Nodes of Design

Randy Herbertson is a recognized brand strategist and creative director with over twenty years of marketing and innovation experience. Randy has worked with WPP and Omnicom agency networks, Conde Nast Publications, Allied Domecq, and E&J Gallo. In addition, Randy has recently worked in the boutique agency world, owning and operating two firms, including The Visual Brand, founded in 2013. ...

Ashwin Rajan is a strategic designer accelerating the emerging discipline of Behavior Design. He has two decades of innovation experience in the digital industry. He is also the founder of the Fabric behavioral lab. They work with clients to bring behavioral thinking methods and tools to product growth, user and customer experience, competence building, employee and citizen engagement. In this epi...

Varun is co-founder and Head of Research at Apple & Banana , where he believes that everyone can do fruitful research. Varun has spent his career immersed in psychology, technology, and design at organizations like Facebook, UnitedHealth Group, and Best Buy, along with rising startups across the country. In this episode, Varun shared great knowledge on Breaking into UX Research, where he share...

MAMIMU (aka June Mineyama-Smithson ) is a London-based artist on a mission to inject optimism into the world. Special lecturer at UAL, D&AD judge and speaker at YOOX Net-a-Porter, Design Manchester and Ladies, Wine & Design. Her bold joyful work has been featured internationally on ITV, Creative Boom, SCMP and Cow Parade Niseko. In this episode, June shared great i...

R. Michael Hendrix is a design leader and musician currently; he is a Partner and Global Director of Design at IDEO and an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music. As a graphic designer, he has received more than 50 awards from major U.S. design associations and publications. He is also a keynote speaker on various occasions and a regular guest lecturer at universities including Harvard, M...

Craig Black is a Scottish artist and independent designer specialising in typography and lettering. He currently runs his own art and design studio in Greenock, Scotland. Craig’s work has been celebrated and exhibited worldwide: from London, New York, Sydney and Dubai. He is also known across the public speaking circuit for sharing his inspirational creative journey at conferences and creative eve...

Nancy Kumar is a design practitioner with a decade of experience in experience design and design strategy. Currently, she is a strategic design manager at Airbus and previously leads teams in Boeing and Honeywell Aerospace. Nancy believes, "Every design has a problem to solve and a purpose to meet, but a good design has the capacity to change and improvise the lives around us".  Nancy is also...

Steve Portigal helps companies to think and act strategically when innovating with user insights. Over the course of his career, he has interviewed hundreds of people and helped many organisations to understand their users. He’s also the Dollars to Donuts podcast host, where he interviews people who lead user research in their organizations. He is also the author of two famous titles - Interviewin...

Ekta Rohra Jafri , a design leader with over two decades of experiences in the design & user experience of digital entities. From web to mobile to TV, short-form text to 3D reality. She is currently Design Director at IBM iX, where she was instrumental in launching design-led opportunities and strategies. She is also a visiting professor of interaction design at Anant National University and a...

Roberta Virzi is a designer with over a decade of experience specialised in the e-commerce sector. Currently, she is in a hybrid leadership role as a senior individual contributor and manager of interdisciplinary and multicultural teams at booking.com.  In this episode, Roberta shared great insights on Design strategy and its importance in creating an effective design strategy that fits all the us...

Claudio Baptista , a design leader with over 20 years of experience. He had worked with some of the best brands throughout his career – from fashion to consumer goods, from global agencies to entertainment. Currently, he is the Director of User Experience for GoPro, and previously he acted as head of design for the Walt Disney Studios. In this episode, Claudio shared great insights on Hyper-P...

Jason Forrest is a data visualization specialist, writer, and designer living in New York City. He is the director of interactive data visualization for McKinsey and Company's COVID Response Center. In addition to being on the board of directors of the Data Visualization Society, he is also the editor-in-chief of Nightingale: the journal of the Data Visualization Society. He writes about the inter...

Steve Bromley is an experienced user researcher and author of two famous books - Building User Research Teams' and ‘How to be a games user researcher. He started the first user research team for UK's Parliament and for Reach, the UK’s largest publisher. Before this, he was a lead user researcher for the PlayStation VR headset and many of PlayStation’s titles, including Horizon:...

Eric L Hu is a strategy director at AKQA, passionate about customer experience and product design in healthcare, mobility, and omnichannel retail. He has led various lives; from performing artist to product manager, commercial photographer to consultant, Eric has worked hard to enable serendipity through the power of surprise — or more simply put — unifying insights across categories where others...

Joe Stitzlein is a Co-Founder, Executive Creative Director and Type Designer at Stitzlein Studio . He worked with Steve Jobs to define Apple’s photography and packaging standards, and with Michelle Obama to launch her Let’s Move program for healthy schools. I designed iconic identities for Netflix, Nike Flyknit, dwell magazine and Mac OS X and built a global design studio at Google. He had designed...

Ricardo Martins is a Service Design Professor at Savannah College of Art and Design. He is also a researcher and consultant on strategic design, service design, brand management, project management, innovation and Lean Six Sigma, and he has received many global accolades.  In this episode, Ricardo shared great insights on service design and generating a service blueprint and the few ways to f...

Tejo Guna , an artist by profession who is a wall muralist and professional doodler, conducts various workshops across India to help bring people's creativity. He also doodled at various live events like the Under 25 Summit, TEDxMahindra École Centrale, Sunday Soul Sante, and a Microsoft product camp event. Tejo describes his style as a blend of sketching and doodling, and he loves to use pens and...

Brittney Mills , Ph. D is a UX researcher currently working at Twitter as Senior Research Manager and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University in the City of New York. Previously, Brittney worked with companies like Dropbox, MTV, Discovery Inc, Viacom, Insight Strategy Group, and Play Science.  In this episode, Brittney had shared splendid views on How to sell sights and how insi...

Sydney Hardy is an Automotive Designer presently working at Audi, and previously he had worked with General Motors, Porche, Peugeot and Akka technologies. He has also been awarded BMW Young Designer Challenge and Interior Motives Design Awards.  In this episode, Sydney had shared great insights on transportation design and ha shared his journey working across different brands and suggested to...

Lex Roman a digital Product Designer who believes in measuring the impact of design Currently working independently under her own company, Lex Roman Inc. Previously, she led two growth initiatives at The Black Tux and led the design, product growth and analytics at LA-based Burner and worked at InVision designing collaboration tools. Lex worked with other notable clients like Toyota, Nissan, Macys...

Lily Konings is a Product Designer at Facebook, working on messaging experiences within Instagram. Before Facebook, she was at AngelList, where she improved the job searching experience for millions of candidates and worked at IBM Watson Health.  In this episode, Lily had shared great insights on how to design your design career; we spoke on how can designers be industry ready in the constant...

Shiva Jaini is a multi-faceted product designer with over 10 years of professional/research experience and 6 years of academic experience in product, design and HCI. Presently he is working at Google as Sr. Staff Design Manager and previously worked at YouTube and Yahoo. He has also been a keynote speaker on various occasions and also co-inventor of over thirteen patents.   In this episode, S...

Florian van Schreven is the co-founder and COO of Uizard Technologies , a startup developing AI-powered tools to revolutionize the way people build software. He has previously spoken in conferences such as UX Copenhagen, Confront Sweden, and Web Summit Portugal. Uizard, the company he co-founded, has been recognized globally and featured in international media such as WIRED, Forbes, The Huffington...

Janel Torkington is a professional content strategist, two-time content team manager, digital marketing dabbler, and occasional poet/ukulele-plucker. She is presently working at Facebook as a content designer. She specializes in mobile ad platforms, the ad creative experience, designing and building ecosystems of tools to help advertisers create ads that look and perform great everywhere they show...

Aleksandra is a Digital Strategist for the Art World. She is the Co-founder of Electric Artefacts , an online venue for new media art. The platform serves as an exhibition space, destination for learning and consultancy on new media art. She is also the Director of Partnerships at. ART, the digital address for the arts community. She holds a Master’s degree in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute...