University
Episode 16: Sahil Khoja, Cornell University

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Published in Students Who Design

·Apr 29, 2018

Students Who Design: A Retrospective

Some thoughts concerning my first big project — After almost a year of production and over three months of episode releases, Students Who Design is about to ship the final episode of the series. This is crazy to me. This project has been the primary recipient of my time and energy since late February of 2017. My skills…

Startup

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Students Who Design: A Retrospective
Students Who Design: A Retrospective
Startup

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Published in Students Who Design

·Apr 8, 2018

Episode 13: Andrew Aquino, Cornell University

Facebook, BuzzFeed — In this episode, we are joined by Andrew Aquino to discuss his experience teaching introductory design to non-design majors, his expansion of a design community and culture at his school, and so much more. Andrew studied Computer Science at Cornell University. He currently works full-time as a product designer…

Design

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Episode 13: Andrew Aquino, Cornell University
Episode 13: Andrew Aquino, Cornell University
Design

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Apr 5, 2018

Two Young Americans, Ten Days in Asia

A photo story following Adam and Eva’s encounters with new cultures — In late March of 2018, my family went on holiday to visit me during my semester abroad at the University of Hong Kong. We spent ten great days together, splitting time between Hong Kong…

Travel

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Two Young Americans, Ten Days in Asia
Two Young Americans, Ten Days in Asia
Travel

4 min read

Omar Abdul-Rahim

Omar Abdul-Rahim

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Cofounder of Students Who Design, student at Cornell

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