5: Squeeze in Some Meat with Your Candy (feat. Gabriel Valdivia)

This week we had a chat with Gabriel Valdivia, a Product Designer at Facebook. He's a close friend and a remarkable designer best known for his work at Automatic. We had a great time chatting about a lot of Gabe's favorite things - from prototyping to Serial to meat/candy hybrids.

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Sponsors:

• Weebly and their Dribbble team
• InVision

Gabe Valdivia on the Web:

• Website
• Twitter
• Medium
• Dribbble

Show Notes:

01:45 - Gabe tells us about his upcoming Facebook adventure in London

• Facebook London

05:45 - Does the design culture at Facebook encourage bold new ideas?

• Slingshot

07:05 - Gabe shares about his transition from startup life to big corporation

• Automatic

17:30 - We learn a bit more about Facebook's latest experimental apps

• Facebook Labs
• Rooms

25:00 - What are the prototyping tools being used at Facebook?

• Origami
• Framer
• Sketch
• Pixate

37:00 - How do you design an emotional experience?

• Designing Happiness

45:00 - Jay did it

• Serial Podcast

60:00 - Gabe shares about a meaningful mentor in his life

• Margaret Stewart Twitter