When interviewing, I'm very frequently asked on how I learned about Interaction Design and User Experience. While still at the university, we were building projects like railway ticket vending machines, so I've been early pushed to study ergonomics and accessibility in order to address fields as the product design or a device touch screen interface.

After the design course, I've specialized in visual design through my master studies and early years of career, but kept thinking on interaction design concepts as feedback and affordances when I moved to Barcelona to join a startup designing mobile apps.

Apart from great teachers, there were other learning facilities that I'm still a big fan of. One of them are plain books. Other – less conventional ones, that I frequently use to update my knowledge on the UI and UX and keep up with entrepreneurship, technology, science or any other areas of personal interest – are newsletters, online courses, blogs, international web conferences and local geeky Meetups.

My personal influencers and references list has been evolving together with technology and learning possibilities. On the online courses sphere, for example, I've started with Lynda.com during my early career years and now I only watch TED, tech conferences and Coursera videos, while occasionally persisting on programming at Codecademy.

Another way that keeps me up to date on IxD and UX latest developments is by being an early adopter. Getting access to apps in private beta, usually before they even reach the European market is one of the best ways to stay on top of the next big thing. When asked for my favorite app or website during interviews, I tend to block, meanwhile trying to remember the last one that truly impressed me. It's very much easier to just talk about the few apps that I've downloaded this year and still have on my phone: Steller, Hitlist, Moves, Paper or Learnist, even though they won't probably be there in 2015 anymore.