Design To Be Conversation
74 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe Design To Be Conversation podcast is a series of conversations with design leaders about how investing in their EQ has impacted their design careers. Rachel Weissman, the host of the show, is the Founder of Design To Be, a design leader, an EQ Coach, and a Meditation & Yoga Teacher. As a design leader, she has agency, start-up, and in-house experience most recently working at Google and Salesforce. The purpose of our show is to inspire designers with insightful conversations. Design To Be Conversation is brought to you by Design To Be, a community that elevates designers to become empowered, educated, and effective using EQ-based tools and practices. Visit us at www.designtobe.com.
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Jehad Affoneh: End-to-end experiences vs. org structures
December 22, 2022 20:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBAfter 65 episodes, today’s show is the last episode of our podcast, Design To Be Conversation. There are big shifts happening behind the scenes with Design To Be and closing the chapter on our podcast will allow us to take the proper next steps to what’s ahead. Thank you all for listening. Now, for our final episode! Jehad Affoneh is a design and product leader who's led design, product, and engineering teams most recently at VMware and Splunk. He is currently Chief Design Officer at Toast,...
Andy Vitale: Create space to scale and grow your team
December 14, 2022 16:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBAndy Vitale is a design executive, educator, speaker, and co-host of the Surfacing Podcast. He is currently the Executive Vice President of Design at Rocket Companies, where he leads a team focused on transforming the lending and finance industry, through a human-centered approach, to provide the best experience for millions of people. Throughout his career, he has built, scaled, and led teams that elevate the role of Design as an organizational competence and a competitive advantage. We di...
Amy Thibodeau: Balance speed and quality to achieve optimal velocity
December 07, 2022 10:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBAmy Thibodeau is the Chief Design Officer at Gusto, where she empowers designers, researchers, and content strategists who are working on products that connect companies with their employees in a more meaningful way. Previously, Amy was a senior director of UX at Shopify where she led a cross-functional team of over 130 people working on core business products. During her time at Shopify, she also led the launch of the Polaris design system, built the Platform UX team and founded the Design ...
Renato Valdés Olmos: Accelerate your career transitions
November 30, 2022 17:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBRenato Valdés Olmos is an executive, angel investor, and advisor with over two decades of experience serving millions of customers worldwide. He's built products, brands, and organizations in various industries, including artificial intelligence, transportation, healthcare, and productivity tools. Most recently, he served as VP of Product at Pitch, and Head of Design at Grammarly and is currently focusing on being a Dad and investor. We dive into the most important lessons he’s learned thro...
Bob Baxley: Broaden your career horizons
November 15, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBBob Baxley is a design executive, advisor, mentor, and advocate who has built, managed and led UX teams at some of Silicon Valley’s most respected companies. With a career spanning three decades, Bob's work at Apple, Pinterest, Yahoo!, and elsewhere has touched hundreds of millions of users around the world. Currently, Bob serves as the Senior Vice-President of Design at ThoughtSpot, a business intelligence, and data analytics platform. Committed to recruiting and inspiring the next generati...
Parameswaran Venkataraman: The higher you go, the more inner you need to look
November 08, 2022 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBOver the last 25 years, Parameswaran Venkataraman has been in design and innovation leadership roles across companies like IDEO, Tata Digital, Fractal.ai, Dr. Reddy’s and Sapient. Over the last decade, he has been instrumental in setting up and establishing strategic design capabilities & culture in several organizations. Some of the work Param has led at Studio 5B at Dr. Reddy's is now a featured case study in IDEO U’s course on Designing for Change Param is passionate about mindfulness an...
Jesse James Garrett: The key to leadership, authenticity and relationships
November 01, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBJesse James Garrett has been one of the most prominent voices in digital product design for more than 20 years. His career highlights include co-founding the groundbreaking UX consultancy, Adaptive Path; writing the foundational book The Elements of User Experience, whose iconic five-plane model has become a staple of the field; and defining Ajax, the dynamic interaction model that transformed web technology and design in the Web 2.0 era. His work has been published in more than a dozen lang...
Tim Allen: Make your ceiling your floor
October 25, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBTim Allen is the Global Head of Design at Instacart. He leads the global product design, research, content and operations, centered on food access and inclusivity. His focus on fueling human potential is key to building products and cultures that inspire people to do their best work. As an additional outlet for his passion for design thinking, Tim was named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business for 2017. Tim speaks and instructs at schools and events around the country. Pr...
Noah Levin: Innovate stale practices by effectively learning from others
October 18, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBNoah Levin is a Senior Product Design Director at Figma. His job includes a variety of things, like attracting and retaining talented designers, setting and sharing context, providing actionable feedback, and helping facilitate a healthy environment for design in the company. Before Figma, he led design teams at ClassPass and Google, taught designers to code as an advisor at Framer, and built a cuff-mounted digital assistant for astronauts at NASA. He studied Human-Computer Interaction at Ca...
Sameera Kapila: Create inclusive spaces within the design community
October 11, 2022 19:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBSameera Kapila is a designer, educator, manager, and writer who works as a senior product designer at Netlify. Born in India, raised on the Dutch island of Curaçao, and living in Austin, TX, Sameera has held roles in agencies, educational institutions, and consultancies ranging from individual contributor to executive leadership, student to educator, and everything in between. She writes and speaks about web and product design, diversity, inclusion and equity, tech education, and design rese...
Sarah Doody: Treat your career like a product
October 04, 2022 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBIn today’s episode, I chat with Sarah Doody. Sarah is the Founder & CEO of Career Strategy Lab, a UX career accelerator that helps UX and product professionals navigate their job search and get hired without applying to hundreds of jobs. Professionals that have worked with Sarah have landed jobs at Amazon, Blue Origin, Home Depot, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, and more and on average, they increase their salaries by 40%. She is also a User Experience designer, researcher, and educator. Having...
Dan Szuc and Josephine Wong: How to use Practice Spotting as a tool to shift culture
May 31, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBIn today's episode, I speak with Dan Szuc and Josephine Wong. Dan is a co-founder and principal at Apogee and co-founder of Make Meaningful Work, as well as the co-founder of UX Hong Kong. He has been involved in the UX field and based in Hong Kong for over 20 years. Dan has lectured about user-centered design globally. He has co-authored three books including Global UX with Whitney Quesenbery, The Usability Kit with Gerry Gaffney and Make Meaningful Work with Josephine Wong. Josephine ...
Evan Dody: Lead with optimism
May 24, 2022 08:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Evan Dody. Evan is the Head of Design + Creative at Angi (including HomeAdvisor and Handy). He leads Product Design, Brand Creative, UX Research, UX Writing, and DesignOps across the multi-sided home services marketplace. He and his team help homeowners across the country create and care for homes they love, while simultaneously helping local businesses thrive. Prior to Angi, Evan led design teams at Mailchimp and Huge in Brooklyn. He's designed customer-ce...
Fonz Morris: Take a risk to honor yourself
May 17, 2022 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBIn today's episode, I speak with Fonz Morris. Fonz is an entrepreneur and self-taught designer, born in Brooklyn and now based in San Jose. He has worked in tech and design on both coasts of the United States, in Philadelphia, New York, Atlanta, Washington D.C., and California. His belief in the importance of self-driven education continued through his travels through Europe, Central and South America, and South East Asia. Since 2020, Fonz has been the Lead Product Designer at Netflix. Prior...
Andy Budd: How to move from practitioner to leader
May 10, 2022 08:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Andy Budd. Andy is a design leader, conference speaker, start-up advisor & coach. He co-founded Clearleft, the first dedicated UX consultancy in the UK, along with the Leading Design and UX London conferences. He’s a member of the Adobe Design Circle, and has appeared on both the Wired 100 and BIMA 100 lists of influential leaders in tech. He’s currently helping start-up founders make the most of Design in his role as an Expert in Residence at Seedcamp, Europ...
Rachel Weissman x Jayneil Dalal: Lessons from 10 days of silent meditation
May 03, 2022 08:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBThis is our 50th episode of Design To Be Conversation. Thank you all so much for your support – and an extra special thanks to those of you who have been listening since the beginning! Today we’re celebrating by doing something a little bit different. In this episode, our guest host Jayneil Dalal interviews me about my experience with a 10-day silent meditation retreat. Jayneil Dalal is a product designer born in Gujarat, India and polished in Dallas, Texas. He hosts the design MBA podcast...
Malthe Sigurdsson: Own your convictions in order to influence and create impact
April 26, 2022 08:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Malthe Sigurdsson. Malthe has 25 years of experience as a designer and design leader building, scaling, and managing design organizations that deliver beautiful and effective work across multiple disciplines and product categories. He is currently the Chief Design Officer at Handshake, where he is leading product and brand design across the company. At Handshake his goal is to help level up the end-to-end consumer and enterprise experiences and is instrumenta...
Ximena Vengoechea: How to uncover hidden needs in a conversation
April 19, 2022 08:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Ximena Vengoechea. Ximena is a user researcher, writer, and illustrator whose work on personal and professional development has been published in Inc., The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Huffington Post. She is the author of the new book, Listen Like You Mean it: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection (Portfolio/Penguin Random House). She is a contributor at Fast Company and The Muse, and writes Letters from Ximena, a newsletter on tech, culture, career, ...
Susan Weinschenk: Maximize your creativity with brain science
April 12, 2022 08:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Susan Weinschenk. Susan has a Ph.D. in Psychology and is the Chief Behavioral Scientist and CEO at The Team W, Inc, as well as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Susan consults with Fortune 1000 companies, start-ups, governments, and nonprofits, and is the author of several books, including 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People, 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People and How To Get People ...
Indi Young: Make time to listen
April 05, 2022 08:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Indi Young. Indi is a researcher who coaches, writes, and teaches about inclusive product strategy. Her work is rooted in the problem space where the focus is on people, not users. Indi pioneered opportunity maps, mental model diagrams, and thinking styles. Her way of approaching the problem allows teams to truly pay attention to people, without letting cognitive bias and assumptions creep in. Indi has written two books: Practical Empathy and Mental Models....
Jeff Veen: How trust leads to innovation
March 29, 2022 08:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Jeff Veen. Jeff is a Design Partner and Head of Platform at True Ventures, where he spends his time helping founders create better products. He does this as an advisor, as well, for companies like about.me, Medium, and WordPress. Previously, Jeff was VP of Design at Adobe after they acquired Typekit, the company he co-founded and ran as CEO. Jeff was also one of the founding partners of the user experience consulting group Adaptive Path. While there, he led...
Kat Vellos: How to overcome workplace loneliness
March 22, 2022 08:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Kat Vellos. Kat is a connection coach and trusted expert on the power of cultivating meaningful friendships. In her former career as a user experience designer, she researched, designed, and advised on the user experience of countless flows in digital products serving millions of people at companies like Slack and Pandora. With the publication of her books, We Should Get Together and Connected from Afar, Kat turned her background in UX design towards combatin...
Randy Hunt: Find more joy and more truth in your career
March 15, 2022 08:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBIn today's episode, I speak with Randy Hunt. Randy is a multi-hyphenate designer, executive, artist, musician, and writer. Professionally: Randy is Head of Design Strategy at Kraken, a cryptocurrency exchange. He has served as Head of Design at Grab, Head of Design at Artsy, and VP of Design at Etsy. Randy is the author of Product Design for the Web. He also co-founded Supermarket, a curated design marketplace, founded Citizen Scholar Inc., and worked at Milton Glaser Inc. He is an active wr...
Scott Jenson: Ask for what you want and be unattached to the result
March 08, 2022 09:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Scott Jenson. Scott has been doing user interface design and strategic planning for over 30 years. He worked at Apple on System 7, Newton, and the Apple Human Interface guidelines. He was the director of Symbian’s DesignLab, manager of mobile UX for Google, and a creative director at frog design in San Francisco. He was a founding member of the biotech company Color. Scott returned to Google working on the Chrome team in 2013 to work on IoT and Android. In 20...
Chine and Chuba Ezekwesili: Use the Framework of Intention to slow down, give gratitude, and take responsibility
March 01, 2022 09:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Chine and Chuba Ezekwesili. Also known as the Ezeks Twins, Chine and Chuba are interdisciplinary designers, artists, and founders of Akanka, a design studio on a mission to create Heaven on Earth. Akanka achieves this mission by partnering with other visionaries to design and build ventures and movements. These include Future Africa, Stand to End Rape, #FixPolitics, and the School of Politics, Policy, and Governance (SPPG). At Akanka, they have worked with gl...
Mike Gorgone: Adopt the improv mindset of “yes, and…” to grow your EQ
February 22, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Mike Gorgone. Mike is an Associate Director at EY. He is someone who loves being part of a creative, supportive and collaborative design team that builds engaging experiences for digital products at a company that fosters a culture that values design thinking and makes it a priority in how the company runs and solves problems. He currently gets to do all of the above in the Experience Design (XD) Group at EY. The Group is divided into Strategy, Creative, and ...
Ran Segall: How to grow your external self-awareness through feedback
February 15, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Ran Segall. Ran has been a freelance web designer for 17 years — 6 of those as a full-time business owner. He started his career at big advertising and branding agencies, and as a freelancer, has served clients in many industries, including tech startups, social enterprises, and restaurateurs. By developing high-value skills, he scaled his freelance web design business to over $250k in yearly revenue. Since 2015, Ran has been sharing his learnings on his YouT...
Sabrina Hall: How to give feedback that reduces harm
February 08, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Sabrina Hall. Sabrina is a creative leader, product design manager, professor, and writer living in NYC. Currently, she is a Senior Product Design Manager at Etsy. With a career spanning over 14 years, she has collaborated with companies of all sizes. Sabrina is an activist, caring deeply about people and how design impacts others. She is a Board Member for the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) and previously served as co-chair of AIGA NY’s Mentoring program. S...
Terrence Williams: How vulnerability can help you find your path
February 01, 2022 09:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBWe’re excited to be back after a few months' break. We have many inspiring guests in store for you this time around. We’ll be diving into their insightful stories and sharing their actionable advice, so you can invest in your emotional intelligence to become more impactful in your career. In today’s episode, I speak with Terrence Williams. Terrence is a designer, illustrator, and storyteller located in San Francisco, CA. By producing work that encourages and celebrates an individual's auth...
Raquel Breternitz: Manage burnout through intentionality
November 30, 2021 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBToday’s show marks our 36th and final episode of the Design To Be Conversation podcast before we come back in February 2022. Before we dive into our episode for today, I want to take a moment to say thank you. Thank you for listening and supporting Design To Be Conversation and thank you to each of our incredible guests who have made each episode so insightful and impactful. I’m extremely excited for the future of Design To Be Conversation. We have an incredible lineup of guests planned for ...
Bonnie Bakhtiari: How to connect with your clients from a place of rest and purpose
November 23, 2021 09:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Bonnie Bakhtiari. Bonnie is a brand designer and strategist for creative entrepreneurs, as well as a coach for fellow graphic, brand, and web designers. She specializes in crafting high converting, strategic brands for her custom design clients. Bonnie currently teaches fellow designers how to generate consistent income and connect with their ideal clients through the Brand Strategy School, her signature program for designers. We dive into learning how you c...
May-Li Khoe: What it means to manage: Designing teams and cultures for the future
November 16, 2021 15:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with May-Li Khoe. May-Li is an interdisciplinary, quatricultural, twice-immigrant artist-researcher-designer-inventor who combines invention with cultural practices, bright colors, faces-on-things, and glitter. She brings over 20 years of experience in design, including serving as VP of Design at Khan Academy, co-founding two companies (Scribble Together and Sprout, formerly MakeSpace), and recently creating a music and dance toy-game for the new Playdate game pla...
Priya Anant: Learn to build trust and vulnerability with yourself and your team
November 09, 2021 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Priya Anant. Priya is a Senior Director at Google where she has led user-facing teams in fighting spam, abuse and fraud to deliver safe and delightful user experiences. She leads a multi-disciplinary UX team focused on scaling UX and user-centric product development across Search, Assistant, Shopping, Travel, Maps and Payments. Her expertise is in developing end-to-end connected and inclusive consumer experiences by harnessing the power of design systems, to...
Priya Anant: Learn to build trust and vulnerability with yourself and your team
November 09, 2021 09:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Priya Anant. Priya is a Senior Director at Google where she has led user-facing teams in fighting spam, abuse and fraud to deliver safe and delightful user experiences. She leads a multi-disciplinary UX team focused on scaling UX and user-centric product development across Search, Assistant, Shopping, Travel, Maps and Payments. Her expertise is in developing end-to-end connected and inclusive consumer experiences by harnessing the power of design systems, to...
Jon Delman: Navigate failure with kindness and curiosity
November 02, 2021 08:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Jon Delman. Jon is a Director of Product Design at Twitter in San Francisco. He works within the design and research team focused on internal tools and product solutions. Jon offers tactical advice for young designers on how to approach learning by embracing the courage to fail through his article, Let it be a lesson to you, on Medium. He has over 20 years of professional design experience in both agency and in-house environments, working with brands such as ...
Rebecca Brooker: Foster inclusivity by data-driven design and research
October 26, 2021 08:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Rebecca Brooker. Rebecca is a queer woman of color born in Trinidad + Tobago and currently based in Buenos Aires. She is the co-founder of Queer Design Club, the global online community for LGBTQ+ designers where she spearheads the Queer Design Count which is the first and only survey of LGBTQ+ people in design. She’s an art director at Ghost Note Agency and designs across branding, print, and digital. We dive into learning and understanding the challenges o...
Wendy Johansson: Identity’s role in design leadership
October 19, 2021 08:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Wendy Johansson. Wendy is the Head of UX Apprentice Program at Amazon. She is a global product experience leader and entrepreneur focused on the intersection of product and user experience to scale high-performing global teams. She started and built her career as a UX leader at successful early-stage startups, co-founded Wizeline, a global product development company, and served as Global VP of Experience at Publicis Sapient. Wendy champions women and people ...
Jonathan Shariat: Tighten your communication skills by learning how to talk to kids
October 12, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 28.2 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Jonathan Shariat. Jonathan is the co-author of Tragic Design published by O'Reilly. He co-hosts the Design Review podcast, and is currently an Interaction Designer and Accessibility Program Lead at Google. We dive into the importance of communication for designers to convey clarity and solve problems, what communication skills he’s learned from parenting books, tactical ways to build good communication skills by actively listening and asking good questions t...
Brad Frost: Why you should invest in your mental health as a designer
October 05, 2021 08:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Brad Frost. Brad is a web designer, speaker, writer, and consultant based in Pittsburgh. He is the author of the book Atomic Design, which introduces a methodology to create and maintain effective design systems. Brad co-hosts the Style Guides Podcast and has helped create several tools and resources for web designers. We dive into navigating the challenges designers experience when coping with personal crisis and burnout, tactical ways to protect your well-...
Hana Schank: EQ as a career guidepost
September 28, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Hana Schank. Hana is the Co-Director of Strategy for Public Interest Technology at New America where she works to develop the public interest technology field via research, storytelling, and hands-on projects. She is the co-author of Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology. In the private sector, Hana founded and ran CollectiveUX, a user experience consultancy that works with startups, Fortune 500 companies, and governmental organizatio...
Hana Schank: EQ as a career guidepost
September 28, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Hana Schank. Hana is the Co-Director of Strategy for Public Interest Technology at New America where she works to develop the public interest technology field via research, storytelling, and hands-on projects. She is the co-author of Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology. In the private sector, Hana founded and ran CollectiveUX, a user experience consultancy that works with startups, Fortune 500 companies, and governmental organizatio...
Felix Lee: DesignBlitz: Scaling impact in growth and community
September 21, 2021 08:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Felix Lee. Felix is the Co-Founder and CEO at ADPList on a mission to democratize mentorships for all. He is a designer, engineer, and tech entrepreneur who believes in constantly reinventing the way we experience the world and beyond through purposeful design. Previously, Felix co-founded Packdat and has worked with global startups from Y Combinator, Sequoia, and more, raising over $50 million from an early stage. We dive deeper into how the role of design ...
Felix Lee: DesignBlitz: Scaling impact in growth and community
September 21, 2021 08:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Felix Lee. Felix is the Co-Founder and CEO at ADPList on a mission to democratize mentorships for all. He is a designer, engineer, and tech entrepreneur who believes in constantly reinventing the way we experience the world and beyond through purposeful design. Previously, Felix co-founded Packdat and has worked with global startups from Y Combinator, Sequoia, and more, raising over $50 million from an early stage. We dive deeper into how the role of design ...
Jessica Helfand: What it means, right now, to be a self-reliant designer
September 14, 2021 08:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Jessica Helfand. Jessica is the founding editor of Design Observer and author of numerous books on visual and cultural criticism including her new book aptly called Self-Reliance. She is an artist, designer, writer and educator and has taught in Paris, Porto, London, Malta, the Netherlands, and across the United States. Jessica is the first-ever recipient of the Henry Wolf Residency at the American Academy in Rome and has been a Director’s Guest at Civitella...
Aarron Walter: How EQ can drive meaning
September 07, 2021 08:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Aaron Walter. Aaron is Acting Director of Product at Resolve to Save Lives where he explores how design and technology can help fight COVID-19. Formerly, he was the VP of content at InVision with 20 years of experience running product teams and helping companies enact design best practices. Aarron founded the UX practice at MailChimp and helped grow the product from a few thousand users to more than 10 million. His design guidance has helped the White House...
Nancy Douyon: Communicate impact through storytelling
August 31, 2021 08:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Nancy Douyon. Nancy is a Global Design Ethicist & Product Philosopher. For more than fifteen years, she’s been leading as a Black woman at Google, IBM, Intel, and Uber working on human experience product design. Throughout her career, Nancy has gained a reputation for delivering big results in a culturally honest and purposeful way with hundreds of products deployed in over 80 countries. She consults globally on inclusive development in emerging markets, and...
Jared Spool: What makes a great UX leader in an organization
August 24, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Jared Spool. Jared is the Co-Founder, Co-CEO, and Maker of Awesomeness at Center Centre – UIE. For the past 43 years, Jared has been working with hundreds of organizations in the tech world. He has written two books, published hundreds of articles and podcasts, and has been touring the world speaking to audiences everywhere. We dive into the important qualities of leadership and what it takes to be a true leader with a purpose and vision, the difference bet...
Chetana Deorah: Leading and designing with intention
August 17, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Chetana Deorah. Chetana is the Design Director at Coursera that empowers online education worldwide. As a product design leader and mentor, Chetana helps empower human-centered design to achieve high-impact business goals. In her most recent post as Design Director at Netflix, she has led product design for global acquisition and growth for emerging markets. Her career trajectory includes leading design at Yahoo, Scribd and Pentagram. We dive into the impor...
Chetana Deorah: Leading and designing with intention
August 17, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Chetana Deorah. Chetana is the Design Director at Coursera that empowers online education worldwide. As a product design leader and mentor, Chetana helps empower human-centered design to achieve high-impact business goals. In her most recent post as Design Director at Netflix, she has led product design for global acquisition and growth for emerging markets. Her career trajectory includes leading design at Yahoo, Scribd and Pentagram. We dive into the impor...
Jason James: Navigate burnout and hustle culture with mindfulness
August 10, 2021 08:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBIn today’s episode, I speak with Jason James. Jason is the VP of Design at Instacart, a grocery delivery and pick-up service where he leads product design, brand, and research. Previously, he served as VP of Design at Thumbtack and was leading design early in his career for Earnest, Intercom, Kin, and DoneDone. Jason is a mentor at Made in the Future, a program for emerging under-represented designers. We dive into the competitive field of design and how it fosters hustle culture, the fact...