A product designer’s job is to deeply understand customer problems and take on a multitude of roles that facilitate the creation of a solution. We often assign beautification as the role of the designer. …

When you think to yourself “I was born this way, I can never change,” or “others are just naturally better at this than I am,” then you’re setting yourself up for failure. If you catch yourself thinking this way most of the time, you might have to consider that you…

Episode 008: The Podcast Designer — 008: James Cabrera (The Podcast Designer) I interviewed James Cabrera, a self-taught User-Centered Visual Designer formally educated in Math and Physics. He is…open.spotify.com James Cabrera was most recently the Design Director at Gimlet Media, a digital media company. Today, he is the Head of Design and Special Projects at The Block. He is a self-taught designer who was born and raised in New York. Growing up, he found a liking in numbers, calculating things…

We use this presentation framework to influence major stakeholders around redesigns, product strategy, and important things like user research reports. The truth about being a designer is that we should be master communicators. Validated hi-fi prototypes are cool, but our real job is to take it from artifact to shipped…

For the past year, I’ve been working on several fronts as an embedded designer in our Enterprise squad. At Kalibrr, “enterprise” refers to one of the market segments we prioritize. For our product organization, it also means designing for the recruiter side of our platform. Since we’re a talent marketplace…

Episode 007: Problem Solving Unicorn — 007: Philip Cheang (Problem Solving Unicorn) I talked to Philip Cheang, the co-founder of By Implication, an award-winning independent software & game development…open.spotify.com Philip Cheang is the product lead of Sakay.ph, is a website and business developer, and also a UX and product designer. His passion revolves around problem-solving, whether it’s making games, creating apps, or building websites.

Episode 006: Designer for All (Roxy Navarro) — 006: Designer for All I caught up with Roxy Navarro, the co-founder and creative director leading a small, young, and passionate creative…rootspodcast.design For Roxy Navarro, design was something she never thought she’d pursue a career in. Of course, that was until a lot of things — her family, school, and friends — lead her to where she is now. Back in college, Roxy became a part of organizations that celebrated design and…

Episode 005: Serial Designpreneur — 005: Christian San Jose (Serial Designpreneur) I interviewed Christian San Jose, the managing director of Make Technology, a UX and technology subsidiary of Ace…open.spotify.com Christian San Jose’s design career started only when he was a mere seventeen year old. Ever since then, he took on almost every kind of design role there was — illustrator, graphic designer, website designer, to name a few. …

Roots Episode 004: Party Boy of UX — Mark Lacsamana — 004: Party Boy of UX I Interviewed Mark Lacsamana, a product designer working at Kalibrr. He previously worked for OLX as a product designer…rootspodcast.design Working the advertising industry for the most part of his early career taught Mark Lacsamana a lot about the advertising industry ever since college, he knew what he wanted to be: a designer. In college, he learned a lot about marketing, communication theory, and statistics in both his classes and…