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 College of the Arts and has...

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 discovered Kyle’s por...

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 different from the r...

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 might just seem lik...

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, Diana also shared...

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 (Virtual Reality), A...

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 but also hard...

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 on a call and...

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 mentorship or giving onl...

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 last days of th...

Today, I’m talking to Catt Small . - Catt, on this day of posting, is on a work sabbatical. Before, Catt worked at All Turtles . an early-stage startup studio, as the Director of Product Design. Before All Turtles, she worked at Asana , Etsy , Soundcloud , and other companies. Also, in 2016, Catt co-founded Game Devs of Color Expo , an organization with a mission to amplify the creative power held...

Today, I’m talking to Meagan Ryan . - Meagan currently works at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI for short) as a Senior Design Manager. Before CZI, she worked at Coinbase as a Senior Product Design Manager and at Facebook as a Product Design Manager. - In this conversation, we chatted about a variety of topics including design culture at Facebook, what’s it like to design in the crypto space, portf...

Have you ever wondered how to land a UX Design internship at Microsoft ? Well, today we’re gonna try to answer exactly that. - In this episode, you’ll hear from three design interns who worked at Microsoft last summer: 🎨 Favour Adeniyi - Graduate who studied Information Technology at Marymount University 🎨 Sushanth Hegde - Master’s student studying Human-Computer Interaction at the University of...

Have you ever wondered how to land a UX Design internship at Adobe? Well, today we’re gonna try to answer exactly that. - In this episode, you’ll hear from three design interns who worked at Adobe last summer: 🎨 Stephanie He - Senior studying Computer Science at Georgia Tech 🎨 Ivy Kang - Senior studying Cognitive Science at UCLA 🎨 Sparsh Paliwal - Master’s student studying Human-Computer Intera...

Hi everyone! Just three quick announcements! 1️⃣ I’ll be taking a quick break 😴 Next episode will be on 1/17/23! 2️⃣ From the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much for listening to the podcast 🙏 What started as a passion project has turned into something I want to do as long as possible! 🔥 I really hope these episodes are helpful to your product design journey! ✨ 3️⃣ I’ll really appreciate...

Today, I’m talking to Gina Doyle . - Gina currently works as a Product Designer designing the testing and runner aspects of the CI/CD features at GitLab . Before GitLab, she once worked as a contract designer at Instacart and Hera Realty Group and worked in-house at Red Hat for multiple years. Also in October of 2021, Gina started a design consulting company, SVG consulting group , with her brothe...

Today, I’m talking to Andy Braren . - Andy currently works at Red Hat as a Senior Interaction Designer. Similar to Catherine from our last episode , Andy also graduated from Tufts! And don’t be surprised if our next episode guest is also a Tufts grad! - I was extremely excited about this conversation because Andy is a prolific maker, a term describing one who likes to build to solve problems. And...

Today, I’m talking to Catherine Armistead . - Catherine currently works at Wayfair as a Senior Product Design Lead. Before Wayfair, she worked at Publicis Sapient , a digital consulting company, as an Experience Designer. And, she graduated from Tufts . - In our conversation, we talked about a variety of topics including her people-first approach to job search, designing at a consulting company, a...

Have you ever wondered how to land a UX Design internship at LinkedIn ? Well, today we’re gonna try to answer exactly that. - In this episode, you’ll hear from three design interns who worked at LinkedIn last summer: 🎨 Madhumita Elan - Senior studying Interaction Design at California College of the Arts 🎨 Yuhan Xie - Masters student studying Human Centered Design & Engineering at the Univers...

Today, I’m talking to Jordan Kolasinski . - Jordan currently works at Netflix as a Product Design Lead on the Studio Product Innovation Team. Before Netflix, he was the Principal Product Designer at Hulu . - I first met Jordan when he was one of the five panelists in one of my school club ’s Product Panel last year. And since I started this podcast, I’ve always wanted to invite Jordan to share his...

Have you ever wondered how to land a UX Design internship at Roblox ? Well, today we’re gonna try to answer exactly that. - In this episode, you’ll hear from three design interns who completed their last summer internship at Roblox: 🎨 Pavan Garidipuri - Senior studying Arts, Technology, and Business of Innovation at USC 🎨 Shreya Senthil - Senior studying Human Centered Design and Engineering at...

Today, I’m talking to Jackie Ajoux . - Jackie is currently the Senior Design Operations Lead at Roblox . Before Roblox, she worked at Electronic Arts as a Design Operations Manager. - Now, it may sound to you that Jackie knew she wanted to do Design Operations from the start. But as you would later hear in the episode, that was not at all the case. In fact, Jackie actually has pivoted from multipl...

Today, I’m talking to Michael Dimaano . - Michael now works at Ford Motor as the Product Design Lead. And before Ford, he worked at Hertz as the Product Design Lead as well. - During our conversation, what really stood out to me was Michael’s emphasis on the importance of finding your "why" - what truly matters to you. At one point, he felt so much imposter syndrome as a product manager that he ev...

Today, I’m talking to Amanda Santello . - Amanda is currently the Experience Design Lead at Forge , a construction company building the next-gen trades community. Before Forge, she worked as the Associate Director of Product Design at Chewy , and before that, the Director of Experience Design at Accenture . - I got a chance to meet Amanda for the first time during a club competition back at Tufts....

Have you ever wondered how to land a UX Design internship at Google ? Well, today we’re gonna try to answer exactly that. - In this episode, you’ll hear from four design interns currently working at Google: 🎨 Gabi Naoum - Master’s student studying Interaction Design at California State University 🎨 Rishabh Soni - Master’s student studying Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Texas 🎨...