Podcast Episodes

Mia Blume: Are you ready to shift from team member to team leader?

Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/mia-blume

“Will I lose my creativity? Will I be stuck in meetings all day?” Those are common concerns for any individual contributor transitioning to a ma…

Published on 8 years ago

Christian Madsbjerg: How ethnography leads to a deeper understanding of users

Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/christian-madsbjerg

In today’s tech-driven economy, it seems like it can be hard to justify the value of a traditional liberal arts education. But given t…

Published on 8 years ago

Jake Knapp: Lessons from running 150+ design sprints at Google Ventures

Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/jake-knapp-design-sprint

If we asked you to name a recent book that’s really changed how product teams address sticky challenges, there’s a good chance Ja…

Published on 8 years, 1 month ago

Laura Martini: So your boss doesn't believe in design research

Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/007-laura-martini-getting-to-the-right-finish-line

If there’s anyone we’ve interviewed on the Design Better Podcast so far that really embodies the produc…

Published on 8 years, 1 month ago

Michael Leon: How skateboarding prepared him for Nike, Patagonia, and Sonos

Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/michael-leon

How do you go from being a self-professed skate punk, to a design director at Nike, creative director at Patagonia, and land as the global cr…

Published on 8 years, 2 months ago

Alex Schleifer: Airbnb's hasty Super Bowl decision guided by a clear mission

Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/alex-schleifer

Airbnb’s mission is both simple and powerful: to help create a world where you can belong anywhere. Alex Schleifer, Airbnb’s head of design…

Published on 8 years, 2 months ago

Albert Lee: Learning UX from Frank Gehry, IDEO, and Chez Panisse

Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/albert-lee

Albert Lee has had an amazing arc to his career. From his beginnings as a wine-steward at Chez Panisse, to working at Frank Gehry’s architectur…

Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

Dan Winger: The evolution of LEGO from simple bricks to interactive storytelling

Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/dan-winger

If you’re anything like us, playing with LEGOs was a foundational part of your childhood, and a big part of the reason you got interested in de…

Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

David Kelley: The birth of design thinking and what he's most proud of

Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/david-kelley-creative-confidence

David Kelley doesn’t like to claim to have come up with the term design thinking, even though a most people would say he …

Published on 8 years, 3 months ago

Irene Au: How Larry Page's view on aesthetics changed Google

Episode 1

Show notes: https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/irene-au-scaling-design-at-google

Google could now be considered a product driven company, but it wasn’t always that way. For many years Google’s engineer…

Published on 8 years, 3 months ago