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Layshi Curbelo
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About Layshi
Layshi Curbelo is a Puerto Rican creative with more than ten years of experience in communication and design, always in pursuit of accessibility and inclusion. Layshi’s training combines advertising, UX and instructional design, but the work goes beyond titles. Layshi has designed digital experiences for organizations such as Sembrando Sentido, which promotes government transparency and the proper use of public funds in Puerto Rico, and the Courts Administration, making it easier for citizens to independently manage requests for protection orders and other urgent matters without having to go in person to a court or police station. Layshi has been a speaker and host at numerous international conferences, sharing a vision of inclusive and accessible design. Layshi is also passionate about podcasting, producing and hosting award-winning podcasts to educate and connect with the creative community.
In Latin America, millions of people continue to face barriers to accessing the financial system. It is not just an economic issue: language, digital literacy, a lack of financial education, and many other factors play a role.
For centuries, we have designed without considering our interdependence with nature, but today it is not enough to simply reduce harm: we must design to restore. The challenge is to transform our practices to regenerate ecosystems, communities, and economies through technology that coexists in harmony with nature. From carbon-capturing architecture to urban planning that transforms cities into living ecosystems, the key lies in revaluing ancestral knowledge and fostering a regenerative mindset. 📸 Ricardo Gómez Ángel, Pim de Boer.
In this episode of The UX Rebels, we speak with Cristian Situ and Elsie Ralston, co-founders of Sur Global, a nonprofit organization that promotes more conscious and responsible innovation in Latin America. We discuss the origins of Sur Global, its purpose, and the educational model they’re using to train new generations of designers with a critical and locally grounded approach. We also reflect on the future of design in the region, the importance of rethinking the methods we were taught—methods that have historically been central to the world of innovation and technology—and the importance of adapting them to the contexts in which we are designing. We discussed the conference they’re organizing for October—a space where they aim to build community, learn collectively, and design from the Global South. A powerful, necessary, and urgent episode for those of us who believe that design has a social role to play in the world. And remember: we are rebels.
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