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African Tech RoundupWorld-class Design: Guidione Machava on Why 'African Designer' Is a Limiting LabelEpisode overview:
Guidione Machava has a confession: he's tired of being called an "African designer." The Mozambican product designer, now based in France and fresh from stints at Shopify and Paris-based 23point5, reckons that geographic qualifiers automatically strip away a third of your professional value before you've even started.
It's a provocative stance from someone who's built his career bridging African markets and global tech giants. Since launching- MozDevz - Mozambique's largest developer community - over a decade ago, Machava has been methodically executing what he calls his "Maria Sharapova strategy": a systematic approach to becoming world-class that he lifted...2025-06-1754 min
Geração DigitalAfricans Who DesignPlataforma digital criada por Guidione Machava quer dar visibilidade aos designers africanos2024-06-2909 min
The Cool Kids PodcastEp.26 - A nova tendência da geração de softwaresGuidione Machava, Mauro Banze, Marcelo Dauane e Vicente Tchisseke conversam, neste episódio, sobre as tendências que têm marcado a nova geração de softwarwes com uma análise para os últimos lançamentos da Apple. 2022-09-281h 03The Cool Kids PodcastEp.25 - Longe de casa: prós e contrasDário Mungoi, Guidione Machava, Marcelo Dauane, conversa neste episódio sobre as prós e contras de estar longe de casa, da proactividade e criatividade.2022-08-271h 06
The Cool Kids PodcastEp. 19 - Ataques aos websites do governo and everything elseNeste episódio, Guidione Machava, Vicente, Marcelo Dauane e Dário Mungoi falam sobre os ataques aos websites do governo, sobre inovação em Moçambique e empreendedorismo na diáspora.2022-03-071h 15
The Cool Kids PodcastEp. 18 - Sessão de Terapia de Mauro BanzeNeste episódio, Guidione Machava, Mauro Banze, Vicente e Dário Mungoi falam sobre como ser bem sucedido no trabalho e sobre suas rotinas de saúde mental.2022-02-221h 10
World-class Designer PodcastEp.24 From Graphic Design to Product Management - Hannah DreherWe speak with Hannah Dreher from the United States of America, a product manager and "bookaholic" in this episode.As a designer, Hannah started her career in graphics. She later decided to migrate to product manager out of a need to improve her skills, reinventing and positioning her career. Hannah dedicated much of her time to perfecting her contact with the area by taking several courses.Hannah finds herself constantly motivated by the brilliance of those she has the privilege to learn from and work alongside, whether they are members of the company or customers.2021-09-2230 min
World-class Designer PodcastEp.23 It's all about connecting the dots - Juliana ProserpioJuliana is an entrepreneur and educator. She is the co-founder of ECHOS, an innovation lab, and its business units: School of Design Thinking – a school that puts innovation in practice, and Echos – Innovation Projects. Over the last years, Juliana has worked to develop an innovation ecosystem in Brazil and Australia to foster the design of desirable futures. She works as a leader in projects in the areas of healthcare, construction, the internet of things, and beyond. As an educator & speaker, Juliana creates awareness around the knowledge and depth of design as a way to accelerate innova...2021-09-2242 min
World-class Designer PodcastEp.22 Follow and know the pioneers - Sarah El KhamsaSarah Belkhamsa is a lecturer at the Institute of Arts and Crafts of Kairouan in Tunisia and a project consultant in the field of culture and design. She holds a Ph.D. in Design from the University of Paris 1 and was a researcher in Semiotics of Arts and Design at the ACTE Institute (2007 to 2017) in France. Laboratory, where she developed modeling and theories framed in digital tools that can be used to audit Habits change (http://metabolisme.design/). Her topic is about relationships between design research, system thinking, and semiotics.She relies on this research and methodology...2021-09-2225 min
World-class Designer PodcastEp.21 How to design better - Renato PaixãoRenato Paixão, a Rio de Janeiro-based visual designer, with a Bachelor's degree in Visual Communications from the University of Rio de Janeiro's School of Fine Arts (EBA/UFRJ). He helps companies to find innovative ways to engage with clients and expand their business through brand experience design, by creating user-focused solutions that bridge the user's brand experience and company business objectives.In 2014, he won first place in L'Oreal's Brandstorm competition and found his calling: to create experiences that build connections between people and brands. Throughout his career, he has had the chance to work with great b...2021-09-2237 min
World-class Designer PodcastEp.20 Designing for everyone - Jonah GoldsaitoFrom sketches to design sprints, prototypes to codebase commits - He takes pride and joy in exercising and growing my skills in each phase of product development.He has built tiny startups and has also worked in large corporations, like Google and Youtube, building out new, experimental arms of their businesses from tiny seeds. Both have involved growing and fostering healthy teams and making sure their members felt empowered to experiment, safe in asking difficult questions, and ready to support and celebrate one another.2021-09-221h 07
World-class Designer PodcastEp.19 Which risk do you want to take? - Patricia MachadoPatricia Machado, a UX researcher and human-centred design facilitator with over six years of international experience turning customer needs into products, content, and services for innovation projects. She is currently working at Ford Motor Company in the Information Technology group, answering challenging questions to shape the future of mobility and helping technology teams to engage with customers actively.She started her career designing content strategies and producing audiovisual and digital content to engage with customers. Patricia arrived in User Experience Research, driven by an interest in better understanding people and how they interact with technology. She holds a...2021-09-2221 min
World-class Designer PodcastEp.18 The content is the experience - Sabeeha BanubhaiSabeeha is a software developer turned design entrepreneur. She has a passion for helping dreamers launch their businesses and has helped over 30 startups to get going. As an advocate by nature, she has an inborn sense of idealism and morality and sees helping others as her purpose in life.She founded Jack Studios as a side-hustle while completing her degree and is now running it as a successful product studio with her dream team. Her passion for startups has spilled over into her co-founding two digital products in the travel and African entrepreneurship space.When...2021-09-2248 min
World-class Designer PodcastEp.17 Fail fast to learn faster - Thaisa FernandesThaisa is a problem solver and a perfectionist in recovery, willing to stretch herself and risk making mistakes to achieve innovative solutions and validate my learnings.Her experience includes working with diverse product teams from UX design, through research, to development. Worked with well-known brands including Twitter, HP, MasterCard, Autodesk, WellsFargo, Ubisoft, TomTom, and Visa.Thaisa believes that information needs to be shared, this is at her core, and she also loves to connect with people. In her free time, she enjoys recording episodes for her podcast Latinx in Power and writes for the PM101...2021-09-2242 min
World-class Designer PodcastEp.16 What it takes to get hired abroad - Koji PereiraKoji Pereira is a Senior Product Design Manager at Twitter. With over two decades of experience in the Design field, +5 managing teams. He leads a team-building experience for exploring and search at Twitter. He strives to build diverse teams and safe spaces, making sure everyone is included and all voices are heard. Over the years he helped to build many products from 0-1 elevating designers to the strategy sphere.Previously he was at Lyft, where he was a Head of Design for Lyft Business, leading a suite of products for organizations to get rides for their people...2021-09-2242 min
World-class Designer PodcastEp.15 If you can create, you can design - Andrian JankowiakAdrian Jankowlak, a designer and creative director with a passion for connecting people, ideas, organizations, and technologies. He believes empathy, collaboration, and prototyping are key to solving problems on any scale.He has designed products, services, and creative campaigns across the world, with work spanning new technologies, toys, consumer electronics, furniture, sanitation, and more in fast-moving industries across a large number of brands.In 2015 he founded Nairobi Design Week to strengthen the Kenyan creative industry and give East Afrikan talent a platform to showcase their work locally and globally.Nairobi Design Week is...2021-09-2241 min
World-class Designer PodcastEp.14 Don't Take Shortcuts - Alex MorinAlexis is an innovator and inventor - taking projects from ideation through to digital proof of concept and final product. With a solid background in digital and industrial design and a strong complement of software skills, Alexis contributes by delivering products that reflect the rapidly changing digital landscape.Team player -- speaks the language of his interlocutor: business, development, server, UI; in up to 6 languages! Successfully delivered high-stakes software for 65M$ aircraft as well as 60,000 students edu-tech company and more.Specialities: design systems, interaction design, UX design, user research, user interviews, service design, Android, iPhone...2021-09-2231 min
World-class Designer PodcastEp.13 You need to take yourself on your hands - Indaiá MilitãoMeet Indaia Militão da Silva, a Brazilian designer with more than 20 years of experience in the automotive, textile, aeronautic segments. She currently works as a design manager at Nubank, and she graduated in Industrial Design from FAAP and Publicity and Advertising.She already had the opportunity to work in more than 15 countries in the world, attending to customers, understanding their needs and business goals by translating them into products and services.She entered the design field intending to understand the world of electronic devices such as smartphones, but destiny directed her to a "wider w...2021-09-2248 min
Afrika Design: Creative Tour of Africa14 🇲🇿 World Class | Guidione MachavaWhat makes a World Class Designer?
There are designers who make things look better. There are designers who make things work better. Guidione Machava @guidione_machava is the designer who makes teams collaborate better.
Guidione brings his experience as a Product Designer, Creative Leader, and Community Builder to this episode. From World Bank projects, scrappy startups, and non-profits across the continent, Guidione commits his time to systems, products and services that have a positive impact on people's lives.
"Design is like sex... no one taught me, but I've learned."
"Communication, community and collaboration...the first comes naturally to me, so...2021-08-0649 min
Latinx In PowerDecolonizing Design with Guidione Machava 🇲🇿🇿🇦 and Jane Vita 🇧🇷How can we create more inclusive environments? Why do we have only 3% of Latinxs working in tech in the United States? How do we know some solutions might be experienced differently by marginalized groups or groups outside your own? Diversity has the goal to bring more people to the table, and decolonizing is more about proposing an exercise to influence the way we think.
Guidione Machava - Entrepreneur, Designer and Author; Jane Vita - Designer Lead at VTT; and Thaisa Fernandes - Podcast Host & Producer and Program Manager, will explore colonialism's effect on design s...2021-05-1832 min
Design Lab with Bon KuCreating Future Designers in Africa | Guidione MachavaGuidione Machava is an entrepreneur, designer and community builder. He has experience leading teams, coaching designers, and creating together products and services that positively impact people’s lives. He works across diverse industries and sectors, bringing early ideas and concepts to life for World Bank projects, scrappy startups and nonprofits in Africa. He is the author of “Design Sutra'', a collection of design principles for designers in the early stages of their careers and founded the World-class Designer School, the home of brightest design minds in Africa. He recently organized the World-class Designer Conference which included speakers such as Debb...2021-04-0830 minThe Cool Kids PodcastEp.1 - The Cool Kids - IntroduçãoWassup pessoal,
Nós, (Dário Mungoi, Marcelo Dauane, Guidione Machava e Mauro Banze) temos conversado muito sobre diferentes partes das nossas vidas.
Temos tido estas conversas regularmente nos últimos 2 anos. Ainda temos conversas mais privadas, mas decidimos criar um espaço para compartilhar algumas de nossas ideias, experiências com todos vocês. Para este primeiro episódio, falamos sobre:
- Quem nós somos.
- Um tweet do Marcelo sobre viver longe de casa.
- Como fomos viver fora do pais (Moçambique).
- O melhor e...2021-03-191h 49
Cells and PixelsThe Future of Design is African with Guidione Machava – Founder, World-Class DesignerA 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.2021-02-2827 min
World-class Designer PodcastYou aren't The Dreamer of the Dreams - An Interview with the Designer Thomas LinkThomas is the co-founder and leader of the IxDA group in Zürich, where we organize UXCamp Switzerland since 2014. Since the beginning of his career in the mid-1990’s he is actively involved in teaching and rising future talent in digital media design.
Beside his engagement in the design community, you can meet Thomas while working as a User Experience Designer at Namics - A Merkle Company. He helps clients in taking advantage of the opportunities of digitalization through strategy, design and sometimes a little bit of technology.
He is passionate about Interaction Design and the...2020-06-1434 min
World-class Designer PodcastWhat Makes You Different Make you Better - An Interview with the Service & Experience Designer Maria KarnaukhovaMaria is a Service and Experience Designer and, quoting Mr Wolf from Pulp Fiction, she solves problems. Maria is a visual thinker - she thinks visually and designs thoughtfully. Being a blend of a typical nerd and a creative, she’s challenging stereotypes and making her own path.
Maria is a medium between research and visuals with a particular interest in projects that make real impact. Accordingly, she’s already had a chance to work on cases connected with social inequality, circular economy, feminism, activism and racism.2020-06-0724 min
World-class Designer PodcastFirst Things First: Get Solid Foundations - An Interview with the Designer & UX Researcher Bianca LimaMy guest for this episode is the Designer & UX Researcher Bianca Lima.
Bianca is a System Analyst who turned Designer from São Paulo, Brazil. She worked in companies like Itaú Unibanco and PagSeguro PagBank as UX Designer and Researcher helping other designers with tools to support their work.2020-06-0120 min
World-class Designer PodcastShortcuts to Design Expertise - An Interview with the Interaction Designer & Educator Daniela MaldonadoMy guest for this episode is the Interaction Designer & Educator Daniela Maldonado.
Daniela is a User Experience Designer who shapes technology to create value-added solutions distinguished in the market for being effective, innovative and beneficial for the world.
She has worked in different projects as a UX consultant for companies such as Yara, Los Andes University, and FIFCO Costa Rica. I also have experience as a Strategic Consultant working in projects for companies such as Roche, SURA Insurance, Familia, PepsiCo, and Kimberly-Clark.
Currently, Daniela is an instructor in Design Thinking...2020-05-2434 min
World-class Designer PodcastTeam Work will Make You a Better Designer - An Interview with the UX & Product Designer Yohe WangMy guest for this episode is the UX & Product Designer Yohe(Hanzheng) Wang.
Yohe is a UX & Product Designer from China, currently living in New York, USA. He is pursuing his master degree in Interaction Design at the School of Visual Arts.
Yohe is passionate about transforming emerging technology into a user-friendly experience and merging digital and physical experience. Augmented Reality Design and Consumer Product Design are his current interest.2020-05-1721 min
World-class Designer PodcastYour Stakeholders Are Your Users Too - An Interview with the Interaction Designer Viviane TavaresHello and welcome for one more episode of interviews with world-class designers. My name is Guidione Machava, and I'm your host. My guest for this episode is the Interaction Designer Viviane Tavares.
Viviane is a designer from Brazil, São Paulo. Vivi has a demonstrated history of working in the design industry, having worked in projects on education, health and mobility sectors. Vivi worked in companies like Record TV and Conta Azul, today she plays the role of Interaction Designer at Youse Seguros in Brazil.2020-05-1022 min
World-class Designer PodcastA Cool UX Job Title Won't Save You - An Interview with the Interaction Designer Megha DamaniMegha Damani, an interaction designer at Design Group Italia, a multidisciplinary design studio in Milan. She's also worked for startups and fortune 500 companies like Salesforce and EMC2.
Love being a part of design community, in Feb 2020, she was the volunteers' directors for IxDA's global conference - interaction20. She's also been a mentor of Service Design Jams 2019 and mentors students at her alumni college, Domus Academy.2020-05-0324 min
World-class Designer PodcastDon't Fall in Love with your First Ideia - An Interview with the Interaction Designer Abhinav RameshHello and welcome for one more episode of interviews with world-class designers. My name is Guidione Machava, and I'm your host. My guest for the fourth episode of the first season of the podcast is the Interaction Designer Abhinav Ramesh.
Abhinav is an Architect who turned an Interaction Designer. He's originally from India and currently living in Italy.
Abhinav is passionate about triggering memorable and joyful user experiences through different design mediums. He continually tries to learn from multidisciplinary fields of expertise since design needs to be seen in a holistic perspective of a...2020-04-2731 min
World-class Designer PodcastDon't be a Copycat, Create - An Interview with the Service Designer María Isabel ChalcoHello and welcome for one more episode of interviews with world-class designers. My name is Guidione Machava, and I'm your host. My guest for the third episode of the first season of the podcast is the Service Designer María Isabel Chalco.
María is a Designer with a background in Communication Sciences from Peru. She is currently doing her Masters in Service Design at Domus Academy in Milan, Italy. Maria is a lover of cooking, animals, and music. She looks to create different projects that have a purpose beyond the commercial side. 2020-04-1920 min
World-class Designer PodcastDesigning your Pitch Experience - An Interview with the Interaction Designer Pradyumna SurampudiHello and welcome for one more episode of interviews with world-class designers. My name is Guidione Machava, and I'm your host. My guest for the second episode of the first season is the Interaction Designer Pradyumna Surampudi.
Pradyumna is an Interaction Designer from India, who believes in Interacting with more people to design better. Driven by his curiosity, this Engineer turned Designer is always looking to pick up more skills, and understanding design better by collaborating with people around him.
With Prady, I had a wide range conversation with highlights about the creation of X-Lab...2020-04-1217 min
World-class Designer PodcastFinding the Right Problem to Solve - An Interview with the designer and entrepreneur Mauro BanzeHello and welcome for one more episode of interviews with world-class designers. My name is Guidione Machava, and I'm your host. My guest for the first season is the Mozambican designer Mauro Banze.
Mauro is a Product Designer and Entrepreneur based in Helsinki. He is currently doing his master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, at Aalto University in Finland and, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in, in Sweden. Mauro learns and writes about human nature at maurobanze.com.
With Mauro, we talked about finding the right problem to solve and how to do it. And...2020-04-0532 min
World-class Designer PodcastInterview with Elaine Chu from GrabIn this podcast, I interview designers from the world-leading companies, who are using design to drive the change of the reality we are living today.
Through the interviews, is my goal is to try to identify the paths to mastery, and to help you, to become a world-class designer.
In this episode, I interview Elaine Chu. Elaine is a Senior Product Designer at Grab, the leading ride-hailing and mobile payments platform in Southeast Asia. Elaine is from Singapore, before starting her journey as Designer at Grab, she was part of the design team for Uber...2019-10-0116 minWorld-class Designer PodcastWorld-class designer - IntroHello and welcome for one more episode of interviews with world-class designers.
My name is Guidione Machava and I am your host.
In this podcast, I interview designers from the world-leading companies, who are using design to drive the change of the reality we are living today.
Through the interviews, is my goal is to try to identify the paths to mastery, and to help you, to become a world-class designer.
“Questions to my younger self” Is the format I will be using in this podcast.
I choose this...2019-09-1501 min