The next wave in commerce is ubiquitous transactions. Rami Banna should know, he’s Product Lead for Commerce at Stripe, the payments infrastructure powering millions of companies around the globe. Rami has a unique background as a product leader –– spanning semiconductors, medical devices, web search, and content creation as he’s led product teams at Google and was the principal architect at Cochlear hearing implants. From what’s next at brick and mortar to virtual goods and digital money in the metaverse, Rami talks about the future of commerce and shares valuable lessons on leading product teams too.

The future of fitness is smart, personalized, and adaptive. And the team designing this new movement is at Tonal, the world’s smartest home gym and personal trainer. Nina Samarguliani, former Senior Director of Product Design at Tonal, joins the show to discuss designing for healthy habits, the value of strength training for your work and personal life, the power of design principles, and why a purpose-driven career, especially these days, matters so much.

A bold new financial system deserves a brave new brand. In our premiere episode of Season 2, Steve Kalifowitz, Chief Marketing Officer at Crypto.com, the world’s fastest growing cryptocurrency application, speaks about the monumental growth of the brand and his path from Emmy Award-winning producer to global brand leader. Steve discusses the future of cryptocurrency, educating users on new technologies, the right time to engage with agencies, and advice for brands taking their first steps into Web3 and digital currency.

We’re gearing up for a brand new season of the show. Bringing you even more lessons from leaders that are reshaping business today –– with guests from Meta, Spotify, The New York Times, Crypto.com, and more. Short, powerful conversations to help you and your teams prepare for tomorrow’s ever-changing world today. It’s all coming in the second season of the Webby Award-nominated series –– Now What? by Wix. Subscribe and follow the show to get new episodes very soon.

It’s a special announcement from Now What? podcast. We’re nominated for a Webby Award! The Webbies celebrate the best of the internet and we’re so honored to be selected. We’re bringing you this special message to ask for your VOTE –– because you can help us win the People’s Voice Award. Go to http://wbby.co/pod-creativity to vote and share with friends and colleagues. Voting ends this Thursday, April 21, 2022. Thanks so much for listening and for your support. Oh, and there’s so much more to come… very soon.

After a year of unparalleled change in our society and the way we use technology, this first season of Now What? podcast had us speaking with leaders in design, development, eCommerce, and the agency world about how their teams and customers are reacting to this new operating system at work and in life. Guests from WarnerMedia, GitHub, The New York Times, Medium, Red Antler, and R/GA shared incredible insights and lessons about solving big problems, the entrepreneurial refresh, the future of online shopping, finding clarity to circumvent failure, designer / developer relationships, and what’s next in user experience design. Sit back, for highlights from Season 1 of Now What? podcast and stay tuned… There's so much more to come.

Developer, author, artist and educator Miriam Suzanne has spent her career designing the future of the internet. She builds websites, apps and is focused on expanding the boundaries of the technology that determines how we interact with the web. The co-founder of OddBird web agency and Invited Expert on the W3C CSS Working Group talks to Now What? about why the internet looks the way it does, why designers and developers need to move in lockstep and how the future of the web will be built around inclusivity and respect. 

Alexis Lloyd leads product design at the intersection of publishing and technology and she’s spent her career working on future-forward solutions for readers to discover the content they want. Alexis is the co-founder of Ethical Futures Lab, where she aims to positively influence the future of AI and technology platforms, and she’s worked as a creative technology leader at The New York Times focused on the future of news, before joining Axios and then Automattic to transform their design practices. As VP of product design at Medium, Alexis is dedicated to the role technology can play in evolving user-centered design when it comes to the written word, and how platforms like Medium can create experiences that support interdependent systems and society as a whole. We talk to Alexis about the power and peril of the creator economy, how Medium is building relationships between readers and writers and why artificial intelligence might just supercharge human creativity.

Paul Turzio is using data to upend the prevailing wisdom about how and why customers fall in love with their favorite brands. The SVP of Data & Marketing Sciences at R/GA recently led a global survey that asked 16,000 customers about their relationships with brands. The findings and subsequent report titled The Power of Brand Relationship Design have shifted the assumptions surrounding everything from marketing technology (MarTech) to the role of personalization in turning one-time customers into loyal fans. In this episode, we talk to Paul about conducting the right experiments with MarTech, the importance of post-purchase experiences and why brands need to keep their promises to customers.

Richard Jennings has seen the disruptive power of technology firsthand. The veteran design leader spent much of his career in the music and media industries, where he’s watched technology change the shape of business seemingly overnight. Witnessing all the ways people consume, discover and enjoy entertainment change so rapidly has had an indelible impression on Richard –– and it shaped his approach to leading design teams at HBO and WarnerMedia. In this episode, we talk to Richard about where he finds inspiration, his work in making the design industry more inclusive and what organizational evolution looks like during a global pandemic.