This episode’s guest is Trine Falbe - a user experience researcher, consultant, lecturer, author and speaker, focused on empowering people through ethical design. She believes that building honest and transparent experiences is not only the right thing to do: it’s also good for business.

With a focus on designing for, and with children Trine shares with us her practice and advice on how to avoid dark patterns and stay an ethical designer.

You can read more about ethical design on her book "White Hat UX"

Find, follow and contact Trine on her website www.trinefalbe.com or LinkedIn/Twitter @trinefalbe

Ni Hao! At APIA program in Shenzhen, China we met many inspiring people one of whom we are lucky to have as this episode’s guest. He had always had a need to build things that solve real problems, but he never imagined it would lead him to move to the Philippines, then Silicon Valley and ultimately New York to do that. When passion leads the way, you have to follow and Elijah Murray, the engineer, designer, and co-founder of Matter Studio, stays true to this promise every day.

Elijah thinks that the startup environment of Silicon Valley will need to self-correct and hopes of a future of entrepreneurship where everyone will be more honest and authentic, that’s why he is contributing to building that future.

Find, follow and contact Elijah about all things design and entrepreneurship on LinkedIn and Twitter @elijahmurray or on

https://matterproductstudio.com/

This time we visited Stine Skaarup - Senior User Experience designer @ Designit.

When she was studying, user experience design wasn’t really a thing and with the big dream of changing public IT in Denmark, she thought she would go out of school and rock the world with her skills. It turns out it wasn’t as easy as she thought, but in the interesting path of her career she learned so many lessons that she shares with us today, as a way to give back to the design community.

Follow Stine and her work at Designit:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stineskaarup/

Website: www.designit.com

We attended UX Camp Copenhagen this month where we met one of the keynote speakers, Aral Balkan. Aral is a designer, coder, and human rights activist, who has spoken at over 75 events in different countries. His keynotes are inspirational talks where he introduces ethical design, criticizes surveillance capitalism and explores topics with great significance.

In this episode you will hear about his journey from becoming aware of his privileges and inequality in the world while growing up in Malaysia, to becoming an activist of human rights in the age of technology. With his work at ind.ie he aspires to create a fairer and more equal internet. Aral believes that everything that is build on the internet should be ethical, free and open. Learn how to be an individual contributor to this movement.

Listen to his talk “Design or Decoration”: https://vimeo.com/243516363

Check out Aral’s work:

The universal declaration of cyborg rights: www.cyborgrights.eu

https://ind.ie/

Follow Aral on:

Twitter: @aral

Website: ar.al

Mastodon: http://mastodon.ar.al

In this extraordinary episode the UX keynote speakers from Bulgaria Web Summit 2018 conference were invited in our remote studio with the hygge design team. You will have a blast listening to this episode, where Dave Hogue, UX Lead at Google in San Francisco 🇺🇲️ and Florence Okoye, UX designer of the natural history museum in London🇬🇧️ discuss their careers and experiences with complex systems.

If you want to connect with the guests find them on Twitter at @DaveHogue and @FINOkoye.

You can find out more about complexity of systems in our hosts (Xhensila Reci) medium blog post: https://medium.com/@xensila/when-simple-becomes-complex-290f11774799

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Get to know Mark Bower - interaction designer @ Google in San Francisco. The different challenges he has encountered on the way to Google, and his life hacks will not only get you through your bike trip to school, but also help you understand how to make the leap from student to professional designer.

Take a look at how we got to meet Mark:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnJ7a0iSgHg

The interview with Mark was an overseas phone call and it was hard to keep the high quality of recording. We apologize in advance and we’re working on improving the quality with each episode. Thanks for your understanding and support.