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Designing for Billions, Finding Joy in the Work, and Conviction in Design, with Josh Swattridge (Microsoft; ex-Google, Booking.com, ZOE)
Josh is a super designer who believes the best ideas come from collaboration and play. Over his career, he’s worked across agencies and tech companies such as Google, ...
Taste, Craft, and Design in the Age of AI, with Avi Ashkenazi (ex Samsung & Shopify, now at Deel)
Avi Ashkenazi is a design leader who’s spent his career moving between hardware, software, and strategy—always focused on how teams turn ideas into real products. He’s...
Sketching with AI, Shipping with Care, and Avoiding Work Slop, with JB Chaykowsky (ex Intuit, now at Redpin)
J.B. Chaykowsky is a design and product leader with over two decades of experience spanning architecture, technology, and fintech. He spent more than 10 years at Intui...
Persuading Stakeholders, Gaining Influence, and Levelling up Your Design Career, With Ryan Scott (ex Airbnb, Doordash, Salesforce)
Ryan is the founder of Accelerate Design Company. He's a Product and Design leader who brought food photography, live-order tracking, and remote driver training to Doo...
Doug Powell on Creating the Conditions for Designers to Do Great Work (ex IBM, Expedia, AIGA)
Doug has been in the Design world for 30 years and is well known for his role as VP of Design at IBM, where he oversaw IBM's design practice, design career and leaders...
Dan Tase on the Challenges of Running a Design Studio (ex Just Eat, Burberry, Fresha)
Dan is a seasoned designer with over 20 years of experience in leading teams at companies such as Farfetch, Just Eat, Wonderbly, and Fresha. Until very recently Dan ra...
Dan Makoski on Compassion and Putting Design at the Core of Business (Ex Walmart, Lloyd’s, Google, Microsoft)
Dan is a seasoned design executive who's led teams at Microsoft, Google, UnitedHealth Group, Walmart, and Lloyd's, among others. From working on the Surface Tablet, st...
Deep Dive Into Experimentation With Lea Samrani (ex Bumble, Badoo, Uptime)
Lea is a Product & Growth Consultant with a massive proven track record of helping companies get traction. Today we talk about experimentation frameworks, how to build...
How to Approach Your Job Search and Build Relationships at Work, With Maria Pentkovski (Turo, Upwork, Evernote)
Maria is a Product Design Leader at Turo and Founder of Careercoach.design. In this episode get to talk about the rise of the Player-Coach Designer, about building bet...
How to Influence Through Communication, With Alastair Simpson (VP of Design at Dropbox)
Alastair Simpson is a design leader and mentor, serving as VP of Design at Dropbox. Prior to Dropbox, Alastair was Head of Design at Atlassian, where he helped scale t...
Speaking the Language of Stakeholders and Working Better With Product, with Sean O’Neill (ex Amazon, Tesco, GfK)
Sean has spent the past 25 years at the intersection of commerce, consumer behaviour, and data-driven feedback loops. This included working for Tesco, GfK, and two lon...
Tom Scott on Building Your Network and the Rise of the Player-Coach Designer
We're switching gears a little from Design and catch up with Tom Scott, who's sharing his thoughts on building and using your network for your job search, the rise of ...
Monzo’s Nate Langley on the Five Pillars to Discuss During Interviews
We're launching season 3 together with Nate Langley (Monzo), talking about how constraints breed creativity, the five pillars you want to touch on in interviews, and t...
Microsoft's Jamie Young on Storytelling and the Need for Designers to Evolve
Jamie shares with us his thoughts on the evolution of the design role, the need to be a good storyteller, and about staying an individual contributor vs. moving into m...
Alex Cuthbert of Gojek on Leading Design Organisations
Get your notebooks out for this conversation, because Alex is sharing all about his experience leading design organisations, and about his management style, and about ...
Google’s Dean Hudson on Making Design More Transparent and Putting Your Best Foot Forward in Your Job Search
Dean shares with us his thoughts on how you can put your best foot forward during your job search and how you can make design more transparent through relationship bui...
Ioana Teleanu on Design Education and Speaking the Stakeholder's Language
On this episode I talk to Ioana about the importance of speaking your stakeholders' language, how you can learn from her career trajectory, and about design education....
Roger Rohatgi on Value Frameworks and Working as a Global Head of Design for BP
Roger shares with us the value framework his team uses to quantify design and talks about the 'invisible' work of a design leader.Connect with RogerLinkedInSelected li...
Spotify’s Leonardo de la Rocha on Building Relationships Through Transparency and Being Data-Driven
This is an insights-packed conversation around how to build better relationships at work, how to use data to your advantage, and about design ethics.Connect with Leona...
Megan Dell of 99designs on UX Research and Designing for a Global Audience
Megan shared how the entire 99designs team is involved in research, the challenges of designing for a global audience, and parallels between sports and work.Connect wi...