Cells and Pixels

Bonus: Leading design teams: from seed to scale on CogX2021. With Diego Mendes – Design Manager, Facebook and Jessica Ko – CEO, Playbook. Former employees of Google, Opendoor, Chegg, Pocket, Meebo.

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

Doing good by doing great with Daniela Jorge – PayPal, Chief of Design Officer (Ex: Ebay, AT&T, Intuit, Yahoo!)

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 reflect

The craft of design with Danielle Kawasaki – Product Designer, Kanopy (Ex: Square)

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

Democratizing UXR, Varun Murugesan – Head of Research, Apple & Banana (BestBuy, ex-Facebook)

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

Design, facilitation and innovation with Kai Haley – Google, UX Methods and Process (Ex: Yahoo!)

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 Goo

Bonus: The Future of Design is African with Guidione Machava – Founder, World-Class Designer

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. 

A Conversation with Lyft's Product Design+ Team – Len Yeh, Julie Celia, Dario Fidanza, Akhil Dakinedi

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

Design tools with Noah Levin – Director of Design, Figma

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

Speaking Machine and Humanism with John Maeda – Author & SVP, Everbridge (Ex: RISD, MIT Media Lab, Sonos, Ebay)

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 Mae

The evolution of UX with Jesse James Garrett – Author, The Elements of UX (Founder of Adaptive Path, Ajax inventor, Ex: Capital One)

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 tal

Smart devices and future of design with Lucas Hirata – Design Lead, Google (Ex: Huge, Globo.com)

What a fantastic conversation I had with Lucas Hirata! We covered a lot in this episode. We talked about the future of design, smart displays, voice UI, and some challeng

Life Pivots with Joshua Taylor – Design Leader, Parrot.fm (Ex: Evernote, Credit Karma)

Another incredible person I met via Cells and Pixels: Joshua Taylor! Joshua and I talked about some great life changes, big pivots, and how to stay true to your principle

Cross-functional collaboration with Joris Van Mens – Group PM, Google

Finally my conversation with Joris Van Mens, Group PM at Google was recorded again. Joris launched Files by Google from 0 to 500+ million downloads, Camera Go, Android TV

IC Leadership with David Ikuye – Staff Product Designer, Lyft (Ex: Ideo, Frog Design)

IC Leadership with David Ikuye – Staff Product Designer, Lyft I had a blast with David Ikuye, he is a Staff Product Designer at Lyft, he shared a bit of his fantastic ex

Interpersonal skills for designers with Arya Zarrinkelk – Training Specialist, SF City College (Ex: Peace Corps)

Here's an inspiring conversation with Arya Zarrinkelk. Arya left some great messages to us: how to keep positive in difficult times, how to use tools to find the job you

Entrepreneurship and Design with Malea Gadoury – Co-founder, ILK (Ex: Google)

I had a blast reconnecting with Malea Gadoury. Malea and I talked about her career, her transitions in life, from graphic to UX Design, from IC to management, and now as

Education, culture and research with Laith Ulaby – UXR Director, Udemy (Ex: UN, UC Berkeley, Uber, Google)

I had so much fun reconnecting with Laith Ulaby. We talked about his Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology, his experience working at the United Nations, Udemy, and his passion for ed

Inclusive Products with Joel Isaac, Accessibility Lead at Delta Dental

Another great learning experience! I talked with Joel Isaac who is an Accessibility Lead at Delta Dental. We talked about how his background as an engineer and designer i

Meaning and purpose on Design Teams with Audrey Liu, VP Design – Lyft

Audrey Liu is a VP of Design at Lyft, previously she was a Design Director at Thumbtack where she helped to build the design team, I had a blast chatting with her about h

The perfect pitch with Aditi Maliwal, Partner – Upfront Ventures (Ex: Google)

Aditi evaluates new pitches and many startups reach her to get funded every day. I learned a lot with this conversation, we talked about Venture Capital, how to attract i