Latest Ubiquitous computers Podcast Episodes

Vedantic Philosophy in UX & "Starting Where You Are" w/Alexander Muir

NOMADS: The HCI Podcast! - October 31, 2020 00:00 - 45 minutes
Breaking away from typical western perspectives, Alexander Muir joins NOMADS: The HCI Podcast in our season finale to explore the meaning and value of Vedantic Philosophy and spirituality in the world of UX. From computer science to yoga to UX, Alexander pieces together the patterns he's seen in...

Union of Creativity + Logic and Design for the Future w/Phnam Bagley

NOMADS: The HCI Podcast! - October 24, 2020 00:00 - 46 minutes
Phnam Bagley, a French Designer, Futurist, Space Architect, Public speaker and Founding partner of Non-Fiction joins NOMADS: The HCI Podcast to share her story of designing groundbreaking user experiences at places like IDEO, NASA, Lunar Design (now McKinsey Design) among others. She reveals her...

The Rigor and Repurposing of Academic Research & Being Your Authentic Self w/Reality Canty

NOMADS: The HCI Podcast! - October 17, 2020 00:00 - 58 minutes
Reality Canty joins NOMADS: The HCI Podcast to share, in his own words,  his experiences in life including  "excelling in school, commandeering the urban streets, fly fishing on Alaskan riverbanks, earning a PhD, starting several companies, and prevailing through worlds of challenge makes [him] ...

Design for Rural Communities, MLUX and power of Identity w/ Anmol Anubhai

NOMADS: The HCI Podcast! - October 10, 2020 00:00 - 47 minutes
In today's episode of NOMADS: The HCI Podcast, Anmol Anubhai (currently a UX Researcher at Amazon Web Services) shares her own journey into HCI, from growing up trying to find her passion towards technology, art and hand-on experiences to solve problems to studying Master in HCI+D at University ...

Accessibility, Designing for Delight & Living Offline w/Syp Vandy Siligato

NOMADS: The HCI Podcast! - October 03, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour
NOMADS: The HCI Podcast, we welcome Syp Vandy Siligato (she/her),a Senior Product Designer for Intuit's Consumer Group Design Systems team, co-founder of startup, Live Offline, and creator and co-driver of the SD Design Trek. In this episode, Syp shares her insights on accessibility in design an...

Internal vs. External UX Work & A One-Woman UX Team w/Darshini Shankar Narayan

NOMADS: The HCI Podcast! - September 26, 2020 00:00 - 50 minutes
What's it like working as a one-woman UX team when your users are also the very people you sit next to in the office? And what can you do when you're the only one dedicated to advocating for user experience? Join us as we talk about Darshini's experiences working at Samsung, Ford, and now at Ash...

Burnout, Fake News, and Learning, Listening, & Finding Your Voice w/Kian Lavi

NOMADS: The HCI Podcast! - September 18, 2020 12:00 - 46 minutes
In today's episode of NOMADS: The HCI Podcast, Kian Lavi (Product Designer for Privacy at Facebook) shares his own journey into HCI from building his own UX curriculum at the University of San Diego, California to where he is today. We touch on topics like burnout, fake news, (K-pop?!), and find...

Becoming the CEO of Your Own Life w/Sanika Doolani

NOMADS: The HCI Podcast! - September 12, 2020 00:00 - 36 minutes
NOMADS welcomes Sanika Doolani for our second episode! We talk about Sanika's' unique journey from India, where you can be an Engineer or a Doctor or...if you're like Sanika, transition into HCI from Computer Science background. By owning her own life--"becoming the CEO of her own life", Sanika ...

Identity, Inclusion and Social Responsibility w/ Tess Mendes

NOMADS: The HCI Podcast! - September 05, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour
NOMADS welcomes Tess Mendes as our first ever guest on our podcast! In this episode, we talk about Tess' unique backstory from pre-med to urban planning to UX, embracing her Latinx identity, social responsibilities of HCI, minimalism as a philosophy, and one of Tess' projects that has helped the...

Trailer: Welcome to the world of NOMADS: The HCI Podcast

NOMADS: The HCI Podcast! - September 04, 2020 20:00 - 2 minutes
Connie and Sunny, two HCI grad students talk to professionals from diverse and rich backgrounds in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. As you see, we'd like to call ourselves NOMADS as we have been moving from place to place, away from our comfort zones, friends and family not only for oppor...

Pilot: Story of HCI and why it matters, now more than ever!

NOMADS: The HCI Podcast! - August 29, 2020 00:00 - 10 minutes
Welcome to the Pilot episode of NOMADS, a podcast by Sunny and Connie! We kickstart the show by talking about why we decided to start a new podcast about people working in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (and why we named it NOMADS!). Diving deep into the world where computers are ubiqui...