The Way of Product with Caden Damiano

The Way of Product with Caden Damiano

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The Way of Product with Caden Damiano episodes

  • 68 - #Shorts — How to set yourself up for success as a designer

    An audio essay on critical thinking



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    25 min
  • 67 - #Shorts — The difference between complex and complicated

    Why product work is about making complex things complicated. 



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    15 min
  • 66 - Reframing How You Look at Diversity in Design and Tech - Terrell Cobb @ Microsoft

    In this episode I interviewed Terell Cobb, design leader at Microsoft and active leader in the Black UX community about diversity in design.



    He eloquently reframed the diversity argument in a way that really resonated with and made sense to me:



    "Its about exposing future designers to successful people that look like them, so they know what's possible in their career"


    Connect with Terrell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/terellcobb/



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    58 min
  • 65 - Designing for Large Ecosystems - Patrica Dwyer @ Intuit

    In this episode, I chat with Patricia Dwyer, about designing for ecosystems. 


    Patricia is a content designer on Intuit's Platform Design team, and shares what the design challenges are in a platform environment. 


    Anyone interested in how design contributes to huge architectural efforts should give this a listen. 


    Connect with Patricia: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patriciabdwyer/



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    55 min
  • 64 - Designing for Web 3.0 - Tian Zhao

    Let's talk about the next iteration of the internet. Web 3.0.



    In this episode, I chat with Tian Zhao about what kind of products and experiences will be possible with mass adoption of distributed computing. 


    Connect with Tian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tntyzhao/



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    49 min
  • 63 - Designers, You've Always Had a Seat at the Table - Drew Bridewell || Head of Product and Design at GrowthDay and Founder of Next Level UX

    Drew Bridewell is the head of design and product at GrowthDay. and is the CEO and Founder of Next Level UX an education company designed to help designers level up their, planning, systems thinking, and soft skills so they can be a better contributor to their teams and be high performing UX designer overall. 


    We talk about what it takes to actually solve complex problems, how to map complex problems and how to effectively plan your work for maximum impact. 


    Find next level UX here: https://www.nextlevelux.me/



    Connect with Drew:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/abridewell/



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    56 min
  • 62 - How to Define "Good" Design - Johnathan Shariat @ Google

    In this episode, I get together with Johnathan Shariat, author of "Tragic Design", cohost of the "Design Review" podcast, and interaction designer at Google.



    We chat about the concept of his book "Tragic Design" and the consequences, big and small, poor design brings to people. 


    Connect Johnathan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanshariat/



    Buy Tragic Design: https://www.tragicdesign.com/



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    1 hr 6 min
  • 61 - Stop Evaluating Product Designers like we’re Visual Designers - Tait Wayland

    In this interview I chat with Tait Wayland about how the industry evaluates designers.



    Tait recently wrote an article that resonated with a lot of people, including me,  called, "Stop Evaluating Product Designers like we’re Visual Designers"

    on how hiring managers give preferential treatment to visual design over other disciplines like interaction design and systems thinking. 


    Find the Article here: https://uxdesign.cc/stop-evaluating-product-designers-like-were-visual-designers-a470cff49990

    Connect with Tait: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taitwayland/



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    1 hr 1 min
  • 60 - Bringing an Engineer Mindset to Designing Products - Aaron Moncur

    Aaron Moncur is the owner of Pipeline Design and Engineering. A physical product design shop.



    In this episode we talk about physical product design, the Parallels it has with the digital world,

    and picking what kind of work you do depending on your interests. 



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    48 min

About The Way of Product with Caden Damiano

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Every week I publish two conversations with people who build in technology and product. Each one comes with a narrative essay that puts you inside the conversation through my eyes.