Design systems or design languages are a holistic set of instructions that help Designers and product teams understand how to build their products, and why to build them that way.

This is more than your bog standard pattern library or style guide and is intended to give direction to your design.

They come in all shapes and sizes so join Chris and Carla and special recruit Liam Harberd as they untangle these jargon filled beasts.

Design thinking is a methodology that works anywhere. You don’t have to be designing an app or website to apply it to problem solving both in business and in your every day life.

Chris and Carla talk about how you can apply this powerful set of tools anywhere, any time.

Supposedly 1 in 3 of us are introverts.

In the world of UX, Design and Research you are often expected to talk in front of large groups of people, run workshops and talk to users – typically things you might associate with extrovert personality traits.

However, it is possible to do these things as an introvert and maybe even enjoy them!

If you prefer a book and a hot chocolate to a crazy party but want to overcome those nerves then join Chris and Carla on this little chat boat to find out how.

#IamRemarkable is a Google initiative empowering women and underrepresented groups to celebrate their achievements in the workplace and beyond.

Carla speaks to Aggie Dawborn and Sofia Corrêa de Sá Stratton about the background to I am Remarkable and the reasons for its existence.

You can learn more at #IamRemarkable.

We speak to Steven Blyth – Designer at one of the main fintech challenger banks in the UK – Starling Bank.

Starling is an app based bank and is also moving rapidly into the business account space.

We chat to Steven about how they do design at Starling, branded interactions and how to work be Zen at work.

What should designers keep in mind when they are releasing things into the world?

Is what you’re letting lose going to benefit humanity? Is it going to screw them over?

Why is just designing for 80% of users a bad idea?

All this and more from a freezing cold rooftop at Google HQ.

What is a proposition?

How do you identify a proposition?

How do you test a proposition?

Great questions everyone! Let’s do an episode on just that.

Nobody likes being criticised.

But as a Designer, getting critiques is an essential way to help power up your designs and your thinking to the next level.

We talk about what makes a healthy and productive design critique and what you can do to improve how you handle feedback.

What do we mean when we talk about ‘data’?

How can you use data and insights to create design hypotheses that allow you to create and test your designs effectively and help remove bias?

What did we get up to at Christmas?

How do you design when you have a user-base of millions? Chris and Carla speak to Brendan Kearns about Product Design at Google, Twitter and his work with startups.