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Introducing the Funsize Show!

The Funsize Show - December 08, 2023 17:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Ten years ago, Funsize launched the Hustle Podcast. Since then, we have had nearly one hundred conversations with exciting people in the design industry. Today, we're excited to announce and discuss the next generation of the Funsize podcasting, The Funsize Show! This podcast, now rebranded as...

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Hustle: Good Managers Garden (Juliana Vislova, Mercury)

The Funsize Show - November 23, 2022 19:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Juliana Vislova is the VP of Design at Mercury, an all-in-one banking platform for startups. A former linguistics major, Juliana is career switcher who spent time as an art director for a digital marketing agency before her design career. After moving to the U.S., she stumbled upon product desig...

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Hustle: 'Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years?' Perspectives from SXSW 2022

The Funsize Show - June 14, 2022 18:29 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
During our party for SXSW 2022, we interviewed designers and tech workers to understand how their careers were affected by the pandemic and what it means for their futures. We'd like to extend a huge thanks to Johnny Abowd, Carlos Menchaca, Dina Williams, Ali Metall, AC Cowart, Steven Parvaresh,...

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'Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years?' Perspectives from SXSW 2022

The Funsize Show - June 14, 2022 18:29 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
During our party for SXSW 2022, we interviewed designers and tech workers to understand how their careers were affected by the pandemic and what it means for their futures. We'd like to extend a huge thanks to Johnny Abowd, Carlos Menchaca, Dina Williams, Ali Metall, AC Cowart, Steven Parvaresh,...

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Hustle: The Different Flavors of Design Management (Brian Peterson, Affirm)

The Funsize Show - January 14, 2022 20:10 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Brian Peterson is a a multidisciplinary creator supporting, connecting, and empowering organizations through strategic design. Brian’s background is in fine arts with a brief stint in animation/illustration. His path to design has taken him through freelance visual design, to a founding team sta...

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The Different Flavors of Design Management (Brian Peterson, Affirm)

The Funsize Show - January 14, 2022 20:10 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Brian Peterson is a a multidisciplinary creator supporting, connecting, and empowering organizations through strategic design. Brian’s background is in fine arts with a brief stint in animation/illustration. His path to design has taken him through freelance visual design, to a founding team sta...

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Follow Your Fears for Inspiration (Kevin Hawkins, BookClub)

The Funsize Show - November 15, 2021 13:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Kevin Hawkins is the director of product design at BookClub—an online platform that brings authors and readers together. He is also an award-winning, multi-disciplinary design leader and educator with over 12 years of experience building communities and launching products. Kevin is a self-taugh...

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Hustle: Follow Your Fears for Inspiration (Kevin Hawkins, BookClub)

The Funsize Show - November 15, 2021 13:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Kevin Hawkins is the director of product design at BookClub—an online platform that brings authors and readers together. He is also an award-winning, multi-disciplinary design leader and educator with over 12 years of experience building communities and launching products. Kevin is a self-taugh...

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Hustle: Design Teams Without Limits (Michael Holzer, Google Payments)

The Funsize Show - September 20, 2021 17:14 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Michael Holzer is the director of UX at Google Payments and has been at Google for over eight years. He is a passionate, entrepreneurial design leader currently focused on building and operating large-scale creative teams working on new mediums and technologies. Michael grew up in Silicon Valle...

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Hustle: Insert Country Here: Design Teams Without Limits (Michael Holzer, Google Payments)

The Funsize Show - September 20, 2021 17:14 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Michael Holzer is the director of UX at Google Payments and has been at Google for over eight years. He is a passionate, entrepreneurial design leader currently focused on building and operating large-scale creative teams working on new mediums and technologies. Michael grew up in Silicon Valle...

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Insert Country Here: Design Teams Without Limits (Michael Holzer, Google Payments)

The Funsize Show - September 20, 2021 17:14 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Michael Holzer is the director of UX at Google Payments and has been at Google for over eight years. He is a passionate, entrepreneurial design leader currently focused on building and operating large-scale creative teams working on new mediums and technologies. Michael grew up in Silicon Valle...

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Hustle: Agency Ownership in a Post-Pandemic World (Alli Metall, Metall)

The Funsize Show - July 26, 2021 19:39 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Alli Metall is a husband, father, and designer living in Reykjavík, Iceland. He was born in Húsavík, Iceland--a small town on the northern coast (also famed as the setting of Netflix's Eurovision Song Contest). He began his career playing guitar in death metal and jazz bands and soon combined hi...

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Agency Ownership in a Post-Pandemic World (Alli Metall, Metall)

The Funsize Show - July 26, 2021 19:39 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Alli Metall is a husband, father, and designer living in Reykjavík, Iceland. He was born in Húsavík, Iceland--a small town on the northern coast (also famed as the setting of Netflix's Eurovision Song Contest). He began his career playing guitar in death metal and jazz bands and soon combined hi...

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Critique vs. Criticism: Creating a Safe Space to Share (Aaron Irizarry, Capital One)

The Funsize Show - June 10, 2021 19:16 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Aaron “Ron” Irizarry, is the Sr. Director, Servicing Platforms Design at Capital One. He loves all things user experience, problem-solving, and design process. Having worked for Fox/IGN, HP, Nasdaq, and now Capital One, Aaron loves sinking his teeth into complex problems. In addition to his day ...

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Hustle: Critique vs. Criticism: Creating a Safe Space to Share (Aaron Irizarry, Capital One)

The Funsize Show - June 10, 2021 19:16 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Aaron “Ron” Irizarry, is the Sr. Director, Servicing Platforms Design at Capital One. He loves all things user experience, problem-solving, and design process. Having worked for Fox/IGN, HP, Nasdaq, and now Capital One, Aaron loves sinking his teeth into complex problems. In addition to his day ...

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Hustle: Leading with Vision (Toke Nygaard, Zendesk)

The Funsize Show - April 02, 2021 20:05 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
In this first episode with Tony Sanchez as an official co-host, we were honored to be joined by a design legend.  Toke Nygaard is the Chief Creative Officer at Zendesk. With more than 20 years of experience designing digital experiences, Toke Nygaard oversees Zendesk’s brand and product UX/UI. ...

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Leading with Vision (Toke Nygaard, Zendesk)

The Funsize Show - April 02, 2021 20:05 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
In this first episode with Tony Sanchez as an official co-host, we were honored to be joined by a design legend.  Toke Nygaard is the Chief Creative Officer at Zendesk. With more than 20 years of experience designing digital experiences, Toke Nygaard oversees Zendesk’s brand and product UX/UI. ...

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End of Season 2 Special with John & Dom + Tribute to the movie 'Ghost' 👻

Pack Unleashed - February 23, 2021 13:00 - 28 minutes
Better late than never, and worth the wait no doubt!  It's the end of season 2 episode, where we wrap up the season with a look back over our guests, what we've learnt and the great conversations we've had! Join our hosts for this final episode John and Dom, who take you through what's been do...

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Design Sprints & the Islamic Republic of the Comoros: An interview with Invision’s Richard Banfield

Pack Unleashed - January 26, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutes
In our penultimate episode of Pack Unleashed season 2, we are welcoming Richard Banfield, VP of design transformation into the mix! Richard joined our recently at our first product unleashed event, where he dropped some knowledge combs about high performing teams on our eyes and ears! This tim...

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Hustle: Our Journey Through 2020 (Anthony and Natalie Armendariz, Funsize)

The Funsize Show - January 13, 2021 18:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
For the last episode recorded in 2020, we flip the spotlight onto our founders, Anthony and Natalie Armendariz, to walk us through the challenging, chaotic and — at times — exciting journey that was 2020. In a year that provided surprises and obstacles for just about every human being on the pla...

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Our Journey Through 2020 (Anthony and Natalie Armendariz, Funsize)

The Funsize Show - January 13, 2021 18:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
For the last episode recorded in 2020, we flip the spotlight onto our founders, Anthony and Natalie Armendariz, to walk us through the challenging, chaotic and — at times — exciting journey that was 2020. In a year that provided surprises and obstacles for just about every human being on the pla...

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Building Spaces for Innovation: With guest Mat Hunter

Pack Unleashed - January 12, 2021 00:00 - 45 minutes
For this episode, we are joined by a very special guest, Mat Hunter, Co-CEO of Plus X.  Matt has had a long and varied career kick-started by landing a placement at world-renowned design and innovation agency IDEO, where he went on to work for 15 years focussing mostly on creating digital produ...

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Hail To The King Baby: The Strive for Perfection and How it's Holding You Back

Pack Unleashed - December 08, 2020 00:00 - 29 minutes
In this episode of Pack Unleashed, the founders of Pack Matt, John and Dom delve into the world of perfection OR, rather, how striving for perfection can ultimately hold you back.  From day dot we’re programmed to strive for perfection in everything we do.  But is perfection something we can r...

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The Art of 'Just Enough' Research: With Guest Erika Hall

Pack Unleashed - November 24, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour
Settling into Season 2 of our podcast, we have the great Erika Hall joining us for an awesome episode, where we talk about the importance of research and how you can benefit from including it in your product business.  We’ll also be jumping into the Pack Delorean to take a leap back in time, to...

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Building a Remote Culture: With Special Guest from MURAL Laïla von Alvensleben

Pack Unleashed - November 09, 2020 19:00 - 41 minutes
To kick off season 2 of our podcast, we have a great guest and a white hot topic! We’re joined by Laïla von Alvensleben, who heads up Culture & Collaboration at MURAL. Laïla  has a background in UX design and has worked as an industry expert and facilitated workshops for the likes of Hyper Isl...

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It's the Season 2 launch episode!

Pack Unleashed - November 09, 2020 18:00 - 13 minutes
WOOOOHOOOOOO!!! It’s finally here. We’ve managed to push the fan mail aside and have made it back into the saddle once more, for season 2 of Pack Unleashed!  Not only are we back, we’re also in a brand new studio and have a sponsor, the ever awesome Plus X innovation hubs.  In our first episo...

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Hustle: The Not-So-Secret Life of Design Managers (Ted Boda, Instagram)

The Funsize Show - October 20, 2020 19:40 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Ted Boda is currently a Product Design Manager on the Well-Being team at Instagram. He is also a former Director of Design at Udacity, former Senior Designer at Nest Labs, former Lead Mobile Designer at Netflix and a former Lead UI Designer for Keynote at Apple (where, interestingly enough, he w...

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The Not-So-Secret Life of Design Managers (Ted Boda, Instagram)

The Funsize Show - October 20, 2020 19:40 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Ted Boda is currently a Product Design Manager on the Well-Being team at Instagram. He is also a former Director of Design at Udacity, former Senior Designer at Nest Labs, former Lead Mobile Designer at Netflix and a former Lead UI Designer for Keynote at Apple (where, interestingly enough, he w...

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Hustle: Designing Community and Culture on a Global Scale (Margaret Lee, Google)

The Funsize Show - September 30, 2020 16:06 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Margaret Lee is the Director of UX Community & Culture at Google. A self-described "reluctant leader," she heads up programs that unite departments across the company and create Google career opportunities for those who might not typically have access. Margaret created this role for herself a fe...

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Designing Community and Culture on a Global Scale (Margaret Lee, Google)

The Funsize Show - September 30, 2020 16:06 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 32 ratings
Margaret Lee is the Director of UX Community & Culture at Google. A self-described "reluctant leader," she heads up programs that unite departments across the company and create Google career opportunities for those who might not typically have access. Margaret created this role for herself a fe...

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