As Head of Design at Captivate, my job is to deliver amazing User Experience design to our users which involves wearing a few hats and communicating with the rest of the team. Join me as I break down what design at Captivate entails and the thought process and ethos we employ to make sure our podcast users can easily use our tools to grow their podcasts.

For episode 12 I'm joined once again by our super-dev Pierre to talk through working collaboratively with design and development, the importance of communication and how it's helped us ship top-class features to Captivate's users.

We recently announced at our first Upfront live stream some great features and two of those were Episode Planning and Research Links. I've grabbed our MD, Mark, to dive deeper into this and look at some approaches to content planning, examples and tips on how to use these features in your workflow and some wider-industry chat about conferences and meetups.

Podcast show notes, a necessary step in the workflow which at times can appear as a real time-drain but it doesn't have to be so laborious. This week Danny, our Head of Podcaster Experience, jumps on to talk about show notes best practices, his experience of crafting show notes that work and tips on using our recently released dynamic Show Notes Builder so you can save time and focus on creating content.

Welcome to episode 9, this week I'm joined by one of our developers, Pierre, to talk about some podcast basics to get nailed for either a new podcast or if you're giving your current show a spring clean and some of Captivate's settings to save you time in the long run.

This week we're joined once again by our MD Mark Asquith as we take a look at the perception and details of growth within the industry, why some OG podcasters are getting a bit salty with newbies and some tips you can implement today to kick-start your podcast's growth.

Episode 7 has dropped and this week we're joined by one of our devs, Pierre, to chat about the tech side of things within the podcast industry and the wider digital landscape plus a look to the future with things like the Podcasting 2.0 initiative.

This week I'm joined by Ben who works in our Support and Experience Team. We chat about his day-to-day duties at Captivate, his experience with delighting our users, the importance of the community of Captivate users and some of the additional work Ben gets involved in.

Join your host Garry with guest Mark, our MD of Captivate, to talk about yet another great feature that's hitting the platform this week - Show Notes Builder.

What exactly is "podcaster experience"? In this week's episode, I've brought in Danny, our Head of Podcaster Support and Experience, to chat about consistently making our users happy, how support fits into the bigger picture and the best part of working in the support and experience team.