
Cells and Pixels
By Koji Pereira
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Cells and PixelsJun 16, 2021

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 first designers and growing your team:
Should Product Design, Marketing and Branding be in the same team?
Should you hire an unicorn designer?
How to hire diverse talent?
If you're a founder and don't know who to hire on the design side, this is for you. If you're a new head of design trying to grow a team, this is for you.
#designleadership #google #facebook #opendoor #chegg #pocket #meebo #playbook #branding #marketing #cogx2021 #cogx

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 reflection of the widely diverse customer base it serves while championing DEI across the enterprise.
She believes in the philosophy of "doing great by doing good" and she is committed to giving back to the design and broader tech communities. She also sit at BayBrazil board of directors, an organization focused in highlighting tech professionals from Brazil in Bay Area.
Follow Daniela at twitter.com/danielajorge
Cells and Pixels, now every first Tuesday of the month!
#paypal #chiefdesignofficer #CDO #at&t #intuit #baybrazil #yahoo #getninjas #ebay

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 on her design process, documentation, designing for different devices and user environment.
Cells and Pixels, now every first Tuesday of the month!
#square #kanopy

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 small to large organizations and some of his plans for the fruitful research approach book.
Cells and Pixels, now every first Tuesday of the month!
Apple and Banana website: www.appleandbanana.org

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 Google if you want to learn the latest and greatest about the methodology, so this chat is must for anybody curious about it.
Disclaimer: my voice may sound different, I had a sore throat today – but already way better now.
#google #designsprints #designeducation

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.
He talked about his story and how inspired by podcasts, he decided to organized a conference with people 3 other friends to decolonize design, and make it more inclusive.

A Conversation with Lyft's Product Design+ Team – Len Yeh, Julie Celia, Dario Fidanza, Akhil Dakinedi
How cool it was to learn more about Diversity, Safety, Bikes and Scooters, Unumute (our internal conference), Design Ops and more from these ones!

Design tools with Noah Levin – Director of Design, Figma

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

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 talked about his history, from a writer to one of the founders of UX, his consultancy Adaptive Path and the acquisition by Capital One. We also found some time to chat about post-rock and his recent work as a coach for design leaders at jessejamesgarrett.com

Smart devices and future of design with Lucas Hirata – Design Lead, Google (Ex: Huge, Globo.com)
If You Wanna Fly, YouTube Channel (In Portuguese)
Cells and Pixels, every Tuesday 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET
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Life Pivots with Joshua Taylor – Design Leader, Parrot.fm (Ex: Evernote, Credit Karma)

Cross-functional collaboration with Joris Van Mens – Group PM, Google
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IC Leadership with David Ikuye – Staff Product Designer, Lyft (Ex: Ideo, Frog Design)
I had a blast with David Ikuye, he is a Staff Product Designer at Lyft, he shared a bit of his fantastic experience working in different cities with innovation and one of the most well-known design consultancies around IDEO, Frog, and Fjord/Accenture.
Cells and Pixels, every Tuesday 5PM PT • 8PM ET
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Interpersonal skills for designers with Arya Zarrinkelk – Training Specialist, SF City College (Ex: Peace Corps)

Entrepreneurship and Design with Malea Gadoury – Co-founder, ILK (Ex: Google)
Malea is a Co-Founder at ILK, previously she was the Head of Design for Wonderschool and Head of Design for Firebase at Google.
Cells and Pixels, every Tuesday 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET
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Education, culture and research with Laith Ulaby – UXR Director, Udemy (Ex: UN, UC Berkeley, Uber, Google)
We talked about how technology can help to increase access to education worldwide, the challenges in the field, and some of his learnings.
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Inclusive Products with Joel Isaac, Accessibility Lead at Delta Dental
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Meaning and purpose on Design Teams with Audrey Liu, VP Design – Lyft
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The perfect pitch with Aditi Maliwal, Partner – Upfront Ventures (Ex: Google)
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Designing organizations with Bruno Bergher – VP Design & Product, Gladly (Ex: Google)
Among other things we discussed about some of the challenges of uncertain times, and how transparency and honesty are main elements of his leadership style.
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Design Leadership with Jessica Ko – CEO and co-founder, Playbook (Ex: Google, YouTube, OpenDoor)
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Product Vision with Sun Park – Product Designer, Facebook (Ex: Apple, Google)
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Designing conversations with Daniel Stillman – Author, Conversation Factory
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Design as a role with Luke Wroblewski – Author and Product Director, Google (Ex: Yahoo!, eBay, NCSA)
Luke W. and I had an instigating conversation around his books, how his investigations translated to his current work at Google, augmented reality, wearables and the role of a designer.
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Designing for the high tech with Marianne Abreu – UX Designer, YouTube, Google (Ex: Samsung, Globo.com)
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Research in emerging markets with Tejas Peesapati – UXR Manager, Google (Ex: Yahoo!, Oracle)
We reviewed memories about his research in Jordan at Za'atari refugee camp.
He also started the uxcoffeehours.com, a platform that connects more than a 150+ volunteers mentors from 60+ companies, including Google, Facebook, Amazon.
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Design and community with Felix Lee – Founder, adplist.org

Trailer: Cells and Pixels, let's establish the connection!
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