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Finding Our Way

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Finding Our Way is a arts podcast hosted by Jesse James Garrett and Peter Merholz. It has 70 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

UX design pioneers and Adaptive Path co-founders Peter Merholz and Jesse James Garrett discuss the evolving challenges and opportunities for design leaders.

arts ·en-US ·70 episodes

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71: Finding Our Way Live! (ft John Gleason)

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LIMINAL—3: The Waves within Waves

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69: In a World of AI, What is the Work Really About? (ft. Jorge Arango)

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68: AI and Design: Fundamentals and The Future (ft. Dan Saffer)

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LIMINAL—2: Liminal Mindset, Skillset, and Leadership

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LIMINAL—1: The Liminal Moment

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65: Design—Stuck in the Middle with AI (ft. Christina Wodtke)

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64: The State of Design Orgs—Growth Paths, Quality Standards, and Empowerment Gaps

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63: AI Means Product Needs UX More than Ever (ft. Christian Crumlish)

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62: Design as Differentiator in a World of AI (ft. Andrew Hogan)

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61: The Paradoxes of Product Discovery (ft. Teresa Torres)

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60: Making the World– Design Education and Social Change (ft. Lesley-Ann Noel, PhD)

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59: Design Isn’t Dead, But It’s Seen Better Days (ft. John Gleason)

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58: AI is a Stress Test for Your UX: What Cracks Will It Show?

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57: On Being a Chief Experience Officer (ft. Amy Lokey)

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56: Design’s Role in the Evolution of Product Management (ft. Sara Beckman)

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55: The Maker Mindset Connecting Product, Design, and Engineering (ft. Todd Wilkens)

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54: At the Intersection of Design and Business, Be The Anomaly (ft. Roger Martin)

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53: Leading Design Through Continual Evolution (ft. Peter Skillman)

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52: Design at a Crossroads (ft. Audrey Crane)

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51: Design-led Innovation in Emerging Markets (ft. Gaurav Mathur)

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50: Balancing Design and Business as a Utopian Pragmatist (ft. Leslie Witt)

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49: Unraveling Complexity in Product Development (ft. John Cutler)

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48: Leading Design from IDEO to In-house (ft. Anne Pascual)

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47: Seeking Balance (ft. Koji Pereira)

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46: Leading with Clarity (ft. Vuokko Aro)

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45: The Phase Shift

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44: The Mindful Executive (ft. Christina Goldschmidt)

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43: Leading Enterprise UX for LEGO Group (ft. Rebecca Nordstrom)

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42: Leading From Trust (ft. Cynthia Savard Saucier)

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41: Leading Experience Design for the Military (ft. Colt Whittall)

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40: The Cross-Trained Design Leader (ft. Rajat Shail)

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39: Reflections on the State of Design Leadership (Season 3 finale)

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38: The Craft-led Design Executive (ft. Tim Allen)

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37: From Design Leadership to Product Leadership (ft. Che Douglas)

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36: The Chief Design Officer as Corporate Executive (ft. Jehad Affoneh)

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35—The Actualized Design Executive (ft. Daniela Jorge)

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34: Design leadership to support organizational transformation (ft. Rachel Kobetz)

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33: Leading Design in a Product World (ft. Greg Petroff)

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32: The Intentional Design Executive (ft. Kaaren Hanson)

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31: Sustaining yourself as a design executive (ft. Katrina Alcorn, GM IBM Design)

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30— Mailbag: UX maturity, conflict fatigue, and getting past imposter syndrome

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29: Listening with Intent (ft. Indi Young)

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28: The Leadership Ceiling (ft. Tim Kieschnick)

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27: Choose Yourself—Making up your career path as you go (ft. Abby Covert)

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26: Chief Design Officers and Design Executive Effectiveness (ft. Gordon Ching)

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25—The Reckoning

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24: Delving into digital design—craft, teaching, lessons from architecture, standards and certification (ft. Jorge Arango)

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23–Make UX truly human-centered by addressing trauma, power, and other necessary and uncomfortable realities (ft. Vivianne Castillo)

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22: “Right problem, right solution, done right”—The Vanguard of User Research (ft. Jen Cardello)

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