Episodes
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305 Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator
Paola Antonelli is a Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she is also the founding Director of Research and Development. Antonelli has been described as "one of the 25 most incisive design visionaries in the world" by TIME magazine.
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304 Elaine Lopez, Assistant Professor
Elaine Lopez (b. 1984, Miami, FL) is an independent designer and educator. Her practice and research explore the intersection of culture, identity, equity, and Risograph printing within the field of design. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Parsons School of…
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303 Keller Easterling, Architect
Keller Easterling is an architect, writer and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale. She is currently working on a book about land activism in the US after the Civil Rights Movement. Her most recent book Medium Design(Verso, 2021) considers not only the design of things but the...
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302 Ben Fry, Principal
Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. After completing his...
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301 Tobias Frere-Jones, Typeface Designer
Over 35 years, Tobias Frere-Jones has established himself as one of the world’s leading typeface designers, creating some of the most widely used typefaces, including Interstate, Poynter Oldstyle, Whitney, Gotham, Surveyor, Tungsten and Retina.Tobias received a BFA in Graphic Design from the…
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300 Deb Chachra, Professor
I’m a Professor of Engineering and the author of How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (US/UK). I write, speak, collaborate, facilitate, and create widely at the intersection of technology and society, with an emphasis on systems, education, design, and materials.
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299 Brendan Jarvis, Managing Founder
Brendan Jarvis is an independent UX Researcher and the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween - New Zealand’s only specialist evaluative UX research practice and world-class human-centred research and innovation lab.
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298 Samar Maakaraoun, Partner
Partner at Pentagram since 2023.Growing up in Beirut before moving to London, Samar is fluent in three languages and two cultures. Spanning 20+ years across branding, digital storytelling, scenography and typography, her career has focused on balancing aesthetics, context and heritage with brand...
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297 Jesse Reed, Partner
Jesse reed is partner at order, managing editor of standards manual, ceo of standards, and creator of chip slip
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296 Dr. Andy Polaine, Service Design
Dr. Andy Polaine is a design leadership coach, educator and writer with three decades of experience helping clients transform their organisations and themselves. He is co-author of Service Design: From Insight to Implementation.
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295 John Bielenberg, Designer
John Bielenberg founded Project M in 2003. He has won more than 250 design awards in his career, and became an AIGA Fellow in 2008. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has acquired six of his design projects, and staged a solo exhibition of his work in 2000. In 2009, John was awarded the...
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294 Tamara Adlin, Co-author
Tamara Adlin helps teams make great products. Former UX leader at Amazon. 20+ years consulting (specializing in messy startups). Co-author of the Persona Lifecycle books
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293 Naomi Clarke, Illustrator
Naomi Ann Clarke is a freelance illustrator and art facilitator working with art directors in editorial, publishing, brands and charities, influenced by our connection to nature, adventure, wellbeing and heritage.
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292 Dr. Dan Formosa, Consultant
Dan consults with companies and organizations worldwide on design and innovation. An early proponent of Inclusive Design he also lectures internationally on research and the future of design. He established ThinkActHuman with the goal of design for a better world.
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291 Jakob Schneider, partner and creative director
Jakob Schneider is partner and creative director at KD1 design agency, co-founder of More than Metrics and Smaply, designer and editor of This is Service Design Doing and This is Service Design Thinking.
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290 Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D., CEO
Susan Weinschenk has a Ph.D. in Psychology, and is the Chief Behavioral Scientist and CEO at The Team W, Inc, and former Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Susan consults with Fortune 1000 companies, start-ups, governments and non-profits, and is the author of several books, including 100...
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289 Dr. Nadine Chahine, Type Designer
Nadine’s work has been featured in the 5th edition of Megg’s History of Graphic Design and in 2012 she was selected by Fast Company as one of its 100 Most Creative People in Business. In 2016 her work was showcased in the 4th edition of First Choice which highlights the work of the 250 top global...
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288 Jake Barton, Founder and CCO
Jake Barton is an American designer, and Founder of Local Projects, an experience design firm for museums, brands and public spaces based in New York, New York. He is on Fast Company Magazine’s list of top fifty designers and his TED Talk has over one million views.
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281 Robert Smith, Graphic Designer
Throughout my 30 years in the creative industry, I have worked for a corporation, a government department, four design studios, started two successful agencies, and taught and continue to teach design courses to the next generation of creatives.
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287 Tom Greever, Design Leader
I'm an executive UX and product design leader with more than 20 years of experience. I lead design transformations for high-growth companies. I love elevating the business impact of design, leveraging design as a strategic differentiator, and building design orgs to scale.
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286 Jon Yablonski, Senior Product Designer
Senior Product Designer @Mixpanel. Author of Laws of UX. Creator of Humane by Design. Co-organizer of IXD2.
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285 Andrea Rodriguez, Artist and Designer
I am Andrea Catalina Rodriguez, a muralist and graphic designer based in Toronto, with a passion for lettering & colour. My creative vision is deeply rooted in my love for Colombia and the rich tapestry of Latin American culture.
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284 Clara Kliman-Silver, UX Researcher
I am a UX researcher based in New York City. I currently work as a UX research manager on the Material Design team at Google and organize Ladies That UX NYC. My work focuses on the emergent role of artificial intelligence in UX design and software development.
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283 Amber Case, Speaker
Amber Case studies the interactions between humans and technology, and how technology affects culture. Case is an internationally recognized design advocate and speaker, and the author of four books, including Calm Technology and A Kids Book About Technology. She spent two years as a fellow at...
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282 Chris Risdon, Co-author
I lead teams and mentor designers while keeping my hands dirty in the practice. I design physical and digital services, and have been doing this and things related to this since 1997. I specialize in service design, behavioral design, and interaction design, all for increasingly complex service…
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280 Ashley Phillips, Co-founder
Ash is the co-founder and creative director of Six Cinquième. As a brand consultancy, Six Cinquième exists to define and build brands for visionaries who want to leave behind an impactful legacy in people’s lives, their industry and the world.
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279 Indi Young, Co-founder
Indi is a solution strategy researcher who created a method that lets teams clarify, measure, and grow their solutions and audience based on thinking styles. She works with teams on knowledge-building projects. She also teaches six applied research courses, writes books & essays, makes talks and...
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278 Greg Nudelman, UX thought leader
* 24 design patents * 6 Featured Mobile apps * 6 design books in 3 languages including UX for AI: A Framework for Designing AI-Driven Products (April 2025) * Hundreds of millions in design ROI
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277 Jamie Chang, Type Designer
Founder of Manic Type, Jamie Chang is a seasoned type designer and letterer based in Toronto, Canada. Jamie’s work delves into expressive typography, and its textural intricacies. A graduate of Type@Cooper and holding an MA TypeMedia from The Royal Academy of Art in the Hague. He now teaches at…
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276 Paul Twa, Designer
Paul Twa is a designer and illustrator who merges the richness of maximalism with the depth of visual history to create bold, intentional, and timeless work.
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275 Laura Stein, Chief Creative Officer
Today, as chief creative officer at Bruce Mau Design, Stein likes to operate without a rigid structure and follows the ethos that there is no “right way” when it comes to creativity.
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274 Vince Frost, CEO
Vince is the Founder, CEO and Executive Creative Director of Frost*collective. A globally recognised and awarded creative who is passionately committed to designing a better world.
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273 Danah Abdulla, Associate Professor
Danah Abdulla is a designer, educator and researcher interested in new narratives and practices in design that push the disciplinary boundaries and definitions of the subject. She is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Anti/Post/Decolonial Histories, Theories, Praxes at the Decolonising the Arts...
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272 Rachel Gogel, Fractional Design Leader
Rachel [she/her] is an independent creative executive shaping the future of design at the intersection of brand, culture, and technology. Since founding her SF-based consultancy in 2020, she has brought her expertise to larger companies like Airbnb and Dropbox and women-founded ventures such as...
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271 Debra Bishop, Design Director
Debra has been the Design Director of The New York Times for Kids since 2017. Previously she spent more than 25 years working as an editorial Art Director designing magazines such as Rolling Stone, House and Garden, Condé Nast Traveler, Esquire and More magazine.
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270 Gurudutt Badiger, Digital Experiences
Hi, I’m Gurudutt — your go-to creator for blending brains, beauty, and business into seamless digital experiences. 🚀 I thrive at the crossroads of engineering precision, creative artistry, and business impact, turning complex challenges into intuitive solutions that inspire.
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269 May-Li Khoe, Interdisciplinary Artist
Interdisciplinary artist, inventor, co-founder, executive, design leader, DJ, dancer, designer, and aspiring writer. Background in design, engineering, and interdisciplinary mischief. Decades of experience shipping products and experiences, including work on multiple operating systems and...
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268 Abby Covert, Information Architect
My name is Abby Covert. I am an author, teacher and community leader in the field of information architecture. My work aims to make information architecture and sensemaking skills accessible to everyone. NRkhEgg7EQAJrPf423vA
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267 Stephen Gates, Designer
I started learning design at two years old on my father’s letterpress (yes, really - there’s a photo to prove it). I’ve been creating ever since, following in his footsteps as a second-generation design and Creative Director.
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266 Lou Downe, Author
Lou Downe is the author of Good Services, the bestselling book on how to design services that work and the founding director of the School of Good Services. Lou is the former Director of Design for the UK Government where they founded the discipline of service design, growing a 2000 strong team…
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265 Christine Vallaure, Speaker
I make stuff like moonlearning.io and thesolo.io, and enjoy speaking at conferences about the intersection of UI design/coding and solopreneurship.
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264 Chiara Aliotta, Designer (rerecording)
I am an award-winning designer with years of experience as a graphic designer, art director, and brand consultant. Until Sunday encompasses the versatile work I do, whether that’s crafting compelling and trustworthy brand stories for cutting-edge tech startups, leading innovative digital designs...
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263 Eddie Opara, Partner
He joined Pentagram’s New York office as partner in 2010. Eddie Opara was born in Wandsworth, London in 1972. He studied graphic design at the London College of Printing and Yale University, where he received his MFA in 1997. He began his career as a designer at ATG and Imaginary Forces and…
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262 Kushal Goenka, Designer
Virtual Reality Developer, Industrial Designer, UX Designer, Web Developer & CG Artist
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261 Chiara Aliotta, Designer
I am an award-winning designer with years of experience as a graphic designer, art director, and brand consultant. Until Sunday encompasses the versatile work I do, whether that’s crafting compelling and trustworthy brand stories for cutting-edge tech startups, leading innovative digital designs...
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260 Kelly Goto, Evangelist
As an evangelist for design ethnography, Kelly is dedicated to understanding how real people integrate products and services into their daily lives. Kelly is founder and principal of both gotomedia and gotoresearch.
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259 Brad Frost, Web Designer
I'm Brad Frost, a design system consultant, web designer, speaker, writer, musician, and artist located in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA. I wrote a book called Atomic Design, which covers all that goes into creating and maintaining effective design systems.
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258 Luba Lukova, Visual Artist
Luba Lukova is an American visual artist, known for her thought-provoking images and expressive poster designs. Her work has won international acclaim and is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York among many others. Luba Lukova is an internationally…
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257 Natasha Jen, Partner
Natasha Jen is an award-winning designer, an educator, and a partner at Pentagram. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, she joined Pentagram’s New York office in 2012. A six-time National Design Award nominee.
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256 Linn Vizard, Service Designer
Linn is a leading advocate for service design in Canada and co-founded Service Design Toronto in 2013. She runs Made Manifest, a boutique consultancy, leading transformational projects for clients like Mejuri, TELUS, Shopify, and the City of Toronto. She writes the Ask a Service Designer…
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