No one ever said that it's going to be easy starting your own business. Meet Joanna Skorupska, for a candid discussion on getting fired, discovering the maker movement and finding your calling in life (sometimes in the most remote and unexpected places). Joanna is the founder of Radicalzz studio, where she has made it her mission to accelerate ...…

Starting the new year nice and easy with a few good books and perhaps some Tacos and a good Mexican beer. This episode was recorded in San Diego California and is a rundown of my favourite books of 2018. If you love reading about design, and topics related to becoming more aware then this would be for you. It's also a handy primer, just in case ...…

Ever contemplate the similarities between Design and playing Jazz? Not only the interplay between musicians but also the courage required to get on stage to do the work. For Marina Terteryan a Service Designer and musician all the way from Los Angeles, Armenia it's an obvious analogy. We talk about a brave grandma, brave parents who moved to ma ...…

Paul Bulencea, is a Romanian Experience Designer, with an unquenchable need to play and explore the universe. He is the co-author of the book Gamification in Tourism and one of the founders of the College of Extraordinary Experiences a remarkable, physical interpretation of Pine and Gilmore's "Experience Economy". Paul was also recognised by Fo ...…

I invite you to look at design through the lens of Culture, with Olga Skoczylas. Olga is a Cultural Economist and co-owner of the Design Agency 'Cultural Design'. In this episode, we cover culture, what it means and why it's important but we don't stop there. She has this innate obsession to create domain names and attach projects of all shapes ...…

Andrew Lacanienta is a Doctoral Candidate in Experience Design at Texas A&M University. He is a close friend who makes a yearly pilgrimage to our side of the world to attend the College of Extraordinary Experiences at Czhocha Castle, Poland. We took some time out of the College schedule to talk about his insights on Experience Desing and focuse ...…

Michel Cloosterman from the Association of Master Trainers in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® provides us with an insight into the method initiated by LEGO CEO Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen back in 1996. Kristiansen knew that the answers to solving the problems his company was facing were locked up within his management team. It took several years to formalis ...…

What if you could practice what you preached? Well, Seth Minard, a former Interaction Designer at Cooper is an Example of that. Seth has turned the focus of his design practice inwards to re-design his life. Perhaps, transformation starts with the designer, before attempting to design experiences for others? He gave up his job, belongings and l ...…

We have a few short announcements and thought we'd try a Mini-Episode. Jonathan's business is growing which is GREAT! However, it has a ripple effect on his involvement in this project as my co-host. We discuss this along with some news about our workshop at Product Development Days.By werner.puchert@gmail.com (Werner Puchert, Jonathan Gall).

Wojtek Kutyla values the ability of a designer to play the role of enabler, and we ‘absolutely’ agree with his approach. If you building something with a team of people they, we, are all busy with the act of creation. In his words, he has a sneaky plan to replace the old dinosaurs with teams with an user-centric approach. He’s not overly excite ...…

This week we are joined by Olga Kovalenko. She has found her niche in digital marketing and join us from Kiev, Ukraine where she applies her trade at Trionika as Marketing Team Lead. Here she focuses on email marketing; she's fast to point out that the humble E-mail is not dead [yet], and still remains a key part of the digital communication mi ...…

Toto Castiglione, pragmatic leader, designer and Team Leader at Netguru takes some time out of his holiday to speak to us. He is a multi-disciplinary professional big picture thinker passionate about solving problems. He shares some insights around becoming a leader in a fast-growing company, some of his favourite tools, the importance of motio ...…

Mariusz Ciesla is a Polish Product Designer who has an uncommon multidisciplinary background. Mariusz is a designer, a developer, a photograph and even more. Before all, he is someone who is curious about all things in life. It led him to work on an amazing journey, working on projects at the edge of technology. Another side of Mariusz is his l ...…

Rafal Cymerys is a talented software engineer from Krakow (Poland) who realised that he was more than just a technologist; he is an explorer! Rafal is part of a team of brave explorers who are leading the way into the new and uncharted frontier of voice technology. With an user-centric approach, they are using voice technologies to solve busine ...…

From academia, corporate and being an owner of her independent Experience Design consultancy it’s hard to find a design professional with more hands-on experience than Aga Szostek. Her work spans across multiple disciplines from research, User Experience, Product design all the way through to Customer Experience. We touch on many of her experie ...…

After moving from Estonia to London, Sergei Golubev has made a name for himself in the world of Design. He built a great career as a designer and a major learning platform for UX Designers in Europe. Leading The School of UX and The UX Conference in London, at only 32 Sergei is definitely someone to keep your eye on. Sergei Ventures: UX Overflo ...…

Hubert Turaj is the founder of Edisonda, well known and acknowledged UX Design outfits from Krakow Poland. He and his team have managed hundreds of multichannel experiences, starting out as a small circle of friends to a close-knit group delivering work for multinational like ING, ABB, Autodesk and Goodyear. Hubert appreciates the value human-c ...…

You have an opportunity to make a difference and be a designer of the extraordinary, no matter the medium. For Olga Rafalska and Paulina Kacprzak, it’s building a platform where designers can learn, share and co-create How did two young design students launch one the premier design events in Poland? Hear it first hand from this creative partner ...…

Responsive in many ways, from web design, podcasting, newsletters and a custom Pocket Books range Justin Avery is a Designer unable to sit still. Originally from Australia, sprouting roots in the UK, he is a thought leader and the creator of www.responsivedesign.is a rich treasure trove of knowledge focusing on the design and development of res ...…

If you want to create experiences people love you have to leave the studio to observe, engage and listen. Kasia Gawlik, born and bred in Warsaw (Poland), is a UX Research Manager with over 15 years experience in Research. She successfully made the leap from Market research to User Experience Design where she is a subject matter expert, leader, ...…

Nicole Saidy is a global citizen and talented digital nomad passionate about travel, design, collaboration and mentorship. She has more than 7 years experience in front-end design, user experience, active prototyping, digital products and shaping new designers through her activities as a mentor within the design community. Nicole is also very a ...…

Shaping products through the art of storytelling is just one of the many things that drive Nicolas Vérité. He has over 20 years experience and has held various roles from product owner, scrum master, agile coach to a product manager. Nicolas is also extremely productive as an Open-Source activist within the FOSS community. He humbly heads up th ...…

Yuri Vedenin is the founder of UXPressia.com an online platform for visualising and managing Customer and User Experience. He hails from Belarus and represents an interesting combination of UX Designer, Entrepreneur and Engineer. He frequently travels the world, with his very special and endearing sense of humour, hosting workshops and promotin ...…

Meet our friend Sophie Freiermuth, a Senior User Experience Designer and independent consultant from the UK. Sophie whips products into shape and embodies the confident servant leader needed to shape effective teams and product. This show is chock-full of truth, advice and tips for designers currently shaping their careers.…

Maciej Jakubowski asked his audience, “Red Pill or Blue Pill?” Intrigued? Amongst many of his accolades and experience, Maciej’s also the (former) Head of Service Design at Alior Bank. We spoke about his brave presentation about embracing, owning, learning and growing stronger from failure. We caught up with this refreshing, talented and multid ...…

We found a small relatively quiet corner at the recent Krakow Product Development Days (2017), next to an old coffee machine, to catch up with ever-the-gentleman, Jeremy Kriegel UX Lead at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Boston. With more than 20 years design experience he is an authority when it comes to adapting UX to agile methodologie ...…

Professional Coach, Lynn Skotnitsky jumped into a quick pre-train-trip interview with us at the 2017 edition of the Product Development Days conference (Krakow, Poland). With a holistic and multidisciplinary approach to change, Lynn supports individuals on their journey of personal mastery, and guides teams, organizations and communities to co- ...…

“Central Europe has the potential to be more than merely another outsourcing hub!”, Meet our friend and benefactor Edyta Korona from Innovators' Bridge. When she’s not in San Francisco researching startup culture she focuses her energy on building stronger learning ecosystems to enable innovators to grow, flourish and succeed. Edyta is also the ...…

We know how important teamwork is right? Przemek Gawro?ski knows how to turn individuals into stronger teams. He shares his thoughts on the importance of listening, dealing with the senior in the room and what it means to design people. Oh, and did we mention he has a 5th Degree Black Belt in Aikido? Interesting? You bet! We caught up with him ...…

SuiLin Yap wants to change the world for the better by building stronger economies. Whilst on this quest she also finds the time to be a Product Manager at Facebook in Seattle where she takes care of B2B analytics solution. We caught up with her as part of our interview series at the recent 2017 Product Development Days Conference in Krakow, Po ...…

Welcome back to Poland Dan Maccarone! He might not be the French president but he is an 18 year UX industry stalwart and owner of Charming Robot in New York City. Dan shares his thoughts on the parallels that can be drawn between theatre and User Experience Design, he tells us about his own podcast ‘Story in a bottle’ and shares his opinion abo ...…

Anitha Vadavatha is a global innovation strategist and futurist all the way from Silicon Valley, San Francisco. She is eager to point out that we are in the midst of a new evolutionary market formation process and during the course of the interview we covered exponential technology from blockchain through to artificial intelligence and how we’r ...…