Felix is the Co-founder & CEO of ADPList and sets the vision and strategy for the company. Founded in 2021, the company grew into a global town square for expert knowledge, with 20K+ Mentors from companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Google, hosting over 100 million minutes of sessions on topics such as product design, product management, and coding …

In our new episode, we delve into an enriching conversation with Ole Lutjens, exploring the fascinating evolution of design, both in his personal journey and the current technological landscape. Ole shared captivating anecdotes, starting from his childhood fascination with Commodore 64, where coding ignited his passion for computer graphics. His pi…

In the episode, together with Wolfgang we talk about what designers need to learn in order to become great design leaders, which kind of skills they need. And how do you push forward design ideas or innovation ideas within an organization and create a win-win between different stakeholders? Wolfgang has a lot of experience in the space and giving a…

In this episode of we engage in a captivating conversation with Sheng-Hung Lee, an accomplished design expert and a dedicated PhD researcher at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Sheng-Hung's journey in the realms of design, engineering, and academia has equipped him with a wealth of knowledge and insights, making this dis…

In this episode, we explore the dynamic relationship between design as a creative discipline and the systems and tools that shape this creativity, for better or for worse. We delve into the importance of customizing design processes to allow designers to focus on the most impactful aspects of their work, including the strategic and psychological co…

In this episode, we delve into the relationship between design as a creative discipline and how systems and tools shape this creativity for better or worse. We also talk about why it helps designers to customize their processes and how this allows designers to focus on where they can have the most impact, which is often the strategic side of design…

The Guest Lindsey Mosby is a partner in Prophet’s Austin office, specializing in healthcare transformation and innovation. For nearly two decades, she has worked to make healthcare more connected, compassionate, transparent, and, dare we say, delightful. That necessitates thinking big, being brave, and listening well, all of which she has honed ove…

In EP75, we had the pleasure of speaking with James Martin, co-founder of BabyGiant Design Co. and the founder of Made By James, a brand-focused and design-led creative agency in the UK, also the author of the book "Made by James: The Honest Guide to Creativity and Logo Design" which was released this year. His clients include The Chainsmokers, Mic…

We had the pleasure of speaking with Liliia Mandrino, UX Director at EA Sports, on this episode. She has also held the positions of Director of Product Design at Fitplan Technologies Inc., Head of Design Foundations (Global Design Language) at HomeAway, and Head of Design & Founder at Olilija DOO - as well as other businesses. She has spent over te…

We had the pleasure of speaking with Paul Lafata, VP of product management at Heal and former CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA/Lab1886 Daimler's USA, in this episode. He has also worked as the Head of Design & Innovation at Laureti, the Experience Design Director at BCG Digital Ventures, the Design Director at Bird, the Director of User Experience at Qualc…

In EP72, we are talking with Jan-Erik Baars Currently, Jan-Erik is head of the CAS in Design Management at the University of Applied Science in Lucerne, Switzerland. He also does research on the aspects of organizational maturity, design leadership and customer-centricity. As a result, he created the Customer Centricity Score (CCS) and is the autho…

“If you know every single thing, then it’s hard to think outside of the box” — TESLIM ALABI Buckle up for a fresh episode of Designdrives, where you can learn from the world’s best and most forward-thinking design minds. In EP71, as inspirational as it was, we had a great time hosting Teslim Alabi, who serves as a Product Design Lead at Netflix, th…

“Design’s superpower is to evolve abstract into concrete” — DOGAN SEKERCIOGLU In this episode, we chat with Dogan Sekercioglu, who is a former Industrial Design Lead from IDEO and currently works on future robotic and medical designs at Intuitive in California. With Dogan we chat about the interplay between abstract and concrete and how it’s actual…

"Every project needs to start with inspiration" - Hussain Almsosawi. In this episode, we had the pleasure to chat with Hussain Almsosawi. Hailing from Bahrain, 3D motion designer Hussain Almsosawi has since moved to Brooklyn, New York, and started his own studio – Mossawi Studios. Across his exciting career, which is equally striking as it is satis…

“Failing is the first ingredient of design” — SAMUEL NORTHWAY In this episode, we had the pleasure to chat with Samuel Northway, Head of Product Design at Mason. In the past, he worked as VP of Brand Product Design at Goldman Sachs, worked as a lead designer on Deloitte and as Design Director at AT&T, among many other experiences. We talk about his…

“If it’s not Co-Created it will fundamentally fail ” — SCOTT ROBINSON In this episode, we had the pleasure to chat with Scott Robinson, Founder and CEO of FreshForm. A customer and UX agency based in San Diego. When it comes to design, Scott Robinson thinks Frank Lloyd Wright said it best: “Form follows function—that has been misunderstood. Form an…

"The circular design is about really eliminating the concept of waste by designing it in a way that every material can be reused." - Karel J. Golta Circular design: the next step of design thinking? Circular design, by bringing the subject of resources to the forefront, also creates an opportunity to integrate increasingly more important strategic …

“With Play, we just serve up all of these amazing things that Apple has created and give designers the ability to kind of play in the sandbox that Apple has created we layer our essentially our play UI on top o that and we give them the properties to manipulate.” — Dan LaCivita What if it were possible to design and build a mobile product all on yo…

“There’s such a business aspect to design that doesn’t exist in the creative artistic world, and we got to remember that when we are doing design it’s artistic by nature but it’s a lot different than art” — MICHAEL JANDA So you are planning to launch your own creative business or you’ve already launched, and you’re starting to grow. That’s great! B…

"Unfortunately or fortunately UX design is now being the hot topic everybody wants to give you suggestions. So how not get irritated but understand that why people are showcasing so much of interest is because our discipline matters and take it constructively and take that opportunity to educate people about not being a pretty picture but how it is…

“We can take a lot of inspiration from our engineering friends in this department. I think engineering is always at least a few years ahead in any company because they are usually the first people to start working at a startup”. — DARSHAN GAJARA. We are super excited to kick off 2022 with a fresh episode of Designdrives. In EP62 we had the chance t…

“It doesn’t necessarily take advanced technology to have a great impactful project. I think sometimes as technologists we forget that” — JOSH CLARK We are thrilled to launch our EP61 featuring Josh Clark founder of Big Medium in New York. Josh is a vivid speaker, a brilliant author, and an expert on UX design for AI. With Josh, we jump into how AI …

The goal is to be in line with the vision and then the way in which you align with the vision that's where you get to creative. Brittany Arthur ——— We are excited to announce our EP60 featuring Brittany Arthur, Co-founder & Director of Design Thinking Japan & Business Karaoke Podcast. With Brittany, we dive into the connection between culture and i…

EP59 with Fabrice Pöhlmann, Founder and CEO at HelloDesignWith Fabrice,we talk about why, how, and what to focus on behavior design principles and how he's now implementing these principles to any kind of project. We also discuss how to use behavior design to drive business goals and actually get stakeholders motivated to use gamification in order …

We are thrilled to launch EP58 with Bob Baxley, Senior Vice-President of Design at ThoughtSpot. Before ThoughtSpot he served as a Senior Manager of Design and product management at Apple and Head of Product Design at Pinterest. With Bob, we talk about the software as a creative medium and a potential opportunity for designers. We also talk about th…

In EP57 we have the chance to learn with Catherine Nygaard, Design Director wat WhatsApp and former Director at Airbnb and Spotify. With Catherine, we explore how to grow design teams, foster creativity in your team, and what she has learned working with some of the world’s best product teams in the world. We also learn her personal approach toward…

In EP56 we have the chance to learn from Margot Bloomstein, author of Trustworthy: How the Smartest Brands Beat Cynicism and Bridge the Trust Gap (2021) and Content Strategy at Work (2012). She is the principal of Appropriate, Inc., a brand and content strategy consultancy based in Boston. With Margot chat about the driving content design and strat…

Very excited to launch our 55th episode featuring Jaime Levy an American author, lecturer, interface designer, and user experience strategist. She wrote one of O’Reilly’s bestselling books called UX Strategy: Product Strategy Techniques for Devising Innovative Digital Solutions. She first became known for her new media projects in the 1990s. For mo…

In EP54 we have the chance to learn from Philipp Steiner a Design Leader, former Executive Director at IDEO, and Senior Director at Teague. With Phillip chat about the driving industries with future thinking. During the episode we explore: The power of mixing design disciplines. Aviation Experience x Service Design The importance of future thinking…

In EP52 we have the chance to learn from Dr. Elizabeth Churchill, a Director of User Experience at Google. With Elizabeth we chat about the intersection of design and psychology as well as her approach on influencing product strategy from a User Research perspective. During the last years Elizabeth had the chance to work on many of Google’s well kn…

“Design is about raising ambitions.” In this episode, I chat with Clive Grinyer, Head of Service Design at Royal College of Arts in London. In the episode we talk about: - his experience to work with legendary designers like Bill Moggridge (IDEO Co-Founder) and Jony Ive (Former VP of Design Apple). - how he implemented service design and user-centr…

In EP51 we interviewed Afshin Mehin who is the founder of Card79 about brain-machine interfaces and the future of multi-modal interaction design. He and his team recently had the chance to work on the Neuralink robot and beyond that experimented in many internal projects on the future of thought-based interfaces. During the episode we jump into: ho…

In episode 50 I had the absolute pleasure to learn from Gavin Ivester, VP of Design of Bang & Olufsen. Gavin made experiences working at Apple, Nike, Puma and even gained experience working as a design consultant. During the episode we talk about to: how to lead design teams and projects at Apple, B&O, Nike, Puma and others how design drives brand …

In episode 49 I had the absolute pleasure to learn from Spencer Nugent. Spencer is well known in the Industrial Design community for his tremendous community content and sketching tutorials with his blog Sketch-A-Day. In the past, he worked at ASTRO Studios, Vivint Smart Home, and others. Currently, he is also an educator at Offsite, an education p…

In episode 48 I had the absolute pleasure to catch up and learn from Phil Balagtas. Phil Balagtas is an Experience Design Director at McKinsey & Co. in San Francisco,CA. He is also the founder of The Design Futures Initiative (DFI) that focuses on speculative design. An educator and futurist. His Design Futures events bring together designers, futu…

In episode 47 I had the absolute pleasure to catch up and learn again from Bilgi Karan. Bilgi Karan is UX Manager at Inter IKEA Group - working on Smart Home experiences. Hybrid design approach. Bilgi has a strong background in designing hybrid experiences, uniting interaction and industrial design aspects, Before his role at IKEA, he worked as a P…

Happy to share that episode 46 is out! 🎙 This time we had the great opportunity to speak to Kevin Bethune - Founder & Chief Creative Officer at dreams • design + life Chair of the Design Management Institute Board of Directors, and Author at the The MIT Press - as he is writing a book on the intersection of design and business. Kevin started as a d…

A good manager needs to identify the levels of wants & needs - this can be done through behavioural planning. In episode 45 I chat with Matt Wallaert on driving behaviour outcomes. Matt is the author of “Start at the end” and former director of Microsoft Ventures. Formerly he was also Chief Behavioural Officer at Clover Health. Matt and me meet in …

“Tension doesn’t have to be a bad thing… Tension can actually be healthy…” — Mark Abraham In episode 44 I chat with Marc Abraham about innovating in product strategy and product development by balancing different tensions and how they could even create a better outcome in the end. Marc is Head of Product for Engagement at ASOS in London and Cu-Cura…

“Cross-pollination is the best thing for creativity. - Rob on his creative process. In episode 43, we chat with Rob Harrigan, Lead Designer at Y Media Labs and former Design Principle at IBM within the Data & AI organisation. In the episodes he shares how designers can see, explore and visualise potentials and visions of technology - making ideas t…

"How do you democratise not only access to technology, but also pay attention to the diversity and richness that is important for technology to adopt or adapt, rather, to different parts of the world where it’s going to be used, and designers can effectively impact that situation as well." - Scott on the importance of user experience in creating ac…

"What should we be building to provide the most value to people in this product space?" In Episode 41, we chat with Kristie Fisher, Staff UX Researcher at Google. Kristie is currently building the UX Design Research at Google Stadia, and has previously worked on Google Suite and Google Ads, and has previously worked at Xbox and Microsoft. With a ba…

“There’s a lot of great realisation in the design industry around the ethics of design. We know the power of design, but how do we use our power for good?” In Episode 40, we talk with Janaki Kumar, Head of Design of Commercial Bank at JPMorgan Chase, and co-instructor at Stanford’s LEAD course on Customer Experience Design, and has previously led t…

“Design is an activity you do in response to some information about thinking what you might do next, and it’s almost like a pause in between some data and a need or a problem and an action, that allows people to consider a range of different options.” - Ben Reason In episode #39 we talk with Ben Reason, Founding Partner at Livework, a service desig…

“Design is a privilege - As designers we have been given a space to question. And a belief that we have a role to play in changing the world around us. And most people don’t come in with those opportunities.” Robert on both opportunity and reponsibility of being a designer. In episode #38 we talk with Robert Fabricant, Co-Founder & Partner at Dalbe…

“We live in a 3D world, but as children we were taught to think in 2D.” - Ana on the importance of re-learning to think and shape in 3D. In episode #37 we talk with Ana Sofía González, Senior Designer at Microsoft on designing future mixed reality experiences in the B2B space.💡 We chat with Ana about what excites her about Mixed Reality and the app…

“How do we take things that are very inhuman by nature and make them more human. Tweak algorithms to make them seem more human, more interesting, more weird.” - Dan on designing with AI and robotics. In episode #36 we talk with Dan Saffer, Product Design Leader and Author of 4 influential design books. He gained work experience as a Senior Staff De…

In episode 35 we talk with Mark Rolston who is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer at argodesign as part of a series of conversations at Interaction 20 in Milan by IXDA. Formerly he served as Chief Creative Officer of frogdesign, founding the firm’s software business and guiding its transformation into a modern strategic design organization. Mar…

Episode 34 kicks off a series of conversations at Interaction 20 in Milan by IXDA. I had the outstanding opportunity to sit together with Doug Powell, Vice President of Design at IBM. Doug shares insights on how he is focusing on building a framework where designers can grow into leaders and the importance of excellent design leadership. Also, we t…

In episode 33 I talk with Tanu Malhotra during UX India who is a UX Manager at IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie Investments. Before that she was Senior UX Designer at SAP working on B2B Enterprise products and Lead UX Designer at Samsung B2C consumer product concepts and visions. We learn about the difference of designing for enterprise solutions…