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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...
Ed Vinicombe of BT on Running a Design Organisation and Building Relationships at Work
Ed talks about the behind-the-scenes work of a design leader, ways of building relationships, and his thoughts on design education.Connect with EdLinkedIn, Website, Me...
Salesforce’s Nati Asher: Standing Out During Your Job Search
Our conversation was centered around linking Design with the wider business efforts and round hiring – how to stand out, how to create a better portfolio, and what to ...
Shopify's David Standen: Experimenting Your Way to a Better Product
David shares with us his framework for experimentation and how to build trust with your product team. We also talk about the crossover of skills between entrepreneurs ...
Conor Ward: Culture Change and Enterprise Design
Conor and I talk about how designers can prove their value in larger companies, why working in silos is a thing of the past, and how to transition from a design leader...
Jane Austin: On Design Leadership and the Role of a Designer
Jane and I talk about her opinions of what's the most crucial aspect of being a design leader, quantifying the value of our design work, and what we can do to support ...
Rochelle Dancel: The Importance of Avoiding the God Complex
Rochelle and I talk about why being a designer is a huge responsibility, why it's important to understand what matters to people outside of the design team, and how to...
Olivier Cottin: The Contrast Between Consumer and Enterprise Design
Olivier and I talk about the difference between designing consumer products vs. enterprise software, and how advocating for Design in organisations is supposed to be a...
Tommy Toner: Curiosity & Design in Larger Organisations
On today's show Tommy and I discuss what separates successful designers from the less successful ones, the two viable career choices for creatives, and what he's looki...
Cassius Kiani: Learning How to Learn & the Challenges of Leadership
Cassius and I talk about why it's important to learn how to learn, the challenges of moving into leadership, and why asking questions is key to solving problems. Conne...
Rick Veronese: The Journey to Becoming a Success Freelancer
I talk to Rick about his hustle of becoming a designer, how to deal with tricky client situations, and what are the steps to becoming a successful freelancer.Connect w...
Rafa Prada: Collaboration and Design in Different Organisations
Rafa and I talk about the blind spots of design education, what's the first thing he does when he takes on a new client, and how design is thought of in different orga...
Intuit's Jiri Jerabek: How to Evolve as a Designer
Jiri is a Design Manager at Intuit, the maker of QuickBooks, TurboTax, and Mint.com. In today's episode he talks about doing research when there's not enough time, tra...
Google's Austin Knight: Why Understanding Economics Is Important for Designers
Austin is a designer at Google and previously the first UX Designer at HubSpot. We talk about the importance of economics as a designer, why the change to distributed ...