AIGA Design Podcast

In this preview clip, Matthew McIver and Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA's senior director of learning and programs, discuss the important role of financial margins and padding in business. The AIGA Design Podcast will be going on a brief mid-season spring hiatus and return with our full episode with Matthew on May 20, 2024. 💼 Matthew McIver is a creative entrepreneur and owner of Commence Studio based in Reno, Nevada. Commence Studio is a B2B Brand and E-commerce Agency that helps purpose-driven companies be seen & heard. 📫 Subscribe to AIGA newsletters for the latest podcast and content news. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

How do you package your unique career journey? In this episode, Sarah Doody, founder of Career Strategy Lab™, and Lee-Sean Huang, senior director of learning and programs at AIGA, delve into the intricacies of crafting a career roadmap to navigate your professional journey. Join us as we explore the importance of setting short and long-term goals, building your compass statement, and leveraging unique strategies to stand out in the design industry. Topics include: 1️⃣ Crafting a career roadmap: Discover the value of setting short and long-term goals to guide your professional journey. 2️⃣ Building your compass statement: Learn how to articulate your vision and filter opportunities that align with your career aspirations. 3️⃣ The power of anti-networking: Explore strategies for building meaningful relationships and standing out in a crowded job market. 🤝 Sarah Doody is the founder of Career Strategy Lab™, a program that helps UX and product professionals at all career stages navigate their job search and articulate their skills and experience through individualized and group coaching. She is also the host of the Career Strategy Lab podcast. Since 2021, professionals who have worked with Sarah have increased their salaries by 40% on average and have been hired at prestigious brands such as Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, Nordstrom, Spotify, Blue Origin on average in 3.5 months. The program has been so successful since it’s launch that the combined salary of program graduates hired topped nearly $6 million. Sarah has been named a Future of Work expert by Forbes and is a regular Forbes.com contributor. She has also been featured in Fast Company, Insider, Fox Business, and more. Sarah is also to author her first book, The Product of You: How to Design, Market, and Sell Yourself in Your Career, forthcoming in 2024. ✨ Connect with Sarah on YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter. 📫 Subscribe to AIGA newsletters for the latest podcast and content news. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

On the next episode of the AIGA Design Podcast, guest Sarah Doody discusses applying product design principles to your career, crafting a career roadmap, and more. Full episode release: March 18, 2024. 🤝 Sarah Doody is the founder of Career Strategy Lab, a program that helps UX and product professionals at all career stages navigate their job search and articulate their skills and experience through individualized and group coaching. She is also the host of the Career Strategy Lab podcast. Topics include: 1️⃣ Crafting a career roadmap: Discover the value of setting short and long-term goals to guide your professional journey. 2️⃣ Building your compass statement: Learn how to articulate your vision and filter opportunities that align with your career aspirations. 3️⃣ The power of anti-networking: Explore strategies for building meaningful relationships and standing out in a crowded job market. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

Has design research hit a plateau? In this episode, Danny Spitzberg and Humphrey Obuobi, two design researchers in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Lee-Sean Huang, senior director of learning and programs at AIGA delve into the challenges and explore the gap between personal and professional learning in design research. Topics include: the value of co-design catchphrases and why they keep resurfacing the challenges and rewards of collaborating with marginalized communities on designing solutions that address their needs how design and policy can intersect more effectively to address social challenges and promote equity 🔍 Danny Spitzberg, a user research expert in the cooperative economy, co-founded the Workers’ Algorithm Observatory. He sheds light on auditing algorithms for workers and allies, advocating for concrete improvements in digital technology standards. 🔍 Humphrey Obuobi, founder of LETS Studio, focuses on building infrastructure for a healthier democracy. A student-researcher with UC Berkeley’s Possibility Lab, Humphrey is dedicated to local, community-powered social innovation. 📖 Read Danny and Humphrey's Q&A article published on AIGA.org 🙋 LETS Studio, Humphrey's professional practice, invites collaborations and volunteers at letsstudio.org. 🔬 The Workers’ Algorithm Observatory advocates for algorithmic accountability; explore their studies at wao.cs.princeton.edu. 📫 Subscribe to AIGA newsletters for the latest podcast and content news. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

Preview clip of our upcoming episode with Danny Spitzberg and Humphrey Obuobi on Why Design Research is Stuck. Full episode release on February 20, 2024. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

Designing success outside the lines – AIGA's 2024 journey begins at the margins. Welcome to the first episode of the 2024 season of the AIGA Design Podcast! Join Lee-Sean Huang, senior director of learning and programs at AIGA, as he explores the theme "MARGINS" and sets the stage for an exciting year of AIGA Design programming. 🎟️ Register for the Yale BPCL Open House webinar. 📚 Learn more about the AIGA Professional Design Certification. 🏆 Learn more and enter AIGA Design Competitions. 📫 Subscribe to AIGA newsletters for the latest podcast and content news. Want to join us as a guest on a future show? Fill out this form here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

Listen to the full interview with Colton Schweitzer, co-founder of Kickass UX here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/episodes/Colton-Schweitzer-on-Kickass-UX-e2ci2ke Use code AIGA75 for $75 off your first month of ⁠Kickass UX's UX/UI Expert course --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

In this episode Colton Schweitzer, co-founder of Kickass UX and Lee-Sean Huang, senior director of learning and programs at AIGA talk about: Use code AIGA75 for $75 off your first month of Kickass UX's UX/UI Expert course AIGA's Design Futures research referenced in the episode Colton's cartoon alter ego, ⁠Kitty AF⁠ recently released a holiday book How the Cat Ruined Christmas Irish Bouzouki clip by PhotoCapeBreton via Pixabay This is the final episode of 2023. Happy holidays! See you next year. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

Maigen Thomas is a senior UX designer, career switcher, and "Maven of Mentoring" for fellow UI/UX bootcamp graduates. In this episode, Maigen and Lee-Sean discuss leveraging life experiences into design, what to do in the first 30 days of a new job to set yourself up for success, gamification, and more! Maigen's Real World Experience Workshop: https://maigenux.gumroad.com/l/real-world-exp-workshop Octalysis Prime: https://join.octalysisprime.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

Debbie Millman interviews Pentagram partners Emily Oberman, Giorgia Lupi, Marina Willer, Natasha Jen, and Paula Scher. Recorded LIVE at the 2023 AIGA Design Conference in New York City! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

What is your designer archetype? Are you a generalist, strategist, researcher, architect, artist, author, or design operations person? How does knowing your archetype help you progress in your career? We discuss these archetypes and more in the full episode of the AIGA Design Podcast with Steven Steiner: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/episodes/Steven-Steiner-on-designer-archetypes--career-coaching--and-communicating-your-value-e29h0h4 Steven Steiner is a Career Coach for Designers who helps them get what they want next with the right levels of industry knowledge, rigor, and moral support. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

What is your designer archetype? Are you a generalist, strategist, researcher, architect, artist, author, or design operations person? How does knowing your archetype help you progress in your career? We discuss these archetypes and more in this episode of the AIGA Design Podcast with our guest Steven Steiner. Steven Steiner is a Career Coach for Designers who helps them get what they want next with the right levels of industry knowledge, rigor, and moral support. Steven’s career achievements include 15+ years as an award-winning designer, manager, and educator. He’s held roles in-house, start-up, and agency teams for international and regional brands where he delivered results for TV, kiosk, responsive web, and mobile experiences. Now, he wants to help YOU reach YOUR career goals. Visit careercoachfordesigners.com to learn more about how Steven can help you right now and join the Career Community for Designers that he hosts on Slack. Connect with Steven on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevensteiner/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

FEED SWAP: Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA's director of design content and learning, recently appeared on Steven Wakabayashi's Yellow Glitter Podcast to talk about collective change, community-centered design, his midlife career crisis, and more. Listen/subscribe to the Yellow Glitter Podcast: https://yellowglitterpodcast.com/podcast/42-collective-change-and-community-centered-design-with-lee-sean-huang/ Stay tuned for new original episodes of the AIGA Design Podcast in September 2023. Join us for the AIGA Design Conference in New York City, October 12-14. Get your tickets before the price increase on September 7. We will sell out. Online streaming tickets are also available. https://www.aiga.org/design/aiga-design-conference --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

We are back for a special summer special edition of the podcast. We are catching up with Ritesh Gupta, founder of Useful School, which offers 12-week online pay-what-you-can classes in product design, branding, decolonization, and financial wellness aimed at beginner and advanced creatives of color. Applications to the Useful School fall cohort are due August 18, 2023. Learn more: https://www.usefulschool.com/ Listen to our original 2022 interview with Ritesh here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/episodes/Design-Adjacent-with-Ritesh-Gupta--Founder-of-the-Useful-School-on-re-visioning-design-education--radical-changes--impact-of-design--and-finding-a-coach-e1jt5if Check out AIGA's professional development and learning opportunities on our website: https://www.aiga.org/professional-development/aiga-passport-to-learning --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

In this episode, we present a clip of Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons and Futurama, speaking at the 2002 AIGA Design Conference in Washington DC. This footage has not been seen or heard publicly for over 20 years. Groening shares a story he had never told before, explains why he values design conferences, gives advice to fellow illustrators, reveals the namesake of Homer Simpson, and divulges some of the things the Fox Network censored from his shows. Watch the video version of this podcast on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/814432149/f56404d0b2 Connect in person with your design community at the 2023 AIGA Design Conference, October 12-14 in New York City. Prepare to get inspired and re-energized while learning in community from designers at the cutting edge of today's hot topics. https://www.aiga.org/design/aiga-design-conference --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

“If you want to be a truly effective designer, you need to make sure that whatever it is that you’re designing is also designed to reside within a broader and more complex organization…and is not just solving for the problem that you are analyzing, which is what designers are excellent at.” - Rodrigo Canales Rodrigo Canales, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management, and Michael Bierut, Partner at Pentagram discuss the challenges that designers face as we advance as leaders in our careers and how the Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders program equips design leaders to address those challenges. Join us for our Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders open house on Thursday, February 16 at 3 pm Eastern. RSVP: https://my.aiga.org/event-details?id=04831ca3-ba96-ed11-a81b-000d3a000cf9 And learn more about the program here: https://www.aiga.org/professional-development/business-perspectives-for-creative-leaders --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

"Thinking of design as problem-solving is an improvement over thinking of design as art, but as we move into a world of systems, the idea of solving a problem may be replaced by the idea of finding balance in a system..." This clip from Hugh Dubberly is from a never-before-released interview conducted in 2019 at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Hugh will be teaching a workshop on Generative AI for Designers with Shelley Evenson, managing director of Song at the AIGA Executive Leadership Summit (Alexandria, VA, March 12-14, 2023). Learn more and sign up for the AIGA Executive Leadership Summit: https://www.aiga.org/design/design-conferences/aiga-executive-leadership-summit More about Hugh: http://www.dubberly.com/about --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Expression & Reflection spotlights teaching practices, research, stories, and conversations from a Black/African diasporic lens. Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA's director of design content and learning interviews editors Anne H. Berry, Jennifer Rittner, and Kelly Walters about the purpose, people, and processes behind the book. This episode was recorded live at the AIGA Design Conference in Seattle in October 2022. Fast Company recently named The Black Experience in Design one of the best design books of 2022. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

While we are still on break from producing new content, we will continue cross-posting podcast episodes from the design community, and other audio content. Last month at the AIGA Design Conference, Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA's Director of Design Content and Learning and the producer of our podcasts, had the chance to hang out with Sean Schumacher and record an episode called “The Surreal World” for Sean's podcast which is called “Did I Do That?” “Did I Do That?” is a conversation-style podcast about doing design, making mistakes, and the fun we have along the way. https://www.dididothat.design/episode/the-surreal-world-with-lee-sean-huang --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message

AIGA has just wrapped our season of Design Adjacent. In the meantime, we will be posting some bonus materials to our feed while we figure out the future format of our shows. Our first feed swap is with The Futures Archive. The Futures Archive is a podcast from Design Observer that looks at the history of human-centered design with a critical eye to its future. You can subscribe on Apple podcasts, or your favorite podcatcher. On this episode, host Lee Moreau and co-host Sloan Leo discuss the automatic door, and how we can design thresholds of all kinds to be inviting to all people with additional insights from Laurent Stalder, Bess Williamson, Wendy Ju, and David Gissen. You can view a complete transcript and find more information about this episode here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aigadesign/message