Talks & Workshops
Linkedin Live with Christopher Nguyen
Guest on Christopher Nguyen's channel.
Live interview on growth hacking, climate tech, and investing in early stage startups.
Lecture on conscious design.
Amsterdam based talk and workshop in cooperation with SUX on decentering growth, sustainable UX, and a workshop on going beyond end-users and business goals.
Host of Panel on Design Systems.
Uber Design Team
Chat with Uber's design team apprentices on Sera's journey in tech and starting your own design business.
Podcast deep dive into Sera's Growth background and projects.
Bay Area panel on how to become a successful Product Designer.
Sera Tajima Podcast
Latest Episode
3.11 Kelly Jacobs | Becoming a Design Manager at Twilio and Transitioning to IC at Parachute Health
2.6 Don Norman | Design for a Better World
3.2 Gaya Herrington | Design or Disaster
1.2 Sera Tajima | What is design?
What Designers are saying⚡️
Principle Multimodal AI Architect
Holy shit Sera Tajima has such an amazing class in growth. I learned so much. It’s common sense stuff that I didn’t know was there until it was pointed out. She’s super good at teaching. Win for me! This is the thing: people talk about growth hacking… people talk about sustainability… but NO ONE talks about Sustainable (responsible) Growth. Given the field I’m in (AI UX) this is direly needed because everyone wants more compute. Sera’s framework is chef’s kiss. 🧠
Host, Honest UX Talks
We had such an informative podcast interview about growth design. Sera is an incredibly well spoken designer!
Product Designer,
Boston Consulting
Sera is worth every single penny! She helped me prepare for my upcoming Whiteboard Design Challenges and have me the tools needed to be successful in any prompt that is given to me. She provided in depth and personalized feedback on how I can improve my process and provided best practices to ensure I stood out as a candidate. I received great feedback from facilitators across multiple companies on my process and execution. I also purchased her Whiteboard and Product Design Interview templates which have help immensely during this interview process. I highly recommend Sera for coaching as your grow in your product design career.
VP Design, Zendesk
Sera is one of the most thoughtful designers I’ve come across in a long while. Her insights are consistently on point and her methodology thorough yet flexible. She’s got a terrific work ethic, great communication style, and an eye for detail.
Product Designer
Spotify Wrapped is my favorite!
This year, one highlight was seeing Sera Tajima's podcast in my top 5. I've recommended it to fellow Product Designers all year-and for good reasons.
What makes Sera's podcast stand out? Her solo episodes are packed with research, delivering trustworthy content on sustainable design. When she hosts guests, the conversations feel like you're part of a casual, yet insightful, discussion. Serious topics are balanced with light, funny moments.
Jaime Hernandez
Digital Product Designer
Sera has always been a great resource throughout my design education. I was so excited to finally join a live cohort! She provides so much valuable knowledge and delivers unique methodologies in a professional manner. The growth design cohort was a great experience of both learning and rapid fire hands on workshops to improve critical thinking. All great things that any product design can truly benefit from!
AI Product Designer
I usually don't have the patience to listen to podcasts, but I did finished Sera's recent podcast with Hang, which is rare. I think that shows how great the episode was. I can tell it got quite vulnerable and personal but I'm glad they both followed the flow and didn't strictly use a script. That made the episode a very long one, but I didn't mind the length at all. And kudos for the stamina in producing and effort in editing the podcast.
Rati Mashego
Product Designer
Sera is a great instructor and I don't say that lightly. It was refreshing to be a part of this course. It was great in teaching me how to approach design in a way that benefits the company's business goals. It was so impactful and applicable that I could step out of the course and use the tools the next day at my job, and the growth approach was received extremely well by my PM.
Evelyn Kim
VP Design, BetterUp
Sera was a leader who drove the product process and decision making. She was very proactive in communicating to the team, especially as we built a team around the work that she was doing focused on one segment of the market. We look for a bias towards action and Sera definitely took ownership. Her ability to go into the research and know how to execute was impressive. Behind the scenes, she knew how to find the resources and answer questions. She managed challenges as they came and fixed it, with no oversight. It was great!
