We're midway through the latest season of the podcast.
How companies work with agencies, transferrable skills, growth for senior designers are just some of the topics we get into!
Can you believe it? The first half season five is live!
You can hear from the great minds of Catt Small, Dan Mall, Jasmine Orange, Timothy Bardlavens, and Chris Thoms. Here are a few show descriptions and links you can check out. Moving forward all episodes will be on YouTube with video recordings—stop by the channel and subscribe!
Recognizing transferable skills and creating equitable outcomes with Chris Thoms
In this episode of Technically Speaking, the Experience Designer at NWEA (and my Clubhouse friend) Chris Thoms joins the show to unravel the events that led him into the creative business after dedicating his life to soccer coaching. We touch upon the value of transferable skills and creating safe spaces to reframe the conversations inside a work environment. Plus, he shares how he got in touch with the children and communities that he is designing for and how that is part of his purpose.
Chaotic good with Timothy Bardlavens
Timothy Bardlavens is a Product Design leader that works to combat misinformation and harmful content inside Meta apps. In this episode, Timothy has some interesting advice and views around chaotic-good leadership, transparency and accountability. Join us while we discover more about how integrity manifests itself organizationally and within a product inside Meta!
Designing your career and embracing the individual contributor role with Catt Small
Catt Small is a cat lover, karaoke singer, writer, and gamer. She’s currently leading the design of Goals at Asana and in this episode, we go deep into her vision of design management and the key elements to building a successful design team, as well as senior designers’ leadership. Do you want to know what the day-to-day work inside Asana’s Goals Product Team is like? Get ready to join this interesting conversation and discover it.
Creativity, Building SuperFriendly, and Design Systems with Dan Mall
The Creative Director Dan Mall joins the show to talk about his career path and the moments that led him to start SuperFriendly, his own agency that is all about design systems. Dan shares his ethos and explains why he considers himself an intentional person. We explore some of the key moments within the foundation of SuperFriendly and we talk about the practices that companies value the most when it comes to working with agencies.
New Principles, Open Environments and Design Beyond Screens with Jasmine Orange
Jasmine Orange works as UX lead at Ernst & Young. In this episode, we talk about her background in industrial design and her passion for designing beyond the screens. Jasmine shares her vision on design principles that need to be fixed and the value of open communication within design environments. Join us and connect with Jasmine’s philosophy of hard work (and taking breaks)!
Be on the look out for our next set of releases this August and September. If you haven’t already be sure to subscribe to the podcast on whatever platform you use so you don’t miss a thing!
-H