Roots

099: The Typewalker

25 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Lloyd Zapanta—known online as @lloydiecat—is a multidisciplinary artist, type designer, and civic creative based in Metro Manila. He’s the CLM...

098: The Manila Storyteller

18 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jowee Alviar is the co-founder of Team Manila, one of the most influential design studios in the Philippines. A CalArts-trained designer and UST alu...

097: The Career Gambler

11 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Cariño is a Senior Product Designer at Klarna, leading integrations with global partners like Walmart and Stripe. He holds a master’s in Hu...

096: The Stoic Designer

08 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jake Nuñez is an experienced Senior Product Designer at Maya, focusing on enhancing the merchant experience by designing their Business products. He ...

095: The Curious Innovator

11 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Frances To is an Independent Designer who specializes in creating bespoke websites, digital products, and interactive stories for fast-growing compani...

094: The Uncomfortably Comfortable

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jarell is an intermediate product designer currently working on enterprise software for Copperleaf who helps utility companies make better decisions t...

093: The Advocate

23 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jen Enrique is a Staff Product Designer at Slack. With over 14 years experience, she has worked at agencies, startups, and big companies. Today, she c...

092: The Design Champion

13 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ray Sison is a Senior Design Director for Product Design for SNKRS at Nike, designing for a niche community of sneakerheads. Before that, he was the H...

091: The Wayfinder

23 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Pia Zaragoza is a creative technologist, researcher, and educator exploring the current use cases and future possibilities of emerging technologies. S...

090: The UX Writer

16 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Leonardo Raymundo is a content designer and content strategist from Seattle, Washington—where he was born and raised. He currently works at Orca Pac...

089: International Man of Mystery

28 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ian Sagabaen is a UX Designer at Google, building Google Cloud's enterprise tools. If you've ever been described as shy and need that nudge to break o...

088: The Misguided Youth

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Francis Estrada is an Interaction Designer at Google, currently working on YouTube Music Ads. As a fan of taking the scenic route, Francis gained ...

087: The Design Hobbyist

03 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Krizia Lim is a Senior Graphic Designer at Kalibrr by day, a Freelance Illustrator and Designer by night, and a photographer, web designer, and more i...

086: San Diego Content Designer

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Walkusky is a Senior Content Designer at Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, Mint, and QuickBooks. Prior to joining Intuit, he was the editor-in-chief...

085: The Pathfinder

24 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Riel Mosqueriola is a Product Designer at LiveMore, a personal development app whose goal is to provide the right tools and knowledge in achieving one...

084: The Visual Designer

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alysa Trinidad is a Senior Visual Designer at Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, QuickBooks and Mint, based in Mountain View, California. As a California ...

083: The Systems Thinker

18 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sheryl Cababa is the Vice President of Strategy at Substantial, a design and technology consultancy in Seattle, and has more than two decades of exper...

082: The Gamechanger

04 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Rannie Teodoro, Ph.D., is the Head of Design at Thumbtack, an online marketplace that matches customers with local service professionals. She is one o...

081: The Clown Prince of Design

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ed Salvaña is a Product Designer at Facebook. After long stints on Facebook Ads, Instagram and Events, he now designs experiences for new platforms a...

080: The Content Designer

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Niki Torres is the founder, producer, and host of Chief Best Friends, a podcast helping women succeed in work and business through meaningful friendsh...

079: The Design Pirate

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Francis Alturas is the Co-founder and CDO of Abstract Digital—a digital product design agency with expertise in doing design sprints for venture-bac...

078: The Gamification Innovator

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Erika Sibal is a Senior Designer and UX Lead at ExxonMobil’s Modern Applications & Platforms team. Before joining Exxon, she was a 2D Senior Proje...

077: The Authentic Designer

26 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Remulla is a Product Design Manager at SurveyMonkey, leading design for the core surveys experience for self-serve and enterprise customers...

076: The Freelance Product Designer

19 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kervin Tan is a freelance product designer and a mountain seeker. He is currently a product designer consultant at Hometime, a property management sta...

075: The Unicorn Chaser

28 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Carla Taruc Porticos is the UX/CX Research Lead and Managing & Founding Partner of Influx Research Philippines. Before her ABCs, she learned research ...

074: The Solo Backpacker

21 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Grey wanted to be a UX Designer way before it was cool. After spending more than half a decade as digital product manager for the banking and fintech ...

073: The Shapeshifter

07 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer Suazo is the UX Lead for Singlife Philippines, a digital insurance company that embraces technology to help Filipinos manage, grow, and prote...

072: The Keen Observer

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Miramark Diaz is a Designer who creates digital products for brands, companies, and startups. Currently he’s a Design Manager at one of the largest...

071: Invisible ESO Designer

24 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alex Atienza is a Senior Product Designer working on the “Carina” Design System and the Hospitality Cloud platform at Cvent. Previously, he was a ...

070: The Chef

17 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Quirino is a Product Designer on Facebook's News Feed & Stories. In over 6 years at the blue app, he helped launch Facebook Watch, Facebook Live, ...

069: The Lotus

10 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jamie Cabaccang is an award-winning Product Design Leader, Inventor, a Certified Reiki Master and Founder of Techies + Wellness. She led product de...

068: The Production Design Nerd

03 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremy Dizon is a Senior Production Designer at Lyft, where he maintains and evolves the Lyft Product Language design system, supporting the entire Pr...

067: The Pintado

29 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Everett is a Bay Area transplant and failed musician who exchanged the Los Angeles smog for the San Francisco fog. Raised in the LA skate punk scene o...

066: The UX Program Manager

15 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Lacey Sabado is a UX Program Manager at Google, where she helps improve people’s everyday lives through meaningful user experiences. She completed ...

065: The Jill of All Trades

08 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Camille Villanueva is a Brand and Marketing Designer at Square, bringing product marketing campaigns to life through different media, such as illustra...

064: The Vocal Designer

01 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Tolentino is a Senior Product Designer at Credit Karma designing experiences that help people make financial progress and buy their first home....

063: The Wanderer

23 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Arvi is Dad, Superman fanboy and Product Designer living in San Francisco. He has over 20 years of product and brand design experience. He is currentl...

062: The Charmed Designer

16 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Kylie Timpani is a Product Designer in Silicon Valley working on the way people consume and experience TV. Previously, she was the Senior Designer at ...

061: The Workshopper

09 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Anj Garong is a developer turned designer, now an Innovation and Creative Entrepreneurship student at Thames International. She loves seeing other peo...

060: The Super Orchestrator

16 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Mall is the Founder & CEO of SuperFriendly, a design collaborative that helps in-house teams make better digital products with design systems. Hav...

059: The UX Engineer

07 Jan 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Neil Bantoc is a UX Engineer on the Design Systems Engineering team at Facebook where he supports the Facebook Design System by creating standardized ...

058: The Enterprise Designer

31 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Archie Riva is an Enterprise UX Designer and Manager at Procter and Gamble.  From being a systems analyst and project manager in the Financial Soluti...

057: The Ethical Designer

23 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Nelson Gomez is a Product Designer at Holotech Studios designing an app called Animaze where people can make fun videos on their phone with avatars th...

056: The Neo-Generalist

15 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Abogado is the Design Lead at Saleswhale, a Singapore-based Y-Combinator startup. It’s a B2B SaaS product that deploys an AI sales assistant,...

055: The Design Rookie

08 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Cedric Lee is the UX Lead at Cambridge University Press, a leading global publishing business that aims to advance education and research worldwide. B...

054: The Data Designer

25 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jian Adornado is a Product Designer at Netflix designing data and financial tools to shape the company’s content portfolio. He previously designed d...

053: The UX Guy

17 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan Deja is an Assistant Professor in De La Salle University teaching courses like Human-Computer Interaction, Design Patterns, and Software Engine...

052: Designer From The Hood

11 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Oliver Bayani is a Senior UX Designer, managing user research and UX writing for digital products used by 4 million Filipinos at Home Credit Philippin...

051: The Design Prankster

03 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Riel Reyes is an Associate Product Designer at Kalibrr. His design work includes the 40th Metro Manila Film Festival Souvenir Programme and Truelogic'...

050: The Chicken Chaser

27 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Janelle Hitz is a Senior Visual Designer working on the Disney+ platform. Previously, she designed for gaming companies that include Electronic Arts a...

049: Collaborative Prototyper

13 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Camille Zapata is the Lead UX/UI Designer at Tailors Mark, where she is part of a team that designs innovative solutions in the world of custom clothi...

048: Design Evolutionist

06 Oct 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Andrei Gonzales is a Service and Interaction Design Associate Manager at Fjord Canberra, Australia, focusing on designing and delivering innovation fo...

047: Design Co-Founder

29 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jill Tiutan is a product designer who currently studies Cognitive Science at UCLA. She has been designing professionally for the last 5 years and was ...

046: Design Fighter

15 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Shannen Sapar is a self-taught Product Designer and art enthusiast. She currently works as a UI/UX Designer at Onerent, where she focuses on solving U...

045: The Design Trailblazer

08 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jamie Cristal is an Inclusive Designer at Airbnb —where she is helping create a world where anyone can belong anywhere. Previously, she led design i...

044: The Curious Learner

01 Sep 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Leroy Almeida is an experience designer at ING, the Philippines' first fully-digital bank. He previously worked at Kalibrr, where he designed the recr...

043: The Do-It-All Designer

25 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jay Demetillo is the Lead UX Designer for GrabFood. With 10+ years of experience working in New York City to San Francisco and now Singapore, Jay Deme...

042: The Gritty Designer

18 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Justine Win is a Product Designer, UI Developer, and team player. She'll be joining Shopify — a leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform...

041: The Empathic Researcher

11 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Christine Balatbat is a customer experience officer in JG Summit Holdings Inc., one of the biggest conglomerates in the Philippines. A normal weekday ...

040: The Competitive Designer

04 Aug 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Patrick James Lim is a Senior Product Designer for SplitmediaLabs Inc. With over 4 years of experience, he was able to work for companies of various t...

039: The Emotional Designer

28 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Boggs Labayen is the User Experience Lead at Home Credit Philippines —a self proclaimed emotional designer and guardian of the users. Armed with 10 ...

038: Design Ninja

14 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Vj Francisco is the Head of Experience Design for NuWorks Interactive Labs. He brings with him 12+ years of design experience and expertise in design ...

037: Accessibility Specialist

07 Jul 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Mikey Ilagan is a Product Manager on the Comcast Accessibility Team. He's spent the past decade building digital experiences using a lifetime of passi...

036: Design Cruiser

30 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tari Rosario is the Lead UX Product Designer for Sprout Solutions, where she designs for HR and Payroll software systems. Previously, she held UX Desi...

035: Branding Sorcerer

23 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Jiggy Villanueva is a fresh Management Information Systems graduate from Ateneo de Manila University. For the past year, he served as the Executive Vi...

034: Legal Design Whiz

16 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Aris Acoba is a product designer and developer. He is currently the Head of Design at LawAdvisor, a legal technology company founded in Australia. He ...

033: Design Cook

09 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Sabandal is the Head of Product Development at Qwikwire, a multi-awarded startup that provides cross-border payment solutions for real-estate —...

032: The Front-end Designer

02 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Chi Señires is a UI/UX Designer at TrueMoney Philippines, where she designs products to help the underbanked and underserved in our country. When not...

031: Experience Engineer

26 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Charz Mendoza is the Head of User Experience at Mynt. His main responsibility is to ensure the products and services of GCash deliver good user experi...

030: The Design Master

19 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Paolo Malabuyo is a Director of User Experience for YouTube Advertising at Google, where he leads an international team of designers and researchers r...

029: Inclusive Design Advocate

05 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed Job Buenazedacruz, a graphic designer at Canva. She’s the founder of Inclusive PH, a small online community of professionals who want ...

028: Productivity Architect

28 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I talked to Brian Tan, a UI/UX designer and merit scholar from the Ateneo De Manila University. He’s about to graduate in June with a degree in IT E...

027: Content Design Wizard

21 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed Jasmine Ty, a seasoned UX content strategist and marketing copywriter with over a decade of experience working in Silicon Valley. She ha...

026: The Design Enthusiast

14 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I chatted with Avery Si, a UI/UX Designer in Mynt — a subsidiary of Globe Telecom, Ayala, and Ant Financial. Avery took up Management Information Sy...

025: The UX Evangelist

07 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed Ely Apao, Customer Experience Manager at JG Summit Holdings. He founded UX Philippines, a non-profit organization that hosts the Philipp...

024: Microcopy Queen

31 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed Niaw de Leon, the author of Microcopy and co-founder of Cognible, a design consultancy that helps startups, IT firms, and development te...

023: Google Sprint Master

24 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed Chrys Francisco Laguitao, a Senior UX Designer at Google currently based in Zurich, Switzerland. She has designed for both consumer an...

022: T-Shirt Magnate

17 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

AJ Dimarucot is a self-taught graphic designer who is known for his iconic work on t-shirts--having designed for brands like Nike, Jordan Brand, Adida...

021: The UX Consultant

10 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Tisha Ibasco is the Experience Design Lead at Accenture, helping build the capability of UX in the Philippines. She leads a team of 20 designers based...

020: The Originator

03 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I caught up with Dan Matutina — a graphic designer and illustrator. He is a founding partner at Plus63 Design Co. and the Hydra Design Group. He ...

019: The Design Educator

24 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed Tata Yap, she's a creative director for digital agency Code and Theory Manila — working with clients like Doctors Without Borders (MSF...

018: Multidimensional CXO

17 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Denise Haak is the Chief Experience Officer at QUIDDITY, an end-to-end User Experience design and consultancy firm with clients like CebuPacific GetGo...

017: Design Detective

10 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I talked to Birdie Salva, the co-founder and general manager of Curiosity, a Manila-based design research agency. He currently leads user-centered res...

016: The Creative Partner

03 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed JP de Guzman, the Chief Creative of Frost Design. He is an entrepreneur by heart, a full-time life student by day, and now a father of f...

015: CX Champion

27 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed Michael Dela Cruz, affectionately known by his peers as “Miggy,” is the former Director of Customer Experience Design at Globe Telec...

014: CSS Avatar

20 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed Samantha Rose Cruz, Senior UI Designer at Effective Digital. She has held roles as a Product Designer and Front-end Developer working at...

013: Supersaiyan Designer

13 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I talked to Aldrich Tan, the Design Director and Co-founder of Vessel Innovation Design Group. He previously held Design Roles at Remitly, Getty Image...

012: Relevance Machine

06 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

I talked to Angela Obias-Tuban, Design Strategy Lead at Metrobank. She has been a quantitative research analyst, qualitative researcher, User Experien...

011: Hong Kong Hustler

30 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I talked to Marianne Ho, a Hong Kong-based UX Designer reimagining the way people think about money at HSBC. She previously held design roles at Catha...

010: Design Voyager

23 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I talked to Mika Aldaba, an international design consultant with experience doing branding, web design, UX consulting and data visualization for clien...

009: Design Community Pioneer

17 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I talked to Sophia Lucero, the co-founder and president of the Philippine Web Designers Organization, a volunteer grassroots group that organises the ...

008: The Podcast Designer

09 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed James Cabrera, a self-taught User-Centered Visual Designer formally educated in Math and Physics. He is currently the Design Director at...

007: Problem Solving Unicorn

02 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I talked to Philip Cheang, the co-founder of By Implication, an award-winning independent software & game development studio he and his friends create...

006: Designer for All

04 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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 s...

005: Serial Designpreneur

08 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed Christian San Jose, the Managing Director of Make Technology, a UX and technology subsidiary of Ace Saatchi & Saatchi. Before that he wa...

004: Party Boy of UX

20 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I Interviewed Mark Lacsamana, a product designer working at Kalibrr. He previously worked for OLX as a product designer for mobile apps. Before that, ...

003: Journalist to UX Designer

30 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed Jem Rosario, a user experience specialist and educator based in Toronto, Canada — who was a journalist in his previous life. He studie...

002: Meta Career Shifter

25 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I talked to Allan Caeg, the founder of Northstories.io, previously at Migme, Save22, US Autoparts and Netbooster.asia (Movent). In this episode, we di...

001: University Design Overlord

03 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

I caught up with Andrew Aquino, a Filipino product designer who just started working at Facebook. In this episode, we discuss design education, mentor...