Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAlive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do | Daniel M. Cable, Revisited
Dan Cable was doing his job and getting compensated for it, but there was a problem: he was going through the motions with no growth, learning, or se…
9 months, 1 week ago
The Business Case for Experience Design: A New Lens for Work | Mat Duerden
Season 1 Episode 178
We experience the world through what we notice, how we feel, and what we remember. Yet most organizations still focus on products instead of the expe…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Rethinking Career Design: How Traditional Education Set Up a Generation to Fail, and How to Course Correct Today | Farouk Dey, Revisited
In an ideal world, college would help students explore possibilities and imagine a future that fits who they are. Instead, many choose majors before …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Workflow Friction: The Missing Link in Work Design and AI Transformation | Stephanie Denino
Season 1 Episode 177
Friction is part of every workplace. It shows up in the meetings that don’t need to happen, the unclear steps, and the small barriers that make work …
9 months, 4 weeks ago
Designing Your Life: How to Use Design Principles to Get What You Want in Work and Life | Bill Burnett, Revisited
From kitchen tables to self-driving cars, everything around us was designed to solve a problem. Bill Burnett, award-winning Silicon Valley designer, …
10 months ago
Work-as-a-Product: How Dropbox Redesigned Work for the Virtual Era | Melanie Rosenwasser
Season 1 Episode 176
Dropbox didn’t just adapt to remote work. It redesigned work itself. After the pandemic, Melanie Rosenwasser and her team joined forces with Dropbox’…
10 months, 1 week ago
Immersive Experience Design: How to Use Story to Design Work Experiences | Stacy Barton, Revisited
Stacy Barton was assigned an exhaustive project at 9 pm and had to complete it by 6 am if she wanted to receive a paycheck. While most of us would ha…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
The Master Servant Doctrine: How Feudal Law Still Shapes Modern Work | Elizabeth Tippett
Season 1 Episode 175
Modern work is haunted by an idea that began in feudal Europe. The Master Servant Doctrine gave employers the right to command and control workers wh…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Designing Time: The Future of Experience Design | Dave Norton
Season 1 Episode 174
Most organizations think about the design of work in terms of products, services, or customer journeys. But Dave Norton has spent his career arguing …
11 months ago
Designing AI Tools That Think With You | Dimitri Glazkov
Season 1 Episode 173
The tools we use shape how we work, what we see, and how we think. Dmitri Glazkov, Strategy Lead at Google Labs, initiated Breadboard and helped laun…
11 months, 1 week ago