Hosted by Jeff Veen.
The Presentable Podcast focuses on how we design and build the products that are shaping our digital future. We'll track the tools, trends, and methods being used by teams from the biggest companies and latest startups. In each episode, Jeff will bring over two decades of experience as a designer, developer, entrepreneur, and investor as he chats with guests about how design is changing the world.
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#20: Design Sprints: How to Get Your Boss to Draw in Just 5 Days
March 16th, 2017 · 45 minutes
Special guest Jake Knapp joins the show to talk about how sprints are changing how we do design. He's a Design Partner at Google Ventures and author of bestselling book "Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days."
#19: Design Ethics and the Race to the Bottom of the Brain Stem
March 1st, 2017 · 45 minutes
This week's special guest is Tristan Harris, former Design Ethicist at Google and the founder of the Time Well Spent movement. We talk about ethics in design, and how even our best intentions in serving users can often make use of manipulative patterns.
#18: So What Is It Exactly That Product Managers Do?
February 15th, 2017 · 46 minutes
This week's special guest is Laura Klein, author of the new book, "Build Better Products." We discuss the evolving role of Product Managers, and how they intersect, overlap, and compliment what User Experience Designers do.
#17: My Dishwasher Really Needs Bluetooth
February 3rd, 2017 · 54 minutes
This week, Relay FM co-founder Myke Hurley joins the show to talk about the design of everyday things, the impact of companies like Apple and Slack on how we build things, and why it's so hard to rebrand a business.
#16: Design at Google Is Like Baseball in Europe
January 20th, 2017 · 42 minutes
Former Global Head of UX at Google Irene Au joins the show to talk about the remarkable change that's happened in design over last 10 years at the search engine giant.
#15: The Voice of Slack
January 6th, 2017 · 51 minutes
This week's special guest is Anna Pickard, the Creative Director of Voice and Tone at Slack. We talk about how writing and language that is clear, concise, and human can be the bedrock of a great user experience.
#14: The Next Billion Users
December 8th, 2016 · 45 minutes
This week's special guest is Rachel Ilan Simpson. She’s part of the design team for the Chrome browser at Google and has been working on features to help support the next billion new internet users coming online in emerging markets. We talk about what it takes to design for people who’ve never used a desktop computer and only know the online worl…
#13: So You Want To Be a Design Leader
November 23rd, 2016 · 50 minutes
On this week’s program, I’m joined by my friend Andy Budd, one of the founders of British design agency Clearleft. Recently, he organized a conference called Leading Design, we talk about that and discuss what it takes to be a leader in design driven companies, and what it’s like in companies that aren’t.
#12: Our Tools Give Us Superpowers
November 11th, 2016 · 52 minutes
This week's special guest is my friend Naz Hamid, founder of the design agency Weightshift. We discuss the tools we use to do design: how have they changed over the years, what are we using today, and where do we think they’re going in the future.
#11: The Election Isn't Rigged, It's Just Poorly Designed
October 28th, 2016 · 58 minutes
This week on the program, my friend Dana Chisnell is here for a very timely conversation on how the design of ballots affects voter trust in elections. She just finished a 2-year tour with the US Digital Service and has more than a decade of experience in civic design.