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Mark Alkobe

Senior Product Designer at OpenProject and creator/host of Almost Local, a podcast about people building lives and homes abroad.

Jul 23, 2026

30:41
So you're a little different guest than we're normally used to, and I'm very intrigued by your story and almost localstories.com. Why don't you just tell me a little bit more about your background? I touched on it in the intro and how you got here today.
31:02
Sure.
31:03
So yeah, as you said, I'm originally from Barcelona, not directly Barcelona, like 20 kilometers away from it, but I grew up in a town called, like a city called Sabadell and then I moved to Barcelona for studies.
31:15
So my last years home, let's say home still, are in Barcelona where I studied engineering and product design.
31:26
So basically I started my design path a little bit more related to furniture design and like a little bit more physical things.
31:34
But I quickly switched to the digital environment and digital design, becoming a UX UI designer.
31:40
And that's exactly what brought me to Germany on the first move of these three that you mentioned.

10 MINS LATER

41:55
What's one that maybe stands out to the time that you've had the podcast?

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