Finding Our Way
BookmarkJesse James Garrett and Peter Merholz
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
71: Finding Our Way Live! (ft John Gleason)
LIMINAL—3: The Waves within Waves
69: In a World of AI, What is the Work Really About? (ft. Jorge Arango)
68: AI and Design: Fundamentals and The Future (ft. Dan Saffer)
LIMINAL—2: Liminal Mindset, Skillset, and Leadership
LIMINAL—1: The Liminal Moment
65: Design—Stuck in the Middle with AI (ft. Christina Wodtke)
64: The State of Design Orgs—Growth Paths, Quality Standards, and Empowerment Gaps
63: AI Means Product Needs UX More than Ever (ft. Christian Crumlish)
62: Design as Differentiator in a World of AI (ft. Andrew Hogan)
61: The Paradoxes of Product Discovery (ft. Teresa Torres)
60: Making the World– Design Education and Social Change (ft. Lesley-Ann Noel, PhD)
59: Design Isn’t Dead, But It’s Seen Better Days (ft. John Gleason)
58: AI is a Stress Test for Your UX: What Cracks Will It Show?
57: On Being a Chief Experience Officer (ft. Amy Lokey)
56: Design’s Role in the Evolution of Product Management (ft. Sara Beckman)
55: The Maker Mindset Connecting Product, Design, and Engineering (ft. Todd Wilkens)
54: At the Intersection of Design and Business, Be The Anomaly (ft. Roger Martin)
53: Leading Design Through Continual Evolution (ft. Peter Skillman)
52: Design at a Crossroads (ft. Audrey Crane)
51: Design-led Innovation in Emerging Markets (ft. Gaurav Mathur)
50: Balancing Design and Business as a Utopian Pragmatist (ft. Leslie Witt)
49: Unraveling Complexity in Product Development (ft. John Cutler)
48: Leading Design from IDEO to In-house (ft. Anne Pascual)
47: Seeking Balance (ft. Koji Pereira)
46: Leading with Clarity (ft. Vuokko Aro)
45: The Phase Shift
44: The Mindful Executive (ft. Christina Goldschmidt)
43: Leading Enterprise UX for LEGO Group (ft. Rebecca Nordstrom)
42: Leading From Trust (ft. Cynthia Savard Saucier)
41: Leading Experience Design for the Military (ft. Colt Whittall)
40: The Cross-Trained Design Leader (ft. Rajat Shail)
39: Reflections on the State of Design Leadership (Season 3 finale)
38: The Craft-led Design Executive (ft. Tim Allen)
37: From Design Leadership to Product Leadership (ft. Che Douglas)
36: The Chief Design Officer as Corporate Executive (ft. Jehad Affoneh)
35—The Actualized Design Executive (ft. Daniela Jorge)
34: Design leadership to support organizational transformation (ft. Rachel Kobetz)
33: Leading Design in a Product World (ft. Greg Petroff)
32: The Intentional Design Executive (ft. Kaaren Hanson)
31: Sustaining yourself as a design executive (ft. Katrina Alcorn, GM IBM Design)
30— Mailbag: UX maturity, conflict fatigue, and getting past imposter syndrome
29: Listening with Intent (ft. Indi Young)
28: The Leadership Ceiling (ft. Tim Kieschnick)
27: Choose Yourself—Making up your career path as you go (ft. Abby Covert)
26: Chief Design Officers and Design Executive Effectiveness (ft. Gordon Ching)
25—The Reckoning
24: Delving into digital design—craft, teaching, lessons from architecture, standards and certification (ft. Jorge Arango)
23–Make UX truly human-centered by addressing trauma, power, and other necessary and uncomfortable realities (ft. Vivianne Castillo)
22: “Right problem, right solution, done right”—The Vanguard of User Research (ft. Jen Cardello)
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