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Beyond Ray - Women Led Conversations on Industrial Design

Seattle WID Podcast

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Frequency: 1 episode/35d. Total Eps: 33

Industrial designers worth their salt spend more time making than talking, but what stories are we leaving untold? We're revealing the anecdotes, catastrophes, achievements, 180 pivots and true passion that drives people to their most creative selves. Find your niche in the landscape of this ever evolving profession by learning that your experience is a shared one, hosted by four women making a living as industrial designers in Seattle. Find show notes on beyondraypodcast.com

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - design
13/08/2026
#85
🇬🇧 Great Britain - design
11/08/2026
#43
🇬🇧 Great Britain - design
01/08/2026
#91
🇬🇧 Great Britain - design
31/07/2026
#74
🇬🇧 Great Britain - design
30/07/2026
#56
🇨🇦 Canada - design
27/05/2026
#67
🇨🇦 Canada - design
26/05/2026
#56
🇨🇦 Canada - design
25/05/2026
#34
🇨🇦 Canada - design
24/05/2026
#13
🇫🇷 France - design
11/04/2026
#94

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Life after Launch: Sexual Health Innovation with Jude Glover

Season 3 · Episode 3

Monday, March 10, 2025 • Duration 01:01:46

Dr. Glover is an educator, a leading researcher on sexual pleasure and access for people with disabilities, and a designer who has been innovating in the sex toy industry for over three decades. She is a wealth of knowledge taking us through the history of women with “hysteria”, to sex toys dictated by the porn industry, to today where the internet has enabled people to find their niche customers and the sex toy market has grown to imagine options far beyond phallic representative dildos. Originally a metal worker, Dr. Glover transitioned into industrial design after recognizing a significant gap in the market for well-researched, thoughtfully designed sex toys. She discusses how the industry has long overlooked this need and how the landscape might have been different if companies like Braun or Apple had engaged with it. Our conversation explores how societal discomfort and restrictive attitudes toward sexuality, women, the queer community, and people with disabilities have hindered the development of products that meet their needs, and how much we stand to gain by addressing these gaps.

More show content: https://www.beyondraypodcast.com

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Life after Launch: Fitness Tracking with Julie Henne

Season 3 · Episode 2

Monday, February 10, 2025 • Duration 41:41

We have a very motivational first guest, Julie Henne, to dive into the designer’s impact. She has had a career for over ten years at Garmin and in that tenure, she’s explored every angle of what a designer can do. She’s been there to see product cycles through many evolutions and watched the brand expand from its main driver being the high performance athlete to a broad health and wellness category with a much more varied customer. She speaks about how to stay engaged with your work by changing perspective often and on how her steady presence in the company has gained her the trust to be a stronger advocate for the voices of women and customers generally. She learned early on that she couldn’t be the voice of every woman and actively brought more perspectives into the company. She has seen great success when projects and communication can break out of siloed company thinking and believes that designer’s ability to zoom out makes us instrumental in being part of innovation teams. Realistic and optimistic about our agency, Julie is a great person to learn from. Our guest host for this episode is the fantastic Monica Broder who was our first ever podcast guest in the episodeNot your traditional Outdoorsman.

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015 - Should Designers be Sellfish? with Zab Steenwyk

Monday, January 29, 2024 • Duration 01:14:37

What if your main questions to spark career transition were- “Where can I have the biggest impact?” And “Where are the people I really want to learn from?” For Zab, this is true. She recently left Rivian, a dream company for many and a place where she had great experiences because they have all the talent and support they need. They no longer need her energy, drive, curiosity and evangelizing as much as regenerative food systems do. Zab came to talk to us about what it’s like to be someone with a host of design skills applying them to industries that design has barely touched. Becoming a beginner again in many ways so that she can learn what she doesn’t know from farmers and find ways to get the average person more engaged with their world. There is a disconnect right now in the way many of us know to care for our home and there are people with this knowledge and practices who need their voices amplified. Zab is working to bridge this gap, to make eating more fun and sustainable, to make our connection with plants and even worms more joyful. Her capacity to follow her intuition and her very generous core motivations are a beautiful north star to hear.

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018 - Square Peggy in a Round Hole with Joey Zeledón

Monday, January 29, 2024 • Duration 01:07:55

Join the WID team and our guest Joey for a powerful conversation about identity informing our designs and how our design work in turn shapes us. Joey moved through the world with certainty for years - from finding and sticking to a career path in the third grade to applying to one perfect college- but it took acknowledging an underlying feeling of dissonance in their work and life to come out as trans. This self acceptance has had profound effects on their creativity and given them a new perspective on the role of identity and ego. We discuss how stripping away all our titles and accomplishments can make it possible to identify creative mashups or design better for the users you don't know. Design confines, just like gender, can be a limiting box if left unexamined but true, unfiltered expression is an ongoing source of inspiration.

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017 - Bringing it all Home - Live Episode with Sena Janky

Monday, November 27, 2023 • Duration 01:11:10

This month, our team had the special experience of recording a live episode at Western Washington University with alumni and Seattle powerhouse designer Sena. Sena has had a nearly three decades long career spanning both industrial design and interaction design disciplines and has spent the majority of her working years at Fluke Corporation where she is now the UX Design Manager. She shared with us and the students how she has made important career pivots, who she looked to for mentorship, how she grew to take on more leadership and why evangelizing design is worthwhile and will likely always be part of the responsibility of people in our field. The end of the episode includes a Q&A with the students that also shows what a wealth of knowledge Sena has to share. She’s a real leader in our industry and as she mentions - it’s so special to have women with as much experience as her to look to and is only now starting to become possible

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016 - Design Thinking isn’t Rocket Science with Jessie Kawata

Thursday, November 9, 2023 • Duration 01:00:31

For Jessie, art is not the opposite of science but instead a necessary storytelling device that she’s used to problem solve throughout her career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and now as Microsoft’s Director of Design for Sustainability. As the first industrial designer at NASA, Jessie unabashedly used cheap, available materials to encourage play and help her colleagues prototype and understand the hands-on nature of design thinking. She created the first design team and upended the company’s approach to creative strategy saving them time and money and diversifying the way the group could tackle new mission proposals. A self described eco-geek, part of the focus on outer space also intensified her concern for our planet. She now works to ensure that sustainability is more than just a checkmark companies can tick off. To her, designers have a crucial role to play in making companies sustainable as we are early enough in the product innovation cycle to set parameters that matter and insist on them as constraints. Listen to hear Jessie’s advice on making design span the micro to macro, why NASA has an extra terrestrial building, and how you can do an at home science experiment that will forever justify your love of the color black.

More show content on: beyondraypodcast.com

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013 - Bias in Bias out with Kristi Bartlett

Monday, July 31, 2023 • Duration 01:05:10

Bias and its impact has been studied in STEM fields now for several years, but design, a discipline that places less emphasis on degrees and academic research, has had a gap in this same conversation. Kristi, our guest this week, is tackling that. Her projects so far have uncovered flawed research parameters in spatial reasoning tests, prioritization of men’s voices in the podcast space and a devaluing and partitioning of women’s skills that both shuffles us into certain areas of design at higher rates and demotes the significance of the work then done in those fields. Understanding the impact all of these subtle sexist undercurrents have had in our field is crucial not only for the professionals in our industry but for the countless consumers who are being potentially harmed by less effective products. We hope everyone who learns from Kristi can help us undo these narratives and build towards equity.

More show content at https://www.beyondraypodcast.com/

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012 - Trust your IDeology with Angela Yeh

Monday, June 26, 2023 • Duration 01:14:34

Angela has the perspective of not just one designer, but hundreds. She has helped countless creatives identify where their core talents and values overlap and has helped companies grow into workplaces that actually foster creative work. With her unique combination of an intimate look into each person's process and bird's eye view of industry trends, she is remarkably qualified to teach us where the design field is working and where it falls short. Angela is a fierce advocate for the value that designers bring to the places they work. She shares her thoughts on how to connect with that worth in yourself and how to confidently speak up to help others see it as well.

Connect with Angela at:

https://www.yehideology.com/

More show content at https://www.beyondraypodcast.com/

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011 - Weaving in the Ego with Brittany Gene

Monday, May 29, 2023 • Duration 01:25:37

Brittany grew up with an intuitive, inherited, and practical sense of design. She is a Navajo woman, so weaving, building, and creating were in the day-to-day existence of her community and when she officially became a designer in title, it was an external label for a way of problem solving that had always been core to her identity. With her, we discuss the sometimes backwards way that design emphasizes the individual over community, far out lofty research over immediate need-based function, and what it takes to trust your intuition enough to know when something is off and act on it. We also get in the weeds on what ego is, how it functions for a creative person and where it helps and hurts. Margaret finally gets to enjoy learning about a design couple’s dynamic as this is one of Brittany and her husband, Rico’s, ongoing debates. We hope you feel a real confidence boost to trust yourself from this fantastic conversation and designer.

Connect with Brittany on IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/ClvUPCvOGrI/

Connect with Rico on IG:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CijK_UBpiIs/

More content at https://www.beyondraypodcast.com/

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010 - Cultivating My Fulfillment with Jackie Shyu

Monday, April 24, 2023 • Duration 01:13:43

Jackie is a master storyteller because she understands the emotional impact of every detail. Through her lens, we learned the way materials dictate the color and color dictates connection. Starting as an engineer, Jackie gained a technical foundation of materials that she now uses to form the precise experience customers will have with the products she touches. Our conversation with her showed exactly why it is so important for this specialty to be its own job and not lumped in under the average designer’s responsibilities. CMF demands entirely it’s own depth of knowledge and understanding that is aligned with but independent of the designers objectives. We felt incredibly lucky to learn about this world with Jackie as she brings unparalleled intention to the way she moves through the world - be it her care for customers or prioritization of her family.

More content at https://www.beyondraypodcast.com/

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