Lynsey Thornton's guest appearances

Lynsey Thornton

Design Better Podcast

Journey Map

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Brad Frost

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Diana Mounter

Megan Quinn

Stephen Gates

Abigail Hart

Michael Leon

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Welcome to Journey Map the audio experience that deconstructs the career paths taken by some of the world's most interesting people.To say that our guest today has been a force in reimagining the way the world buys things is a bit of an understatement, but she has some pretty humble beginnings. In 2001 she enrolled in a creative design course developing a range of hands on computing and multimedia skills in areas like web design, animation, graphic design, sound and video editing, and digital marketing. Remember this is 2001 the ‘Flash Era’, from there she would go on to obtain a degree in multimedia technology and an MBA in ecommerce. Since then she has advanced her career at a pretty steady pace moving from UX Analyst to Lead User Research Experiencer, and Interaction Designer / Usability Specialist. Then in 2013 she would introduce the concepts of user experience research and the practices that go along with it into her new employers company. Six years later she is still there and those efforts have helped build products that are used by more than one million companies around the world that collectively contributed over $183 billion dollars in global economic activity last year. The company of course is Shopify and its VP of User Experience and General Manager of its Core Product Lynsey Thornton is sitting across the table from me today. Originally from Ireland and currently based in Vancouver, Lynsey has spent the last six years leading both a team and a discipline and helps hundreds of ‘Shopifiers’ be successful in their roles as product designers, UX developers, researchers, and content strategists. With this background in design, project management, and business she focuses on building UX teams and practices in high growth tech companies and has been doing so for quite a while. Her true loves are ethnographic research and developing women in tech today. This episode of Journey Map is brought to you by Unbounce. Unbounce is the number one landing page platform used by more than 15,000 brands to get them more leads, more sales and more customers. Unbounce is a drag and drop builder that lets you create and publish your own landing pages without needing a developer to code them. It’s an easier and faster way to get more conversions from your traffic. Listeners of Journey Map can receive a 14-day free trial and 20% off your first three months of Unbounce. Follow this link to claim your offer.

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"Perception is Reality" a Conversation with Lynsey Thornton, VP of UX and GM of Core Product at Shopify

Over the last 10 years, Shopify has grown from a scrappy 5-person startup to a team of more than 3,000 across five locations. Scaling a company that fast takes a lot of talented people—and Lynsey Thornton is one of them. As Shopify’s VP of UX and Core Product, Lynsey takes on an array of challenging tasks. In the first episode of the season, she talks about everything from building a leadership pipeline to governance of the famed design system Polaris. Her advice and first-hand experiences also highlight major technology pain points—like implementing customer-centric business models and helping individual contributors successfully transition to leadership. Listen as Eli and Aarron talk about scaling design at Shopify with Lynsey—and don’t miss her biggest piece of advice for finding great org design inspiration. Lynsey Thornton's Bio Originally from Ireland, Lynsey is now the VP of UX and Core Product at Shopify in Vancouver, BC. With a background in design, project management, and business, she focuses on building UX teams and practices in high-growth tech companies. Prior to leading Shopify’s front-end developers, designers, researchers, and content strategists—along with the team that builds the core product—Lynsey designed gaming and gambling experiences. In addition to UX, her true loves are ethnographic research and developing women in tech. Follow Lynsey on Twitter @lynseythornton

Over the last 10 years, Shopify has grown from a scrappy 5-person startup to a team of more than 3,000 across five locations. Scaling a company that fast takes a lot of talented people—and Lynsey Thornton is one of them. As Shopify’s VP of UX and Core Product, Lynsey takes on an array of challenging tasks. In the first episode of the season, she talks about everything from building a leadership pipeline to governance of the famed design system Polaris. Her advice and first-hand experiences also highlight major technology pain points—like implementing customer-centric business models and helping individual contributors successfully transition to leadership. Listen as Eli and Aarron talk about scaling design at Shopify with Lynsey—and don’t miss her biggest piece of advice for finding great org design inspiration. Lynsey Thornton's Bio Originally from Ireland, Lynsey is now the VP of UX and Core Product at Shopify in Vancouver, BC. With a background in design, project management, and business, she focuses on building UX teams and practices in high-growth tech companies. Prior to leading Shopify’s front-end developers, designers, researchers, and content strategists—along with the team that builds the core product—Lynsey designed gaming and gambling experiences. In addition to UX, her true loves are ethnographic research and developing women in tech. Follow Lynsey on Twitter @lynseythornton

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