5: A Conversation with Maheen Sohail (Facebook)

Design Baithak

In this episode, co-hosts Imran Hussain and Suleman Shahid chat with Maheen Sohail who is a Product Designer on Facebook’s Social VR Team. Topics include Maheen’s multi-disciplinary journey towards design, her current work and role at Facebook, social VR experiences, ethics in design, and more. Don’t forget to check out the behind-the-scenes segments at the end of the podcast episode and the show notes below.

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KEYWORDS

vr, facebook, oculus, internship, fifa, unity, public speaking, filmmaking, gaming, experience, women in design, architecture, alessi, industrial design, canada, vancouver film school, italy, moleskin, frog design, industrial design, projects, products, furniture, university, documentaries, visual effects, phillips, norman, digital design, game design, ux, social vr, facebook spaces, avatars, safety in vr, trust in vr, ethics in design, titanic

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LINKS

Maheen Sohail

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maheensohail/

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/maheen_sohail/

Maheen’s story of becoming a virtual reality designer

https://medium.com/facebook-design/becoming-a-virtual-reality-designer-9dcf6ddea4c3

Simon Fraser University - SFU

https://www.sfu.ca

School of Interactive Arts & Technology - SFU

http://www.sfu.ca/siat.html

Frog Design

https://www.frogdesign.com

Alessi

https://www.alessi.com/it_it/

Facebook Spaces

https://www.facebook.com/spaces

Get to know more of the Social VR Team at Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/careers/life/get-to-know-more-of-the-social-vr-team-at-facebook

Ready Player One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSp1dM2Vj48

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ABOUT DESIGN BAITHAK

Design Baithak is a community initiative to promote design in Pakistan. Our podcast features in-depth conversations with experts from different fields of design. Our guests candidly share their stories, insights, opinions and experiences. We also organize meetups across the country that enable people to connect with, and learn from, each other. We believe that by using a design thinking and human-centered design led approach people can create better products, services and customer experiences.

You can learn more about Design Baithak on Twitter and Instagram.

https://www.twitter.com/designbaithak

https://www.instagram.com/designbaithak

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ABOUT THE ORGANIZERS

Design Baithak is organized and curated by Imran Hussain, Managing Partner at Cordoba, and Suleman Shahid, Assistant Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).

Imran Hussain

https://twitter.com/imranhussain

https://www.instagram.com/imranhussain

Suleman Shahid

https://www.facebook.com/sulemans

https://www.instagram.com/sulemans/