Finding Our Way Summaries & Transcripts

77: Automate All the Things!? A UX Reality Check on AI (ft. Dr Stefanie Hutka)

Sep 19, 2026

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76: Embrace the Chaos—Design Operations in the age of AI (ft. Z)

Aug 14, 2026

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75: The Steady State of Unsteadiness

Jul 24, 2026

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LIMINAL—4: You As A Service (ft. Dave Gray)

May 24, 2026

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73: Charting an Adaptive Path toward AI Transformation

May 16, 2026

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72: The Worst Technology Rollout in History (Ft. Paul Ford)

May 9, 2026

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71: Finding Our Way Live! (ft John Gleason)

Apr 19, 2026

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LIMINAL—3: The Waves within Waves

Apr 10, 2026

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69: In a World of AI, What is the Work Really About? (ft. Jorge Arango)

Mar 27, 2026

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68: AI and Design: Fundamentals and The Future (ft. Dan Saffer)

Mar 14, 2026

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LIMINAL—2: Liminal Mindset, Skillset, and Leadership

Feb 28, 2026

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LIMINAL—2: Liminal Mindset, Skillset, and Leadership

Feb 28, 2026

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LIMINAL—1: The Liminal Moment

Feb 22, 2026

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LIMINAL—1: The Liminal Moment

Feb 22, 2026

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65: Design—Stuck in the Middle with AI (ft. Christina Wodtke)

Feb 3, 2026

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65: Design—Stuck in the Middle with AI (ft. Christina Wodtke)

Feb 3, 2026

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64: The State of Design Orgs—Growth Paths, Quality Standards, and Empowerment Gaps

Jan 24, 2026

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64: The State of Design Orgs—Growth Paths, Quality Standards, and Empowerment Gaps

Jan 24, 2026

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63: AI Means Product Needs UX More than Ever (ft. Christian Crumlish)

Nov 1, 2025

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63: AI Means Product Needs UX More than Ever (ft. Christian Crumlish)

Nov 1, 2025

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62: Design as Differentiator in a World of AI (ft. Andrew Hogan)

Sep 14, 2025

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62: Design as Differentiator in a World of AI (ft. Andrew Hogan)

Sep 14, 2025

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61: The Paradoxes of Product Discovery (ft. Teresa Torres)

Aug 9, 2025

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61: The Paradoxes of Product Discovery (ft. Teresa Torres)

Aug 9, 2025

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60: Making the World– Design Education and Social Change (ft. Lesley-Ann Noel, PhD)

Jun 29, 2025

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60: Making the World– Design Education and Social Change (ft. Lesley-Ann Noel, PhD)

Jun 29, 2025

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59: Design Isn’t Dead, But It’s Seen Better Days (ft. John Gleason)

Jun 6, 2025

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59: Design Isn’t Dead, But It’s Seen Better Days (ft. John Gleason)

Jun 6, 2025

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58: AI is a Stress Test for Your UX: What Cracks Will It Show?

May 2, 2025

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58: AI is a Stress Test for Your UX: What Cracks Will It Show?

May 2, 2025

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57: On Being a Chief Experience Officer (ft. Amy Lokey)

Apr 13, 2025

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57: On Being a Chief Experience Officer (ft. Amy Lokey)

Apr 13, 2025

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56: Design’s Role in the Evolution of Product Management (ft. Sara Beckman)

Mar 23, 2025

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56: Design’s Role in the Evolution of Product Management (ft. Sara Beckman)

Mar 23, 2025

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55: The Maker Mindset Connecting Product, Design, and Engineering (ft. Todd Wilkens)

Mar 8, 2025

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55: The Maker Mindset Connecting Product, Design, and Engineering (ft. Todd Wilkens)

Mar 8, 2025

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54: At the Intersection of Design and Business, Be The Anomaly (ft. Roger Martin)

Feb 8, 2025

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54: At the Intersection of Design and Business, Be The Anomaly (ft. Roger Martin)

Feb 8, 2025

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53: Leading Design Through Continual Evolution (ft. Peter Skillman)

Jan 4, 2025

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53: Leading Design Through Continual Evolution (ft. Peter Skillman)

Jan 4, 2025

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52: Design at a Crossroads (ft. Audrey Crane)

Dec 1, 2024

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52: Design at a Crossroads (ft. Audrey Crane)

Dec 1, 2024

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51: Design-led Innovation in Emerging Markets (ft. Gaurav Mathur)

Nov 20, 2024

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51: Design-led Innovation in Emerging Markets (ft. Gaurav Mathur)

Nov 20, 2024

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50: Balancing Design and Business as a Utopian Pragmatist (ft. Leslie Witt)

Oct 26, 2024

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50: Balancing Design and Business as a Utopian Pragmatist (ft. Leslie Witt)

Oct 26, 2024

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49: Unraveling Complexity in Product Development (ft. John Cutler)

Oct 8, 2024

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49: Unraveling Complexity in Product Development (ft. John Cutler)

Oct 8, 2024

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48: Leading Design from IDEO to In-house (ft. Anne Pascual)

Jun 28, 2024

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48: Leading Design from IDEO to In-house (ft. Anne Pascual)

Jun 28, 2024

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47: Seeking Balance (ft. Koji Pereira)

May 18, 2024

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47: Seeking Balance (ft. Koji Pereira)

May 18, 2024

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46: Leading with Clarity (ft. Vuokko Aro)

May 5, 2024

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46: Leading with Clarity (ft. Vuokko Aro)

May 5, 2024

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45: The Phase Shift

Apr 24, 2024

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45: The Phase Shift

Apr 24, 2024

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44: The Mindful Executive (ft. Christina Goldschmidt)

Mar 25, 2024

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44: The Mindful Executive (ft. Christina Goldschmidt)

Mar 25, 2024

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43: Leading Enterprise UX for LEGO Group (ft. Rebecca Nordstrom)

Mar 9, 2024

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43: Leading Enterprise UX for LEGO Group (ft. Rebecca Nordstrom)

Mar 9, 2024

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42: Leading From Trust (ft. Cynthia Savard Saucier)

Feb 23, 2024

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42: Leading From Trust (ft. Cynthia Savard Saucier)

Feb 23, 2024

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41: Leading Experience Design for the Military (ft. Colt Whittall)

Feb 5, 2024

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41: Leading Experience Design for the Military (ft. Colt Whittall)

Feb 5, 2024

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40: The Cross-Trained Design Leader (ft. Rajat Shail)

Jan 19, 2024

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40: The Cross-Trained Design Leader (ft. Rajat Shail)

Jan 19, 2024

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39: Reflections on the State of Design Leadership (Season 3 finale)

May 31, 2023

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39: Reflections on the State of Design Leadership (Season 3 finale)

May 31, 2023

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38: The Craft-led Design Executive (ft. Tim Allen)

Apr 12, 2023

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38: The Craft-led Design Executive (ft. Tim Allen)

Apr 12, 2023

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37: From Design Leadership to Product Leadership (ft. Che Douglas)

Mar 20, 2023

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37: From Design Leadership to Product Leadership (ft. Che Douglas)

Mar 20, 2023

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36: The Chief Design Officer as Corporate Executive (ft. Jehad Affoneh)

Mar 6, 2023

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36: The Chief Design Officer as Corporate Executive (ft. Jehad Affoneh)

Mar 6, 2023

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35—The Actualized Design Executive (ft. Daniela Jorge)

Dec 19, 2022

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35—The Actualized Design Executive (ft. Daniela Jorge)

Dec 19, 2022

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34: Design leadership to support organizational transformation (ft. Rachel Kobetz)

Oct 9, 2022

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34: Design leadership to support organizational transformation (ft. Rachel Kobetz)

Oct 9, 2022

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33: Leading Design in a Product World (ft. Greg Petroff)

Sep 18, 2022

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33: Leading Design in a Product World (ft. Greg Petroff)

Sep 18, 2022

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32: The Intentional Design Executive (ft. Kaaren Hanson)

Sep 5, 2022

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32: The Intentional Design Executive (ft. Kaaren Hanson)

Sep 5, 2022

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31: Sustaining yourself as a design executive (ft. Katrina Alcorn, GM IBM Design)

Aug 25, 2022

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31: Sustaining yourself as a design executive (ft. Katrina Alcorn, GM IBM Design)

Aug 25, 2022

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30— Mailbag: UX maturity, conflict fatigue, and getting past imposter syndrome

May 25, 2022

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30— Mailbag: UX maturity, conflict fatigue, and getting past imposter syndrome

May 25, 2022

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29: Listening with Intent (ft. Indi Young)

May 14, 2022

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29: Listening with Intent (ft. Indi Young)

May 14, 2022

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28: The Leadership Ceiling (ft. Tim Kieschnick)

Apr 29, 2022

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28: The Leadership Ceiling (ft. Tim Kieschnick)

Apr 29, 2022

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27: Choose Yourself—Making up your career path as you go (ft. Abby Covert)

Mar 20, 2022

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27: Choose Yourself—Making up your career path as you go (ft. Abby Covert)

Mar 20, 2022

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26: Chief Design Officers and Design Executive Effectiveness (ft. Gordon Ching)

Mar 12, 2022

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26: Chief Design Officers and Design Executive Effectiveness (ft. Gordon Ching)

Mar 12, 2022

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25—The Reckoning

Jan 22, 2021

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24: Delving into digital design—craft, teaching, lessons from architecture, standards and certification (ft. Jorge Arango)

Jan 5, 2021

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23–Make UX truly human-centered by addressing trauma, power, and other necessary and uncomfortable realities (ft. Vivianne Castillo)

Dec 10, 2020

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22: “Right problem, right solution, done right”—The Vanguard of User Research (ft. Jen Cardello)

Nov 17, 2020

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21—Creativity, banishing inner critics, impostor syndrome, and systemic racism (ft Denise Jacobs)

Nov 5, 2020

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20—The business model is the new grid, and other mindbombs (ft. Erika Hall)

Oct 27, 2020

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19 – Growth mindsets, vulnerability, sociopathy, totalitarianism… that escalated quickly (ft. Billie Mandel)

Oct 20, 2020

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18: How Agile and Scrum ruined product management, and other things (ft. Melissa Perri)

Oct 8, 2020

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17 – Design leadership lessons from bicycling (ft. Sally Carson)

Sep 29, 2020

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17 – Design leadership lessons from bicycling (ft. Sally Carson)

Sep 29, 2020

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16 – How can a designer grow in their career without becoming a manager? (and more)

Sep 15, 2020

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16 – How can a designer grow in their career without becoming a manager? (and more)

Sep 15, 2020

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15: Mailbag—Funding models; from output to impact; personal safety and security

Jul 24, 2020

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15: Mailbag—Funding models; from output to impact; personal safety and security

Jul 24, 2020

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14: “If your team’s work isn’t good, you didn’t set clear expectations,” and other Design Leadership Truisms

Jul 15, 2020

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14: “If your team’s work isn’t good, you didn’t set clear expectations,” and other Design Leadership Truisms

Jul 15, 2020

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13: Facing Systemic Racism in Design

Jul 9, 2020

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13: Facing Systemic Racism in Design

Jul 9, 2020

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12: Ands Not Ors (ft. Maria Giudice)

Jul 1, 2020

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12: Ands Not Ors (ft. Maria Giudice)

Jul 1, 2020

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11: The Leadership Plateau and the Marketing Vortex

Jun 24, 2020

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11: The Leadership Plateau and the Marketing Vortex

Jun 24, 2020

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10: We Have Trust Issues

Jun 16, 2020

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10: We Have Trust Issues

Jun 16, 2020

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9: Consultancy Rat Blues, Part 2

Jun 9, 2020

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9: Consultancy Rat Blues, Part 2

Jun 9, 2020

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8: Consultancy Rat Blues, Part 1

Jun 5, 2020

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8: Consultancy Rat Blues, Part 1

Jun 5, 2020

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7: Leading From Home

May 26, 2020

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7: Leading From Home

May 26, 2020

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6: Defining Your Charter, Part 2: The How

May 19, 2020

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6: Defining Your Charter, Part 2: The How

May 19, 2020

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5: Defining Your Charter, Part 1: The Why

May 15, 2020

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5: Defining Your Charter, Part 1: The Why

May 15, 2020

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4: Management Leadership Jazz

May 6, 2020

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4: Management Leadership Jazz

May 6, 2020

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3: Range and Craft

Apr 29, 2020

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3: Range and Craft

Apr 29, 2020

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2: Elements Turns 20

Apr 29, 2020

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2: Elements Turns 20

Apr 29, 2020

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1: The Story So Far

Apr 29, 2020

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1: The Story So Far

Apr 29, 2020

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Episodes (136)

77: Automate All the Things!? A UX Reality Check on AI (ft. Dr Stefanie Hutka)

76: Embrace the Chaos—Design Operations in the age of AI (ft. Z)

75: The Steady State of Unsteadiness

LIMINAL—4: You As A Service (ft. Dave Gray)

73: Charting an Adaptive Path toward AI Transformation

72: The Worst Technology Rollout in History (Ft. Paul Ford)

71: Finding Our Way Live! (ft John Gleason)

LIMINAL—3: The Waves within Waves

69: In a World of AI, What is the Work Really About? (ft. Jorge Arango)

68: AI and Design: Fundamentals and The Future (ft. Dan Saffer)

LIMINAL—2: Liminal Mindset, Skillset, and Leadership

LIMINAL—2: Liminal Mindset, Skillset, and Leadership

LIMINAL—1: The Liminal Moment

LIMINAL—1: The Liminal Moment

65: Design—Stuck in the Middle with AI (ft. Christina Wodtke)

65: Design—Stuck in the Middle with AI (ft. Christina Wodtke)

64: The State of Design Orgs—Growth Paths, Quality Standards, and Empowerment Gaps

64: The State of Design Orgs—Growth Paths, Quality Standards, and Empowerment Gaps

63: AI Means Product Needs UX More than Ever (ft. Christian Crumlish)

63: AI Means Product Needs UX More than Ever (ft. Christian Crumlish)

62: Design as Differentiator in a World of AI (ft. Andrew Hogan)

62: Design as Differentiator in a World of AI (ft. Andrew Hogan)

61: The Paradoxes of Product Discovery (ft. Teresa Torres)

61: The Paradoxes of Product Discovery (ft. Teresa Torres)

60: Making the World– Design Education and Social Change (ft. Lesley-Ann Noel, PhD)

60: Making the World– Design Education and Social Change (ft. Lesley-Ann Noel, PhD)

59: Design Isn’t Dead, But It’s Seen Better Days (ft. John Gleason)

59: Design Isn’t Dead, But It’s Seen Better Days (ft. John Gleason)

58: AI is a Stress Test for Your UX: What Cracks Will It Show?

58: AI is a Stress Test for Your UX: What Cracks Will It Show?

57: On Being a Chief Experience Officer (ft. Amy Lokey)

57: On Being a Chief Experience Officer (ft. Amy Lokey)

56: Design’s Role in the Evolution of Product Management (ft. Sara Beckman)

56: Design’s Role in the Evolution of Product Management (ft. Sara Beckman)

55: The Maker Mindset Connecting Product, Design, and Engineering (ft. Todd Wilkens)

55: The Maker Mindset Connecting Product, Design, and Engineering (ft. Todd Wilkens)

54: At the Intersection of Design and Business, Be The Anomaly (ft. Roger Martin)

54: At the Intersection of Design and Business, Be The Anomaly (ft. Roger Martin)

53: Leading Design Through Continual Evolution (ft. Peter Skillman)

53: Leading Design Through Continual Evolution (ft. Peter Skillman)

52: Design at a Crossroads (ft. Audrey Crane)

52: Design at a Crossroads (ft. Audrey Crane)

51: Design-led Innovation in Emerging Markets (ft. Gaurav Mathur)

51: Design-led Innovation in Emerging Markets (ft. Gaurav Mathur)

50: Balancing Design and Business as a Utopian Pragmatist (ft. Leslie Witt)

50: Balancing Design and Business as a Utopian Pragmatist (ft. Leslie Witt)

49: Unraveling Complexity in Product Development (ft. John Cutler)

49: Unraveling Complexity in Product Development (ft. John Cutler)

48: Leading Design from IDEO to In-house (ft. Anne Pascual)

48: Leading Design from IDEO to In-house (ft. Anne Pascual)

47: Seeking Balance (ft. Koji Pereira)

47: Seeking Balance (ft. Koji Pereira)

46: Leading with Clarity (ft. Vuokko Aro)

46: Leading with Clarity (ft. Vuokko Aro)

45: The Phase Shift

45: The Phase Shift

44: The Mindful Executive (ft. Christina Goldschmidt)

44: The Mindful Executive (ft. Christina Goldschmidt)

43: Leading Enterprise UX for LEGO Group (ft. Rebecca Nordstrom)

43: Leading Enterprise UX for LEGO Group (ft. Rebecca Nordstrom)

42: Leading From Trust (ft. Cynthia Savard Saucier)

42: Leading From Trust (ft. Cynthia Savard Saucier)

41: Leading Experience Design for the Military (ft. Colt Whittall)

41: Leading Experience Design for the Military (ft. Colt Whittall)

40: The Cross-Trained Design Leader (ft. Rajat Shail)

40: The Cross-Trained Design Leader (ft. Rajat Shail)

39: Reflections on the State of Design Leadership (Season 3 finale)

39: Reflections on the State of Design Leadership (Season 3 finale)

38: The Craft-led Design Executive (ft. Tim Allen)

38: The Craft-led Design Executive (ft. Tim Allen)

37: From Design Leadership to Product Leadership (ft. Che Douglas)

37: From Design Leadership to Product Leadership (ft. Che Douglas)

36: The Chief Design Officer as Corporate Executive (ft. Jehad Affoneh)

36: The Chief Design Officer as Corporate Executive (ft. Jehad Affoneh)

35—The Actualized Design Executive (ft. Daniela Jorge)

35—The Actualized Design Executive (ft. Daniela Jorge)

34: Design leadership to support organizational transformation (ft. Rachel Kobetz)