Send us feedback or episode suggestions. Today’s episode features Ashley Willard and Sarah Kimball (Skim) from Apiture, a smallish fintech company with big enterprise ambitions for its design system. Host Christ Strahl chats with Ashley and Skim about the challenges and opportunities their small team faces trying to navigate the complexities of building a de ... Show More
Jun 2024
DSP 113. Config 2024: Highlights and Hot Takes with Jina Anne and Adekunle Oduye
Send us feedback or episode suggestions.Recording during Config 2024, this bonus episode of The Design Systems Podcast features long-time friends of the Pod, Jina Anne and Adekunle Oduye. They share their fresh takes on the latest Figma keynote, including the buzz around AI-gener ... Show More
21m 3s
Jul 2024
DSP 114. Design Systems and Ways of Working: Nick Hahn on Collaboration, Adoption, and AI
Send us feedback or episode suggestions.This week we are joined by Nick Hahn to explore how designers, engineers, product managers, and entire organizations have changed the way they think about and work with design systems. Nick shares insight from his experiences at IBM, InVisi ... Show More
35m 18s
Jan 2020
Kevin Callahan on Positive Organisational Design and Complex Systems
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.
In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Kevin Callahan about positive organisational design and organisations as complex systems Why listen to thi ... Show More
25m 31s
Oct 2024
#88 Design Leadership in Evolving Landscapes: Bridging Creativity and Business Strategy with Ryan Rumsey
In this episode of the Future of UX podcast, we welcome Ryan Rumsey, founder of Second Wave Dive, to explore the evolving role of design in today's dynamic business environments. Ryan shares his unique insights on design leadership, the importance of understanding business models ... Show More
1h 2m
Aug 2024
156. Creative Communication: How Our Design Choices Illustrate Our Values
<p>As a designer, <a href="https://www.fastersmarter.io/guests/scott-doorley/">Scott Doorley</a> is interested in how humans create the world around them. It’s a conversation, he says, that starts with the question: What kind of world do we want?</p><p>Doorley is the creative dir ... Show More
29m 43s
Aug 2025
LIQUID – How CTOs Harness Complexity to Unlock Flow
In this conversation, Nishant interviews Kathy Keating, Etienne de Bruin, and Scott Graves, co-authors of LIQUID: How CEOs and CTOs Unlock Flow and Momentum in Complex Systems. They discuss how the idea for the book was born, the challenges of co-authoring as three CTOs, and how ... Show More
1h 35m
Jul 2024
The Designer Behind Beats headphones' $1.5 Billion Success with Robert Brunner, Chief Designer at Beats by Dr. Dre | E230
<p>In this episode of the Product Podcast, we're thrilled to host Robert Brunner, Chief Designer at Beats by Dr. Dre and founder of Ammunition. Robert takes us on an enlightening journey through his remarkable career, sharing the secrets behind designing products that drive ... Show More
46m 16s
Apr 2025
49. Design Leadership & Org Design (feat. Peter Merholz, co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs)
In this episode, Peter Merholz—co-founder of Adaptive Path and co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs—joins us to talk about what it really takes to build and scale effective design teams. We explore the systems, structures, and leadership mindsets that shape successful organiza ... Show More
43m 19s
Oct 2025
929: Dragon Hatchling: The Missing Link Between Transformers and the Brain, with Adrian Kosowski
Breaking news: Jon Krohn welcomes Adrian Kosowski to the show to talk about the groundbreaking research happening at Pathway. Adrian and his team demonstrate how they have brought attention in AI closer to the way the brain functions, creating, in essence, a “massively parallel s ... Show More
1h 14m
Sep 2025
Episode 266: HDR's Alison Potter & Simon Fleet talk about Opacity, their annual global design review, collaborative design and data centres
<p>Opacity is HDR’s annual global design review, bringing together diverse voices from across the design community to critically examine our best built and unbuilt work. It provides a platform for rigorous dialogue, sharpening our design conscience and pushing creative boundaries ... Show More
20m 51s