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Brendan Boyle: Toy design, play, and the creative process
Season 11 Episode 109
Eli first met Brendan Boyle when Brendan was his instructor in the undergraduate Product Design program at Stanford, where Brendan has taught for man…
1 year, 6 months ago
Rewind: Vicki Tan: Learning from new voices
This week, we’re rewinding to one of our favorite episodes from our 6th season, with Vicki Tan. Vicki is a designer and author, who is now a staff pr…
1 year, 7 months ago
Connor Moore: Sound design for Tesla, Uber, Peloton and more
Season 11 Episode 108
Sound is the unsung hero of interaction design. The iconic chorus you hear as you boot up your Mac, the double knock of an arriving Slack message, an…
1 year, 7 months ago
Matt Abrahams: Think Faster, Talk Smarter
Season 11 Episode 108
Becoming a better communicator is one of the best ways to level up your career. Being able to think on your feet and communicate ideas effectively is…
1 year, 7 months ago
Quilt + Mike & Maaike: Designing for sustainability
Season 11 Episode 106
Design has the potential to help us solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. But few designers and entrepreneurs recognize that potential.
P…
1 year, 7 months ago
Rewind: Julie Zhuo: Facebook's former VP of Product Design on what she got right and wrong as a leader
Hi folks!
We hope your summer is going well. Aarron and I are traveling and spending some time with our families this week, so we thought we’d rewind …
1 year, 7 months ago
Roger Horrocks: My Octopus Teacher's cinematographer on shaping story and cultivating patience
Season 10 Episode 105
Over the years, Eli spent a lot of time diving and doing photography—from designing underwater photography equipment, to running an underwater photog…
1 year, 8 months ago
Steve Portigal: The art of interviewing users
Season 10 Episode 104
There’s an art to interviewing customers. It’s so much harder than just asking a few people some questions. If we’re not careful, bias can throw off …
1 year, 8 months ago
Dan Mall: Scaling design systems
Season 10 Episode 102
There’s a reason why we’ve been talking about design systems for a number of years now—it’s the key to collaboration at scale. Few people get that mo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Rewind: Sara Seager: Astrophysicist pushing the boundaries of collaboration while discovering exoplanets
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It’s a holiday week—happy 4th of Ju…
1 year, 8 months ago