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• 08.17.2017

  Julie Stanford on vetting designs through rapid experimentation

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Julie Stanford, founder and principal of user experience agency Sliced Bread Design. We talk about how to get in the rapid experimentation mindset, the design thinking process, and how to get...

  
• 07.27.2017

  John Whalen on using brain science in design

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with John Whalen, chief experience officer at 10 Pearls, a digital development company focused on mobile and web apps, enterprise solutions, cyber security, big data, IoT,  and cloud and dev ops. We...

  
• 07.13.2017

  Cheryl Platz on designing the Amazon Echo Look

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Cheryl Platz, senior designer at Microsoft for the Azure Portal and Marketplaces. We talk about the challenges of working on a top-secret design project, the research behind Amazon's Echo Look, the...

  
• 06.08.2017

  Cynthia Savard Saucier on design at Shopify

  This week, I sit down with Cynthia Savard Saucier, director of design at Shopify and author of Tragic Design. Saucier also is keynoting at Velocity in New York, October 1-4, 2017. We talk about moving from working in design to...

  
• 05.25.2017

  Travis Lowdermilk and Jessica Rich on building a customer-driven culture at Microsoft

  This week, I sit down with Travis Lowdermilk senior UX designer at Microsoft, and Jessica Rich, UX researcher at Microsoft; Lowdermilk and Rich are also co-authors of the Customer Driven Playbook. We talk about why failing fast is not always...

  
• 05.11.2017

  Matt LeMay on the four principles of product management

  This week, I sit down with Matt LeMay, product coach, consultant, and author of Product Management in Practice. We talk about the four guiding principles of product management, what he has learned about himself as a product manager, and how...

  
• 04.27.2017

  Nate Walkingshaw on capturing the approaches and techniques of successful product managers

  This week, I sit down with Nate Walkingshaw, chief experience officer of Pluralsite and co-author of Product Leadership. We talk about hard and soft leadership skills, building cross-disciplinary product teams, and why it’s important to use the layover test when...

  
• 04.13.2017

  David Farkas on how to approach user research

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with David Farkas, associate director of user experience at EPAM and co-author of the book UX Research. We talk about his book, why everyone should learn to conduct research, and how to...

  
• 03.30.2017

  Jonathan Shariat on the importance of identifying your ethical design red line

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Jonathan Shariat, senior interaction designer at Intuit and co-author of the forthcoming book Tragic Design. We talk about his new book and survey some use cases that point a spotlight on the...

  
• 03.16.2017

  Noah Iliinsky on design at Amazon

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Noah Iliinsky, senior UX architect at Amazon’s AWS group, co-author of Designing Data Visualizations, and co-editor of Beautiful Visualization. We talk about how design is organized at Amazon, 17 keys to...

  
• 03.02.2017

  Ben Yoskovitz on lean product development, using metrics to build successful products and companies

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Ben Yoskovitz, investor, entrepreneur, and former VP of product at VarageSale and at GoInstant. We talk about using metrics in product development and why anyone building anything new needs to have...

  
• 02.16.2017

  Simon Endres on designing in an arms race of high-tech materials

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Simon Endres, creative director and partner at Red Antler. We talk about working from a single idea, how Red Antler is helping transform product categories, and the importance of having a...

  
• 02.02.2017

  Kat Holmes on Microsoft’s human-led approach to tackling society’s challenges

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Kat Holmes, principal design director, inclusive design at Microsoft. We talk about what she looks for in designers, working on the right problems to solve, and why both inclusive and universal...

  
• 01.19.2017

  Randy Hunt on design at Etsy

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Randy Hunt, VP of design at Etsy. We talk about the culture at Etsy, why it’s important to understand the materials you are designing with, and why humility is your most...

  
• 01.05.2017

  Andra Keay on robots crossing the chasm

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Andra Keay, managing director of Silicon Valley Robotics. We talk about the evolution of robots, applications that solve real problems, and what constitutes a good robot.

  
• 12.22.2016

  Jay Trimble on user-centered design, Agile, and design thinking at NASA

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Jay Trimble, mission operations and ground data system manager, for the Resource Prospector Lunar Rover Mission at NASA. We talk about applying Agile, adopting design thinking and user-centered design, and what...

  
• 12.08.2016

  Dan Mall on designing with friends

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Dan Mall, founder and director of Superfriendly. We talk about what skills designers should learn, pricing your work, and why getting to know yourself is just as important to becoming a...

  
• 11.23.2016

  Steph Hay on designing for Alexa

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Steph Hay, head of content, culture, and AI design at Capital One. We talk about designing for voice interactions, connecting with remote team members, and the importance of baking humanity into...

  
• 11.10.2016

  Cathy Pearl on designing conversational interfaces

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Cathy Pearl, director of user experience at Sensely and author of Designing Voice User Interfaces. We talk about defining conversations, the growing tools ecosystems, and how voice has lessened our screen...

  
• 10.27.2016

  Danielle Malik on mentoring the next generation of designers

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Danielle Malik, designer, owner, and mentor at Design Equation. We talk about mentoring the next generation of designers, what she is learning from recent design grads, and the role fear can...

  
• 10.13.2016

  Kristin Skinner on designing design organizations

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Kristin Skinner, managing director at Adaptive Path, head of design management at Capital One, and co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs.  We talk about managing design teams, scaling design, and...

  
• 09.29.2016

  Tom Greever on articulating design decisions

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Tom Greever, UX director at Bitovi and author of Articulating Design Decisions. We talk about how to effectively explain your design decisions, avoiding the CEO button, and how saying 'yes' is...

  
• 09.15.2016

  Paul Adams on Intercom’s mission to re-humanize customer service

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Paul Adams, VP of product at Intercom. Before joining Intercom, Adams had stints at Dyson, Google, and Facebook. We talk about his career path, building design teams, and Intercom’s goal to...

  
• 09.01.2016

  Kristian Simsarian on design’s next big challenge

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Kristian Simsarian, founder and chair of the undergraduate design program at California College of the Arts. We talk about design education, design thinking, and the need for more wisdom.

  
• 08.18.2016

  Doreen Lorenzo on design becoming the core DNA of an organization

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with former president of Frog, Doreen Lorenzo. Lorenzo is currently the director for the Center of Integrated Design at the University of Texas at Austin. We talk about the design in education,...

  
• 08.04.2016

  Giles Colborne on how AI is reinventing design

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Giles Colborne, designer, author, and managing director of cxpartners. We talk about how AI is reinventing design and the roles of designers; the balance of creating something that is different but...

  
• 07.21.2016

  Jim Kalbach on mapping experiences

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Jim Kalbach, designer, instructor, and author of Mapping Experiences. We talk about the relationship between design and design thinking, how to get started with mapping experiences, and the notion of shared...

  
• 07.07.2016

  Mike Kuniavsky on the mindshift needed to design for ecosystems

  This week's episode of the Design Podcast features a conversation I had with Mike Kuniavsky last fall. Kuniavsky is a user experience designer, researcher, and author currently working at Parc. He's also a speaker at the upcoming O'Reilly online conference...

  
• 06.23.2016

  Martin Charlier on progressive approaches to IoT design

  This week's episode of the Design Podcast features a conversation I had with Martin Charlier last fall. These days, Charlier is a freelance design consultant and co-founder at Rain Cloud. He's also a contributing author to Designing Connected Products and...

  
• 06.09.2016

  Chris Maury on voice-first design

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with designer Chris Maury. Maury is the founder of Conversant Labs, working on projects intended to help improve the lives of the blind. We talk about designing for the blind (as he...

  
• 05.26.2016

  Max Burton on what we can learn from Nike and Disney's approach to design

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Max Burton, founder of Matter. Before starting his own firm, Burton spent the last two decades at places like Frog, Nike, and Smart Design. We talk about the future of wearables,...

  
• 05.25.2016

  Carl Bass on design tools

  In this episode of the Hardware podcast, we talk with Carl Bass, president and CEO of Autodesk. He’s an articulate thinker on algorithmic design, collaborative tools, and the nature of craft, and we talked for nearly two hours when we...

  
• 05.12.2016

  C Todd Lombardo on design sprints

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with C Todd Lombardo, chief design strategist at Fresh Tilled Soil and adjunct professor at IE Business. Lombardo is co-author of the recently released book Design Sprint. We talk about the relationship...

  
• 04.28.2016

  Ben Yoskovitz on using metrics to build successful products and companies

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Ben Yoskovitz, investor, entrepreneur, and former VP of product at VarageSale and at GoInstant. We talk about using metrics in product development and why anyone building anything new needs to have...

  
• 04.14.2016

  Scott Murray on designing, coding, and data visualization

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Scott Murray, designer, creative coder, and artist who writes software to create data visualizations. Murray is the author of Interactive Data Visualization for the Web and the forthcoming book Creative Coding...

  
• 03.31.2016

  Dylan Field on designing for designers

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Dylan Field, founder of Figma and former Thiel Fellow. We talk about the problem Figma aims to solve for designers and how they’re measuring success. Field also talks about how they...

  
• 03.17.2016

  Joel Marsh on the science of design

  In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Joel Marsh, designer and author of UX for Beginners. We talk about design as a scientific way of thinking, what happens when you try to cash a check in...

  
• 03.03.2016

  Simon King on design at IDEO

  In this week's Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Simon King, director of Carnegie Mellon University's Design Center. King is the author of Understanding Industrial Design. We talk about team dynamics and culture at IDEO, extending design education to...

  
• 02.18.2016

  Scott Hurff on designing at Tinder

  In this week's Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Scott Hurff, product manager and lead designer at Tinder, Inc. Hurff is the author of Designing Products People Love. In this episode, we talk about how Tinder approaches design, avoiding...

  
• 02.04.2016

  Tanya Kraljic on designing for voice at Nuance

  In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Tanya Kraljic, UX manager and principal designer at Nuance Communications. Kraljic recently spoke at OReilly’s inaugural Design Conference (you can find the complete video compilation of the event here). In...

  
• 01.21.2016

  Chrissie Brodigan on user research at GitHub

  In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Chrissie Brodigan, manager of user experience research at GitHub. Brodigan will be be speaking at OReilly’s inaugural Design Conference. In this episode, we talk about user research and product development...

  
• 01.07.2016

  Wesley Yun on GoPro’s design approach

  In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Wesley Yun, director of user experience on the hardware side at GoPro. Yun will be be speaking at O’Reilly’s inaugural Design Conference. In this episode, we talk about managing and...

  
• 12.23.2015

  Kathryn McElroy on IBM’s design approach

  In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Kathryn McElroy, author of Prototyping for Designers and design lead on IBM's Watson team. McElroy will be be speaking at O’Reilly’s inaugural Design Conference in January. In this episode, we talk...

  
• 12.10.2015

  Robert Brunner on designing and building great products

  Our expectations for industrial design have risen immeasurably in the last decade. Think of any piece of consumer electronics from 2005—a BlackBerry, for instance—and you’ll think of something that was encased in plastic painted silver to imitate metal, with a...

  
• 12.10.2015

  Bob Baxley on Apple and Pinterest, company cultures, and the designer shortage

  In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Bob Baxley, who is keynoting at OReilly’s inaugural Design Conference. He compares cultures at Apple and Pinterest, talks about competition in the design playing field, and addresses the designer shortage.

  
• 11.25.2015

  Vanessa Cho on GoPro’s design approach

  In this week's Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Vanessa Cho, head of UX and research for the software and services group at GoPro. Cho, along with her hardware colleague Wesley Yun, will be speaking at O'Reilly's inaugural...

  
• 11.12.2015

  Dan Brown on mindsets, managing designers, and mastering impostor syndrome

  In this week's Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Dan Brown, designer at Eightshapes and author of Designing Together and Communicating Design. Brown is speaking at OReilly's inaugural Design Conference, January 20-22, 2016, in San Francisco. We talk about...

  
• 10.29.2015

  Adam Connor on culture, codes of conduct, and critiques

  In this week's Design Podcast episode, I chat it up with Adam Connor, designer at MadPow and author of Discussing Design with Aaron Irizarry — Connor also is speaking at O'Reilly's inaugural Design Conference. We talk about company culture and...

  
• 10.15.2015

  Airbnb’s design approach

  In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I chat it up with Katie Dill, head of experience design at Airbnb. Dill talks about Airbnb’s values; the relationship between design, engineering, and product management; and what Airbnb looks for when hiring. Dill...

  
• 10.01.2015

  Data, design, and intuition

  In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I sit down with design researcher and data scientist Pamela Pavliscak. Pavliscak is the author of Data-Informed Product Design, a free report from O’Reilly, and will be speaking at OReilly’s inaugural design conference. Pavliscak...