When you get Designy, you get a whole new mindset when confronted with product design challenges.
Managing Anxious Stakeholders
When you walk into a situation with an anxious stakeholder, how can you provide stability and still lead design? Learn more →
Time to Get Designy
You face challenges as a product designer every day, so it’s time to take a step back and get a fresh mindset. Learn more →
The Invisible AI Feature
The “AI helps me design screens faster buzz” is distracting from the real challenge of designing AI features invisibly. Learn more →
More Than Taste
How are your design tastebuds? We’ll discuss what it is, and why you need to be concerned with far more than taste. Learn more →
Not Good Enough
You’re facing internal and external pressure to be “good enough” as a designer. I discuss three way to break through it. Learn more →
The Design Power of Time
There are times you must fast-forward the design process, but it always adds risk to your results. Here are three ways to use time to design well. Learn more →
Tool vs. Process with Guest Charles Forman
Guest designer Charles Forman and I kick the tires on a few AI product design tools to see how they help, hinder, or hide critical parts of the design process. Learn more →
Spoiler Alert: Design Wins
Has design disappeared? Will you simply be the “human-in-the-loop” designer reviewing AI’s work? Nope, I’ve got good news. Learn more →
What is Your Why?
As designers, we need to define purpose in order to make strong design decisions, but what drives you to be a designer? Learn more →
Think. Act. Feel.
What drives your decision making: do you start with thinking or feeling? Each approach has different results but one is the product designer’s super power. Learn more →
Staying Aligned with Andreea Lotak
My guest Andreea Lotak and I talk about aligning designs with stakeholders, do you have it, do you know when you’ve lost it, and how do you get it back? Learn more →
Never a Wrong Design
Today we’re talking about those times your design was totally wrong in a stakeholder design review, what went wrong and how to prevent it from happening again. Learn more →
Leading by Design
Good, solid leadership is in short supply, but you can step up and be one of those leaders. Here are three of my top-ten character traits of an effective design leader. Learn more →
Essential Skills Beyond the Tools
Product design tools are changing every week, but today we’re talking about the top 5 product design skills you need that go beyond the tools you use. Learn more →
When Design Decisions Matter
Today we’re talking about the thinking that drives design decisions. What happens when you turn your design decisions over to AI? Learn more →
Design is Dead Final, Final
Design is dead (again) and AI does all the heavy thinking for you—is that true? Yet, there is a fundamental framework that applies to any design process regardless the tool. Learn more →
When AI Reviews Design
There’s a world of AI generated design support out there, but what happens when you use them to review your design, and are there any alternatives? Learn more →
Making Messy Design Clear
Not all stakeholders understand the value of design because it seems messy. Designers want a step by step process. Both are extremes, but the Designy Framework is a clear approach. Learn more →
Design for Value
In this podcast we explore how it’s not enough to just design well, and ask: Are you making design decisions which generate value? Learn more →
Grow Your Influence as a Designer
What kind of influence do you have as a Product Designer? It’s more than you might expect. Learn more →
What is the Daily Sprint?
A podcast answering: how do you stretch your thinking, push new ideas, and deliver design excellence into your products? Learn more →