I had a wonderful conversation with Bruno Bergher, he is the VP of Product and Design at Gladly. We talked about his experiences as a Designer, and how that influences positively on the work he does today at Gladly.

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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Jessica Ko has an impressive career, from a Designer at Google to CEO, she shared some of her challenges, inspirations and two big moments where she pivoted her career. As a Leader with Design background she has a very instigating perspective and great tips for managers and ICs.

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A lighthearted conversation with Sun Park, Product Designer at Facebook, she shared some of her great habits, her strategic view on Design and some learnings she had over in her career. This is not to be missed if you're interested on Visioning and 0-1 products.

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I had an inspired and inspiring conversation with Daniel Stillman where we talked about his new book "Good Talk: How to Design Conversations that Matter". Daniel has been investigating the nature of conversations and he shared a bit how he is helping companies and people to have meaningful, inclusive and courageous conversations.

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Luke W. is a Product Director at Google. He's an advisor for: Woven and LITHO. Prior to Google, he founded 2 start ups and wrote: Mobile First, Web Form Design and Site-Seeing and in the past worked at NCSA, eBay and Yahoo!

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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Had a blast chatting with Marianne. We talked about her experience at Nasa, Google, cats, and designing for high-tech products. We’ll also chat about her passions, how she started TEDx in Brazil. 

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Tejas is a UX Research Manager at Google and a purpose driven professional who focus his work understanding users in diverse cultures and in underprivileged communities.

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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I talked with Felix Lee who started adplist.org (Amazing Design People List), a community-initiated talent base helping designers land new jobs and connecting to design mentors. We talked about how he became an entrepreneur when he was 19, why he decided to start adplist and how he helped to landed people on over 200 jobs during the pandemic.

Cells and Pixels podcast is extracted from a weekly talk show on Instagram Live hosted by Koji Pereira, first gen asian-latino immigrant, Product Manager @ Lyft (ex-Google) in Silicon Valley. The guests are range of professionals, scholars and authors that talk about product, UX, UX research, product design, inclusion and diversity. Hear from people who create products that we love.

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