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Cells and Pixels

Cells and Pixels

By Koji Pereira

Cells and Pixels podcast is extracted from a weekly talk show on Instagram Live hosted by Koji Pereira, first gen asian-latino immigrant, Head of Design, Lyft Business (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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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.

Cells and PixelsJun 16, 2021

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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.

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

Jun 16, 202136:18
Doing good by doing great with Daniela Jorge – PayPal, Chief of Design Officer (Ex: Ebay, AT&T, Intuit, Yahoo!)
Jun 07, 202144:15
The craft of design with Danielle Kawasaki – Product Designer, Kanopy (Ex: Square)
May 11, 202144:34
Democratizing UXR, Varun Murugesan – Head of Research, Apple & Banana (BestBuy, ex-Facebook)
Apr 12, 202126:55
Design, facilitation and innovation with Kai Haley – Google, UX Methods and Process (Ex: Yahoo!)

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



Mar 08, 202137:42
Bonus: The Future of Design is African with Guidione Machava – Founder, World-Class Designer

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.

Feb 28, 202127:45
A Conversation with Lyft's Product Design+ Team – Len Yeh, Julie Celia, Dario Fidanza, Akhil Dakinedi

A Conversation with Lyft's Product Design+ Team – Len Yeh, Julie Celia, Dario Fidanza, Akhil Dakinedi

Here's the video of my crazy fun convo with 4 amazing professionals at Lyft: Len Yeh, Julie Celia, Dario Fidanza and 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!
Feb 17, 202152:09
Design tools with Noah Levin – Director of Design, Figma

Design tools with Noah Levin – Director of Design, Figma

This was the final episode of the year! Yes, and I talked with Noah Levin, the Director of Design at Figma, yes! The tool that all of us love so much. Before Figma, Noah led teams at ClassPass in NYC, and the iOS Search team at Google in Mountain View. He also spent some time teaching designers how to code as an advisor at Framer, and building a digital assistant for Astronauts at NASA.
Nov 02, 202037:53
Speaking Machine and Humanism with John Maeda – Author & SVP, Everbridge (Ex: RISD, MIT Media Lab, Sonos, Ebay)

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

I am assuming you all know John Maeda for his many influential books on Design and Technology. From Laws of Simplicity, his classic book to How to Speak Machine, John Maeda adds humanism to technology. And our conversation was fantastic!
Oct 27, 202044:44
The evolution of UX with Jesse James Garrett – Author, The Elements of UX (Founder of Adaptive Path, Ajax inventor, Ex: Capital One)
Oct 17, 202046:20
Smart devices and future of design with Lucas Hirata – Design Lead, Google (Ex: Huge, Globo.com)
Oct 11, 202041:57
Life Pivots with Joshua Taylor – Design Leader, Parrot.fm (Ex: Evernote, Credit Karma)
Oct 05, 202044:58
Cross-functional collaboration with Joris Van Mens – Group PM, Google
Sep 28, 202021:58
IC Leadership with David Ikuye – Staff Product Designer, Lyft (Ex: Ideo, Frog Design)
Sep 28, 202037:54
Interpersonal skills for designers with Arya Zarrinkelk – Training Specialist, SF City College (Ex: Peace Corps)

Interpersonal skills for designers with Arya Zarrinkelk – Training Specialist, SF City College (Ex: Peace Corps)

Here's an inspiring conversation with Arya Zarrinkelk. Arya left some great messages to us: how to keep positive in difficult times, how to use tools to find the job you dreamed of and how to take some of your learnings to heart when you enter a company. Arya coaches and trains arts, media, entertainment students at City College of San Francisco.
Sep 21, 202039:60
Entrepreneurship and Design with Malea Gadoury – Co-founder, ILK (Ex: Google)
Sep 04, 202033:45
Education, culture and research with Laith Ulaby – UXR Director, Udemy (Ex: UN, UC Berkeley, Uber, Google)
Aug 30, 202034:33
Inclusive Products with Joel Isaac, Accessibility Lead at Delta Dental
Aug 22, 202031:32
Meaning and purpose on Design Teams with Audrey Liu, VP Design – Lyft
Aug 15, 202035:01
The perfect pitch with Aditi Maliwal, Partner – Upfront Ventures (Ex: Google)
Aug 12, 202043:16
Designing organizations with Bruno Bergher – VP Design & Product, Gladly (Ex: Google)
Aug 03, 202025:50
Design Leadership with Jessica Ko – CEO and co-founder, Playbook (Ex: Google, YouTube, OpenDoor)
Aug 01, 202033:02
Product Vision with Sun Park – Product Designer, Facebook (Ex: Apple, Google)

Product Vision with Sun Park – Product Designer, Facebook (Ex: Apple, Google)

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.

Cells and Pixels, every Tuesday 5PM PST
Jul 20, 202034:49
Designing conversations with Daniel Stillman – Author, Conversation Factory
Jul 18, 202048:03
Design as a role with Luke Wroblewski – Author and Product Director, Google (Ex: Yahoo!, eBay, NCSA)
Jul 10, 202043:55
Designing for the high tech with Marianne Abreu – UX Designer, YouTube, Google (Ex: Samsung, Globo.com)

Designing for the high tech with Marianne Abreu – UX Designer, YouTube, Google (Ex: Samsung, Globo.com)

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.

Cells and Pixels, every Tuesday 5PM PST
Jul 08, 202033:06
Research in emerging markets with Tejas Peesapati – UXR Manager, Google (Ex: Yahoo!, Oracle)
Jul 05, 202036:15
Design and community with Felix Lee – Founder, adplist.org

Design and community with Felix Lee – Founder, adplist.org

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.
Jul 02, 202027:57
Trailer: Cells and Pixels, let's establish the connection!
Jun 25, 202002:40