tomorrow's designers – Details, episodes & analysis

EP01 // Sean Carney, a globally recognised design leader and former Chief Design Officer at Philips. With over 25 years of experience leading multi-disciplinary design teams at major brands like Philips, HP, and Electrolux.

Sean shares his journey from design student to industry leader. We also explore the importance of business understanding and context when learning and practicing design, the essential skills young designers need to become leaders, and also take a look into the future of design leadership. Lastly, Sean gives us young designer some tips on how to stand out when applying to large in-house design teams.

Welcome to tomorrow's designers. Here's a short introduction to the podcast and mission.

EP02 // Talin Wadsworth, the principal designer for Adobe XD, one of the most widely used UX/UI tools in the world. Over the nearly 14 years he’s spent at Adobe, he has also led many other 1.0 initiatives, including the launch of Adobe Creative Cloud as well as Adobe Sketch for iPad.

Talin shares his journey from student to leader at Adobe, and the importance of a 'design manifesto' for young designers, as well as how we can write our own. We also explore the future of design tools, and how we can best prepare for the future of design. Lastly, we explore the key advice and guidance for how we as young designers can land a design role at Adobe.

03// Lena Kul, former Lead Design Recruiter and now UX Researcher at Miro.

We deep-dive into how to build a network. If you're keen to understand how to build a vibrant, useful network, how to stop getting ghosted and how to craft the perfect 'ask' to unlock new opportunities, this episode is going to be essential.

EPISODE 04: Ozlem Tuskan, founder of The Resilient and a global brand, strategy and foresight expert of over 20 years.

We try and unpack how we as designers can thrive and find opportunity in uncertainty, rather than fear it. We also discuss how to design your own luck and uncover and act on serendipitous moments as they come by.

EPISODE 05 (Part 2): Lena Kul, ex-Lead Design Recruiter and now UX Researcher at Miro.

In this Part 2, we chat about landing your first design role as well as how to craft the perfect job search strategy. If you're keen to understand how to stand out to hiring teams, stop getting rejected from cold applications and gain some insight into where design hiring might be heading, this episode will be perfect.

EP06 // Rod Mountain, world leader in healthcare design and innovation and 30-year consultant surgeon.

We discuss how we as young designers can really learn from the medical profession, as well as how we can truly up-skill in the art of empathy. We also uncover the designers true superpower that is ignorance.

EPISODE 07: Rufus Deuchler, Director of Worldwide Creative Cloud Evangelism @ Adobe.

We discuss how we as young designers can evangelise our own design work leveraging the power of storytelling and social media. We also chat about the emerging design tools of the future and how we need to balance automation + efficiency with the need for deep, human creativity.

EP09 // We welcome Dr. Rebecca Price, a world leading design researcher, Professor of Transition Design at TU Delft and co-founder of Resilient Designers.

We discuss the physiological impact that designing has on us as humans, and how we can reframe vulnerability as a superpower. We also get Rebecca's expert guidance on how we can build resilience into our daily work as designers.

Link to 'Resilient Designers' Handbook:

https://resilientdesigners.com/

EP08 // Gray Dawdy, YouTuber + freelance Industrial Designer.

We chat about navigating inspiration overload, finding originality as the next generation of designers as well as the importance of authenticity in both personal and professional life. We also attempt Vogue 73 (design trend) Questions with Gray.

Link to Gray's YouTube Channel

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