James Buckhouse spent nearly a decade as an animator at Dreamworks, helping craft the Shrek and Madagascar franchises. Today he's the founder of the Sequoia Creative Lab, where his team applies story-driven design to products and experiences for Sequoia and its portfolio companies. In this chat with Intercom's Stewart Scott-Curran, James explains what film can teach us about designing products, exercises your team can do to uncover your own product’s story, and much more.

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