Latinxs Who Design
29 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLatinxs Who Design is an interview podcast of thriving Latinxs in the design industry. We want to showcase Latinxs people, let their stories be heard, and share them with the world. Breaking into the world of Design may be hard, so we want to hear how the Latinxs who design did it. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxswhodesign/support
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Embracing Design Inclusion & Social Impact: A Conversation with Jay Demetillo
April 28, 2023 01:50 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBIn this relaxed and fun episode, Michel sits down with Jay Demetillo, a design leader with over 10 years of experience across New York City, San Francisco, and Singapore. As an advocate for design inclusion and social impact, Jay shares his journey of adapting to Southeast Asia's collective culture and technology while working at companies like Twitter, Pinterest, Yahoo, and Grab. Learn how Jay's experiences have shaped his approach to design and how you can create more inclusive and cultur...
Journey to Design Leadership with Diego Pulido and Koji Pereira
September 14, 2022 13:10 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBIn this special Firesession edition of the podcast, I invited Diego Pulido (@ixdiego) and Koji Pereira (@kojieumesmo) to chat about their Journey to Design Leadership. All three of us are from Latin America and we shared our stories of growing into the positions we have today. Hear how they started, what was the path they took to leadership, and how to make sure we, as leaders, keep holding the door open for inclusion in our companies. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotif...
Reimagining Design with Kevin Bethune
April 14, 2022 01:42 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBKevin Bethune discusses the need for multidisciplinary teams and talks about his book Reimagining Design, written for creatively curious individuals to help the intersection of Business, Tech and Design. Kevin Bethune is the Founder & Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life, a "think tank" that delivers design & innovation services using a human-centered approach. Kevin's background spans engineering, business and design in equal proportion over his 20+ year career, and represents...
Introducing By us not biased: Episode 1: Aubrey Blanche talks Equitable Design
March 22, 2022 00:45 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBIn this episode, Michel interviews Aubrey Blanche. Aubrey is The Mathpath (Math Nerd + Empath), Senior Director of Equitable Design, Product & People at Culture Amp, and a startup investor and advisor. During this chat, she shares her experiences with us about evolving our process and being inclusive. She's a Latina, Queer, and Bipolar 1 and wants you to know that: You matter. Books recommended on the Episode: The Wake Up by Michelle MiJung Kim All Are Welcome by Cynthia Owyoung Ho...
Be Bold - Joanna Peña-Bickley
October 25, 2021 02:10 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBWe're expanding the mission to include more people in our podcast. UX is not really UX without including people from all walks of life. Inspired by some of the recent voices on twitter I've decided to create a community for us, all of us. Join Diversity in UX Matters today https://join.slack.com/t/diverseuxmatters/shared_invite/zt-xd0nwhg4-YUyi0qU5MweqjDVg3~aI3A… This week I interviewed Joanna Peña-Bickley, a design technologist, known as the mother of Cognitive Experience Design and pionee...
Leverage your community - Andrei Herasimchuk
September 29, 2021 13:51 - 49 minutes - 46.2 MBHe was the Lead Designer on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and the Creative Suite in the 90s. Project Lead on Adobe Lightroom in the early 00s. Former Director of Design at Twitter and Yahoo. Early designer and first employee at Figma. Designing digital products since 1990. These days he can be found in Amsterdam and around Europe (or under as @trenti on Twitter), and always happy to discuss any and all things Design. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com...
Persistence pays off - Diego Pulido
September 14, 2021 04:02 - 58 minutes - 54.4 MBDiego Pulido is a Senior Interaction Design at Google in New York City. He grew up on a healthy diet of Arepas & Coffee in Bogotá, Colombia prior to moving to the US to study Psychology & Human-Computer Interaction. He is passionate about mobile UX design, running, heavy metal & electronic music. You can find him anywhere on the web under the username @ixDiego --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxswhodesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcas...
Never compare yourself - Rachel Smith
August 31, 2021 06:08 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBRachel Smith is a Latinx Designer & Founder of Design to Combat COVID-19, a virtual community of creatives over 2,000 strong—who volunteer their skills and time to support under represented communities affected by the pandemic. By day, Rachel Smith is a Product Designer at Facebook, was this year’s 2021 Lead Mentor with The Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and previously has worked with companies such as Nordstrom and The Home Depot. The rest of the time, the LA native works on a rang...
Don't limit yourself - Yvonne Blanco
August 24, 2021 06:29 - 41 minutes - 38.8 MBMade in Miami, powered by cafecito. Yvonne Blanco is a Cuban designer currently based in Somerville, MA, who specializes in designing for scientists. She worked in scientific publishing for 11 years, visually translating and conceptualizing scientific research, as well as creating cover art, infographics, posters, and interactive media. She is currently a Senior UX Designer at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, focusing on designing experiences for genomic analysis platforms and softwar...
You're rewarded for risks you take - Miguel (Miggi) Angel Cardona
August 10, 2021 08:35 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBMiguel Angel Cardona is a designer advocate for education at Figma Design where he is helping to bring Figma to more classrooms. Previously he was a tenure track professor in the New Media Design program at The Rochester Institute of Technology teaching user interface and product design. Before that, he was the lead designer at imgix, a platform for compressing and delivering images at scale. Miguel has 18 years of experience designing and illustrating for startups, agencies and teaching des...
The value of being an outsider - PJ Pereira
August 03, 2021 06:19 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBPJ Pereira is an advertising and entertainment pioneer. He believes agencies have to provide return not only on the money brands are investing but also the time consumers are spending with the work. That balance is the ultimate challenge marketing faces today. In 2016, Pereira O’Dell was behind the rare participation of a brand in the prestigious “Official Selection” of the Sundance Film Festival with NetScout and Werner Herzog's “Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World.” The film was...
Educate yourself - Mariel Backman
June 08, 2021 01:38 - 42 minutes - 39.5 MBDominican born and raised, Swedish by adoption, and Mexican by heart. Computer Engineer turned into UX designer. Studied a Master's degree in Service Systems Design in Denmark, while working as a UX Team of One. Design took her to Mexico where she now works as a Sr. UX Researcher, and shares knowledge on Instagram, Medium, and Linkedin, contributing to the evergrowing Latin American design community. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxswhodesign/mes...
Put yourself out there - Cami Nunes
June 01, 2021 01:47 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBCami Nunes is a Brazilian Product Designer living in Berlin, Germany. With 14 years of experience in the industry, she worked at many design agencies in Rio until transitioning to tech. As an early employee of Carta, she helped the Silicon Valley startup reach unicorn status. Cami now works at Shopify, helping the Shop team redefine the future of commerce. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxswhodesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters...
We’re wired to be humble - Daniela Jorge
May 25, 2021 00:24 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBDaniela Jorge has a history of success unlocking the business value of design across industries, with her career spanning PayPal, AT&T, eBay, Intuit, Yahoo!, Kaiser Permanente and Kodak. A lead architect of inclusive, ethical design practices and broad design thinking application, Daniela has headed product and UX design for digital marketplaces, ecommerce and multisided platforms serving a broad range of users. In her current role as Chief Design Officer at PayPal, Daniela has built a worl...
Best investment is in yourself - Fabio Sasso
May 18, 2021 00:29 - 57 minutes - 53 MBFabio Sasso is a Brazilian designer based in Oakland, California currently leading the Android Automotive OS UX team at Google. Since joining the company in 2011, he has had the chance to work on initiatives from Google Ventures to Google Doodles, and lead major products for Google Search, Google Pay, and Google Play. Fabio is also the founder of Abduzeedo, a popular design blog focused on design inspiration and tutorials, helping designers around the world learn about tools and get inspire...
I believe we can make good technology - Helena Jaramillo
May 11, 2021 04:52 - 44 minutes - 41.5 MBHelena is an Ecuadorian, product design lead at Coda, a new doc for teams. Prior to joining Coda, she has held design roles at technology and consumer companies such as Google, Facebook, Etsy, Khan Academy and TransferWise. She values collaboration, inclusion and creating tools that empower people. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxswhodesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxswhodesign/support
Don't confuse visibility with success - Ted Boda
May 04, 2021 01:00 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBTed Boda is currently a Product Design Manager at Instagram. He was formerly the Director of Design at Udacity, Lead Designer at Nest, Lead Mobile Designer at Netflix, and Lead Product Designer at Apple where he spent 5 years crafting the Keynote experience on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Ted started his design career at Duarte Design where he worked with Apple as well as one-on-one with Al Gore, to help create the compelling and impactful slides that were the basis for the Academy Award-winni...
Be intentional - Andrea Pacheco
April 27, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBAndrea Pacheco, as she likes to think, is a citizen of the world! Originally from Brazil, she spent 4 years in Amsterdam and then moved to London one year and a half ago. Having designed for Booking.com, Transferwise, and digital agencies such as R/GA and Razorfish, she’s now working at Apple - in the International Product Design team, helping to transform “Designed in California” to “Designed in Apple”. She likes to think that she lives in a world of infinite possibilities and prefers to ...
Bold move that paid off - Esteban García
April 20, 2021 01:00 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBEsteban is a Mexican Digital Product designer with 19 years of working experience. He has worked as a consultant at innovation agencies in Mexico and Spain. Conceptualized, designed, and launched new products inside http://Booking.com. Co-founder of a startup called http://Cooper.app, and very recently joined the Chrome iOS team as an interaction designer. Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/latinxswhodesign/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latinxswhodesign/support --...
We want to belong - Jordi Tambillo
April 13, 2021 01:47 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBJordi is a Peruvian Designer & maker living in the Netherlands. He is currently working on Design Systems at TripActions, a leading business travel & expense platform. Previously, he led the universal search vision at Booking.com and worked on Todoist as one of the first designers. Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/latinxswhodesign/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latinxswhodesign/support --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxs...
You are good enough - Pedro Marques
April 06, 2021 01:15 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBPedro is a designer with more than a decade of experience building digital products and teams. Currently the Director of Product Design at Adidas. Previously the Head of Product Design for Retail at Adyen where he worked on the point of sale solution and machine learning-based tools to help merchants prevent fraud. Prior to Adyen, he worked at Booking.com the biggest accommodation provider on the planet where he helped onboard startups that were acquired by Booking and introduced in the ec...
A mix of many things - Marina Verdu
March 29, 2021 23:07 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBMarina is an Argentinian designer, illustrator and maker currently living and drawing in Ottawa, Canada. She is nowadays working at Shopify as a UX marketing designer, and before that, she was a front-end designer and illustrator at Eventbrite. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxswhodesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxswhodesign/support
Barriers in my head - Diego Rojas
March 23, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutes - 50.1 MBDiego is a Colombian designer working at Google as part of the Stadia team bringing the power of streaming and cloud development to the video game industry. During his 9 years of experience, he has worked at big and small tech companies in Colombia, Spain, The Netherlands, and Germany, where he currently lives. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxswhodesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxswhodesign/support
The web is a place of awe and wonder - Desirée (Dezzie) García
March 16, 2021 00:32 - 50 minutes - 69.3 MBIn our interview, Desirée García, or Dezzie as she prefers, has an honest conversation about her life as a quirky and nerdy person. She shares her passion for Star Wars, Star Trek, and all things space-related and discusses her home garden. She also loves food, the internet, and building IKEA furniture. Go check it out Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/latinxswhodesign/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latinxswhodesign/support --- Send in a voice message: https://p...
A boy and some tortillas - Desirée (Dezzie) García
March 16, 2021 00:32 - 50 minutes - 69.3 MBIn our interview, Desirée García, or Dezzie as she prefers, has an honest conversation about her life as a quirky and nerdy person. She shares her passion for Star Wars, Star Trek, and all things space-related and discusses her home garden. She also loves food, the internet, and building IKEA furniture. Go check it out Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/latinxswhodesign/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/latinxswhodesign/support --- Send in a voice message: https://a...
Progressively less wrong - Leandro Lima
March 08, 2021 01:18 - 33 minutes - 46 MBLeandro is a User Experience Designer who has worked in the field for over 10 years. He started working at design agencies in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and, in 2008, founded PopUp Design - an agency that provided UX consulting. With PopUp, in 6 years he worked on more than 100 projects! After PopUp he worked at Red Ventures, Booking.com, and Klarna and is currently UX at Google. He describes his job as using data from the most diverse sources to help people use technology in a healthy way and empo...
Comes back to confidence - Koji Pereira
March 02, 2021 00:00 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MBKoji Pereira is the Head of Design for Lyft Business. With over 2 decades of experience in the Design field, he leads a team of designers building new products for business transportation. He strives to build diverse teams and safe spaces, making sure everyone is included and all voices are heard. Previously he was at Google where he led Design for Files by Google from 0 to 1/2 billion MAU and launched many products including Camera Go, Android TV Data Saver, and Google Spaces. He also taugh...
Going full circle - Tassia Pellegrini
February 23, 2021 00:00 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MBWelcome to our first-ever "Latinxs who Design" episode. I had the pleasure of interviewing an esteemed former colleague: Tassia Pellegrini. Tassia is a Brazilian Designer from Salvador, Bahia who lives and works in The Netherlands. She has worked on Booking.com for 6 years, both as an individual contributor and as a design leader. Now at Basecamp, she's busy crafting new features for HEY (www.hey.com) — a new approach to email. Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/latinxswhodesign/mes...
Latinxs Who Design (Trailer)
February 17, 2021 01:46 - 34 seconds - 553 KB--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxswhodesign/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/latinxswhodesign/support