086: San Diego Content Designer

San Diego Content Designer

Mike Walkusky

Mike Walkusky is a Senior Content Designer at Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, Mint, and QuickBooks. Prior to joining Intuit, he was the editor-in-chief of http://EDM.com and a sports journalist for Bleacher Report. Mike lives in San Diego, California with his wife, daughter, and three dogs. He loves spending time with his family, discovering new music, basketball, sneakers, Asian food, K-dramas, and movies. Also, he's passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

In this episode, we discuss the difference of content writers and journalists, breaking into tech as customer service rep, becoming a lead content designer, fostering inclusion and equity through content design, and so much more.

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LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelwalkusky/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/mike_walkusky

Jessica Cho - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessjcho/

University of California, Riverside - https://www.ucr.edu/

Epsilon - https://us.epsilon.com/

Bleacher Report - https://bleacherreport.com/

Fox Sports - https://www.foxsports.com/

San Diego State University Aztecs - https://goaztecs.com/

SOL REPUBLIC - https://www.solrepublic.com/

San Diego Comic Con - https://www.comic-con.org/

Electric Daisy Carnival Las Vegas - https://lasvegas.electricdaisycarnival.com/

EDM.com - https://EDM.com

Coachella - https://www.coachella.com/

Intuit - https://www.intuit.com/

Glassdoor - https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Intuit-Reviews-E2293.htm

TurboTax - https://turbotax.intuit.com/

Mint - https://mint.intuit.com/

Content Design Resources from Intuit

4 Reasons content design & hip hop are long-lost soulmates - https://medium.com/intuit-engineering/4-reasons-ux-writing-hip-hop-are-long-lost-soulmates-6a99edb8e9f7

Intuit Operating Values - https://www.intuit.com/company/operating-values/

Abolish racist language (principles) - https://contentdesign.intuit.com/accessibility-and-inclusion/abolish-racist-language/

Jennifer Kennedy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-a-kennedy/

Martina Smith - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinatrejo/

Caitlyn Halliburton - https://www.linkedin.com/in/caitlyn-halliburton-53616764/

Abby Walker - https://www.linkedin.com/in/abby-walker-1515b214/

Amanda Lin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandalin93/

Cesar Villegas - https://www.linkedin.com/in/cevillegas/

Rob Jacques - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-jacques-209b4a20/