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In our sixth season, we're looking beyond the design team to explore the far reaches of collaboration. With guests like Sara Seager, professor of planetary science at MIT, who researches exoplanets that might harbor life, and Chris Kemp, CEO and founder of Astra, a company turning space into a creative technology platform, we'll surface a cross-disciplinary approach to doing complex work with diverse teams.

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Spotify's Vicki Tan: Learning from new voices — 58

Scott Berkun: How design makes the world — 56

Ford's Sandy Fershee: Driving innovation with human-centered design — 55

RISD President Rosanne Somerson: Transformation through education — 53

Sara Seager: Pushing boundaries through collaboration — 52

Dan Pink: Creating meaningful connections — 51

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With all of the immense challenges facing the world right now, in Season 5 of the Design Better Podcast we wanted to bring on guests who can share their wisdom—not only about how to build better products—but also how to navigate challenges in your career, and discover opportunities in the face of adversity.

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Netflix's Steve Johnson and Rochelle King: Making great stories accessible — 50

Apple TV+ Home's Doug Pray and Matt Weaver: Designing spaces that change behavior and create opportunity — 49

John Cleese: A cheerful guide to creativity — 48

Logitech's Jason Mayden: Leading with curiosity and humility — 47

Airbnb's Brian Chesky: Designing for trust — 46

Google's Annie Jean Baptiste: Building better products for everyone — 45

Author Bill Burnett: Designing Your Work Life — 44

Debbie Millman: Revealing what matters the most to designers and creatives — 43

John Maeda: Working at the intersection of design, business, and technology — 42

Seth Godin: Learning to take risks, be generous, and make a ruckus — 41

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In the fourth season of the Design Better Podcast, we're taking a closer look at how teams can work better together for greater impact across design, engineering, business, and product. We're pulling back the curtain on how large organizations function and how you can become a better teammate and leader by building bridges, forming coalitions, and seeing the business impact through design.

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Silicon Valley Product Group's Marty Cagan: Why product management is misunderstood — 40

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Pinterest’s Naveen Gavini: Knitting different disciplines together Play

Atlassian's Stephen Deasy: How designers and engineers unite the possible with the probable — 38

Author Joshua Seiden: Measuring work and rethinking goal setting — 37

NASA's Steve Rader: Redefining the moonshot with diverse teams — 36

VMWare's Jehad Affoneh: Be a business leader, not a design leader — 35

Amazon's Joanna Peña-Bickley: Bringing more diversity into leadership — 34

The New York Times' Natalya Shelburne: Bridging the designer and developer divide by building trust — 33

IBM's Kristin Wisnewski: Rise of an authentic leader — 32

Nancy Douyon: Listening is the best hiring skill — 31

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In Season 3 of the Design Better Podcast, we dive into the connected workflow: how designers work more effectively and efficiently with their engineering and product counterparts. We'll talk about how building key partnerships throughout an organization can help you ship better products, faster.

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Diego Rodriguez: Building design culture into big business at Intuit — 30

Che Douglas: Leading a transformation at The Wall Street Journal — 29

Lori Kaplan: Designing across the seams at Atlassian — 28

Quinton Larson: Being adaptable and working thoughtfully — 27

Bob Baxley: What it takes to build a connected workflow — 26

Josh Ulm: The role of design in business — 25

Brad Frost and Dan Mall: Rethinking designer-developer collaboration — 24

Benjamin Evans: The power of inclusive design — 23

Abigail Hart Gray: Communicating the value of design — 22

Julie Zhuo: Learning to manage like a leader — 21

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In Season 2 of the DesignBetter.Co Podcast, we explore the foundational operations, systems, and leadership needed to scale design. Join us and companies ranging from Shopify to Johnson & Johnson to uncover how design teams create great products at scale.

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Margaret Gould Stewart: Scaling through storytelling — 20

Kim Williams: Creating, scaling, and championing design systems — 19

Vas Natarajan: Operationalizing design for business success — 18

Maria Giudice: DesignOps, diversity, and design making a difference — 17

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Megan Quinn: making design-led choices to scale with better outcomes Play

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Meriah Garrett: scaling design with empathy and intention Play

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TS Balaji: representing design with a multidisciplinary approach Play

Diana Mounter: from design silos to design system — 13

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Meredith Black: building DesignOps dream teams Play

Lynsey Thornton: going with the org-change flow — 11

Season

In Season 1 of the Design Better Podcast we focus on what it takes to be a product-driven company—including exploring human-centered design, and how strong collaboration between product, design, and engineering helps make great products.

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