5: A Conversation with Maheen Sohail (Facebook)

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. --- 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 --- 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 --- 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  --- 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/