Leia Atkinson's guest appearances

Leia Atkinson

Awkward Silences 

Make the Future - Ottawa's Tech Podcast

Jane Portman

Teresa Torres

Laura Klein

Sarah Doody

Andy Budd

Erika Hall

Yuval Keshtcher

Susan Rice

Laura Powell

Erin Blaskie

John Wall

John Cutler

Kate Towsey

Dave Chen

Danielle Smith

OwlTail

This is the second episode in our three part series on cross-cultural research. In this episode, Erin and JH chat with Leia Atkinson, Senior Market Researcher at Shopify. Leia chatted with Erin and JH about how her degree in Anthropology helps her learn more about international audiences through research. She shared her technique for recruiting participants through "snowballing", how she deals with culture shock, and how she maximizes her learning each time she takes a research trip abroad.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/awkwardsilences/message

This is the second episode in our three part series on cross-cultural research. In this episode, Erin and JH chat with Leia Atkinson, Senior Market Researcher at Shopify. Leia chatted with Erin and JH about how her degree in Anthropology helps her learn more about international audiences through research. She shared her technique for recruiting participants through "snowballing", how she deals with culture shock, and how she maximizes her learning each time she takes a research trip abroad.  --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/awkwardsilences/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/awkwardsilences/message</a>

# 27 - Part 2 - International Markets and Anthropology with Leia Atkinson of Shopify

Shaun Illingworth

Episode 6 This episode will be a little different as we’re now on the road and also receiving our first phone guest! Our first stop is at Shopify’s Ottawa offices where we’re joined by Shaun Illingworth a 1987 Faculty of Arts alumnus who is a UX/CX Lead at Shopify and an experienced Managing Director and new technology/innovation strategist and by Leia Atkinson, a 2015 alumna from the Faculty of Social Sciences who is now a senior researcher at Shopify. Timestamp 2:00- How did you end up in a High-Tech company with your background? 5:30- What is Shopify exactly? 7:30- Is your work a real interdisciplinary process? 12:50- When you collaborate are you all sharing the same language? 19:18- What are you looking for in people at Shopify? 20:30- How different is it to develop a product for an international market? 22:00- How do you define UX Design? 29:00- What are the time scales for a typical project? 30:33- What helped you the most from your university experience in getting where you are? 37:40- What types of internships does Shopify offer students? ----more---- Produced by uOttawa Faculty of Engineering. Make The Future

Episode 6 This episode will be a little different as we’re now on the road and also receiving our first phone guest! Our first stop is at Shopify’s Ottawa offices where we’re joined by Shaun Illingworth a 1987 Faculty of Arts alumnus who is a UX/CX Lead at Shopify and an experienced Managing Director and new technology/innovation strategist and by Leia Atkinson, a 2015 alumna from the Faculty of Social Sciences who is now a senior researcher at Shopify. Timestamp 2:00- How did you end up in a High-Tech company with your background? 5:30- What is Shopify exactly? 7:30- Is your work a real interdisciplinary process? 12:50- When you collaborate are you all sharing the same language? 19:18- What are you looking for in people at Shopify? 20:30- How different is it to develop a product for an international market? 22:00- How do you define UX Design? 29:00- What are the time scales for a typical project? 30:33- What helped you the most from your university experience in getting where you are? 37:40- What types of internships does Shopify offer students? ----more---- Produced by uOttawa Faculty of Engineering. <a href="https://engineering.uottawa.ca/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Make The Future</a>

S1-E6 - On the Road Shopify, Interdisciplinarity and International Markets with Shaun Illingworth and Leia Atkinson