Nodes of Design

Derek Mei is currently lead design at 3Play Media in Boston and is also a part-time graduate student pursuing my Master's in Human Factors in Information Design at Bentley University. He runs an agency called Umeita Design in his spare time, which specializes in user experience consulting in my spare time.  He is also extremely passionate about bridging the gap between design boot camps and h...

Christopher Riggs is a Creative Director with deep experience in leading creative teams, with an experience of over twelve years in crafting environments, strategies, narratives, learning tools, digital interactions, campaigns, and brand expressions for some world’s most iconic brands, which include Starbucks, Hyatt, Jawbone, eBay, Facebook, Google, Activision/Blizzard, Kaiser Permanente, Ancestry...

Tom Ross and Michael Janda are creative entrepreneurs and mentors who had helped thousands of creatives across the world. Tom Ross is the founder and CEO at Design Cuts, the highest-rated online marketplace for designers, and he is also the host of two famous design podcasts - The Honest Designers Show and Biz Buds . Michael Janda is an agency veteran, mentor and best-selling author of Burn Your P...

Paige Bennett is a user research design leader currently working as Senior User Research Manager at Affirm. She had previously worked in companies like Dropbox, Medium and Weight watchers leading and collaborating user research strategy across all products.  In this episode, Paige had shared great insights on UX Research and how UX research contributes to the product and company? We discussed...

Riya Thosar is a passionate product design leader with experience building, growing and nurturing exceptional multi-disciplinary design teams. With over 20 years of global industry experience, she designed consumer and enterprise products for a wide range of industries and global audiences. Currently, she is the Director of Product Design at SAP and previously worked at LinkedIn, Netapp, Cognizant...

Crystal Sundaramoorthy is a User researcher, interaction designer, and former engineer with over 15 years of experience working on Global Banking and Markets solutions for Global Transaction Services and the CashPro platform. She is presently the VP of UX research at Bank of America. She is also an inventor with thirteen patents in her name.  In this episode, Crystal had shared great insights...

Janaki is a thought-leader in design-led innovation in the enterprise. She had delivered award-winning products and services that help businesses transform the way they work.  She is currently working as Head of Design, Commercial Bank at JPMorgan Chase & Co and Co-Instructor of the Customer Engagement Design at Stanford University.   She is a proven leader in building, coaching and...

Phil Balagtas is a design leader with over two decades of experience in design presently working as Experience Design Director at McKinsey Design and also the founder of The Design Futures Initiative , which is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that produces events and workshops to evangelize the various approaches which involve using Design to speculate about alternate futures. Phil has a wonderful...

Camila Nogueira is a Freelance illustrator and graphic designer from Proto. She studied Communication Design at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto. She worked as a freelancer developing several illustrations and graphic design projects -especially known for her cityscapes. She also made album covers for famous music bands like Dxydream & Jalowo.  Camila describes herse...

Jonathan Javier is currently the CEO/Founder of Wonsulting, whose mission is to “turn underdogs into winners” and leads Professional Development for Cisco’s Early Career Network. He's also worked in Strategy and Operations team at Snap, Google, and Cisco. He works on many initiatives, advising, and words of wisdom on LinkedIn and through speaking engagements. He has led 160+ workshops in 8 differe...

Amy Wang is a designer and director with over a decade of experience working on user experience design, digital product design, brand identity, and the design strategy for video, web, and mobile products. Amy is currently working as a director at Amy Wang Design and previously worked in companies like - Easelly, Netflix, MPC, Apple, Focus features, Ferro Concrete, and many more. In this episode of...

Jonathan Even-Zohar is a trained historian with a broad view of history and heritage education and how civil society and political actors abuse the past for promoting both democratic and non-democratic values.  He was also the former Executive Director of EUROCLIO – European Association of History Educators , where he has been able to work with thousands of history educators across the contin...

Parag Trivedi is a design leader with over 20 years of Experience; presently leading design for productivity applications on mobile in Microsoft; before joining Microsoft, he was heading the Design Team at GE Healthcare- Jack welch technology centre, Bangalore, and before that, he was heading  Design Team at Honeywell (HTS India).  Parag had lead teams through the full life cycle of vari...

Phillip J. Clayton is a hybrid consultant; his focus is centred around Art & Design and Business & Marketing. He started in the fine arts and found his purpose as a designer and creative consultant with 15+ years of experience working in the creative industry, Advertising & Marketing. He is inspired by people, passionate about teamwork, and practices a holistic approach to delivering e...

Yomar Augusto is a Hybrid Creative and Director of Tooya; Yomar has more than 15 years of experience working in Brazil, Europe & the United States and with Masters in Type Design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, The Netherlands. Yomar had worked with global brands like Nike, Coca-Cola, Google, C+P, TBWA, Ogilvy, and many more. Yomar also taught Typography for Advertising at the Willem...

Michael Janda is an executive-level creative leader with more than 20 years of experience in both in-house creative departments and agencies working with some of the world's greatest brands. He has founded the creative agency Riser and led it for over 13 years, working for clients including Disney, Google, ABC, Fox, Warner Bros., NBC, TV Guide, and numerous other notable companies. In addition to...

Pradeep Nayar was a design leader who has worked in larger organizations to drive digital transformation by embracing lean practices and design thinking methods & frameworks. He believes in a human-centred approach to problem-solving that builds upon human empathy's strengths to drive innovation and out-of-box thinking. He was currently VP of Global Digital Product & Design at Hyatt Hotels...

Matt Clack is a hands-on dreamer with strong digital and integrated background for the world's biggest brands. He is currently the Creative Head, Brand Studio APAC at Google, where he leads a team of exceptional creative directors, art directors, designers, technologists, motion designers— helping to make Google's brand meaningful with the help of creativity, storytelling, and technology. He is al...

Lijo Joseph is a passionate design intrapreneur with 19+ years of experience delivering innovative user-centric design experience and creative direction for digital applications. Lijo is currently the Head of Design - India & APAC at TCS. He started a design studio at Kochi, handpicked, and built a new team of 70+ creative designers in 2 years, which became the most sought-after design hub for...

Gabriele Romagnoli is Passionate about innovation and technology that help digital businesses grow. He is on an endless quest to show how immersive technologies like 3D, VR, and AR can provide value to users, companies, and investors. He is presently working as XR Coach at GR Talk and International Business Developer at Binkies 3D and previously worked at various organizations like VR/AR Associati...

Aaron Breuer entered the workforce as a freelancer. Self Studied and got licenses for many different trades and worked in many various industries. He was always a DIY type of person and was inspired by 3D Printing but was taken back by the lack of 3D Modeling software for the DIY/ Self-taught people and so he decided to make SelfCAD . He the Founder and president - the brains behind SelfCAD. Also,...

Jason Blackheart is a Design Leader, Culture Builder, and storyteller with over two decades of experience building design systems at Microsoft—setting the vision, defining strategy, and delivering impact. Jason also holds two patents in his name. In this episode, Jason sharted his experience in building and maintaining the fluent design system at Microsoft with his team and shared the process and...

Akshay Kore is a Product designer working on Human-computer interaction problems. He has previously worked with the AI and Research group at Microsoft and led design for the SME vertical at Cleartax. He is currently working with Observe.ai designing AI products and systems, and he also holds a patent on his name. He loves to make stuff, read and write about technology. In this episode, Akshay shar...

Guru Vaidya is a Technical Evangelist with over a decade of experience in product evangelism. Currently, he is a Solution Consulting Manager at Adobe. Previously he had worked for companies like Nvidia, Dream forest films, and Pixion. Over the years, guru has helped launch several product versions of Adobe and Autodesk software across India. These include Press conferences and Trade Shows like FMX...

Pål Eirik Paulsen is an interaction designer, information architect, usability specialist, content lead, test lead, scrum master, project lead and speaker with over two-decade of experience. Currently, he manages a team of UX designers in Sopra Steria as Head of User Experience. Previously, he worked for companies like Idean, Capgemini, Backelite, Olavstoppen AS, Statoil, MTO-LABS and many more st...