Nodes of Design

Rafael Brandão is a Product Experience Director passionate about arts and technology. For over 15 years, he has worked in several Advertising Agencies, Design Offices, Startups, and big companies. Currently, he is the Director of Product Experience at HBO Max Latam (Warner Bros Discovery). Professor and course coordinator at Miami Ad School, the most creative Design School worldwide (elected at Cannes 2019 and 2022), and career and business mentor at Designed.org and AbeLLha.

In this episode, Rafael shared great insights on collaborative innovation and its true meaning while walking us thru some of the best practices. We then discussed how to forge the team towards the right way of innovation. And how collaboration impacts innovation in an organization. Later, he spoke about design-led innovations and how designers can aspire to be great innovators. We then concluded the show with a few thoughts on future innovation trends in the design industry.

Takeaways - True meaning of innovation, How to forge collaborative innovation? How to nurture innovation? 

Resources mentioned in the show by Rafael. 

https://projectofhow.com/

https://www.designkit.org/

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Denise Pilar is a UX Researcher/Strategist with over two decades of experience. She is also one of the three authors of the very first Brazilian book on UX Research: UX Research com Sotaque Brasileiro (in Portuguese). She holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science, a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, an MBA in Positive Psychology, and is currently a strategist at NU bank.

In this episode, Denise shared great insights on UX strategy and its importance. She spoke on different frameworks for UX Strategy and how to measure the strategy's success. We then discussed the initial steps for the design team/designer to create a strategy that solves the business goals and user needs and how to dynamically modify the strategy based on the users' inputs and feedback. Later, we concluded the show with Denise's advice on effectively narrating a strategy to a broader audience. 

Takeaways - What is UX Strategy, Different frameworks of UX Strategy, Establishing a strategy. 

Denise Pilar book - UX Research com Sotaque Brasileiro

Books recommended by Denise. 

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

Design of Everyday Things

Contextual Design 

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Bob Baxley is a design executive, advisor, mentor, and advocate who has built, managed, and led UX teams at some of Silicon Valley's most respected companies. With a career spanning three decades, Bob's work at Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo!, and elsewhere has touched hundreds of millions of users worldwide. 

Currently, Bob serves as the Senior Vice-President of Design at ThoughtSpot, a business intelligence, and data analytics platform. Before ThoughtSpot, Bob was Head of Product Design at Pinterest and spent over eight years at Apple. While at Apple, Bob served in senior leadership roles in the retail and e-commerce teams, including leading the creative team responsible for the Apple Online Store. 

Bob is an advisor to Project Invent, Bob is committed to recruiting and inspiring the next generation of designers by mentoring individuals and advising organizations that are working to improve the profession and practice of digital product design.

In this episode, Bob shared great insights on User interface design and how it evolved from silicon valley. We then spoke on what are the different frameworks for data-enabled Design? And why having good taste is better than having good data. Latter, Bob shared his views on why only a few companies can design at the level of Apple and shared his experience working at Apple during the meteoric rise of the iPhones. We then spoke on how individual contributors could grow in careers and present to executive levels as designers. Later, we concluded the show with Bob's take on the future of Design. 

Takeaways- User interface design and its evolutions, Core fundamentals of the software, how to grow in your career as a designer. 

Bob Baxley Book - Making the Web Work: Designing Effective Web Applications

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Charles L. Mauro CHFP is president and Founder of MAURO Usability Science (MUS), a New York-based consulting firm founded in 1975. Mr. Mauro is a Certified Human Factors Engineering Professional BCPE. Mr. Mauro has personally managed over 4,000 research and development projects over his 40-year career as a leading expert in human factors engineering, product design, and design research. His clients include Nike, Dyson, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer, Merck, Amazon, Facebook, and industries covering high technology, medical/pharmaceutical, financial, heavy industrial, consumer, government/DOD, and startups.

Received numerous citations for design and design research, including The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), which has given its highest recognition, the Personal Achievement Award to Charles L. Mauro CHFP. Historically, the Award has been given to leading design luminaries, including Sir Jonathan Ive of Apple, Raymond Loewy, Henry Dreyfuss, and others.

Mr. Mauro is a frequent speaker at international conferences, leading academic institutions, and government agencies, including MIT, Stanford, UPenn, The FDA, USPTO, NASA, and legal conferences on a global basis.

In this episode, Mr. Mauro shared great insights into Industrial Design and human factors sciences; we discussed how ergonomics and human factors science play a significant role in industrial design. In addition, he shared his great learnings while working with Raymond Loewy.

We then discussed how designers could use data to design sustainable products and shared his experience creating the solution for NYSE. In the latter part, we discussed Design IPs, IP fundamentals, and how IP helps designers.

Takeaways- What is Industrial design? How to design sustainable products? Does design have an enormous impact on metaverse?

Resources mentioned in the show by Charles L. Mauro

Article on the metaverse, Design IP

UX research newsletter on LinkedIn

MAURO Usability Science blog

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Reggie Murphy is passionate about creating a human-centered world. He is a 20-year veteran of the UX Research and Design space and currently leads the Creation and Conversations Research team on Twitter.  Before Twitter, Reggie built and led the client experience research team at Vanguard. He also led research teams at Meta (formerly Facebook) who helped build Facebook's Camera Effects Platform, Facebook Groups, and Workplace. Before Meta, Reggie led research and design engagements for Electronic Ink (now Capgemini) as a Principal Research Consultant working with clients such as J.P. Morgan Chase, UnitedHealth Group, and Penske.

In this episode, Reggie shared great insights on Human-Centered Research and the different ways to understand and empathize with the user? We then discussed the various frameworks for human-centered research and how research is both an art and science; how to balance this combination while capturing in-depth insights. In the latter part, we discussed how to focus on insights gained from the user research to synthesize and make it accessible across the board.

Takeaways- What is human-centered design? How to empathize with the users? Different ways to capture deeper insights. 

Book Recommendations by Reggie Murphy 

The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman

Don't Make Me Think - Steve Krug

Radical Candor - Kim Scott

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Eva Deckers is a design leader and design strategist. At present, she is the Director of Data-Enabled Design at Philips Experience Design, where she leads a team of designers at the cutting edge of integrating design, data, and AI. Eva holds a Ph.D. in human-centered AI and translates her ideas into the health technology context. As a strategist, she supports her organization in shaping and implementing customer-driven strategies, ensuring strategy always starts from the benefit you will deliver. She is passionate about using the power of design, data, and AI to make a difference in the health and wellbeing of people.

In this episode, Eva shared great insights on Data Enabled Design and how data could be used as creative material. We then discussed the different frameworks for data-enabled design and how we could take the aid of data to design sustainable and ethical products. In the latter part, we spoke on how individuals could implement and scale the data-enabled design model across the organization, enabling data to drive all major design decisions.

Takeaways- What is data enabled design, How to design ethical products with data, Data in design as a creative process. 

Resources Recommendations by Eva Deckers

Things We Could Design: For More Than Human-Centered Worlds - Ronald Wakkary

Keynote Presentations of Prof.Kees Overbeeke

Sir Ken Robinson Ted talk 

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Nur Karadeniz is a design leader in human-centered services and systems. With a deep passion for shaping new technologies and delivering value for humanity, Nur helps organizations achieve sustainable transformations and leverage new technologies for better use. Over the last decade, Nur has set up award-winning innovation teams for Fjord, Accenture, and Wongdoody of Infosys and leading global innovation capabilities for large organizations. She is currently authoring a book, System Design Practice, and teaching the topic at multiple universities in Europe.

In this episode, Nur shared great insights on System Design Methodology, how to build system design maps, and the frameworks to follow to design innovative and sustainable products. We then discussed how designers could utilize the power of system design to bring practical and scalable ideas to life.

Takeaways- What is system design, How to conduct system design workshops, How to identify and solve problems beyond systems. 

Nur's Upcoming Book - System Design Practice

Books Recommendations by Nur Karadeniz

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Cracked it! - Bernard Garrette 

Solving Complex Problems

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Rich McCoy is a highly experienced creative leader. He is passionate about his work and has led teams for Trade Me and Nationwide Building Society. His creative endeavors have seen him working at celebrated agencies such as AKQA, LBi, Isobar, and Saatchi & Saatchi. He is currently contracting for Air France/KLM via Isobar Paris. He is also running his art practice, a vegan cooking photoblog, and mentoring a new generation of creatives.

In this episode, Rich shared great insights on lean design practices and their frameworks. We then spoke on the different ways of scaling lean practices across organizations without compromising the quality of deliverables and how lean practices help rapid innovation and find the right product-market fit. 

Takeaways:- What is lean design practices, How to cultivate a lean mindset, How to scale lean across an organization. 

Books Recommendations by Rich McCoy

Oh, the places you’ll go by Dr. Seuss

The Lord of the Rings by TRR Tolkien

Zen the art of Simple living by Shunmyo Mason

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Afshin Mehin is the founder of Card79, a creative studio based in San Francisco and Vancouver, helping companies give form to the future. Consistently blurring the boundaries between our digital and physical lives, he’s worked with clients ranging from startups such as Neuralink and Noon Home to large organizations such as Amazon, Lululemon, and Ford. Before setting up Card79, Afshin worked for design studios such as IDEO and Whipsaw in the Bay Area, designers such as BarberOsgerby and Terence Conran in London, and research Labs such as M.I.T.’s Media Lab Europe in Dublin.

In this episode, Afshin shared great insights on industrial design, how different it is from product design, and the frameworks to follow to explore ideas for manufacturing a product and reframing problems as opportunities. We then discussed various ways to evaluate product safety, appearance, and function to determine if a design is practical. In the latter part, he spoke on conveying a narrative behind a design to more oversized holders and audiences.

Takeaways:- What is Industrial design, How to reframe problems as opportunities, and What different frameworks to explore ideas and bring them to vision.

Design by numbers - John Maeda

The Essential Rumi - Book by Rumi

White Teeth - Zadie Smith 

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Brigette Metzler is the ResearchOps Lead at the Australian government Department of Agriculture, Water, and Environment. From 2017-2020, Brigette led the user research library at Services Australia. Alongside chairing several government communities of practice, she is also the co-chair of the ResearchOps Community, a global community of people discussing ResearchOps — the people, mechanisms, and strategies for scaling research. She also hosts The ResearchOps Podcast, where she does fireside chats, which is wide-ranging but focused on talking about all things ResearchOps.

In this episode, Brigette shared great insights on ResearchOps and its importance; we then spoke on the framework for ResearchOps? And how to get started with it and what are the eight pillars and common components of ResearchOps. Later we discussed how researchers could implement and scale ResearchOps in their companies or institutions. Brigette also shared incredible knowledge on research libraries and knowledge management.  

Takeaways- What is ResearchOps, What is the framework of ResearchOps, What are research libraries.

Books Recommended by Brigette Metzler

Pace Layering

The Clock of the Long Now, by Stewart Brand

Research Practice by Gregg Bernstein (has an essay on ResearchOps by me)

Build Better Products by Laura Klein

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This podcast aims to make design education accessible to all. Nodes of Design is a non-profit and self-sponsored initiative by Tejj.