Not Just Pixels

Hi everyone! It’s been awhile since I’ve posted 🙈 Just been super busy with internship + summer classes, but I’m planning to release more consistently now!-Before we start, I just want to let you know that the next four episodes will be a bit different. Well, I won’t be hosting! Instead, the wonderful Mita will be hosting them! Mita is a recent graduate from California C

Today, I’m talking to Kyle Turman.-Kyle, on this day of posting, no longer works as the Director of Product Design at Retool, but for great reasons, which you can read more about in his latest article - “Oh Hey, I Quit My Job.” Before Retool, he worked at Slack as the Sr. Director of Product Design. And before that at Dropbox, Etsy, and many other companies.-I first discovere

Today, I’m talking to Sara Wachter-Boettcher.-Sara currently is the founder and CEO of Active Voice, a leadership development company on a mission to make work culture better for everyone.-In 2018, Sara wrote a book titled “Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech.” From the title of the book, you know that this episode will be differ

Today, I’m talking to Sankalp Sinha.-Sankalp currently works as the Founding Lead Designer at Harbor, a testing infrastructure company in the web3 space.-Now, the reason I wanted to chat with Sankalp was because I read an article he published last summer. It was titled “After 6+ months of personal sabbatical, I’m joining Harbor as Founding Lead Designer.” Now, the title mig

Today, I’m talking to Diana DeMarco Brown.-Diana currently works at Mux as the Director of Product Design. Before Mux, she worked both in the developer tooling and healthcare industry.-I reached out to Diana in the first place because, as a designer, I’m about to enter the world of developer tooling and B2B product design. Thus, on top of talking about both of these topics, Dia

Today, I’m talking to Daniel Robbins.-Daniel currently works at Adobe as a Principal Designer working across a suite of 3D projects. In the past, he has worked on Horizon Worlds at Meta, AR at HTC-Vive, VR at Visual Vocal, and more.-If you can’t tell already, Daniel’s design focus is XR design, which stands for “extended reality.” This is an umbrella term that covers VR (

Today, I’m talking to Marcy Regalado.- Marcy is currently the Head of Design at Magna, a token management platform. Before Magna, she worked as the Design Lead at Meta AI.-AI has been really hot, like really hot. GPT4, Midjourney 5, stable diffusion - you name it. It seems like every day there’s something new in the AI space. And, as a designer, it’s not only hard to keep up

Today, I’m talking to Dhananjay Garg - DJ for short.-DJ currently works at foodpanda as Senior Product Designer.-I first discovered DJ on Medium, as he has over 26K followers and is a prolific writer. And the more I looked into his career journey, I realized that he has a ton of experience designing in different types of startups both in India and Southeast Asia. Thus, we hopped

Today, I’m talking to Minjun Chen.-Minjun currently works at Spotify as a product designer on the Ad Studio team. Before Spotify, she worked at Microsoft, Amazon, and Wayfair.-I first discovered Minjun through one of her community videos titled “How to Design a Stellar Portfolio Presentation.” And she has been very active in the design community whether that’s through mento

Today, I’m talking to JC Solis.-JC currently works at Epic Games as a Senior UX Designer. Before Epic Games, he worked at Roblox as a Senior UX Designer and at Unity before that.-I first chatted with JC when I interned at Roblox last summer. At the time, I remember how awesome his end-to-end material manager project was, so I wanted to chat with him. And we did it on one of my la