Cells and Pixels

Here's a bonus episode where I talked with the seasoned leaders Diego Mendes and Jessica Ko on CogX2021 Festival 2021. We discussed some of the challenges on hiring your first designers and growing your team: Should Product Design, Marketing and Branding be in the same team? Should you hire an unicorn designer? How to hire diverse talent? If you're a founder and don't know who to hire on the design side, this is for you. If you're a new head of design trying to grow a team, this is for you. #designleadership #google #facebook #opendoor #chegg #pocket #meebo #playbook #branding #marketing #cogx2021 #cogx

Daniela is an inspiring Brazilian leader, she led teams of hundreds at PayPal and prior at AT&T, Intuit, Ebay and Yahoo! She designs organizations that are a true reflection of the widely diverse customer base it serves while championing DEI across the enterprise. She believes in the philosophy of "doing great by doing good" and she is committed to giving back to the design and broader tech communities. She also sit at BayBrazil board of directors, an organization focused in highlighting tech professionals from Brazil in Bay Area. Follow Daniela at twitter.com/danielajorge Cells and Pixels, now every first Tuesday of the month! #paypal #chiefdesignofficer #CDO #at&t #intuit #baybrazil #yahoo #getninjas #ebay

Another fun, lighthearted chat with good nuggets of positivity and self-care. Check out my conversation with Danielle Kawasaki, we talked about some nitty gritty details on her design process, documentation, designing for different devices and user environment. Cells and Pixels, now every first Tuesday of the month! #square #kanopy

What a inspiring chat with Varun from Apple and Banana. We talked about his journey from healthcare to UXR, how research can be included in your product development, from small to large organizations and some of his plans for the fruitful research approach book. Cells and Pixels, now every first Tuesday of the month! Apple and Banana website: www.appleandbanana.org #appleandbanana #bestbuy #facebook #uxresearch

I had so much fun chatting with Kai Haley. We talked about her journey and her incredible work educating Googlers about Design and Sprints. Kai is the go to person at Google if you want to learn the latest and greatest about the methodology, so this chat is must for anybody curious about it. Disclaimer: my voice may sound different, I had a sore throat today – but already way better now. #google #designsprints #designeducation

A conversation with Guidione Machava about the World-Class Designer organized in Moçambique, Africa. Guidione shared about his plans to make Africa the future of Design.  He talked about his story and how inspired by podcasts, he decided to organized a conference with people 3 other friends to decolonize design, and make it more inclusive.

Here's the video of my crazy fun convo with 4 amazing professionals at Lyft: Len Yeh, Julie Celia, Dario Fidanza and Akhil Dakinedi. How cool it was to learn more about Diversity, Safety, Bikes and Scooters, Unumute (our internal conference), Design Ops and more from these ones!

This was the final episode of the year! Yes, and I talked with Noah Levin, the Director of Design at Figma, yes! The tool that all of us love so much. Before Figma, Noah led teams at ClassPass in NYC, and the iOS Search team at Google in Mountain View. He also spent some time teaching designers how to code as an advisor at Framer, and building a digital assistant for Astronauts at NASA.

I am assuming you all know John Maeda for his many influential books on Design and Technology. From Laws of Simplicity, his classic book to How to Speak Machine, John Maeda adds humanism to technology. And our conversation was fantastic!

I feel like this is another dream coming true. I talked with Jesse James Garrett, one of my favorite UX authors; he wrote in 2002: The Elements of User Experience. We talked about his history, from a writer to one of the founders of UX, his consultancy Adaptive Path and the acquisition by Capital One. We also found some time to chat about post-rock and his recent work as a coach for design leaders at jessejamesgarrett.com