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Katie Dill on designing for seven billion people, hiring good people, and the triforce.

Airbnb's Design Approach

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.

Scott Hurff on Designing at Tinder

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.

Simon King on Design at IDEO

Nutrition Facts, Mark Bittman’s food rating system, colon cancer screening, Time Well Spent, Peter Arno, Flat File

Episode 35: Mind-Body Problems

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with former president of Frog, Doreen Lorenzo. Lorenzo is currently the director for the Center of Integrated Design at the University of Texas at Austin. We talk about the design in education, women in design, and failing fast versus learning fast.

Doreen Lorenzo on Design Becoming the Core DNA of an Organization

Samsung v. Apple, the International Style v. capitalism, Sausage Party, mozzarella sticks

Episode 40: Food for Thought

The Napalm Girl photo on Facebook, 9/11 out of context, Apple stores and the iPhone 7 launch, the Doctor Strangelove trailer, Wiener-Dog, Pantsuit

Episode 41: Memory Loss

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Tom Greever, UX director at Bitovi and author of Articulating Design Decisions. We talk about how to effectively explain your design decisions, avoiding the CEO button, and how saying 'yes' is a facilitation superpower.

Tom Greever on Articulating Design Decisions

Bathroom signs, MBA students, Mozilla and open logo design, The Commissar Vanishes, Masters of Sex

Episode 42: Doors and Perception

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Kristin Skinner, managing director at Adaptive Path, head of design management at Capital One, and co-author of "Org Design for Design Orgs."  We talk about managing design teams, scaling design, and what we can learn from the Golden State Warriors.

Kristin Skinner on Designing Design Organizations

Barry Nalebuff teaches at the Yale School of Management. His specialty is game theory and its application to business strategy.

S1E4: Barry Nalebuff

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Jay Trimble, mission operations manager, ground data system manager, and resource prospector for the Lunar Rover Mission at NASA. We talk about applying Agile, adopting design thinking and user-centered design, and what he and his team rely on to design and build software for mission control.

Jay Trimble on User-Centered Design, Agile, and Design Thinking at NASA

Danny Meyer is the founder of Shake Shack. Paula Scher designed its graphic identity.

S1E10: Danny Meyer + Paula Scher

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Randy Hunt, VP of design at Etsy. We talk about the culture at Etsy, why it’s important to understand the materials you are designing with, and why humility is your most important skill.

Randy Hunt on Design at Etsy

In this week’s Design Podcast, I sit down with Noah Iliinsky, senior UX architect at Amazon’s AWS group, co-author of "Designing Data Visualizations," and co-editor of "Beautiful Visualization." We talk about how design is organized at Amazon, 17 keys to success, and why being intentional will ensure you are working on the right problems.

Noah Iliinsky on Design at Amazon

#trypod, Dan Brown cover contest, Design in Tech, writing for designers, The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened, Wes Anderson’s Bar Luce

Episode 53: On Writing Well

Michael Rock is founding partner and creative director of 2x4, a global design consultancy. He has worked with brands including Nike, Prada, Target, and Kanye West.

S2E6: Michael Rock

This week, I sit down with Cynthia Savard Saucier, director of design at Shopify and author of Tragic Design. Saucier also is keynoting at Velocity in New York, October 1-4, 2017. We talk about moving from working in design to leading designers, the real and sometimes negative impact that design decisions can have on users, and how design is organized at Shopify.

Cynthia Savard Saucier on Design at Shopify

In our Creative Confidence Series chat with IDEO Design Researcher Silvia Vergani and Principal Research Scientist at Verily Life Sciences Danielle Schlosser, we discussed the challenges and opportunities in healthcare innovation today and how healthcare practitioners can begin to apply a more human-centered approach to their work. When design thinking methodologies are applied to healthcare they lead to a human-centered focus and an openness to generating and testing many ideas to find more innovative, far-reaching solutions.

Design Thinking in Healthcare

Steve Vassallo is a General Partner at Foundation Capital and works at the intersection of business, technology, and design—all things close to our hearts. Steve joins Diego on episode 49 to talk about his new book, The Way to Design. 

The book is available to download for free at www.thewaytodesign.com and will be available in print this fall on Amazon. 

Find Steve on the Twitter: www.twitter.com/vassallo

And as always, we love hearing from you: www.twitter.com/ideofutures or futures@ideo.com

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