The Way of Product with Caden Damiano

The podcast is back with more episodes!  In this episode, we recap on what we've learned in the last season on advanced tools and techniques to network and land jobs in the design industry. This episode is about our next knowledge quest. We know that design and product as a core business function is valuable, so we're not going to beat a dead horse on evangelizing the value of design. We know it's...

In this episode, we talk about conversation design with Margaret Urban and Michael Greenberg, two interaction designers at Google. You can connect with Margaret and Michael on LinkedIn: Margaret Michael Also, Google has a great resource to learn more about Conversation Design: Conversation Design with Google If you have comments or questions from today's episode or would just like to connect, you...

In this special crossover episode, we talk with Patrick Cox and Andy Page, two designers at Canopy Tax. We interview them, they interview us—good times! You can connect with Andy and Patrick on LinkedIn: Patrick Andy Also, go listen to the Design Much podcast: https://www.designmuch.org/ If you have comments or questions from today's episode or would just like to connect, you can connect with us o...

In this episode, we chat with Ben Peck, Cofounder of Front and Director of Product Hive about building community and sharing your voice as well as other people's stories and experiences. You can connect with Ben on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bpeck Also, if you have comments or questions from today's episode or would just like to connect, you can connect with us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin...

In this episode, we chat with Joseph Newell, a sprint facilitator and UX Designer at Xactware—An hour dedicated to the Last Unicorn. We talk about designing at “boring companies” and how they aren’t “boring.” We discuss evangelizing UX and learning to bring your passion with you into every project.  You can connect with Joseph on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephnewell Also, if you have...

In this episode, we chat with Alfredo Ruiz who is leading the design and product strategy of IBM Immersive Insights as well as the Augmented Reality Program at IBM Analytics. We discuss how to get started in AR. You can connect with Alfredo on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfredoruizc Also, if you have comments or questions from today's episode or would just like to connect, you can conne...

In this episode, we had an excellent conversation with J.B. Chaykowsky, design manager at Intuit. We talk about giving and receiving feedback, finding your voice in design, solving the right problem, becoming design leaders, and so much more. You can connect with J.B. on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/uexui Also, if you have comments or questions from today's episode or would just like to c...

In this episode, we met with Noah Sparks from Brainstorm to discuss how to design for AR, VR, and MR  to augment people's experiences in the real world. You can find Noah on Twitter @noahsparks and connect with him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahsparks Also, if you have comments or questions from today's episode or would just like to connect, you can connect with us on LinkedIn: www....

In this live episode, recorded at Utah Valley University in front of a group of students and young professionals, we had the opportunity to learn from the CEO of Unbird, Jeff Whitlock. Have you considered using jobs-to-be-done theory to make life and career decisions? Listen to Jeff explain how we "hire" the schools we go to and the career paths we pursue because we have a "job" we want to be done...

In this episode—our first podcast done in collaboration with another podcast—we got together with Dillon Winspear, Lead Mobile Designer at Domo and host of the podcast Designed Today to discuss how to set yourself apart as a designer by failing, being humble, and practicing empathy. You can watch a video version of this episode on Dillon's podcast, Designed Today: https://youtu.be/3Afyay39ea4 Make...

REMASTERED AUDIO In this episode, we met with Bryan Mortensen and Clay Walter from Progressive Leasing to discuss poutine and traditional vs non-traditional design education. Bryan coming from a traditional educational background and Clay comes from a non-traditional. Both have interesting points of view. We gained a lot of valuable insights on the paths we can take to get into design. You can fin...

REMASTERED AUDIO The very first episode of the podcast was called Pivot! In this episode, we met with Danno Ard from Willow Tree to discuss how we can sell empathy, design artifacts for stakeholders, and why we need to sell every idea like the Christmas ghosts in a Christmas Carol sell empathy to Scrooge. You can find Danno everywhere as @doseofdanno (Twitter, Dribbble, etc) or connect with him on...

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