How Instagram's Design Leaders Invite Co-Creation and Digital Expression
Today's episode goes deep with senior design leaders at Instagram, sharing insights on the power of translating physical habits and behaviors to digital platforms and features. We’ll also discuss Instagram’s approach to inviting users into the co-creation of product features, and giving people the tools to express themselves in a digital world. Featuring special guests Jasmine Probst - Head of Central Design, Brett Westervelt - VP and Global Head of Design, and Product Designer Vivian Wang.
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Rokus, Owalas, and Robot Massages
Today's guest is Dan Harden, visionary designer, inventor, and the CEO and founder of Whipsaw - a design and strategy consultancy with over 700 patents and 1,000 projects to their name - including the Owala FreeSip, Nike FuelBand, and Google's Chromecast. Dan shares insights from his 25+ year career, including a strategic framework to approach new-to-market ideas and adopting the mindset of "becoming a baby" to create some of the most innovative products in the market today.
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The Future of Cities is Human Centered
Today's episode discusses the concept of facilitative leadership as a tool to bring out the best in cross disciplinary teams, and insights on taking a human-centered approach to planning cities of the future. Our guest Daniel Iacofano is the CEO, Founder, and President of MIG - a global firm with 14 locations and more than 40 years of planning, designing, and sustaining environments that support human development. Daniel is an author, researcher, and internationally recognized innovator in urban planning and design, strategic planning, and organizational development.
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Systems, Worlds, and Iconic Identities
Our 2025 opener features design leader Joe Stizlein, Executive Director of Silicon-Valley based Stitzlein Studios. Over his 30 year industry-spanning career, Joe’s built global design studios for Google and Nike, spearheaded the design identity for Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move program, and designed iconic identities for household names like Netflix, Mac OS 10 and the Nike Flyknit. In today’s episode Joe shares insights on systems thinking, world building through brand identity, and the future of design and AI.
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Becoming Purpose Driven
Today’s episode features part 2 of our conversation with Silicon Valley based Jump Associates, the world’s leading independent strategy and innovation firm. Director of Strategy Michael Fazio and Senior Innovation Strategist Ameila Carpenter discuss what it means to be a purpose driven company, and the effect it can have on your organization.
Undisciplined by Design features thought provoking conversations about innovation with business and creative leaders from across the country, sharing insights on human-centered approaches to innovation and the power of collaborating across disciplines and industries to create new and novel products, services, and systems. Host Aaron Bradley is an innovation leader and professor at the University of Cincinnati where he leads innovation and strategy projects in collaboration with transdisciplinary student teams and corporate partners from a variety of industry sectors.
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