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🚀Entering Tech #005 - How to become a product designer | TechCabal

In this edition of #EnteringTech🚀, Barbara Odusola-Stevenson (@barbarastevensn) tells all about her journey from practising as a medical doctor to becoming a self-taught product designer.

Her reason? She wanted to know more about people and what they build.

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