Roots

Designer for All

Roxy Navarro

I caught up with Roxy Navarro, the co-founder and creative director leading a small, young, and passionate creative group called Works of Heart. Her studio aims to provide design for all, especially for impact-driven organizations to catapult their advocacies forward.

We talked about her humble beginnings as a designer, the origin story and challenges behind Works of Heart, how she finally chose to focus on her passion full-time, and a lot more.

Follow Works of Heart on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/worksofheartph/

Works of Heart - http://worksofhe.art/

Serial Designpreneur

Christian San Jose

I interviewed Christian San Jose, the managing director of Make Technology, a UX and technology subsidiary of Ace Saatchi & Saatchi. Before that he was Head of Digital of MullenLowe Group Philippines and the Head of UX and Design at Jump Digital. At 21 he bootstrapped his first digital startup, Create.ph,  and worked for clients like Usher, Kanye West, Kobe Bryant, Usain Bolt, James Harden, Dwyane Wade, and Big Sean. We talked about career growth, creating and scaling a design studio, client servicing, and more.

Follow CSJ - http://christiansanjose.com

Make Technology - https://make.technology/

Made Different - https://blog.make.technology/

Jump Digital - http://jumpdigital.ph/

I Interviewed Mark Lacsamana, a product designer working at Kalibrr. He previously worked for OLX as a product designer for mobile apps. Before that, he was at Shift Interactive, The Forge, and SOLUS Interactive. Mark studied Communication Technology Management in Ateneo de Manila University. We talked about things like leadership, communication, ownership and more.

I interviewed Jem Rosario, a user experience specialist and educator based in Toronto, Canada — who was a journalist in his previous life. He studied New Media Studies and Philosophy at the University of Toronto and is a volunteer at Canada Learning Code teaching Wordpress and digital design.

I talked to Allan Caeg, the founder of Northstories.io, previously at Migme, Save22, US Autoparts and Netbooster.asia (Movent). In this episode, we discuss interaction design, product management, digital marketing, storytelling, shifting careers, and more.

For the first episode, I caught up with Andrew Aquino — a recent graduate of Cornell University, previous product design intern at Buzzfeed and Facebook.

He's currently going to be working at Facebook as a digital product designer.

Shownotes:

Andrew's Facebook

Andrew's Medium

Cornell Application Development

Lecture 1: Intro to Product Design

Tae Kyung Kong's Instagram Case Study