Tom Greever speaks to the heart of articulating design decisions, becoming someone worth following, and making yourself an influential force for good design. Highlights include: Is it true that you occasionally wear costumes to meetings? What is it important for leaders to remember? Should you ever tell someone that you disagree with them? How can we get difficult stakeholders onboard? Why is important to be intentional in your relationships? ====== Who is Tom Greever? Tom is a Senior Director of Product Design at Indigo, an agricultural company that improves farmers profitability, environmental sustainability and consumer health, through the use of nature-based and digital technologies. Tom has also previously been the VP of Product & Design at Handled, where he led the product strategy and CX teams who were creating category-leading software for the home services and moving industry. Before Handled, Tom was the Director of UX and then VP of UX and Design at Bitovi, a remote-first digital consultancy where he led teams to deliver new web app experiences for companies such as Apple, Walmart, Levi Strauss and Lowe’s.  A celebrated and experienced product and design leader, Tom is best known for his influential book, “Articulating Design Decisions”, a book that has helped tens of thousands of designers around the world to achieve greater career success and greater impact through design. ====== Find Tom here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomgreever/ Website: https://tomgreever.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomgreever ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

Noam Segal shares his early experiences working for the Israeli military, whether democratisation has been positive for UX, and the importance of telling a good story. Highlights include: What makes for an impactful research story? Why is NPS the worst thing to happen to UX research? Has the democratisation of UX research been a good thing? Has UX become less innovative since becoming part of enterprise? Why is it important for people in tech to believe in magic? ====== Who is Noam Segal? Noam is a Research Manager at Meta, where he’s building a modern, progressive, and impactful research team to support product people working on Facebook’s newsfeed. He also leads several key initiatives within Meta’s Qualitative Centre of Excellence. Before Meta, Noam was the Head of Health Research at Twitter. He has also been a Director of User Research at Wealthfront, a Product Research Manager at Intercom and a Lead Experience Researcher at Airbnb. Outside of his day-job, Noam mentors UXers on ADPList and UX Coffee Hours and shares his knowledge on the Learners platform and on Maven, where he hosts two courses: “The Missing Foundations of UX Research” and “The Research Storyteller”. Noam is also active on his YouTube channel, UX Quests, where he hosts a series of conversations with UX research leaders about UX research. ====== Find Noam here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noamsegal/ Website: http://uxquests.com/ Store: https://uxquests.shop/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/noamseg YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UXQuests ADPList: https://adplist.org/mentors/noam-segal ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

Andy Budd speaks frankly about designers’ limiting beliefs, the siren song of perfection, and how to start playing business better. Highlights include: How does one wrangle sharks at the Great Barrier Reef? What is the best way to ensure design is valued? How many designers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Why should designers start playing poker and stop playing chess? What is the most limiting belief that design leaders have? ====== Who is Andy Budd? Andy is an independent executive product & design leadership coach and a venture partner at Seedcamp, Europe’s most successful seed fund, investing in over 450 companies who have gone on to raise over $7 Billion.  Before joining Seedcamp, Andy was the founder, managing director and then CEO of Clearleft, arguably the United Kingdom’s first User Experience consultancy.   During his 17 years there, Andy relentlessly promoted the value of design and founded two product businesses - FontDeck and Silverback. The latter a popular usability testing app for Mac. In 2008, in the midst of the GFC, Andy founded UX London, Britain’s first major user experience conference. It would become the longest running UX conference in all of Europe, and it was an event that he lovingly curated until 2021. Andy is also the founder and curator of dConstruct, which was the first digital design conference in the UK and Leading Design, an annual event and 2,000 strong community that brings together some of the world’s best design leaders. ====== Find Andy here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andybudd/ Website: https://www.andybudd.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/andybudd Medium: https://andybudd.medium.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andybudd/ ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

Pete Sena shares his story of building a design agency from scratch, how he’s become a better person and leader along the way, and why each of us need to know our unique value.  Highlights include: What led a 'scrawny, introverted, nerdy kid’ to take up martial arts? What question does every designer need a compelling answer to? How has your self-image and what you value changed over-time? Do design leaders need to sacrifice personal time to stay relevant? How can something that we’re great at be not great for us? ====== Who is Pete Sena? Pete is a serial entrepreneur and design executive who advises founders and CEOs on how to create design-driven cultures; the kind that help them to discover and explore new growth opportunities for their businesses. In 2004, when he was still in college, Pete founded Digital Surgeons - an independent demand design consultancy, based in Connecticut, USA. Digital Surgeons now employs over 50 people, has a fully-integrated and self-sufficient leadership team, and has created award-winning work for brands such as Google, United Technologies, Epic Games, the US Open and Lady Gaga. Pete is also the Co-Founder of ThinkFWD, a community of innovative business owners who are invited to lean into their curiosity and become true catalysts for positive change within their teams, social circles and society at large. As someone who leads by example, Pete is also a Venture Mentor at Yale University and an entrepreneur-in-residence at his alma mater, the University of Connecticut, in the Technology Incubation Programme. ====== Find Pete here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petersena/ Website: https://www.petesena.com/ Medium: https://petesena.medium.com/ The Green Zone Framework: https://bit.ly/405SohZ Digital Surgeons: https://www.digitalsurgeons.com/ ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

Kat Vellos shares with us why we need meaningful friendship, what we can do to design better ones, and how to safely navigate uncharted conversational waters. Highlights include: How did a conversation with a stranger change your life? How do you ‘crack open the door’ to a more meaningful friendship? What role does company culture play in enabling meaningful connection? Should we have clear boundaries between our work life and home life? Why are we getting lonelier when we have so many tools to connect? ====== Who is Kat Vellos? Kat is the Principal of Studio KV, the vehicle through which she speaks, coaches and facilitates experiences that help people to create better workplace cultures and to cultivate more meaningful connections with each other. As the author and illustrator of "We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships", a book that builds on Kat’s extensive experience as a community organiser and workshop facilitator - she certainly knows a thing or two about cultivating connection! Before starting Studio KV in early 2020, Kat was a Senior Product Designer at Slack, where she worked in a fast-moving experiment-driven growth team that was making it easier for customers to convert from free to paid plans. Kat has been profiled in Forbes and quoted in Fast Company for her work as the Founder and previous Community Leader of Bay Area Black Designers, a professional development community for Black digital designers and UX researchers. ====== Find Kat here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katvellos/ Website: https://www.katvellos.com/ Blog, Community & Resource:  https://weshouldgettogether.com/ Kat’s book: We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships - https://geni.us/A8zyt1 ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

Jonas Rinde delves into designing tech that doesn’t feel technical, the challenge of product-market fit, and his relationship with risk and adventure. Highlights include: How do you mitigate the risks of growing a startup? What can go wrong when you build a prototype too fast? How do you know what to pay attention to? Why do you want to make the technology disappear? Who gets to decide what makes it onto the product roadmap? ====== Who is Jonas Rinde? Jonas is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nomono, the Norwegian company working to simplify the recording and management of immersive broadcast-quality field audio, so that podcasters and journalists can focus on the stories being told.  Before Nomono, Jonas was the COO and then CEO of Huddly, the Norwegian technology company that creates AI-infused smart meeting room cameras. In 2007 Jonas’ went to work for TANDBERG, the Norwegian telecommunications provider, as their Director of R&D. During his time there, the business was acquired by Cisco for $3.3B and Jonas became a Director of Engineering at Cisco and a Board Member of Cisco Systems Norway. Wanting to scratch an entrepreneurial itch, Jonas left Cisco in 2014 to become the Co-Founder and CEO of Electric White. The business was acquired by Acano, which was in turn sold to Cisco for $700m in 2016. ====== Find Jonas here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonasrinde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonasRinde Website: https://nomono.co/ ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

Mike Monteiro sets fire to design orthodoxy, tech overlords, and his own Portuguese American history in this delightfully dark conversation. Highlights include: Why is it important to re-examine your beliefs? Why do you have nothing further to tell people? What shocked you about your Portuguese heritage? How is unionisation a positive thing for tech workers? Why do you want some people who listen to you to get angry? ====== Who is Mike Monteiro? Mike is the Design Director of Mule Design, the outspoken, outstanding, and slightly outrageous design consultancy that he co-founded with Erika Hall 21 years ago. During that time, Mike has made an outsized contribution to the field of design. He is the Co-Host the Voice of Design podcast and has authored several books, including “You’re My Favourite Client”, “Ruined By Design”, and “Design Is a Job” - which is now in its 2nd edition! With a unmissable emphasis on ethics, Mike pulls-no-punches as he singles out the failings of design and the industries that employ it, while also illuminating the opportunities and challenges we face - as designers - to right the ship. His talks, like “How Designers Destroyed the World”, “How to Fight Fascism”, “My People Were In Shipping” and “Let’s Destroy Silicon Valley” have raised more than a few eyebrows, heart rates and figurative pitch forks. ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

Julia DeBari shares her experience as a design recruiter,  how to navigate compensation and benefits, and what to ask to work out if a role is right for you. Highlights include: Why are recruiters told not to disclose salary ranges? When and how should you bring up compensation? Why should you invite doubt into a hiring conversation? What do designers need to know about recruitment? Why ask interviewers what makes them proud of their company? ====== Who is Julia DeBari? Julia is the head of design operations for the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, where she’s busy helping the design practice to be more effective and efficient. Before joining the Institute, Julia worked as a freelance design program manager focused on improving onboarding and education. Her clients included the Interaction Design Foundation, LinkedIn and The Hired Guns. Julia’s career in UX began at the dawn of the millennium, as an interaction designer for a Dutch company called Internovation. Since then, she has worked across startups, enterprise, and agency, including at Adobe, MRM Worldwide, Razorfish, Sapient, and Dell. One of Julia’s great passions is design education and most recently she was the lead design educator at Flatiron School. Across the years she’s also been a design educator at Product School, UC Berkley Extension, Design Assembly and GrowthX Academy. ====== Find Julia here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliadebari/ Website: https://www.juliad.com/ ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

Hussain Almossawi explores the mindset and practices he's successfully employed while designing products at some of the worlds most innovative companies. Highlights include: What is the first step in unlocking the potential of product innovation? Why is innovation an often overly complicated and opaque subject? How have you become comfortable with the risk and reality of failure? What is the biggest blocker of product innovation? What is the role of diversity in innovation? ====== Who is Hussain Almossawi? Hussain is the Founder and Chief Design Officer of Mossawi Studios, where he's busy blurring the lines between CGI, VFX and product design for some of the world's most innovative brands, including Nike, Adidas, Apple, Google, Ford, Pepsi, Samsung and Intel. He is also the author of an empowering and actionable new design book called, "The Innovator's Handbook: A Short Guide to Unleashing Your Creative Mindset". Before founding Mossawi Studios, Hussain was a Senior Designer at Ford Motor Company. Hussain's unique set of multi-disciplinary talents have also seen him shape the future of sport through athlete driven innovations at Adidas, and as a Design Consultant for Nike, and an Interface Designer for Electronic Arts. ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/

Jim Kalbach shares insights from jazz into collaboration, how experience maps help us navigate design, and why Jobs To Be Done deserves our attention. Highlights include: Why do we confuse ideas with innovation? What does it mean to have ‘big ears’ and how is that useful? How do you manage challenges to your recommendations? What gets in the way of effective collaboration? How can Jobs To Be Done help to find the right problems to fix? ====== Who is Jim Kalbach? Jim is the Chief Evangelist and VP of Customer Experience at MURAL, the world’s leading digital whiteboard.  Prior to joining MURAL, Jim was a Principal UX Consultant at Citrix Online, and he has also worked in numerous consulting roles for other large companies such, as eBay, SONY, LexisNexis and Razorfish Germany. Somehow, on top of all this, Jim found the time to write three critically acclaimed books: The first, Designing Web Navigation, was published in 2007, followed by Mapping Experiences in 2016 and, most recently, The Jobs To Be Done Playbook in 2020.   While working in Europe, where he spent the first 15 years of his career, Jim co-founded the popular European Information Architecture conferences as well as the leading UX event in Germany - the IA Konferenz.  He has also previously served on the advisory board of the Information Architecture Institute and as an editor for Boxes and Arrows, the popular online journal for user experience, and has graced the stage at TedX, UX Brighton, Enterprise UX, and UX STRAT. ====== Find Jim here: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalbach/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimkalbach Website: https://experiencinginformation.com/  Jim’s books: The Jobs To Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs -  https://amzn.to/3vwdoky Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Creating Value through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams - https://amzn.to/3G9lZ1s Designing Web Navigation: Optimizing the User Experience -  https://amzn.to/3IfGah9  ====== Liked what you heard and want to hear more? Subscribe and support the show by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts (or wherever you listen). Follow us on our other social channels for more great Brave UX content! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/TheSpaceInBetween/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-space-in-between/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespaceinbetw__n/ ====== Hosted by Brendan Jarvis: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/ Website: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvis/