Burnout, Fake News, and Learning, Listening, & Finding Your Voice w/Kian Lavi

In today's episode of NOMADS: The HCI Podcast, Kian Lavi (Product Designer for Privacy at Facebook) shares his own journey into HCI from building his own UX curriculum at the University of San Diego, California to where he is today. We touch on topics like burnout, fake news, (K-pop?!), and finding your voice and standing up for yourself as a junior designer.

Connect with Kian:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kianlavi?lang=en
Medium: https://medium.com/@kianlavi
Website: http://kianlavi.com/

Links & Things:

• Don Norman: https://jnd.org/
• "The Design of Everyday Things" book: https://jnd.org/the-design-of-everyday-things-revised-and-expanded-edition/
• Dark UX Patterns: https://darkpatterns.org/
• Facebook and Twitter plan to fight Disinformation: shorturl.at/jlEL1
• WhatsApp and fake news: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/07/whatsapp-to-impose-new-limit-on-forwarding-to-fight-fake-news
• Fake News in K-pop: https://www.papermag.com/k-pop-twitter-clearing-the-searches-2646962493.html?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4
• Homeopathy and COVID-19 in India and around the world: https://theprint.in/science/forget-coronavirus-homoeopathy-cant-cure-anything-its-a-placebo-at-best/363174/
• False claims about COVID-19 cure in India: https://bestmediainfo.com/2020/07/asci-investigates-complaints-against-251-ads-in-may-2020/
• Jean Baudrillard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard

About Us:
Sunny and Connie are grad students majoring in Human-Computer Interaction who are passionate about designing experiences to empower people around the world.