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Searching for results.How do you have people feel like they own what they're doing? The thing about creativity is you are trying to get something new and original, but it is coming from within that group. They have to feel like they're…
Looked at me. He tilts his head and looks over his glasses. And there's a long pause. I'm talking like 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000. Just like, oh my God, what's he going to say? He's really conjuring up something. And…
And one day my friend Mike Bo takes me in the back room of the Macinaw division. This is before I worked for them and he showed me Mac paint and Mac Wright. Now, many people listening to this may not know what Mac paint…
A treasure. I feel so grateful that we had the chance to talk to him. He worked with Steve Jobs longer than anybody else. It's what he told us. It was 40 years of collaboration. So they'd known each other for a long…
Say, what would ne Eli Patel at the Verge say, right? How would they think about this product given that we've read so many of their different articles and how they think about things. So we wanna also put our ourselves…
We are all trained to see the world with a certain lens. So it's really a challenge to be in the same room and trying to be in someone else's shoes, empathize with our colleagues and see they can have different…
To design leaders, you just put the question to him, "You know, what's the path to yes for one of your designers?" I don't think many of them could answer. And you know, at least at Apple I used to tell my team all the…
Began to work on a computer that would be small enough to fit into half of an official Xerox executive issue, beat up leather briefcase. He assembled a team of very gifted engineers and needed a designer to create the…
Participant in that era. And I think the thing that I walked away with was Very easy to forget why someone's coming to you, what they're experiencing and how they leave and what you want them to do. And so you really…
Very enlightening. Google was definitely more software. We had some hardware components for like meeting speakers and stuff like that, but we primarily stayed at billions of users and how does that impact, even like a…
Was this sort of view of the world of personal computing, which had really evolved into beige boxes, right? That at that time, through even what Apple had done, Apple was doing very nice beige boxes, but they were beige…
That really helped designers, uh, you know, focus on their work at clarity about how to get to the best solution. But now we hear a lot of CEOs, VPs, uh, it's a way into design. It's a way for them to understand and…
A lot of thought to the things they design and put onto the world. Yeah, and we got to see how they 3D print prototypes, learn more about their critique process. So there's a video coming out with all of that, the…
Around 2008 or 2009 when I was still at Microsoft creating a new digital tablet device at that time called Courier, a two-screen device. We started looking at the role of content and information in the creative process…
A creative director. and began her career as a freelance designer in the mid-1990s. Mariah Garrett, welcome to the show. Thanks, you guys. Thanks for having me. We are excited to have you here and wanted to start off…
A wire frame ever, right? Like we were always leading with design to say like, oh this is what we are doing. No, that's not gonna work. Oh then this is what we're doing. Oh no, that's not going to work. And it was, you…
When, what was running the company, I'm not to say it's not the case today. It was very much the intersection of art and science. The Walt Disney company helped popularize the space program, Walt Disney, world vertebra…
Design needs to have a seat at this table because they're the ones who are obsessed with the customer journey, obsessed with the customer experience, obsessed with the interface. And that interface might not be the…
The rabbit down the hole, right? It's like seeing the rabbit out of the corner of your eye and just going, let's see where this leads. And you can call that instinct. You can call that Zen Buddhist, right? You meditate…
I think it's the under-taught aspect of what it means to be a creative, be a designer, I feel is presentation skills. You can have amazing ideas. If you can't sell those ideas to a client, you are nowhere, right? So…
Stuff coming down the pipe that I think for companies that are smaller, small business or mid-market that lack an After Effects person, but want to do something really creative still in the design
And so forth. But how do you think about what the future looks like, especially at this crossroads that we find ourselves and Adobe at a very key point in its history? How are you looking at what might the future look…
Let's talk about a very specific part of the process, the kickoff. And what does a good kickoff look like when you're working at Oracle or Adobe, and how do you make sure that the right people are involved? So, another…
Shares this story about how he'd been a post-production engineer working on digital shorts for Saturday night live and he'd lived the pain of being up and down the value chain for a large, uh, content production…
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