Season 1 - Ep. 1 - Design is about Understanding Different Complexities Felix Lee is our very first guest on the UX Banter Podcast. Felix is the Co Founder at ADPList having a vision to inspire powerful conversations and collaborations among members of the design community. Felix is an engineer, an ex-army man, a design lead and an entrepreneur who believes in constantly reinventing the way we experience the world.  Discussion Points: What’s the story behind starting ADPList? 1:38 From joining the army to starting a successful startup, what has your journey been like? 5:00 Have you had any mentors in your life? And how has their impact been in your career? 9:00 Are there any happy surprises along the way? 12:30 Rapid Fire Segment 17:29 It's commendable that you have an inclusive team at ADPList with 60% female and 40% people of color. Any tips on building diversified teams at work? 29:17   Show Notes: ADPList is on a mission to democratize mentorship, and to bring mentorship, access to the world, with over 6000 mentors from 90 different countries. Design is much more about understanding many different complexities, as compared to just trying to design an app or something. A lot of designers don't like working with data, but the best designers spend 70 to 80% of their time on data. I just want to do amazing things, I just want to be able to do some amazing work for the world. I only had one very focused goal that I wanted to be the best designer that I could be in these two years.  One of the surprises that came along my way was truly how fundamentally good the majority of human beings can be. ADP wouldn't be here today, without the earliest people who had believed in us and wanted to continue to help us and some of them, do it on a voluntary basis.  I think the fallacy of UX is that people tend to think that it solves a problem through good experience and usability. We have a lot of people who can do the work, but not a lot of people who can think and it's a rare commodity these days. Links: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/felixleezd/ Website: https://adplist.org/