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 what we can learn from the Golden State Warriors.

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 a facilitation superpower.

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 connect humans at scale.

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.

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, women in design, and failing fast versus learning fast.

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 familiar; and how, at its most basic level, AI is shortcutting user input.

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 value as a strategic competitive advantage.

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 "Designing for the Internet of Things," September 15, 2016. In our chat, Kuniavsky talks about designing for the IoT, service design, and the mindshift needed to design for ecosystems.

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 a speaker at the upcoming O'Reilly online conference "Designing for the Internet of Things," September 15, 2016. In our chat, Charlier talks about designing for the IoT, design's responsibility, and the importance of team dynamics.

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 loses his sight), how chatbots might just make us better listeners, and principles for designing the best conversational UIs.