Christophe Tauziet - Plaid’s culture of craft, tips for CRIT, and lessons from early Facebook
This week’s episode is with Christophe Tauziet who is the Head of Design at Plaid—one of today’s leading fintech companies.We go deep into the ways he’s building a culture of craft and the rituals the...
7 Maalis 202555min
2 ways to make your design ideas compellingđź’ˇ
You can have the greatest design concepts in the world, but none of that matters if they don't make it into production.So this episode is all about how to create an aura of inevitability around your i...
4 Maalis 20257min
Aashman Goghari - Tackling complex design challenges at Palantir
Palantir is one of the most powerful products in existence today.It provides critical government and enterprise infrastructure from the factory floors to the front lines. You can literally build your ...
1 Maalis 202559min
4 brand strategy tips from Smith & Diction đź’ˇ
When comes to brand design, Mike and Cara from Smith & Diction are pretty much top of the game (you might recognize them as the ones who did the brand identity for Perplexity).During our interview, it...
25 Helmi 20257min
Thiago Costa - Cultivating taste as a designer
If you asked me “who has the best taste in design right now?” one of the first people I’d mention is Thiago Costa.His product Fey is in the S-tier of design and I’ve studied his visual techniques for ...
21 Helmi 202558min
Ammaar Reshi - Unlocking AI’s creative potential
Today we get to hear from Ammaar Reshi who is the Head of Design at ElevenLabs—the AI audio platform that has come up multiple times in past episodes.So a big focus of this conversation is learning wh...
14 Helmi 202554min
Design “handoff” is changing forever 💡
How do designers from today’s top teams collaborate with engineers?After many interviews I'm starting to notice a trend…The highest functioning product teams throw away a lot of code and it’s a good m...
11 Helmi 202511min
Chris Abad - Storytelling tactics for senior designers
This week's episode is with Chris Abad who has led design teams at companies like Google, Square and Dropbox so needless to say he's given a lot of design presentations over his 20+ year career.So thi...
7 Helmi 202549min
