The O’Reilly Design Podcast: The future of wearables, hiring designers, and understanding the value of design. In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Max Burton , founder of Matter. Before starting his own firm, Burton spent the last two decades at places like Frog, Nike, and Smart Design. We talk about the future of wearables, what he looks for when hiring designers, and what tech companies can learn from Nike’s and Disney's approach to product design. Here are a few highlights from our...
May 26, 2016•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Autodesk’s CEO talks about the future of design. In this episode of the Hardware podcast, we talk with Carl Bass , president and CEO of Autodesk . He’s an articulate thinker on algorithmic design, collaborative tools, and the nature of craft, and we talked for nearly two hours when we visited him to record this episode. Discussion points: Bass tells us how Autodesk’s Fusion 360 used GitHub as a model for file management and online collaboration. Fusion 360 lives pa...
May 25, 2016•57 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Design sprints, Lean UX, Agile, and design leadership skills. In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with C Todd Lombardo , chief design strategist at Fresh Tilled Soil and adjunct professor at IE Business. Lombardo is co-author of the recently released book Design Sprint . We talk about the relationship between design sprints, Lean UX, and Agile, and the skills needed to move from designing to managing designers. Here are a few highlights from our conversation: D...
May 12, 2016•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Build measure learn, the One Metric That Matters, and balancing hubris and humility. In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Ben Yoskovitz , investor, entrepreneur, and former VP of product at VarageSale and at GoInstant. We talk about using metrics in product development and why anyone building anything new needs to have both hubris and intellectual honesty. Yoskovitz is co-author of Lean Analytics , and is teaching a live online course, Product Strategy for ...
Apr 28, 2016•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Staying relevant, design as a problem-solving process, and a creative coding approach for designers. In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Scott Murray , designer, creative coder, and artist who writes software to create data visualizations. Murray is the author of Interactive Data Visualization for the Web and the forthcoming book Creative Coding and Data Visualization with p5.js: Drawing on the Web with JavaScript. Murray is teaching an online course, Prog...
Apr 14, 2016•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O'Reilly Design Podcast: Figma, measuring success, and meta debugging. In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Dylan Field, founder of Figma and former Thiel Fellow. We talk about the problem Figma aims to solve for designers and how they’re measuring success. Field also talks about how they debugged Figma in its early days: by mandating their own designers use it to design the tool. Here are a few highlights from our conversation: The beginnings of Figma Designers are increasingly at...
Mar 31, 2016•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Design as a science, designing for behavior change, and getting your first design gig. In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Joel Marsh, designer and author of UX for Beginners . We talk about design as a scientific way of thinking, what happens when you try to cash a check in Sweden, combining behavioral economics and design, and why learning design is like learning to play the piano. Here are a few highlights from our conversation: Design as a scie...
Mar 17, 2016•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Team dynamics and culture at IDEO, design education, and design’s next big challenge. In this week's Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Simon King , director of Carnegie Mellon University's Design Center. King is the author of Understanding Industrial Design . We talk about team dynamics and culture at IDEO, extending design education to non-designers, and design's next big challenge. Here are a few highlights from our conversation: CMU's Design Center and the d...
Mar 03, 2016•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Design at Tinder, Awkward UI, and the UI Stack. In this week's Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Scott Hurff, product manager and lead designer at Tinder, Inc. Hurff is the author of Designing Products People Love . In this episode, we talk about how Tinder approaches design, avoiding awkward UI, and why customer research is the most important skill for future designers. Here are a few highlights from our conversation: Questions of structure At Tinder, the prod...
Feb 18, 2016•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Moving from GUI to VUIs. In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Tanya Kraljic , UX manager and principal designer at Nuance Communications. Kraljic recently spoke at OReilly’s inaugural Design Conference ( you can find the complete video compilation of the event here ). In this episode, we talk about the challenges of moving from graphical to voice interfaces, the voice tools ecosystem, and where she finds inspiration. Here are a few highlights from o...
Feb 04, 2016•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Product development, user research, and identifying blindspots. In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Chrissie Brodigan , manager of user experience research at GitHub. Brodigan will be be speaking at OReilly’s inaugural Design Conference . In this episode, we talk about user research and product development at Github, and the blindspots in product development and organizational development. Here are a few highlights from our conversation: Our intern...
Jan 21, 2016•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Managing, mentoring, and recruiting designers. In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Wesley Yun , director of user experience on the hardware side at GoPro. Yun will be be speaking at O’Reilly’s inaugural Design Conference . In this episode, we talk about managing and recruiting designers at GoPro, Designer Fund's Bridge Guild , and mentoring the next generation of designers. Here are a few highlights from our conversation: Managing is humbling. My j...
Jan 07, 2016•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Prototyping for digital and physical, IBM’s bet on design, and diversity in design. In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Kathryn McElroy , author of Prototyping for Designers and design lead on IBM's Watson team. McElroy will be be speaking at O’Reilly’s inaugural Design Conference in January. In this episode, we talk about prototyping for digital and physical, design and diversity, and what it’s like working at IBM. Here are a few highlights from our conve...
Dec 23, 2015•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: The critical role of design in creating iconic products and brands. Our expectations for industrial design have risen immeasurably in the last decade. Think of any piece of consumer electronics from 2005—a BlackBerry , for instance—and you’ll think of something that was encased in plastic painted silver to imitate metal, with a too-light heft and a rattle when shaken. Now, nearly every successful piece of consumer hardware is the result of careful design and exquis...
Dec 10, 2015•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Culture, competition, and design staffing. In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Bob Baxley , who is keynoting at OReilly’s inaugural Design Conference . He compares cultures at Apple and Pinterest, talks about competition in the design playing field, and addresses the designer shortage. Here are a few highlights from our conversation: My observation is that although Apple really dominates the product culture of technology, certainly in Silicon Valle...
Dec 10, 2015•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Designing for hardware and software, and recruiting and building design teams. In this week's Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Vanessa Cho , head of UX and research for the software and services group at GoPro. Cho, along with her hardware colleague Wesley Yun , will be speaking at O'Reilly's inaugural Design Conference in January. We talk about designing for hardware and software, building design teams, and what she looks for in new recruits. Here are a few h...
Nov 25, 2015•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Mindsets, impostors, and self-awareness. In this week's Design Podcast episode, I sit down with Dan Brown , designer at Eightshapes and author of Designing Together and Communicating Design . Brown is speaking at OReilly's inaugural Design Conference , January 20-22, 2016, in San Francisco. We talk about managing fixed and growth mindsets, embracing impostor syndrome, and the most important skill for all designers (hint: it's not empathy). Here are a few highlights f...
Nov 12, 2015•36 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O'Reilly Design Podcast: Organization design, design critiques, and designing for good behavior. In this week's Design Podcast episode, I chat it up with Adam Connor , designer at MadPow and author of Discussing Design with Aaron Irizarry — Connor also is speaking at O'Reilly's inaugural Design Conference . We talk about company culture and organizational design, the design of codes of conduct, and advice on running productive design critiques. Here are a few highlights from our conversation...
Oct 29, 2015•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Katie Dill on designing for seven billion people, hiring good people, and the triforce. In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I chat it up with Katie Dill , head of experience design at Airbnb. Dill talks about Airbnb’s values; the relationship between design, engineering, and product management; and what Airbnb looks for when hiring. Dill also will be keynoting at O’Reilly’s inaugural Design Conference . Here are a few highlights from our conversation: We have a fe...
Oct 15, 2015•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast The O’Reilly Design Podcast: Pamela Pavliscak on designing for happiness. In this week’s Design Podcast episode, I sit down with design researcher and data scientist Pamela Pavliscak . Pavliscak is the author of Data-Informed Product Design , a free report from O’Reilly, and will be speaking at OReilly’s inaugural design conference . Pavliscak talks about the delicate relationship between data and design, and why it’s not an either or proposition, as well as why designing for happiness is good f...
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