Episode 9: Design in the Relationships

Fireside Chats with Empathic Futures Lab

We are excited to announce our first guest on the show: Marco Fabrega. Definitely give it a listen. It was our longest podcast to date but that is only because we have so much fun in the end.

Marco is a User Experience Designer with Havas Group in Chicago as well as a veteran of a couple start-up companies. He shares his experiences of moving from architecture school into the digital design disciplines and discusses what he's learned along the way. Namely he discusses how this journey has shapedhis definition of design as not only for problem solving but also understanding relationships between disciplines, designers and the user.

Next we get into the standards and practices of UX design. He shares hows he's learned the design processes and design practices within the User Experience profession.

From there, we roll into the future of user experience design. What does it mean now and what will in mean in the future? How do we operate differently between screens, voice, and VR. What does this mean for the user? We talk about how we perceive motion, material, and voice and how mistakes in certain areas like this can produce greater cognitive load.

Finally, we talk about quirks in design interfaces and problem solving within that discipline such as how Instagram and Ebay solved their branding issues differently.