Christian Vasile
🎙️ Host & Growth Product Designer
Appears in 28 Episodes
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...
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...
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 ...