NOMADS: The HCI Podcast!

Breaking away from typical western perspectives, Alexander Muir joins NOMADS: The HCI Podcast in our season finale to explore the meaning and value of Vedantic Philosophy and spirituality in the world of UX. From computer science to yoga to UX, Alexander pieces together the patterns he's seen in modern HCI practice and in life to elevate our empathy, sense of self, and awareness of the world to the next level. In his own words, "People may feel drawn to connect their research work and careers...

Phnam Bagley, a French Designer, Futurist, Space Architect, Public speaker and Founding partner of Non-Fiction joins NOMADS: The HCI Podcast to share her story of designing groundbreaking user experiences at places like IDEO, NASA, Lunar Design (now McKinsey Design) among others. She reveals her vision for future, the role of Designers to make this planet more sustainable, peaceful and humane environment in this episode! Connect with Phnam: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phna...

Reality Canty joins NOMADS: The HCI Podcast to share, in his own words, his experiences in life including "excelling in school, commandeering the urban streets, fly fishing on Alaskan riverbanks, earning a PhD, starting several companies, and prevailing through worlds of challenge makes [him] a different". Now a User Experience Researcher at Google, Real gives us insight on applying the rigor of academic research to the fast-paced iterative world of design research in industry and...

In today's episode of NOMADS: The HCI Podcast, Anmol Anubhai (currently a UX Researcher at Amazon Web Services) shares her own journey into HCI, from growing up trying to find her passion towards technology, art and hand-on experiences to solve problems to studying Master in HCI+D at University of Washington. She tells her ultimate goal to solve the problems centered around the Rural communities in India, and around the world by harnessing her skills of UX Research and more. We also touch on ...

NOMADS: The HCI Podcast, we welcome Syp Vandy Siligato (she/her),a Senior Product Designer for Intuit's Consumer Group Design Systems team, co-founder of startup, Live Offline, and creator and co-driver of the SD Design Trek. In this episode, Syp shares her insights on accessibility in design and Intuit's framework, "Design for Delight". Connect with Syp: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svandy/Live Offline: https://www.letsliveoffline.comSan Diego Design Trek: http://www.sddesigntrek.co...

What's it like working as a one-woman UX team when your users are also the very people you sit next to in the office? And what can you do when you're the only one dedicated to advocating for user experience? Join us as we talk about Darshini's experiences working at Samsung, Ford, and now at Ashley Furniture and her tips on how to navigate being the only UX'er in the room.Connect with Darshini:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/darshinishankarnarayan/Website: https://darshinisn.wixsite.com...

In today's episode of NOMADS: The HCI Podcast, Kian Lavi (Product Designer for Privacy at Facebook) shares his own journey into HCI from building his own UX curriculum at the University of San Diego, California to where he is today. We touch on topics like burnout, fake news, (K-pop?!), and finding your voice and standing up for yourself as a junior designer. Connect with Kian:Twitter: https://twitter.com/kianlavi?lang=enMedium: https://medium.com/@kianlaviWebsite: http://kianlavi.com/Links &...

NOMADS welcomes Sanika Doolani for our second episode! We talk about Sanika's' unique journey from India, where you can be an Engineer or a Doctor or...if you're like Sanika, transition into HCI from Computer Science background. By owning her own life--"becoming the CEO of her own life", Sanika discusses how she harnesses her thinking skills to create an optimal balance to work in industry and research and her plans to solve economic inequalities using HCI such as her project, "At Your Servic...

NOMADS welcomes Tess Mendes as our first ever guest on our podcast! In this episode, we talk about Tess' unique backstory from pre-med to urban planning to UX, embracing her Latinx identity, social responsibilities of HCI, minimalism as a philosophy, and one of Tess' projects that has helped the people in the state of Michigan during the COVID-19 pandemic. What sort of backgrounds do you all come from? How have other parts of your identity influenced your practice in your respective field?Con...