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🎧 20 Product: Twitter’s Former Head of Product, Kayvon Beykpour on How to Structure and Manage the Best Product Reviews, The Core Set of Questions to As

Kayvon Beykpour is one of the most prominent product leaders of the last decade. For the last 7 years, Kayvon has been at Twitter where he led all of the teams across Product, Engineering, Design, Research and Customer Service & Operations. Kayvon came to Twitter through Periscope, the live broadcasting app that raised from GV, Bessemer, Scott Belsky and was ultimately acquired by Twitter in 2015.

🎧 127: Benefits of Makerspaces to Product Startups

Tom Pupo is the founder and head of Moonlighter Fab Lab Miami, which Mako Design just partnered with on a new 8,000 square foot hardware makerspace right down Miami Beach. Tom has a Masters Degree in architecture, and been running makerspaces for many years. Today Tom is going to share some valuable knowledge for inventors, startups, and small manufacturers on what a makerspace is, what makes one great, and how hardware startups can benefit from them in many ways beyond just space and machinery.

🎧 Design + Afrofuturism + Doomsday Optimism with Raja Schaar — DT101 E91

Raja Schaar is an industrial designer, afrofuturist and doomsday optimist. She is the Director at Drexel University’s product design program and co-chair of the Industrial Designers Society of America, Diversity Equity and Inclusion Council. Listen to learn about: Raja’s career in design Climate change and design How Raja uses science fiction and futurism in her teaching and work Black Girls STEAMing Through Dance Social Impact Design The power of design Media resources for designers wanting to explore future-thinking   Our Guest Raja Schaar, IDSA (she/her) is Director and Associate P

🎧 #110 Alvin From Relab Studios: Designing The Perfect Website

Today’s episode of The Ecom Show is special because it’s the first time we’ll be diving into the intricacies of product design. We have Alvin Hermanto from Relab Studios here with us today to talk about everything that goes into designing the perfect e-commerce store. Relab Studios is a specialized design agency that helps e-commerce businesses design products like websites and applications by combining design thinking with UI/UX capabilities.

🎧 Bringing Medical Devices into the Home

Are you passionate about human-centered design and how it relates to health care? Patients deserve a high quality experience when bringing medical devices into their home. They want a product that they can use and want to use, without sacrificing any elements that would otherwise exist in a clinical setting.

🎧 Pushing Back on The Chronic Innovation Critics

Chronic innovation critics are people and processes that kill new ideas before they can thrive. They prevent you from trying new things and learning from failures. The criticisms may result in your organization getting stuck in its current state. Innovation critics love to point out why an idea will fail.

🎧 Sarah Stein Greenberg on Creative Thinking and Action Through Design

Sarah Stein Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.  Sarah helps lead the d. school, an interdisciplinary institute at Stanford that nurtures innovators and spreads design thinking.   In this episode, Eric and Sarah Stein Greenberg discuss her book, Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways.

🎧 Solving the Innovator’s Dilemma with Compassion Driven Innovation (with Nicole Reineke, VP Innovation @ Iron Mountain & Co-Author ”Compassion Driv

A message from our sponsor Do you struggle with communicating with dev teams and understanding technical terminology and concepts? On episode 98, I hosted Irene Yu, founder of Skiplevel, an on-demand training program that helps professionals and teams become more technical in just 5 weeks… All without learning to code.

🎧 080: Season 4 Finale with Madame Architect

Episode 080: Season 4 Finale with Madame Architect Why is visibility of female leadership important in the profession of architecture? While the seeming lack of women in architecture has been well-documented, women are, and have been, making waves in all levels of the field.

🎧 Sara Duffy

Sara Duffy helms the interiors division of Stonehill Taylor and is one of the few women principals who leads a major hospitality design firm.    Sara was a major force in the transformation of the TWA Hotel at JFK airport in 2019, and during the pandemic it was Sara’s leadership that helped to keep her firm on course.

🎧 Following What Brings You Joy with Lenny Rachitsky

Today on the Product Thinking Podcast, Melissa Perri is joined by Lenny Rachitsky, author of the popular product advice column Lenny’s Newsletter. Melissa and Lenny compare notes on what it’s like to move from working directly in product to creating product content and courses, and Lenny explains how his newsletter was born and its growth trajectory since, what he’s learned about how to create valuable content, what success means to him, and how to keep your energy focused on the things that light you up.

🎧 David Johnson: Design, Law, and Climate

TODAY’S GUEST   Dave Johnson is a lecturer at the Stanford Law School and at the Stanford d.school, where he teaches negotiation through design thinking. Before Stanford, he worked as a lawyer for 20 years in Silicon Valley tech companies. His most recent articles are designed for legal systems and designing online mediation.

🎧 387: When the world doesn’t need another product in a crowded category – with Jeroen Corthout

What product managers need to know about entering a crowded product category Today we are discussing crowded product categories and the challenges when trying to enter them with a new product. For context, we’ll use the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) category, which is indeed crowded. Joining us is Jeroen Corthout, co-founder of Salesflare, the simple yet powerful CRM.

🎧 113: Risks, Challenges, and Obstacles

Risks, challenges, and obstacles In this episode I propose a new mental model for product managers – we need to always be thinking about risks, challenges, and roadblocks. They’re components of all the different things we do – market discovery, selling, persuasion, storytelling. And if they are important to us, the product manager, they are also important to our customers, to our prospects, and to our stakeholders.

🎧 Sonic Brand & Why You Need One with Emmy™Award-Winning Sonic Branding Category Queen Audrey Arbeeny

If you’ve ever watched the Olympics, gone to a Major League game, or even turned on your Xbox, chances are you’ve seen our guest’s great work. On this episode of Christopher Lochhead: Follow Your Different, we have a dialogue with Audrey Arbeeny, the Category Queen of Sonic Branding. Audrey Arbeeny presented the discipline of Sonic Branding, way back in 1993 at the Design Management Institute in Amsterdam.

🎧 What a Punk (wsg Alex Awn)

WHAT A PUNK | Alex Awn, Head of UX for Bosch North America, joins host Gregg Garrett to discuss how curiosity and DIY attitudes are what you need to drive innovation as well as how he brings his punk roots to shape corporate culture. Of course, Alex speaks about his Top 3, including his ex-boss, Paul Amegard, who showed him how to extend trust; Wayne Kauffman, a General Counsel who provided him with personal career advice; Oliver Stening, a boss and “gut” checker; and his creative motivators: his wife and members of his band, Temple of Void.

🎧 Catherine Acosta / Product Archivist and Brand Historian @ Vans | History of Gear

On this episode of the History of Gear, Catherine Acosta, Product Archivist and Brand Historian at Vans talks about material culture, the blending of consumer products and art, and the challenges and opportunities of building a corporate archive from the ground up. Catherine Acosta

🎧 The Power of Leading by Example with Cecelia Myers

Cecelia Myers is the VP of Digital at CDW, where she leads their product management, design, demand generation, customer integration, and merchandising teams. She has a deep breadth of experience from a variety of high-profile startups and tech companies and uses that to create a culture of empowerment and openness at CDW.

🎧 Learning Design Thinking

So do you want to learn about Design Thinking but you’re short of time? Well, our Design Thinking Fundamentals course may be the one for you. Taking place over just two-days at our London studio, it covers the complete double diamond: discover, define, develop and deliver. Adam Forbes is one such person who has taken the.

🎧 Bryan Oknyansky On What Shoes, Western and Oriental Architecture Have in Common

We are delighted to reach another milestone on the 17th May 2022 – when we publish our 30th episode. It’s been a wonderful journey so far and we are very happy to have a great guest to mark this special occasion. “..When I give lectures, I ask the question, what’s the relationship between architecture and shoes, and I show a picture of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai…” Bryan Oknyansky is an international award-winning product architect known for inventing pioneering products that have taken him around the world as a lecturer and speaker.

🎧 E40, Don’t just go agile, be smart about becoming agile.

Most companies talk about their need to transform. They understand that they must change in order to succeed. However, few companies actually take action towards transforming. Agile has become the new normal in business. Companies large and small are adopting the principles behind agile, which means breaking traditional processes and aligning them around value creation instead of just moving things from point A to point B.

🎧 How Health Innovation Startups Can Partner with Anthem

In health innovation, you can have the most amazing idea and a rock solid business plan, but in order to scale, you might still need to find the right enterprise partner. Topping this list for many entrepreneurs is Anthem, which serves 40 million people and is ranked #57 on the Fortune 500 list. It’s safe to say that if your startup can get distribution through this network, it’s going to put you on a whole new trajectory.

🎧 Power Talk Friday: The Company Store: Quality, Sustainability, and Innovation

Today with Corinne Bentzen and Melanie Kaplan:  Welcome to a Well-Designed Business. On today’s sponsored show, I’m sitting down with Corinne Bentzen and Melanie Kaplan from The Company Store. We’re talking about the importance of staying on color trends, seasonal rotations of products, how the brand stays dedicated to premium quality, and their commitment to sustainability.

🎧 [M.A.D] Design Thinking aplicado à Educação

Você está ouvindo o Mad, o podcast sobre a treta entre mercado e academia no mundo do design apresentado por Burity e Thoz, em um oferecimento do DesignTeam. Por muito tempo na história recente e de modo equivocado muitas pessoas associam o DT a um método, um conjunto ferramental para solucionar qualquer problema complexo, uma espécie de arma secreta do design que qualquer pessoa pode aplicar.

🎧 User-centric data science, design thinking, from UX researcher to data science manager – Laura Gabrysiak – the data scientist show #038

(highlights below) Laura Gabrysiak is a senior manager of data products and solutions at Visa. Previously, she’s a data scientist, building machine learning models and decision tools to enable Visa clients. She has a college degree in computational and linguistics and has masters in design thinking. She’s building the local data science community in Miami, and a co-founder of our Ladies.

🎧 How Product Design Innovation Prevents Consumer Injury & Death w/ Marc Schoem

Safety and sustainability have to be built into the design of consumer products from the ground up. Learn how innovation is making products safer and more sustainable. Hear our conversation with Marc J. Schoem, Executive Director at ICPHSO: The vision and goals of ICPHSO Attaining more preventative design best practices Promoting a regulator community for consumer wellbeing More information about Marc and today’s topics: LinkedIn Profile:

🎧 138 Corporations, Governments, and the People with Samira Khan

138  Corporations, Governments, and the People with Samira Khan   Samira Khan is a social impact changemaker + intrapreneur passionate about empathy-driven, innovative approaches to advancing societal wellbeing and solving global challenges.— This includes through tech, cross-sector business model innovation, art, education, & engagement.

🎧 How to Measure the Performance of Your Investment in Innovation

Every company talks about the importance of innovation and investment in innovation continues to grow.   However many companies are finding that the time and money invested is not giving them the pay back that they had hoped for. But Is it possible to structure your initiatives so that you can drive better return on investment.

🎧 Designing Strategic Innovation | Kevin Bethune

How does design transform organizations? Why does diversity fuel innovation? What happens when you let curiosity guide you? Kevin Bethune is the Founder & Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life, a “think tank” that delivers design & innovation services using a human-centered approach. Kevin’s background spans engineering, business and design in equal proportion over his 20+ year career, positioning him to help brands deliver meaningful innovations to enrich people’s lives.

🎧 Hanover Insurance Group Executive Willard Lee on Innovation Through Co-Creation

670: In this interview, Willard discusses the topic of continuous modernization and innovation through co-creation. Will begins with an overview of The Hanover Insurance Group’s business model and the two sides of his purview. He shares his career journey through various roles in IT, operations, and other business lines; how they culminated in his current role in both IT and innovation; and how they have positioned him to better seize opportunities in innovation.

🎧 #191 Part 2: Product design and development with Sarah Dods, formerly Head of Advanced Analytics at AGL

In this second podcast with the visionary data scientist, entrepreneur and business leader, Sarah Dods, we dive into the details around product development and the role of data science. Across her career, from NICTA and CSIRO, through to AGL, Telstra Health, RMIT University and Gerson Lehrman, Sarah has had a long history in bringing innovation to market.

🎧 #592 – Product Design with Simone Giertz

Simone Giertz returns to The Amp Hour 5.5 years later to discuss all of the things that she has built, things she wants to build in the future, and how she is moving those product designs into the marketplace.

🎧 Web3 Product Management in DAOs, Dynamic NFTs, and Why Web3 Matters :: with Chase Merlin

In this episode of Ventures, my guest Chase Merlin ( and I discuss product management in Web3, specifically how he is approaching his projects within InfoTokenDAO ( and BanyanDAO ( We talk about how Chase got into Web3, how product managers need to think about Web3 differently than Web2, how NFTs are used in InfoToken, how dynamic NFTs will be used within BanyanDAO to signal progress, how to get involved and help, and why Web3 matters in general for humanity.

🎧 Tony Huang, Founder & CEO, Possible Financial

Tony Huang is the Co-founder and CEO of Possible Finance, a consumer fintech company focused on improving the financial health of lower-income Americans. Since 2019, Possible has provided small dollar installment loans to over 500,000 Americans to help them cover emergency expenses and build credit history.

🎧 Can Engineers Use Design Thinking? | EP19.S2 Shamir Joseph

I had a chat with Shamir Joseph about his journey as an engineering student all the way to becoming a design thinking facilitator. According to him, “The journey is more important than the destination.”, and I absolutely agree! Listen to this conversation as there is much one can incorporate in companies as of today!

🎧 The Digital Battle — Engineering Design Tools

How many engineering design tools do we really need to get the job done?  Craig Brown says fewer, Mark Pendergast says more, and with that the latest Digital Battle is underway.  Innovation is often driven by new tools, and innovation drives the need for new tools.    In this uncharacteristically amicable digital battle, Craig and Mark examine both sides of the same coin and share the drivers, challenges and benefits of utilizing the new tools that are continually appearing in today’s engineering toolbox.

🎧 Marketing Futures Podcast Episode 49: Cracking the Innovation Code, with Tony Ulwick of Strategyn

The practice of innovation is mythologized in many organizations. Many consider it ephemeral, something artsy-type folks do in big conference rooms amid a storm of post-it notes. In reality, innovation is a process like any other, grounded in concrete, repeatable steps that just about anyone can learn, and ultimately perfect.

🎧 Rethinking Brand Innovation with Carla Johnson

Carla Johnson is one of the world’s leading innovation architects and the author of the new book RE:Think Innovation. Through her company RE:Think Labs she helps brands innovate both internally and externally. We discussed all of this and more this week on the On Brand podcast. About Carla Johnson As the world’s leading innovation architect, Carla Johnson has partnered with brands and conferences globally to train thousands of people how to rethink the work that they do and the impact they can have.

🎧 Learn to Become a Life Ready Innovator and Reimagine the World

The best way to get learners to see the space in between as an opportunity is to create a culture of innovation. This can be done through leadership and design thinking. When it comes to innovation, leaders should be able to take a step back and see the big picture, whereas design thinkers should be able to understand the needs of the student and create solutions that are both innovative and practical.

🎧 Design Thinking? Thank an Engineer.

This episode is the audio version of Steven McCarthy’s article in Dialectic (Volume III, Issue I): “Design Thinking? Thank an Engineer, read by Lee-Sean Huang.  Dialectic is an open access scholarly journal of thought leadership, education and practice in the discipline of visual communication design published by the AIGA Design Educators Community and Michigan Publishing.

🎧 Eversheds Sutherland – The Global Law Firm Driven by Legal Technology

Eversheds Sutherland is a global top 10 law practice that provides legal advice and solutions to an international client base that includes some of the world’s largest multinationals. They have a reputation for helping their clients, people, and communities to thrive by providing quality, innovation, and consistency in legal service delivery around the globe from over 70 offices in more than 30 countries.

🎧 Putting Innovation on the Balance Sheet with Dan Toma

Can you measure and track how successfully your organization is innovating? This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to Dan Toma, co-author of ‘Innovation Accounting‘, who says that the traditional management tools available to leaders wanting to understand investments in innovation are lacking, instead proposing a new set of frameworks and tools that go beyond just financial indicators.

🎧 How Atlassian Does Product-Led Growth by Atlassian VP of Product

Product-led growth is a hot topic at the moment. Today our guest Uday Chakravarthi, VP of Product at Atlassian, is going to be giving an exclusive look at how his team used this strategy to grow and create value. Join us for an episode filled with inspiration and great techniques you can use to take your product to the next level.

🎧 Ep 151: ”On Design Thinking” + ”2 Opportunities To Tell Companies They’re Doing CX/UX Incorrectly”

I’ll be reading Nick Foster’s “On Design Thinking” Medium article, and we’ll discuss it. We had more time so we also ready my article, “2 Opportunities To Tell Companies They’re Doing CX/UX Incorrectly” All links related to the live stream: Watch on YouTube:

🎧 3 Steps to build your inner leader with confidence, Episode 55

This week I was inspired by the quote “Don’t be upset by the results you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do.” Unknown   After two blooper takes I was finally able to record today’s podcast. Without the resilience and tenacity I have created because of my inner leadership, my feelings could have got in the way, but I had the foundational mindset work to make the third time a charm.

🎧 Design Thinking

In this episode of Startup Hustle, Lauren Conaway and Panela Leung, Program Director and Lead Educator of World Builders Academy, explore design thinking together. Discover the philosophies behind this interactive and dynamic approach to solving problems and how the design thinking process produces such impactful results.

🎧 Life Detours, Innovation, and Healthcare with Jessica Smith-Amara, Clinical Program Manager at Cohere Health

Many people take detours with their careers but ultimately keep working in healthcare. This episode’s guest is Jessica Smith-Amara, a board-certified nurse executive with a particular journey in healthcare. She has taken a couple of detours in her career with teaching, practicing nursing in pediatrics and bedside patients, and clinical project management.

🎧 World’s #1 Thinker On How Leaders Can Think Frugal, Be Flexible, and Generate Breakthrough Growth

Navi Radjou is an Indian-born scholar and an innovation and leadership advisor based in Silicon Valley. He is a Fellow of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and has spoken and written widely on the theme of frugal innovation. He has also co-authored the global bestseller Jugaad Innovation and From Smart To Wise.

🎧 083 -Why Bob Goodman Thinks Product Management and Design Must Dance Together to Create “Experience Layers” for Data Products

Design takes many forms and shapes. It is an art, a science, and a method for problem solving. For Bob Goodman, a product management and design executive, the way to view design is as a story and a narrative that conveys the solution to the customer. As a former journalist with 20 years of experience in consumer and enterprise software, Bob has a unique perspective on enabling end-user decision making with data.