Margot Bloomstein on Trust February 28, 2021 “Organizations need to know what they stand for”
Hà Phan on Product Leadership February 14, 2021 “Just build your own Island of greatness and then the rest will follow.”
Kourosh Dini on DEVONthink January 31, 2021 “You want the ideas to be able to come to you when and where they are useful to you”
Jason Ulaszek on Healing Social Rifts January 17, 2021 “I am because you are, you are because I am.”
Grace Lau on Information Architecture Events January 3, 2021 “Come! Come learn with us. Come participate and contribute.”
Cheryl Platz on Multimodality December 19, 2020 “There’s a lot of potential here and there’s a lot of need.”
Brian Breslin on Building Community December 6, 2020 “The more nodes there are in the network, the stronger the network becomes.”
Phillip Hunter on Design for Conversation November 22, 2020 “Conversation is a system”
Caroline Crampton on Curation November 8, 2020 “[Think] about the kinds of topics that you want to engage with”
Peter Morville on Emancipating Information Architecture October 25, 2020 “The structures that have served us well, served us well in a different world — in a past world that’s not coming back.”
Jeff Johnson on Design for Aging October 11, 2020 “Older adults are in a sense the population that is most in need of technological assistance.”
Tanya Rabourn on Ethnography September 27, 2020 “In qualitative research, we are the research instrument.”
Alexis Lloyd on the Granularity of Media September 13, 2020 “We could be heading for a space where we start to build the best of both worlds…”
Rob Haisfield on Roam August 30, 2020 “Roam really makes it powerful to connect the dots between ideas and between projects”
Nataly Restrepo on Food Design August 16, 2020 “First you have to understand the vision and the superior meaning that you want to create”
Arvind Venkataramani on Rituals August 2, 2020 “[Sometimes] the lived world that you’re in may not just be enough in and of itself to help you create meanings.”
Heather Hedden on Taxonomies July 19, 2020 “Some people are good at searching and some people are not so experienced. But having a taxonomy kind of levels it.”
Stephen P. Anderson on Cognitive Environments July 5, 2020 “I would love to see the entire world up-leveled in terms of our understanding our own cognitive abilities.”
Andy Polaine on Service Design June 21, 2020 “In some respects, what you’re designing is a kind of ecosystem.”
Audrey Crane on Design in Organizations June 7, 2020 “Perspective is the most valuable product in the modern world.”
Louis Rosenfeld on Virtual Conferences May 24, 2020 “Ultimately, in many respects it was a better experience than people might ordinarily get.”
Matt Nish-Lapidus on Art May 10, 2020 “It’s in the relationships between the things that the meaning emerges, rather than in the individual components themselves.”
Ren Pope on Ontologies April 26, 2020 “On its own, you can’t use data. It has to have context.”
Abby Covert on Remote Work April 12, 2020 “It’s okay to not be okay right now. This is not normal.”
Aynne Valencia on Work Cycles March 29, 2020 “Whether you’re working in private sector or working within the public sector, or academia, there’s always that trade-off of the good for the perfect.”
Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz on the Long-term View March 15, 2020 “Are there ways that we can pick our heads up from this one situation and look at the more general, more open space around, when this is going to happen again, and can we do things to attend to that?”
Christian Crumlish on Product Management March 1, 2020 “A big part of the product manager’s role is actually connecting those levels of meaning, or those levels, those scales. There’s this almost fractal-like scale of decision-making that goes on.”
Maria Giudice on Purpose February 16, 2020 “Design is about being in service to others. Our job is a service job.”
Peter Merholz on the Structure of Organizations February 2, 2020 “If you want to deliver a meaningful experience — a sensible experience — to your customers, you have to reorganize your company in a way that makes sense to your customers.”
Cyd Harrell on Design for the Long-term January 19, 2020 “I tend to think of an institution as something that acts not just at scale, but over time.”
Andrew Hinton on Language and Environments January 5, 2020 “I just really wanted to go deep on understanding; what is my material if I’m an information architect?”
Mary Parks on Voice User Interfaces December 21, 2019 “When it comes to spoken language or any form of language, it’s very deeply tied to our identity.”
Michael J. Metts on Writing as Design December 8, 2019 “It’s very rare that we take a step back in our own lives and try to look at what we’re trying to accomplish with the little things we write every day.“
Carol Smith on Artificial Intelligence November 24, 2019 “I would love for more people to really understand not only the potentials but also the limitations of these systems, so that they’re not so scary and so that people aren’t intimidated by them.”
Andrea Mignolo on Designerly Ways of Being November 10, 2019 “I feel that my mission is to help organizations create new ways of working, to support flourishing individuals and flourishing organizations.”
Vanessa Foss on Event Planning October 27, 2019 “It’s hard work, but it’s very rewarding when you get to see the better side of human beings.”
Chris Chandler on Design Ethics October 13, 2019 “Sometimes I say that theory without practice is useless, but sometimes I’ll say that practice without theory is expensive.”
Eduardo Ortiz on Social Impact September 29, 2019 “This is something that needed to be done and a number of people jumped on board to get it done.”
Thomas Dose on Music Collections September 15, 2019 “The department I’m working in has been systematically collecting music since 1949, and the physical archives consist of roughly about 900,000 units.”
Rachel Price on Improvisation September 1, 2019 “[The] idea that chord changes are enough is so cool.”
MJ Broadbent on Graphic Recording August 18, 2019 “You’re making marks, and those marks need to have a meaning.”
Jeff Sussna on Cybernetics August 4, 2019 “My business is predicated on the idea that it’s possible to move fast without breaking things.”
Lis Hubert on Intentional Living July 21, 2019 “I’m trying to architect my best life.”
Ariel Waldman on Antarctica July 7, 2019 “It’s a very creative time for people from different disciplines to be trying to help us figure out if we can detect life in our solar system, or even life on exoplanets.”
Kim Lenox on Leadership June 23, 2019 “It’s really about us making sure that we’re aligned, and that comes through conversation.”
Lisa Welchman on Governance June 9, 2019 “The sharing of information globally and instantly is definitely an inflection point for human beings — and I think we’re just starting that.”
Peter Morville on Seductive Information May 26, 2019 “Sleep and diet and exercise are probably the top three tools for better information management.”
Jessica Ivins on Getting Things Done May 12, 2019 “My goal was to be able to juggle all the things I need to juggle and do all the things I need to do without burning out and without working long hours.”
Trip O’Dell on Dyslexia April 28, 2019 “I am very good at connecting what seemed like unrelated ideas very quickly. They call it dyslexic gist detection.”
Donna Lichaw on Stories April 14, 2019 “I won’t help you develop your products, but I will help you develop yourselves.”
Beck Tench on Tinderbox March 31, 2019 “When everything has to be super fast and easy to find, our actual experience of using it can be potentially poorer if we value things besides being productive and fast.”
Kevin M. Hoffman on Proposals March 17, 2019 “One of the interesting things that I’ve observed in working in design and process is this idea of working in the open.”
Andrea Kates on Innovation March 3, 2019 How a consultant and author helps organizations “find their next.”
Fabricio Teixeira on Publishing February 17, 2019 How the UX Collective team manages information in their publishing process.
Gretchen Anderson on Writing February 3, 2019 How the design leader and author managed information towards writing “Mastering Collaboration.”
Louis Rosenfeld on Managing January 20, 2019 A conversation with the author and founder of Rosenfeld Media about how he manages various workstreams.
Introduction January 15, 2019 A brief description of what the show is about.