Design Driven

Dane Howard is a design leader & entrepreneur. As a creative generator, he designs momentum for world class products, services and brands.He has had the pleasure to build, grow & lead teams for both start-ups and big companies. He co-founded a start-up which was acquired by eBay. He loves to mine the experience potential in companies.He has worked on an international scale with CEO's and Product leadership. He has played principle design and leadership roles for Microsoft, BMW, Major League Baseball, Scient, Quokka Sports, NBCOlympics, Alias/Wavefront, eBay and Trov. He has built and launched global experiences in several countries, and has garnered several prestigious awards in design & marketing.He believes that stories build in strength with re-telling. It is the product & brand stories that become the reason we all move forward together.He has been an author, speaker, photographer, designer, and father. He is the author of 'The Future of Memories' and advisor to 'standbeautiful.me', an ant

About This EpisodeWhat is the relationship between innovation, design, and organizational culture? In a perfect world, they don’t just overlap; they are continuously working together in a symbiotic relationship. So why is it that the three aren’t always spoken of together? More often than not, you hear executives talking about innovating with design or creating a culture of innovation, but without the third piece you can only go so far. “The truth about Innovation is that we have all the tools that we need. Unfortunately, the entrenched culture within a lot of these companies isn’t changing to meet the needs of these new innovative ways. Until the culture changes, you’re not going to see much lift and see the needle move very much.” - Greg Storey on The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures (HBR)The value of design isn’t always tangible, and for organizations where legacy systems or legacy culture rules, it can get in the way of making effective design decisions. At the end of the day, desi

Dan Mall is a creative director and advisor from Philly. He’s the founder and executive director of SuperFriendly, a design collaborative that gives clients direction.Dan is an enthralled husband & dad, author of Pricing Design, and co-founder of SuperBooked, a service that helps you find work with a little help from your friends. He writes about design and other issues on Twitter and on his industry-recognized site, danmall.me. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As a designer and front-end developer, Shay Howe has a passion for solving problems while building creative and intuitive products. He specializes in product design and development, operations, and organizational leadership, areas in which he regularly writes and speaks about.Currently, he is the VP of Design at ActiveCampaign, helping small businesses meaningfully connect and engage with their customers.Elsewhere, he is a co-founder of Lead Honestly and Chicago Camps and author of "Learn to Code HTML and CSS." See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A technology product design leader for 20 years, Phillip is at a fourth start-up growing its offering to customers. Pulse Labs assesses and helps improve the experience of using AI-powered digital assistants such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. Previously, he and his team guided the experience direction for how people build and use Amazon Alexa Skills. A veteran of small and large companies, he is passionate about how teams work, how to understand and influence complex systems, and the little details of product design that make big differences.Phillip loves living, creating, and working in Seattle. He is an active member of local and international design communities. He also fancies himself a songwriter and photographer, and a skilled maker of bad puns See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the Season 2 Finale and special holiday edition of Design Driven. Recording this show was a lot of fun, and you’ll hear why as you get into it.This episode is great not just because it was recorded in person, but because of who the guests are and the special chemisty we all share.It was recorded at a villa in the North Georgia mountains during Web Whisky Weekend. A getaway for people who love the web. This kind of conversation was happening the entire weekend, so we decided to capture some of it for you. If you like what you hear, you should consider joining us at the next event.Details at webwhiskyweekend.comMy guests, Jonathan Snook, Jina Anne, and Greg Storey all have been designing things for the web, and leading the community towards better design for nearly two decades.Jonathan Snook is well known for his work with CSS. He’s written several books, spoken at literally hundreds of conferences, and helped thousands and thousands of people through his blog posts and generous contributions to many

Designing software is one thing. Understanding the needs,  of people buying a physical product is entirely different. Or is it? Today I’m talking to Andy Vi-tally about designing experiences at 3M, and his new role at Polaris where they make motorcycles and ATVs.Andy Vitale is the Director of User Experience at Polaris Industries, a global powersports leader, where he is responsible for leading user experience design across Polaris’ innovative product lines. Andy is focused on translating human insights into actionable experiences that fuel the passion of riders, workers and outdoor enthusiasts.Andy holds a Master’s Degree in User Experience Design and has almost 20 years of experience, having held multiple roles as a designer, entrepreneur, education department chair, and design leader. With a proven ability to lead change and process improvements, Andy has developed strategies and design solutions for diverse organizations ranging from startups to Fortune ranked companies. He is a relentless user exper

Making software on a global scale is really hard. You have to know what each person is trying to do and how to tailor the experience to their specific needs. In today’s chat with Arin Bowmick we’ll look at how IBM uses design thinking to do just that.Arin is Vice President, Design at IBM based in San Francisco, California. He heads the user experience and design practice for IBM Cloud. With vast experience in enterprise UX and a Masters degree in HCI, Arin has served in multiple leadership roles in the technology industry, and is the author of several design patents and publications. He currently heads the design team at IBM Hybrid Cloud. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Matthew Marshall is Co-founder and Head of Product at New Story – a nonprofit startup that transforms slums into sustainable communities around the world. Matthew is a Y-Combinator graduate, World Economic Forum Global Shaper, University of Georgia alum, and Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jeremy is co-founder and CEO at Sideqik, a platform that helps brands develop impactful relationships with great influencers and get their products in front of the right consumers. Sideqik works with some of the world’s top brands like Logitech, CBS, HTC, and Coca-Cola.He is passionate about building great products, teams, and technology. Before he waded into influencer marketing, he led the development of social media management software for Fortune 500 companies at Vitrue (acquired by Oracle) and served as CTO of Mobilization Labs, building a social community platform for brands like Chick-fil-A, Universal Music, and United Way.A graduate of Georgia Tech, his experience also includes building solutions for the traffic management, security, financial, and health care industries. In his free time, Jeremy can be found scuba diving, watching football, and traveling. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hi! My name is Jeff Kao and I am a UX designer working for Riot Games based in Los Angeles, CA.I feel very fortunate that I discovered experience design in college and have spent the last 10+ years in the design field split between working in agencies and in-house. Some of my more memorable companies are Motorola, Allstate Insurance, Cars.com, and Cramer-Krasselt.Currently, I’m the Lead UX Designer on one of several R&D teams dedicated to developing new games for Riot. It is a fascinating role where we take different systems & mechanics and try to craft an awesome game out of it. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brian Hull is a creative leader with over 15 years experience in driving award-winning solutions for some of the world’s largest advertising agencies, marketers and brands.With executive creative posts at New York’s Grey, Organic, and G2, Brian has amassed a variety of B2B and B2C category experience across multiple marketing channels.Be it Times Square signage, to in-store, in-dash, on-pack, on-line, mobile and more, Brian is a strong believer in creating unified marketing experiences that focus on being relevant, engaging, intuitive and beautiful.Newly acquired by IBM, Brian leads the The Weather Company's Global Creative Lab teams utilizing Watson’s cognitive capabilities along with the ultimate trifecta of data–weather, location and time–to concept, create and deliver advertising products, services and experiences across all Weather Company properties. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As Director of GeorgiaGov Interactive at the Georgia Technology Authority, Nikhil Deshpande leads the team responsible for managing Georgia.gov, the official online portal to Georgia state government, and a web-publishing platform for state agencies and elected officials.Nikhil envisioned and led state government’s transition to an enterprise web-publishing platform based on Drupal, an open source content management system hosted in the cloud. The platform currently supports 78 state agency websites. Under his direction, Georgia became the first state in the nation to use Drupal across it's enterprise and meet special needs of constituents with a range of disabilities affecting vision, hearing, motion and cognition making the platform Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 AA compliant.Nikhil strongly advocated the use of social media for Georgia.gov when using social media for government was not common, and established a presence for the state on Facebook and Twitter to quickly address citizens’ questions a

Currently a Sr. UX Designer in McAfee's Enterprise User Experience group, Laura has over 20 years of experience as a designer and user experience practitioner. Prior to joining McAfee in early 2016, Laura worked at Intel on wireless display technology.She has worked in corporate in-house, consulting and agency environments, and considers herself incredibly lucky to have gotten her hands dirty all over the digital world. Her industry experience includes IT security, technology, retail, healthcare, consumer packaged goods, financial services, agriculture, hospitality, and government.Her biggest strengths lie in creating simple and elegant solutions to thorny problems, and making sure her team is solving the right problem in the first place. When not designing, she can be found enjoying all the tastes, sights and sounds the Pacific northwest has to offer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Marco Suarez is a Staff Product Designer at Etsy where he supports their products through design systems. Marco is also the owner of Methodical Coffee, a specialty coffee shop and roaster. He lives in the small but not too small city of Greenville, SC with his wife and two daughters. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Charlie Deets currently designs WhatsApp. Before that he was the Lead Product Designer on Facebook Groups. He has also worked on a number of other teams at Facebook such as Privacy, Composer and Birthdays.Before Facebook, he was working at Electric Pulp. While he was there, they built Duo, a macOS web browser for responsive web developers. He got my start in design and development at Wright, an auction house in Chicago.He has also built and released independent apps, MOON, Blind Browser for macOS, and Tao Daily for iOS. MOON has become the most popular moon app in the world as well as won a Webby honoree. Blind was mentioned by Daring Fireball and has become a resource for web developers working in higher resolutions.In his spare time he makes music, plays games, and relentlessly scours the internet with his wonderful gemini wife. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As the VP of Design Education at InVision, Aarron Walter draws upon 15 years of experience running product teams and teaching design to help companies enact design best practices.Aarron founded the UX practice at MailChimp and helped grow the product from a few thousand users to more than 10 million. His design guidance has helped the White House, the US Department of State, and dozens of major corporations, startups and venture capitalist firms.He is the author of the best selling book Designing for Emotion from A Book Apart. You'll find @aarron on Twitter and Medium sharing thoughts on design. Learn more at aarronwalter.com.Eli Woolery is the Director of Design Education at InVision. His design career spans both physical and digital products, and he has worked with companies ranging from startups (his own and others) to Fortune 500 companies.In addition to his background in product and industrial design, he has been a professional photographer and filmmaker. He teaches the seni

With more than 20 years of experience in UX, UI, product, and service design field Andrea brings skills from cognitive psychology and computer science in conjunction with a passion for UX and Human-Centered Design, brand management and marketing sensibility to his teams and projects.He refined his education at Stanford and MIT, and he worked with, and for, companies like Apple, Google, Samsung, Noki, Ryanair, and Virgin Media. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You might not think of Home Depot as a leader in human centered design, but 1.5 Billion transactions a year has taught them a few things. Today we'll talk with Kelly Robinson about how they're using UX and content strategy to keep customers happy and coming back for more.Kelly is a UX content strategist with The Home Depot. She’s spearheaded content and design initiatives across multiple industries, from retailers like eBay to entertainment companies like Blue Man Group. Her specialties include information architecture, UX writing, user research, and front-end development. Kelly is an animal welfare advocate who finds delight in songwriting, camping, and spooky stories. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

You might not think about the US FDA often, but their work touches nearly every part of your life. In this episode, J talks to Michael Jovel about how they’re using design thinking to make their digital products easier to use for everyone.Michael Jovel is a Designer and Front-end Developer at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the lead on the Labcoat Design System. He also organizes the Defense Media Innovation Lab and the Bmoresponsive web conference. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.