Josh Ulm has quite the CV—Adobe Design Lead, Vodafone Head of UX, Oracle VP of Design, and now Wells Fargo SVP of Strategic Design and Insights. One thing he’s learned along the way is that “the most valuable role for design to play is influencing the business—not just the product." In this episode of the Design Better Podcast, Aarron and Eli covered subjects ranging from where the connected workflow is most broken, to the one critical question to ask executive sponsors when starting a project.
TS Balaji: Thinking and acting like a business leader
Diana Mounter: Building efficient design systems at Github
Meredith Black: building DesignOps dream teams
Lynsey Thornton: Inside Shopify’s growth, re-organization, and design system
Mia Blume: Are you ready to shift from team member to team leader?
Christian Madsbjerg: How ethnography leads to a deeper understanding of users
Jake Knapp: Lessons from running 150+ design sprints at Google Ventures
Laura Martini: So your boss doesn't believe in design research
Michael Leon: How skateboarding prepared him for Nike, Patagonia, and Sonos
Alex Schleifer: Airbnb's hasty Super Bowl decision guided by a clear mission
Albert Lee: Learning UX from Frank Gehry, IDEO, and Chez Panisse
Dan Winger: The evolution of LEGO from simple bricks to interactive storytelling
David Kelley: The birth of design thinking and what he's most proud of
Irene Au: How Larry Page's view on aesthetics changed Google
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